BRUCE CITY COUNCIL MEETING

December 9th, 2025

 

City Mayor Sabrina Kasper called the Bruce City Council to order Tuesday, December 9th, 2025, at 6:00 pm at the Bruce Community Room with council members Diedrich, Ruden, Zuiderhof, Hartley and Matthys in attendance. Edler was not in attendance.

The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.

The floor opened to those community members that signed in 5 minutes prior to the City Council meeting being called to order.

No one signed in for the 5-minute Citizen Invitation to speak.

Motion by Ruden and seconded by Diedrich to add Special Liquor License to the agenda; all present voted in favor of the motion. Motion carried

Motion by Ruden and seconded by Zuiderhof to approve the agenda with addition; all present voted in favor of the motion. Motion carried.

Motion by Matthys and seconded by Hartley to approve minutes from the November 12th, 2025, meeting; all present voted in favor of the motion. Motion carried.

Motion by Diedrich and seconded by Zuiderhof to approve the following claims presented by Aundrea Saathoff. All present voted in favor of the motion. Motion carried.

November Bills

GENERAL- Valley FiberCom $193.98; Ottertail $1,226.39; Cook’s Wastepaper $1,378.64; Brooking Deuel Rural Water $109.40; Sioux Valley Energy $14.77; EMC Insurance $1,989.67; Google Workspace $21.03; QuickBooks $397.19; Verizon $79.44; Amazon $1,222.93;  Ace Hardware $75.54; Runnings $393.74; Lowes $41.35; RFD Newspaper $ 52.70; Code Enforcement $256.14; American Legal Publishing $340.00; M&M Service $519.84; Austreim $717.50; Jeff Newman $1,000.00; Office Peeps $34.54; Britzman Law $2,312.50; Payroll: Council: Sabrina Kasper $554.10; Andrea Diedrich $415.57; Kay Ruden $415.58; Marilyn Edler $277.05; Lesley Matthys $415.58; Michael Zuiderhof $415.57; Paul Hartley $415.57, Finance Office: Aundrea Saathoff $3,786.05, Maintenance: Zack Stokes $3,316.28; Animal Control: Matthew Ridgeway $190.78; Epay $1,007.71; Taxes $1,495.43; SDRS $1,012.16;

 

Maintenance Report:

Sewer- Planning on calling Dakota Pump and Control to see why alarm keeps going off.

Streets- Moving snow. Comment was made to make sure that the bottom of Doe Street is well salted and that tends to get icy.

Parks- Christmas lights are up on Jay Street.

Office Report: Not much to report. Still waiting to hear back from ELO to continue audit. Attended the meeting in Lake Norden. First District presented software that would show where shut off valves, etc. are. They also went over meeting etiquette. Side discussion of look into a committee to put together a Capital Project for 2027 and possibly camera sewer lines.

New Business:

Nina’s Liquor License- A liquor license for Nina’s Pizza Shop was presented. A motion by Zuiderhof to approve the Liquor License, second by Hartley. With all voting aye, motion carried. Diedrich abstained.

Special Liquor License- A Special Event Liquor License was presented for a private event. A motion by Ruden to approve the Special Event Liquor License, second by Zuiderhof. With all voting aye, motion carried. Diedrich abstained.

Old Business:

Wagner Street/ Brad Farber- The updated Indemnification between Brad Farber and City of Bruce was presented; A motion by Matthys, second by Zuiderhof. With all voting aye, motion carried.

Lawn Mower- A quote was presented from Badger Oil for a new lawn mower for the 2026 year. FO still waiting on another quote to come in. Tabled until January 2026 meeting.

Code Enforcement- Updated list was provided to be reviewed.

 

New Business:

Ordinances-  8-1-1 – 8-1-5 reading. Update verbiage. Will read the update verbiage in the January 13th, 2025, meeting.

A motion by Diedrich to adjourn the meeting to go into Executive Session in accordance with SDCL §1-25-2, Subsection (4) at 6:36 PM, second by Zuiderhof. With all voting aye, motion carried.

A motion by Diedrich to adjourn Executive Session at 6:52 PM; a second by Ruden.

A motion by Diedrich to employ Rod DeBoer at $25.00/hr for temporary snow removal as needed while Maintenance Supervisor is on leave; second by Matthys. With all voting aye, motion carried.

A motion by Matthys to adjourn the meeting at 6:55 PM; second by Hartley. With all voting aye, motion carried.

 

Dated this 9th day of December 2025 in Bruce, South Dakota.

Aundrea Saathoff

Finance Officer

City of Bruce (Unapproved Minutes)