The big city news of the day is Jamison announcing a campaign manager;
Jamison Announces Campaign Manager
Sioux Falls, SD – Greg Jamison has announced today the hiring of his Campaign Manager.
Former SDGOP Regional Field Director and Secretary of State Election Coordinator, Garrett DeVries, has joined the Greg Jamison for Mayor Campaign as the campaign manager.
“Garrett DeVries is a welcome addition to this campaign,” said Jamison. “Garrett has a great history of being a work horse to win campaigns. Â His energy, organization, and proven experience will serve this campaign very well. Â Â I am excited to have him on the team.”
Garrett DeVries grew up on a family farm near Canistota and attended the University of South Dakota. He has been involved in campaigns from a very young age and has worked extensively with many campaigns across the state of South Dakota. In 2012, he served as the West River Regional Field Director for SDGOP specializing in grassroots campaigning and getting out the vote. Â With the Secretary of State, DeVries worked to increase access to voting utilizing Vote Centers and by improving the absentee process for military personal.
For more information – visit its website at www.JamisonForMayor.com or call (605) 215-5184.
The city council has also not met for several weeks, so they have a lot on their plates tomorrow;
During the informational we are going to have a ‘Top Ten’ list from Huether’s mouthpiece, Kendra Siemonsma, I guess it is so ‘awesome’ they can’t post it ahead of time on SIRE.
We will also get updated as to why Public Parking needs to charge $25 for an appeal, we gotta cover that Golden ‘P’ marketing budget somehow I guess.
Jim David also will inform us about the council’s legislative priorities, like a statewide texting ban (even though Sam Clemens from the SFPD KINDA admitted on ‘100 Eyes’ that texting and driving and getting in an accident is already covered under ‘distracted’ driving) but Erpenbach won’t be happy until she restricts all naughty things in SF like speaking longer then 5 minutes on a topic at city council meetings. The council also wants to have the power to tax us for whatever and use that money to ‘benefit’ us. LOL!
At the Fiscal Committee meeting, financial director, Tracy Turbak will give us an update on Debt Management (that must be super-uber-secret because docs are not up on SIRE either, maybe they are heating up in the pre-SIRE warming bin before they can be released to the public.)
Item #1 on the city council meeting agenda, approval of contracts, has some interesting expenditures. Project #189064 has a charge for redesigning/engineering the existing pedestrian bridge by the Hilton, $19,150. Nice to see they are leaving the bridge, and I saw today they were putting new hand railing on it. I guess I need to get in the business of designing and engineering hand railing on an existing bridge, pays pretty good. I guess our own engineering department at the city couldn’t figure that one out on their own. Maybe we don’t have any engineers that work for the city that have hand railing experience?
My favorite though is the A/C unit for city hall’s computer room (I’m hoping this is a typo and they mean the A/C unit for the entire building) $145,834. At that price, they could recreate the ice age in the computer room. I do think though the A/C will be counter productive, as of right now we need to fire up SIRE fifteen minutes in advance to get it cooking enough for public meetings, and WE ARE USING THE OLD A/C SYSTEM!
And lastly, the IcePlex and TennisPlex agreements with the city.
Ice Facility;Â Iceplexagreement
Tennis Facility;Â tennisagreement
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