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Official Monthly Publication Member of National League of Cities Contents Features www.sdmunicipalleague.org SDML Annual Conference Schedule . .6 2014 SDML Excellence in South Dakota Municipal Government Award Nomination Form . .7 Building Officials Summer Training . .8 MUNICIPALITIES SoDace Code Enforcement Officer of the Year . .9 Managing Editor: Yvonne A. Taylor Editor: Carrie A. Harer Roadmap for Constitutional Prayer at PRESIDENT DISTRICT CHAIRS City Council Meetings . .10 Becky Brunsing Dist. 1 - Mike Grosek Finance Officer, Wagner Mayor, Webster 2014 Police Officers of the Year Award . .11 1st VICE PRESIDENT Dist. 2 - Tim Reed Value of Investing in Your Community’s Health: Jeanne Duchscher Mayor, Brookings How to Build a Healthy Community . .12 Finance Officer, Parker Dist. 3 - Amy Nelson Cell Tower Siting “In Writing” Requirement . .15 2nd VICE PRESIDENT City Manager, Yankton Meri Jo Anderson De Smet Donations Fund New Complex . .16 Finance Officer, Dist. 4 - Debbie Houseman New Underwood Finance Officer, Lake Andes New Cars Required to Have Rearview Cameras . .18 TRUSTEES Dist. 5 - Renae Phinney Tips on Use of Employment Background Checks . .19 Laurie Gill President, Ree Heights Mayor, Pierre Public Employer Dodges Liability Dist. 6 - Karl Alberts for Employee’s Outrageous Scheme . .20 Greg Jamison Finance Officer, Aberdeen Councilmember, Sioux Falls Hot Springs Sandstone Beauty . .22 Dist. 7 - Arnold Schott Sam Kooiker, Mayor, McLaughlin Addressing Rampant Employee Disengagement . .26 Mayor, Rapid City Dist. 8 - Harry Weller Mind the Gap! . .28 Pauline Sumption Mayor, Kadoka Finance Officer, Rapid City EMMA’s Tools for State and Local Governments . .29 Dist. 9 - Gary Lipp Mike Wendland Mayor, Custer Creating Ethical Dilemmas for the Staff . .30 Mayor, Baltic Dist. 10 - Fay Bueno The Pringle Poachers . .32 PAST PRESIDENT Finance Officer, Sturgis Paul Young Understanding Anti-Indemnity Statutes . .36 Councilmember, Spearfish Columns LEAGUE STAFF 1-800-658-3633 Fax: 605-224-8655 Yvonne Taylor Executive Director Director’s Notes . .4 Sandi Larson Director of Risk Sharing Services President’s Report . .5 Christine Lehrkamp Director of Research and Training Jeff Mehlhaff Director of Municipal Electric Services Risk-Sharing News . .42 Carrie Harer Director of Marketing & Communications Lori Butler Director of Finance/Office Manager Washington Report: Representative Noem . .44 April LeBeau Administrative/Bookkeeping Assistant Judith Payne SD Public Assurance Alliance In Every Issue Executive Director Deb Corkill SD Public Assurance Alliance Community Calendar . .48 Administrative Assistant Classifieds . .52 E-mail: yvonne, sandi, christine, jeff, carrie, lori, april, jpayne.sdpaa, dcorkill.sdpaa @sdmunicipalleague.org Municipal Calendar . .53 SOUTH DAKOTA MUNICIPALITIES (ISSN 0300-6182, USPS 503-120) is the official publication of the South Dakota Municipal League, published monthly at 208 Island Drive, Ft. Pierre, South Dakota 57532, phone 605-224-8654. This institution is an equal opportunity provider, and employer. Periodical postage paid at Pierre, South Dakota and additional mailing offices. Non-member subscriptions are available for $30.00 annually. The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the South Dakota Municipal League. Postmaster: Send address changes to SOUTH DAKOTA MUNICIPALITIES, 208 Island Drive, Ft. Pierre, South Dakota 57532. JUNE 2014 VOLUME 80, NUMBER 12 3 Director's Notes It is a little early for you have in store on this, but it is guaranteed to be a great time to be thinking about the for all. Annual Conference, but the City of Spearfish and the And of course, your days will be packed with informative League Staff have been training, learning opportunities, and the chance to discuss working on it for a while your local issues with your peers on the statewide level. At now, and we want to make a registration fee of $100, which includes all the training sure you are planning to sessions for three days, two breakfasts, two luncheons, and attend. This year’s event a dinner and entertainment, this is certainly the best deal promises to be one of the your city will make all year! best ever, and the City is very excited to have the Please see the agenda outline on page 6 for more opportunity to have you all information, and watch the magazine and your mail for there, and is arranging some fascinating new features for more details! you all to learn and enjoy. Until next month, remember we are always available at The Conference schedule allows all affiliate groups to 1-800-658-3633 or [email protected]. meet on either Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning, and condenses the most intensive portions for the elected Yvonne Taylor officials into the Thursday and Friday meetings. We realize Executive Director it is often difficult for elected people to get away for the entire conference, so we hope you will be able to attend at least the two days – and the fall days in the Hills are really something to look forward to! For those who are able to get away for more, there will 2014 Elected be an entire program of interest to you, beginning on Wednesday morning and continuing until Friday at noon. Officials Workshop Another exciting opportunity is Wednesday evening event, allowing you to have some time on your own to explore July 23, 2014 all the City has to offer. We hope to arrange some “deals” Ramkota Hotel, Pierre for you with local businesses and establishments, also. All elected officials are welcome to attend this Our Thursday evening event will again be a highlight of five hour crash course on municipal government. the conference, with the banquet and a most amusing Topics of interest are: Budgeting and Understanding entertainment…you’ll just have to wait to hear what we City Finances; Best Practices on How to Manage City Staff when you are a Part Time Elected Official; Understanding Work Comp and Liability Issues; How to Conduct Effective and Efficient Meetings; and Open Meetings, Open Records and ARENS ENGINEERING Executive Sessions. We realize your time is municipal engineering important and plan to give you the very best water & wastewater engineering information and resources possible in a short time. storm drainage - municipal streets We hope to see you in July. Vernon Arens, PE Agenda and registration form will be posted online 230 Capitol St. j Yankton, SD j 57078 at www.sdmunicipalleague.org/sdmlevents and sent 605-665-2002 j Fax 605-260-2140 via email. [email protected] 4 SOUTH DAKOTA MUNICIPALITIES President's Report Happy Spring! I think that it is finally here. I truly want to good ideas how to go about thank every city that hosted a district meeting this spring. I remedying them. enjoyed visiting every community and visiting with elected officials from across the state. I can honestly say that as June will be a busy month. President, this has been one of the highlights of my year. As President, I have the pleasure of having the If you missed the district meetings, part of my speech was SDML board meeting in about mentioning a little something about each city Wagner. I am looking attending the meeting. Although, a little more time forward to showing all the consuming because at each meeting I had to change the board members our great end of it to talk about the cities there. It was very city and what things we interesting research. The main thing I realized was that this have for entertainment. state and a majority of our towns exist because of the The SD Human Resource building of the railroad in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Association and the SD A lot of time, towns were named after engineers or people Governmental Finance Officers’ Association will be having of notoriety in the railroad business. Sometimes, the name their annual training/conference in Oacoma June 10-13. It stuck and sometimes towns’ names were changed as many looks like there are many educational and interesting topics as three times before settling on a final one. I also found on the agenda. very interesting stories, events and people associated with many of the towns across South Dakota. Being an almost Have a great start to the beginning of summer and we will lifelong resident of our great state, I feel like I know it see you next month! even a little better now. Rebecca Brunsing On the training side of things, I did attend the SDML Code President Enforcement spring meeting and it was very informational. Every city has those “nuisance issues” and they had some SD Municipal Pool Testing Attorneys' Association Municipal swimming pools are no longer regulated by Meeting the State of South Dakota, however, these facilities should be tested for coliform bacteria during each week of operation. All pool samples should be tested for “total coliform,” which is an indicator bacteria for drinking water and pools. j “Total Coliform – Negative” means that no coliform bacteria were found and the water is safe. j “Total Coliform – Positive” means that coliform What: Luncheon Meeting bacteria were found. When: Friday, June 20, 2014 Two or more consecutive positive samples indicates 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. a general trend of bacteria presence in the pool. Where: Sioux Falls Convention Center Corrective measures should be taken, such as super- chlorination, to prevent a health related incident Visit www.sdmunicipalleague.org/sdmlevents caused by poor water quality. for the agenda and registration. JUNE 2014 5 SDML Annual Conference October 7-10, 2014 Spearfish Holiday Inn Convention Center Tentative Schedule Tuesday All Day SDPAA Board Meeting 2 p.m. tee off SDML Golf Tournament 7 p.m. SDML Board of Directors Meeting Wednesday Morning 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Exhibits Open 8 a.m. ABC’s of Municipal Websites 9 a.m.