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Rapid City council rescinds incorrect bill list, approves corrected payments at special meeting
Summary
At a Jan. 8 special meeting, the Rapid City City Council voted to rescind a bill list that staff said had been published in error and approved a corrected bill list, closing public comment and adjourning shortly afterward.
At a special Jan. 8 meeting, the Rapid City City Council voted to rescind a bill list that staff said was mistakenly published with the agenda and approved a corrected bill list the city finance department presented.
Director Ainsley told the council that while preparing Monday night’s agenda staff had included “the bill list from the previous council meeting,” and that the incorrect bill list had therefore been published. “And so the incorrect bill list was, published with the meeting,” Ainsley said. The council moved to rescind the previously approved list and approve the corrected list to avoid duplicate payments, voting by voice. Councilmember Robert moved to rescind and approve the corrected list; Councilmember Maher seconded. The motion carried on an affirmative voice vote.
The council opened and closed public comment at the start of the meeting because there were no speaker request forms. The meeting record shows staff stated the corrected bill list totaled about $9.4 million; the transcript renders the figure inconsistently as “9,404,000, $185.35.” That numeric formatting appears to be a transcription or formatting error and was not clarified further on the record.
Before the bill-list action the council adopted the meeting agenda on a motion by Robert, seconded by Roseland. After approving the corrected bill list, Councilmember Lehman moved to adjourn; Councilmember Seacrest seconded, and the meeting ended.
The council cited state statute in explaining that no new items could be added to the special meeting agenda; staff framed the action as correcting a publication error rather than taking any new spending action beyond approving the corrected bill list. No individual votes were recorded in the minutes beyond the council’s voice approvals and the motions noted above.
The special meeting primarily handled the bill-list correction and related procedural items; no substantive policy items were discussed and no public commenters addressed the council on the matter.
