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Canton commission approves election workers, public‑works hires, library roof, slurry seal bid and other routine items
Summary
At its March meeting the commission approved a slate of routine personnel hires and vendor contracts, a property tax abatement for a disabled‑veteran exemption, participation in a regional sewer study, and awarded a library roof contract and a slurry‑seal street contract.
The Canton City Commission on March 18 approved multiple agenda items including appointment of election workers for the April municipal election, summer hires for recreation and public works, lifeguard hires, a volunteer firefighter roster addition, a property tax abatement for a disabled‑veteran exemption, participation in a regional sewer study, and contracts for a library roof and street slurry seal.
Key votes and details: - Election workers: The commission appointed the listed workers for precincts 1–5 for the April 8 municipal election; each worker will be paid $250. (Transcript: list of names provided.)
- Summer hires: The commission approved recommended hires for summer recreation and public‑works positions; all were described as budgeted positions for 2025.
- Lifeguards: The commission approved a long list of recommended lifeguard hires at $17.96 per hour (head guards at $18.80), all budgeted for 2025.
- Fire department roster: The commission added Keaton Nelson to the volunteer fire department roster for workers’ compensation purposes.
- Property tax abatement: Jeff and Mandy Grosky were granted a tax abatement of $2,103.70 for Parcel 27101009 (1521 Holiday Drive) under a disabled‑veteran exemption; staff reported the applicants otherwise qualified but missed the statutory deadline (citing South Dakota Codified Law 10‑4‑40).
- Annexation petition: The commission received a petition to annex property (referred to in the transcript as a petition to annex “tristate readyments”); the commission moved to approve a resolution to accept the petition and put it on record.
- Regional sewer study: The commission authorized participation in a regional sewer study with South Lake and Rural Water; Canton’s share was listed as $2,214.29.
- Library roof contract: The commission accepted the low bid from Woods Roofing to reroof the city library with a steel shingle roof at $88,205.78.
- 2025 slurry‑seal notice award: The commission awarded a slurry‑seal contract to Aztec (Asphalt Surfacing Technologies, St. Paul) for $137,562.80; staff said that was about $17,000 over the city’s estimate, attributing the increase to higher traffic‑control costs.
Procedural notes: Most of these items carried on voice or roll‑call votes recorded in the meeting. The library roof and slurry‑seal contracts were discussed briefly (slurry‑seal advantages over chip seal were raised by staff). The commission recessed and convened as the board of equalization for a scheduled series of appeals and set hearings to begin March 18 at 6 p.m., as required by South Dakota Codified Law 10‑11‑16.
What didn’t change: The meeting did not adopt new policy language on liquor‑tax administration raised later in the meeting; staff said the city handles distributor billing for local license holders and that the city receives roughly $100,000 annually from that administrative role.
The meeting closed with routine housekeeping items and an adjournment motion.
