At the August 21 city council meeting, council members approved to participate in a road signing project through the South Dakota Department of Transportation.
For this project, the state will hire a consultant to drive on every street in the city checking all signs for reflectivity and if a sign should be on a breakaway pole.
After this, the consultant will come back and replace every sign, including stops, yields, mile per hour and street name signs, that need to be replaced and put signs on breakaway poles as needed.
The entirety of the project will be funded at the expense the DOT using federal funds.
Once the project is done, the city’s only obligation will be maintenance of the signs, which consists of nighttime visual inspection making sure the signs are still reflective.
The replacement of non-reflective signs will be the city’s responsibility.
Aldermen Brad Bjerke, Bart Sample and Dan Sutton voted yes, and Bob Pesall and Karen Tufty voted no.
The Flandreau city council also:
held the first reading of Ordinance 580 amending electric rates.
approved the preliminary plats of lots 4 and 5 in the industrial park.
approved a third pay request for the water and wastewater line replacement project from H&W Contracting for $182,736.54.
approved the eighth CDBG drawdown request $13,030.16 and can only be applied to the water portion of the water and wastewater line replacement project.
approved a pay request for the electrical upgrade and burying project from TE Underground for $79,193.42.
approved two applications from Bar X Bar for temporary on-sale liquor licenses: for the Tyler Tiedeman and Amy Thill wedding reception and dance on September 9 and for the Anne Stenberg and Jordan Christensen wedding reception and dance on October 21.
