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City of Sioux Falls to hire a Financial Advisor

l3wis April 1, 2024 6Comments

I guess the Half-Million+ staff the mayor currently has isn’t cutting it (Item #6, Consent Agenda, Sub-Item, 16);

Professional Services Agreement to Provide Financial Advisory Services, PFM Financial Advisors, LLC, Establish Pricing

So is this about actual financing? Read the agreement;

The purpose of this letter (this “Engagement Letter”) is to confirm our agreement that PFM Financial Advisors LLC (“PFM”) will act as financial advisor to the City of Sioux Falls (the “City”). PFM will provide, upon request of the City, services related to financial planning, budget and strategic advice and planning, policy development and services related to debt issuance, as applicable and set forth in Exhibit A to this Engagement Letter. Most tasks requested by the City will not require all services provided for in Exhibit A and as such the specific scope of services for such task shall be limited to just those services required to complete the task.

If you look further down on the agreement you will see this is about advising the city thru a bond agreement and the advisor gets paid according to the size of the bond. So what is the city planning to bond for? Is this about the convention center or something else? And whatever happened to the policy body advising the city on bonding and finances? Shouldn’t this be coming from the council? Oh, my bad, forgot they work for the mayor now 🙁

PLANNING MEETING HAS SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS

Including a conditional use permit for alcohol on the consent agenda (I think it is just a catering kitchen so there is likely NO alcohol served on-site just used in recipes) but it would be unusual for an alcohol license to be on consent even if it is harmless. Oh, and Mr. Hahn decided to come back to the city to re-zone more of his rental houses into office space. Wonder if he will tell the truth this time or just stack up some more lies. Really doesn’t matter I guess. In this town you can lie thru your teeth to city officials, get caught, still approve your plan, and a couple months later take another shot at it. Can’t make this crap up.

Lifelight is paying to use public park, a little bit

l3wis March 30, 2024 1Comments

I checked with some city officials about the LifeLight festival and what kind of financial obligations there would be and this is what I was told;

Lifelight has to pay the same fees as any other festival or event.  Nonprofits do not get a special discount.  Fees are very minimal for events.  Most events are from nonprofits, just by chance.

Typically PD does not get involved with traffic control on site at the event. But they do assist with planning of barricades and flow of traffic pre-event.  PD only gets involved if traffic is backed up or causing issues (that would be for any event, if things on the public roads got bad).  The event organizer is responsible for parking managers.  For the sake of efficiency PD will help with traffic during peak times.  Since this event doesn’t have a centralized or main parking lot PD doesn’t think it will be an issue and they will not have to get involved.  Events are responsible to pay for all barricades.  

Why were inmate tablets really shut off?

l3wis March 29, 2024 14Comments

Besides the fact that some state contractor and the state are making money from the tablets, and quite a bit, some wonder the real reason they were turned off.

Noem said it was for ‘nefarious’ reasons. Can’t you just take away the tablets from the inmates that are abusing them? Do you really have to throw the baby out with the bathwater?

If you talk to some family members of inmates, they tell a different story. While I have no doubt that some of the inmates are abusing the usage, I think there was another reason they were shut off. Family members and other sources tell me that the inmates have been making email complaints to the DOC and the Governor’s office about conditions and some troubling CO’s. Of course, when a complaint is filed electronically, there is a record, because as I understand it, the inmates were smart enough to CC’ family or friends on the emails and complaints.

So I guess the best way to stop it is to take the complaint box off the wall.

I have only heard this from a handful of sources, so I don’t know how much of this is happening. But it also doesn’t seem to farfetched from a state and local government that prides itself on being militant closed government authoritarians.

NOW GET BACK TO BREAKING ROCKS AND BUILDING ME EXPENSIVE DESKS!

Paulson’s Accountant wins an award because she knows how to buy airplanes?

l3wis March 28, 2024 15Comments

I’m sure she is a lovely lady, but I can buy an airplane, as long as I have the money. You can get drones now for $50, but not sure you can take the fam to Disneyland on that 🙂

Matt Paulson who pretty much recruited most of the leading council candidates and helping to fund their campaigns has a tendency to brag about his ability to buy fancy cars and apparently airplanes, but most working stiffs in this town could care less, some have never even been on puddle jumper from here to Minneapolis.

I could care less what Matt spends his money on, even that lime green Lambo.

Where it disturbs me is that this guy, who apparently has more money then he knows what to do with, has been playing king maker in the halls of city hall. I have no problem with wealthy donors funding campaigns, kind of over it in Sioux Falls, it happens, OH WELL. Where it gets frustrating is when these same wealthy donors are also handpicking councilors, school board candidates, and the list goes on. He is also running the campaigns for the candidates ‘hands off’. Most of the candidates that he is helping have told others that they have no idea what the campaign strategy is, Paulson is handling it.

WOW!

It’s time to kick these Prosperity Gospel weirdos to the curb. VOTE STARR & DEFFENBAUGH and send a message to these jettsetters. Get on your award winning airplane purchase and fly away, far away. May I suggest Florida or Texas, you would fit right in.

Save our Sioux Falls Postal Distribution Center

l3wis March 28, 2024 14Comments

The movement of Regional processing centers from Sioux Falls to Omaha Neb and Huron to Fargo ND Will not be good for South Dakota!

Please contact The USPS at this monkey Survey to give your input on the transfer of the Regional processing center from Sioux Falls to Omaha Nebraska and from Huron to Fargo North Dakota. It will definitely impact the service by their own admission. If what the USPS says is true we must let them know how we feel. Sioux Falls is the fastest growing city in the nation and it will lose its regional distribution center? This does not make any sense. Please fill out this survey asap.

We are also asking you contact Mark Inglett directly

Mark Inglett phone 816 374 9111

mark.inglett@usps.gov

Mark Inglett

399 West Pershing Road room 242

Kansas City Missouri 64108