While at first blush, this may look bad (conflicts between the two government entities) what caught my attention was that they slipped him in ONE day after the current council’s term ended. They really should have been a part of this appointment, but the mayor was probably concerned he wouldn’t be able to get him thru.

Joe does have experience with healthcare at Sanford. I told someone he will LIKELY wait until his father Dan is elected to the County Commission and will likely resign after November, then the Commission, which will consist of his father, can appoint someone. Who says these folks don’t plan ahead? I keep telling peeps, they know how to win, they just can’t lead once they get there.

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General Public Input last night was a thrill (FF to the end) fun watching a chair who is illegally serving.

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Also, I was at Carnegie after lunch doing some research on executive orders and the new councilors were having ‘school’ in the chambers. So cute. Don’t worry if you screw up in your first couple of meetings, nobody is paying attention.

UPDATE: The city is following state law, 9-13-28, but as one councilor said to me, apparently we haven’t been following state law for years. I am also under the impression that the city doesn’t always have to follow state law, because of our charter. It Would be an interesting research project.

So if you are going to miss the 4 councilors that are moving on, tomorrow night is the last time to see them in action. For some bizarre reason, the city is claiming they need to inaugurate the new councilors on Friday before the first meeting on Tuesday. This is weird for a lot of reasons, normally the new councilors get sworn in on the Tuesday they have their first meeting. The excuse that is being thrown around is something to do with state law . . . pulled directly from a Fiddle-Faddle box.

In Tuesday’s council meeting there are a few items of interest.

Item #28, The motion will approve an agreement with Woods Fuller to accomplish the following: (a) identify the nature and scope of the problems causing the crises, (b) formulate options for potential regulatory and programmatic solutions, and (c) partner with local businesses and community members to implement the best options.

(This is no surprise because the two sponsoring this helped dismantle the internal audit department and job it out, now they are jobbing out policy creation to a private law firm and taking around $75K from taxpayers to do it. I find this ironic considering they NEEDED to hire another staffer to help them. You don’t job out policy, you come up with the ideas, you turn them over to staff to massage and after that you send to the attorney’s office to verify it’s legality. The whole point of being a councilor is to write and establish policy. This is why I asked the council to hire an internal city council attorney instead of a executive assistant. That, and if the state would take all the childcare benefits from the Feds, we would be doing a lot better. I don’t think it is the duty of the CITY to fix this problem, this is something the state and Feds need to work onto together.)

Item # 25, RESOLUTION ADVISING AND GIVING CONSENT TO THE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO VARIOUS CITIZEN BOARDS.

Justin G. Smith

• Shareholder at Woods, Fuller, Shultz and Smith.
• Juris Doctor
• My family has enjoyed making lifetime memories with facilities and services run by
  the Parks and Recreation Board.

Justin chaired the Charter Revision Commission and just left last year, now he is moving to the parks board. While you have all types on the board, and lawyers have served in the past, I think Justin’s appointment has more to do with pushing thru the future bonds that Poops kicked down the road. The irony of all this is that Justin just served on a distinguished city board, so to pick him this quickly to serve on another board is strange. Also, as I have said, there are over 200K people living here, so why are we always appointing the same people to these boards? I think it is time to start picking board members based on districts.

Who says we need a new convention center to bring in the good stuff!

Be sure to watch the ENTIRE video, they go into the Confidence Convention towards the end. I also find it funny for a couple of reasons, 1) All the middle age men in Sioux Falls taking ‘T’ treatments. I tell guys not to do it, unless you want to be angry and moody all the time. 2) I wondered how they came up with the joke, I assumed they were googling Noem and they came across some articles about Sioux Falls and the Riverline District and how we need better conventions.

Not sure if you blame a mild winter, but the goose population DTSF is exploding. This is a family I believe of 12-13 goslings and there was another one with 10 goslings. Most of the time they only have 2-4 but while riding the trail DTSF this spring it is like a sea of yellow. Oh, and don’t get to close unless you want the mother to take a bite out of you. Mean poopy pants birds.

“What you doing today Bob?”

“I’m going eat a little grass, I’m going to hiss at folks and then I’m going to crap all over the bike trail.”

Surprised the city council didn’t hire a $50K consultant to figure out why the birds poop on the trail. I have suggested to the city council they give Kristi a holler and see if she still has anymore bird killing dogs, or better yet, just let her have at it. Bang. Bang.