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Council approves end-of-year consent items, budget transfers and personnel matters
Summary
The City Council approved the consent agenda and a series of votes including the Corn Palace fund reclassification and director appointment, alcohol licenses, rock salt bid, contingency transfers, the 2025 compensation plan, and adoption of a supplemental appropriation ordinance.
At its year-end meeting the Mitchell City Council cleared a slate of items including consent-agenda approvals, budget adjustments and personnel actions.
Key actions the council approved included: moving the Corn Palace back into an enterprise fund to allow it to operate more like a business; appointing Dave Seitzman as Corn Palace director; approving an alcohol license for Radbhi LLC d/b/a Thunderbird Lodge and a special-event liquor license for the Corn Palace Shrine Club; awarding a 700-ton rock-salt bid to Blackstrap Inc. at $72.45 per tonne (total $50,715); approving the removal of 15-minute parking signs at the Davidson County Courthouse; adding a street light near the cemetery crosswalk; approving contingency transfers reallocating $722,600 of previously-approved contingency funds and leaving about $82,028 remaining; adopting the 2025 compensation and classification plan with a 3% increase to full-time wages; and adopting a supplemental appropriation ordinance to reflect year-end adjustments and CDBG pass-throughs.
Several motions passed by roll call. On the Corn Palace fund matter, staff said the venue generated over $200,000 of revenue above budget and that reclassifying it as an enterprise fund would allow flexibility to operate more like a business. Karen Pooley publicly thanked the council during citizen input for city assistance to the Mitchell Food Pantry’s Thanksgiving distribution.
Next steps: staff will proceed with the classified fund change and implement the approved budget transfers and personnel changes; particular projects funded through the supplemental appropriation will be handled per staff recommendations and separate project approvals.
