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Votes at a glance: Brookings City Council actions — March meeting
Summary
Summary of formal motions and votes from the City of Brookings March council meeting, including contract awards, ordinance adoptions and approvals to amend the agenda and consent agenda.
The City Council took several formal actions at its March meeting. Below are key motions, movers/second (when recorded), vote tallies and short notes.
- Amend agenda to add special meeting April 10 for city attorney services applicants — Motion to amend agenda was moved, seconded and passed by roll call (Avery: aye; Doran: aye; Neimeyer: aye; Specker: aye; Tiltonburn: aye; Wendell: aye).
- Approve agenda as amended — Motion moved and seconded; passed by roll call (unanimous).
- Approve consent agenda — Motion moved and seconded; passed by roll call (unanimous).
- Resolution 25-023 — Award contract for 2025 slurry-seal project to Asphalt Surfacing Technologies (Aztec) for $1,203,814.04 — Motion passed by roll call (Specker: aye; Tiltonburn: aye; Wendell: aye; Avery: aye; Doran: aye; Neimeyer: aye).
- Resolution 25-026 — Award contract for landfill leachate force main to Metro Construction for $2,591,403.76 — Motion passed by roll call (unanimous). Staff said substantial completion is expected by early October and full completion by November.
- Ordinance 25-009 — Second reading and adoption of budget amendment number 10 to the 2024 budget (increases across five areas including Hillcrest Aquatic Center, Forestry, Police overtime, Library donations and bid tax admin fee) — Second reading approved by roll call (unanimous). The ordinance adds budget authority for expenditures offset by excess revenues received in 2024; staff recommended approval as presented.
- Ordinance 25-010 — Second reading and adoption of revised floodplain ordinance to align with FEMA’s updated flood insurance study and maps — Motion passed by roll call (unanimous). The ordinance adopts FEMA-provided language, raises freeboard for manufactured/mobile homes from 0 to 2 feet in new or expanded parks, and designates the city engineer as floodplain administrator. It must be effective on or before FEMA’s map date, April 23, 2025.
- Resolution 25-027 — Annexation of approximately 55 acres in the northeast (west half of the NE quarter, Section 20, T110N, R49W) — Motion passed by roll call (unanimous). Planning Commission recommended approval; the county commission had approved a supporting resolution the prior week.
- Motion to enter executive session under SDCL 1-25-2.3 and 1-25-2.5 — Motion moved, seconded and approved by voice vote; council entered executive session and stated no action would follow from the session.
Notes: Several items included brief council discussion and staff presentations prior to the roll-call votes; where specific mover or seconder names were not recorded in the transcript, the report lists the motion as moved and seconded without attributing names.
