Aberdeen City Council

18987 1 MINUTES 2 ABERDEEN CITY COUNCIL MEETING 3 City Council Chambers, 123 South Lincoln Street, Municipal Building, Aberdeen, South 4 Dakota, November 3, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., regular meeting of the City Council. 5 CALL TO ORDER 6 MEETING ROLL CALL 7 Present at roll call were City Council Members Rob Ronayne, Erin Fouberg, Charlotte Liebelt, 8 Rich Ward, Alan Johnson, Talmage Ekanger, Chad Nilson, David Novstrup, and Mayor Travis 9 Schaunaman. 10 City Staff present were Robin Bobzien, Ron Wager, Stuart Nelson, Ken Hubbart, Joel Weig 11 via teleconference, Dave McNeil, Tanner Jondahl, and Jordan McQuillen. 12 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 13 Mayor Schaunaman led the Pledge of Allegiance. 14 APPROVAL OF AGENDA 15 Motion by Ekanger, second by Nilson, to approve the agenda. Voice vote to approve, all 16 present voting aye, motion carried. 17 MINUTES 18 Motion by Liebelt, second by Nilson, to approve the minutes of the October 27, 2025, City 19 Council Meeting, as circulated. Voice vote to approve, all present voting aye, motion carried. 20 OPEN FORUM 21 No one appeared in open forum to address the Council. 22 CONSENT CALENDAR 23 Motion by Nilson, second by Fouberg, to approve the following items on the consent 24 calendar: 25 PROCLAMATION: Buddy Poppies Week, V.F.W. Croal Post 17 & Auxiliary, November 26 5-11, 2025 27 PROCLAMATION: City of Aberdeen Purple Heart City Designation 28 DAY CARE LICENSE RENEWAL: Stacy Vikander 29 LOTTERY NOTICE – receive and place on file: Aberdeen Amateur Hockey Association 30 and Mina Lake Association 31 2026 RETAIL LIQUOR, PACKAGE LIQUOR, AND RETAIL WINE LICENSE 32 RENEWALS for various businesses in the city of Aberdeen, SD  18988 1 Voice vote to approve, all present voting aye, motion carried. 2 NEW BUSINESS 3 APPROVAL OF THE TRANSFER OF RETAIL ON-OFF SALE MALT BEVERAGE 4 AND SD FARM WINE LICENSE RB-3433 AND VIDEO LOTTERY LICENSE NUMBER 5 VL-1071 FROM BONN EXPRESS, INC., 801NORTH HIGHWAY 281, TO BONN RIVER LLC 6 DBA BONN EXPRESS, 801NORTH HIGHWAY 281 7 Mayor Schaunaman opened the public hearing for the transfer of the alcohol and video 8 lottery license. Motion by Ward, second by Nilson, to approve the transfer of Retail On-Off Sale 9 Malt Beverage and SD Farm Wine License RB-3433 and Video Lottery License Number VL-1071 10 from Bonn Express, Inc., 801North Highway 281, to Bonn River LLC dba Bonn Express, 11 801North Highway 281. Roll call vote to approve, all present voting aye, motion carried. 12 APPROVAL OF THE TRANSFER OF RETAIL ON-SALE LIQUOR LICENSE RL-5411 13 FROM PLAZA RENTALS LLP, 813 CIRCLE DRIVE, TO BONN RIVER LLC, DBA BONN 14 EXPRESS, 801 NORTH HIGHWAY 281 15 Mayor Schaunaman opened the public hearing for the transfer of the alcohol license. 16 Motion by Ekanger, second by Ronayne, to approve the transfer of Retail On-Sale Liquor License 17 RL-5411 From Plaza Rentals LLP, 813 Circle Drive, to Bonn River LLC, dba Bonn Express, 801 18 North Highway 281. Roll call vote to approve, all present voting aye, motion carried. 19 POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF A SPECIAL ONE-DAY, ON-SALE, BEER, WINE AND 20 CIDER LICENSE FOR ABERDEEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, BUSINESS AFTER 21 HOURS ON NOVEMBER 13, 2025, AT THE ABERDEEN CIVIC ARENA, 203 S 22 WASHINGTON ST 23 Mayor Schaunaman opened the public hearing for the special one-day alcohol license. 24 Motion by Ward, second by Novstrup, to approve the Special One-Day, On-Sale, Beer, Wine and 25 Cider License for Aberdeen Area Chamber of Commerce, Business After Hours on November 13, 26 2025, at the Aberdeen Civic Arena, 203 S Washington St. Voice vote to approve, all present voting 27 aye, motion carried. 28 APPROVAL OF PAY REQUEST #1 FOR WT-2025-1 (WATER TOWER AND 29 TRANSMISSION LINE) IN THE AMOUNT OF $480,563.26 TO DAHME CONSTRUCTION 30 INC. OF ABERDEEN, SD FOR SCHEDULE A AND $744,866.50 TO LANDMARK 31 STRUCTURES INC. OF FORT WORTH, TX FOR SCHEDULE B 32 City Engineer Nelson presented the pay requests. Motion by Johnson, second by Liebelt,  18989 1 to approve Pay Request #1 for WT-2025-1 (Water Tower and Transmission Line) in the amount 2 of $480,563.26 to Dahme Construction Inc. of Aberdeen, SD for Schedule A and $744,866.50 to 3 Landmark Structures Inc. of Fort Worth, TX for Schedule B. Roll call vote to approve, all present 4 voting aye, motion carried. 5 APPROVAL OF PAY REQUEST #3 IN THE AMOUNT OF $137,959.53 AND 6 CHANGE ORDER #2 IN THE AMOUNT OF $117,250.35 FOR CONC-2025-4 (STREET 7 MAINTENANCE CONCRETE REPAIR 2) TO CWF MASONRY & CONSTRUCTION OF 8 ABERDEEN, SD 9 City Engineer Nelson presented the pay request and change order. Motion by Johnson, 10 second by Ward, to approve Pay Request #3 in the amount of $137,959.53 and Change Order #2 11 in the amount of $117,250.35 for Conc-2025-4 (Street Maintenance Concrete Repair 2) to CWF 12 Masonry & Construction of Aberdeen, SD. Roll call vote to approve, all present voting aye, motion 13 carried. 14 REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF CLAIMS AND PAYROLL 15 Motion by Ward, second by Ekanger, to approve payment of the bills listed for November 3, 16 2025. 17 Bills having been audited by the Finance Officer and fully itemized and authorize the Mayor 18 or City Manager to sign, and the Finance Officer to countersign, all warrants for payment of the 19 following approved bills: US Bank 66,171.34, US Bank Corp Trust 17,334.34, Aberdeen Insider 20 196.34, Advance Auto Parts 28.70, Alex Heyd 214.00, Austin Nath 196.00, Auto Value - Aberdeen 21 487.57, Automatic Building Controls 942.00, Butler Machinery Co. 129.86, Claims Associates Inc. 22 250.00, Cole Papers Inc. 399.52, Convention Visitors Bureau 34,942.88, Crawford Trucks & 23 Equipment 583.44, Crescent Electric Supply 1,552.55, CWF Masonry & Construction Inc. 24 137,959.53, Dahme Construction 480,563.26, Dakota Fluid Power Inc. 667.49, Dakota Oil 202.60, 25 Dakota Supply Group 118.77, Farm Power Mfg. Inc. 415.00, Federal Express Corp 48.02, Flexible 26 Pipe Tools & Equipment 1,820.05, Guardian Life Ins. Co. 1,297.38, Handtevy 4,398.98, Hunter 27 Schlotman 214.00, Jb's Sandblasting 1,224.00, Jensen Rock & Sand Inc.-Mobridge 3,790.00, Johnson 28 Feed Inc. 4,664.48, Jordan Rohrbach 68.00, Knight Towing 450.00, Landmark Structures I LP 29 744,866.50, Logan Stubbe 68.00, Mac's Inc. 166.12, Menards Inc. 87.88, Mike Lester 68.00, Napa 30 Central 49.56, Pomp's Tire Service 1,165.45, Quality Welding Inc. 77.60, RDO Equipment Co. 31 6,798.00, Runnings Supply Inc. #14 518.84, Safety Service Inc. 225.00, Sanitation Products Inc. 32 9,656.27, Share Corp 464.53, Stuart Donaldson 292.00, Wageworks Inc. 630.00.  18990 1 Payroll for the period from October 19, 2025, through November 1, 2025, and city share of 2 social security, old age & survivor’s insurance, retirement, health and life insurance. EFTPS 3 176,906.42, SD Retirement System 106,693.58, City Health Insurance 88,212.50, Governing Body 4 Council 3,789.28, City Manager 9,681.75, Attorney 8,980.91, Finance Office 18,758.37, Human 5 Resources 12,240.83, Carla Herr 29.95/hr, Municipal Hall 2,184.97, Computer Services 6,348.31, 6 Community Development 18,016.00, Engineering 14,557.02, Police 188,528.92, Tanner Jondahl 7 58.28/hr, Fire 166,214.22, Building Inspection 7,825.60, Street 38,207.16, Traffic Control 9,273.85, 8 Utilities - General 32,289.07, Solid Waste 27,112.37, Zachary Hoon 20.66/hr, Wastewater Treatment 9 24,717.16, Utilities - Sewer 10,209.80, Jason Heiser 23.96/hr, Water Treatment Plant 29,466.20, 10 Utilities - Water 2,393.33, Airport 22,891.20, Cemetery 5,310.92, Transit 33,147.47, West Nile 72.00, 11 Meals On Wheels 745.73, Admin 11,899.64, Participant Rec 14,234.29, Brody Dustin 14.00/hr, 12 Ashlynn Odde 14.00/hr, Donovan Kiesow 14.00/hr, Kaylee Kiesow 14.25/hr, Brayden Linke 13 14.00/hr, Kailyn Poppen 15.00/hr, Olivia Sandvig 14.25/hr, Katelyn Steinwandt 14.25/hr, Jerrett 14 Erdmann 14.00/hr, Lynn Holzkamm 16.00/hr, John McDonough 14.25/hr, Ryan Salzer 14.00/hr, Park 15 Rec ARCC 32,262.80, Amy Thompson 14.75/hr, Jenny Gross 15.50/hr, Park Rec Golf 7,180.48, Pc 16 Complex 8,736.44, Park Rec Senior Center 6,852.00, Campground 1,038.38, Parks 22,310.87, 17 Parks/Wylie 13,379.35, Forestry 12,067.34, Library 36,465.03, City Economic Development 18 2,989.60. Roll call vote to approve, all present voting aye, motion carried. 19 CITY MANAGER’S REPORT 20 City Manager Bobzien reported past and upcoming meetings with incoming city manager 21 McNeil and an employee acknowledgment. 22 ADJOURNMENT 23 There being no further business, motion by Liebelt, second by Fouberg, to adjourn the 24 meeting. Voice vote to adjourn, all present voting aye, motion carried. The meeting adjourned at 5:47 25 p.m. 26 Prepared by Steven Thithavong for the Finance Office. /s/Jordan McQuillen, Finance Officer