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Votes at a glance: Hot Springs Council approves routine business, personnel hires and supplements
Summary
At the meeting the council approved an amended agenda to add an airport hire, personnel actions A–H, several budget supplements and routine claims, and acknowledged raffle notifications; most items passed by voice vote and specific tallies were not recorded in the transcript.
The Hot Springs City Council cleared routine and administrative business in a single meeting, approving personnel actions and multiple budget supplements as listed below. Most motions were passed by voice vote; the transcript records outcomes but does not provide detailed roll-call tallies.
Key votes and outcomes
- Approve amended agenda adding personnel item H (hire Hunter Cutchin, full-time airport manager at $17.09/hr, effective 6/8/26): approved by voice vote.
- Approve minutes from May 18 meeting: approved by voice vote.
- Approve interim bills totaling $163,431.27: approved by voice vote.
- Approve current claims totaling $102,165.44: approved by voice vote.
- Approve personnel actions A through H (includes airport hire): approved by voice vote.
- Approve Resolution 2026-17 (CDBG—WWTF improvements): approved by voice vote.
- Set special meeting to canvass 2026 municipal election results, June 9 at 9:00 a.m.: approved.
- Approve FAA entitlement transfer request (transfer of $150,000 of 2023 entitlements): approved by voice vote.
- Approve revised golf cart event rental agreement with Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce: approved by voice vote.
- Acknowledge raffle notifications from PEO and Hot Springs Ministerial Association: acknowledged.
- Approve supplemental appropriation $10,000 from liquor/lodging fund for Mueller Civic Center roof: approved.
- Approve automatic budget supplement $15,000 to general fund for city hall drainage (Deadwood Fund grant reimbursement): approved.
- Approve automatic budget supplement $101,224.58 to additional sales tax fund for airport AOS 3 project (AIP reimbursement): approved.
- Approve automatic budget supplement $995.63 to water fund for Happy Hollow booster station roof (SDPAA claim): approved.
- Approve travel/training request for City Administrator Ariel Ellison: approved.
Several items included brief discussion (e.g., safety questions about golf cart operations, vendor selection for manholes, and FAA entitlement details) but no contested roll-call votes were recorded in the transcript.
