City Administration Building

Everything but the kitchen sink

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My advice to the city council at this point would be to throw everything they can to override the mayor’s veto.

I told some of them after the veto to let the mayor have it, and own it. It just proves his ego and arrogance, but since the petition drive started, they might as well chip in and try everything in the book to stop this. This could be setting an advisory vote or they could postpone the bond sale. There are many initiatives and resolutions they could propose.

But even if those fail, we still have the petition drive, which I also feel is an uphill battle, not that the signatures won’t be gathered, it’s the tight time frame they face especially with poor cooperation from the city attorney and city clerk.

Which brings me to the city clerk. Mr. Greco works for the council, and I encourage them to keep the pressure on him to certify the signatures quickly when turned in, or there will be repercussions. They have the power to reprimand him or terminate him if he does follow the councilors instruction. I would make this very clear with him. I always thought he was a poor choice for the clerk anyway, especially when we found out he wasn’t even registered to vote when he applied for the job.

At the end of the day, this will be an uphill battle, and if the council and petition gatherers are already in the fight, they might as well go for the gusto. It’s time to put a foot down when it comes to the mayor’s fascist hold on OUR government and tax dollars.

Stop the Funding permanent signing location

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Stop the Funding will soon be opening up a location you can go to sign, more details to come about hours of operation. It will be located in Suite 106 in the 300 building (300 North Dakota Avenue, next to KSFY-TV).

If you would like to help staff the office, please contact;

Bruce Danielson

Citizens4Integrity, PO Box 491, Sioux Falls, SD 57101

FAX: (605) 334-9511, Cell: (605) 376-8087

www.citizens4integrity.org, Email: bruce@citizens4integrity.org

Stop the Funding introduces Co-Chair Kermit Staggers

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For more information or to get your petitions; https://www.facebook.com/stopthefunding

Watch this video on Stormland TV.

Towards the end of the video, the reporter says that he contacted the Mayor, and Huether told him he had never heard of the petition drive (LOL) and told the reporter to talk to Rolfing, Kiley or Erpenbach. None of them returned his call. BIG SURPRISE!!! The three ring circus clowns have their phones off as usual.

Stop the Funding will hold a press conference Monday afternoon

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For Immediate Release (WATCH KSFY-TV video explaining the drive).

Stop the Funding will hold a press conference Monday afternoon:

Sioux Falls City Hall

South Entrance

224 West 9th Street ( 9th  St and Dakota Ave)

2:00pm

The Stop the Funding campaign is proud to announce 12 year City Council member, Kermit Staggers is joining the petition signature drive as Co-Chair. Kermit is the longest serving member of the City Council. Public is invited to attend and welcome Kermit Staggers to our efforts

Stop the Funding is a citizen petition effort gathering signatures to force the City of Sioux Falls to place the funding of a planned $25,000,000.00 city government overflow administrative office building to a public vote before sales tax revenue bonds are sold.

“The Sioux Falls City Council has voted 3 times to not allow this project to move forward. Only through two tie breaking votes and a mayoral veto did the project reach the point of direct public involvement in the process. The public’s response to our signature drive have been overwhelming,” said Bruce Danielson, Co-Chair.

The response to this grassroots petition effort is generating interest across every neighborhood of the city. Each petition contains 20 signature lines and Bruce Danielson spent the weekend distributing leadership petition packets to at least 35 neighborhood leaders.

The proposed ordinance in proper form is as follows:

            AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OF SALES TAX REVENUE BONDS FOR AN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE BUILDING AT OR NEAR 231 N. DAKOTA AVE.

          BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA:

The City of Sioux Falls shall not sell sales tax revenue bonds for the construction of a city administrative office building.

Bruce Danielson

Citizens4Integrity, PO Box 491, Sioux Falls, SD 57101

FAX: (605) 334-9511, Cell: (605) 376-8087

www.citizens4integrity.org, Email: bruce@citizens4integrity.org