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Votes at a glance: Hot Springs City Council actions on May 19, 2025
Summary
A consolidated list of formal motions, resolutions and approvals taken by the Hot Springs City Council at its May 19 meeting, including license approvals, ordinance second reading, audit acceptance, grant-designation actions and budget items.
The Hot Springs City Council made the following formal actions on May 19, 2025. Items are listed in the meeting record text and each motion passed unless otherwise noted.
1) Agenda and minutes - Motion to approve the agenda — approved by voice vote. - Motion to approve minutes from the May 5 council meeting — approved by voice vote.
2) Financial approvals - Motion to approve interim bills totaling $162,812.54 — approved by voice vote. - Motion to approve current claims of $89,474.18 — approved by voice vote.
3) Licenses and hearings - Held public hearing and closed public hearing on a license application from Hanging J LLC (doing business as Red Rock River Resort) for a retail on-/off-sale malt beverage and South Dakota farm wine license at 603 North River Street — public hearing closed; motion to approve the license application — approved by voice vote. - Motion to set a public hearing for Monday, June 16 at 7:10 p.m. for a special-sale alcoholic beverage license application from the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce for an all-school reunion event at Mueller Civic Center — motion passed. - Motion to approve a special-sale alcoholic beverage license application from Whiskey River LLC for the Main Street Arts & Crafts Festival at Centennial Park (June 2025) — approved by voice vote.
4) Personnel and training - Motion to approve personnel actions A through M — approved by voice vote. - Travel/training approvals: SRO Officer Thomas McMillan to attend the South Dakota School Resource Officer Conference; Assistant Finance Officer Ariel (Bridal) Ellison to attend SDML budget training; City Administrator Jacqueline Kelsey to attend SDML budget training; Library director and clerk (Mary Torones and Heather Lee) to attend the Summer Public Library Institute — all approved by voice votes.
5) Ordinances and resolutions - Motion to approve second reading of Ordinance 12-66 (revising Title 11 business regulations: licenses and license fees) — roll-call vote recorded as unanimous yes by attending members; ordinance passed its second reading. - Motion to approve Resolution 2025-11 (support for an SDHDA application by Fall River Health Services for single/multifamily development) — motion made, amended during discussion to read single/multifamily, and approved by voice vote. - Motion to approve Resolution 2025-12 appointing Finance Officer Misty Summers Walton and City Administrator Jacqueline Kelsey as applicant agents for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program — approved by voice vote.
6) Grants and emergency funding commitments - Motion to approve and authorize the mayor to sign the designation of applicant agents documentation for FEMA GO and related federal assistance — approved by voice vote. - Motion to approve and authorize the mayor to sign a commitment letter to meet matching-fund requirements addressed to Jim Poppin at the South Dakota Office of Emergency Management (for Hot Brook Pumping Station and wastewater treatment plant generator projects) — approved by voice vote.
7) Audit and financial report - Motion to accept the 2024 financial statements and audit report prepared by Kettle Thorstenson LLP — approved by voice vote. Auditor presented a clean/unmodified opinion; the council discussed adoption of new accounting standard GASB 101 related to compensated absences and noted consistent audit findings concerning post-audit adjustments and financial-statement preparation.
8) Parks and capital spending - Motion to approve a future supplemental appropriation of $3,500 to the general fund (park department) for purchase and installation of an irrigation system at Centennial Park — approved by voice vote.
9) Other approvals - Motion to acknowledge notification of a raffle from the philanthropic educational organization (PEO) — acknowledged/approved.
10) Meeting closure - Motion to adjourn — approved by voice vote.
Notes: Most items passed by voice vote; the second reading of Ordinance 12-66 was recorded by roll call and reported as passing with all “yes” votes in attendance. Where motions recorded amounts or dates, those were copied verbatim from the meeting record. No motions in the published transcript were recorded as failed or tabled.
