BRUCE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
November 12th, 2025
City Mayor Sabrina Kasper called the Bruce City Council to order Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, at 6:00 pm at the Bruce Community Room with council members Elder, Diedrich, Ruden, Zuiderhof, Hartley and Matthys 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 Diedrich and seconded by Hartley to approve the agenda; all present voted in favor of the motion. Motion carried.
Motion by Matthys and seconded by Zuiderhof to approve minutes from the October 14th, 2025, meeting; all present voted in favor of the motion. Motion carried.
Motion by Edler and seconded by Ruden to approve the following claims presented by Aundrea Saathoff. All present voted in favor of the motion. Motion carried.
October Bills
GENERAL- Valley FiberCom $193.98; Ottertail $1,472.71; Cook’s Wastepaper $1,674.73; Brooking Deuel Rural Water $105.30; Sioux Valley Energy $88.90; EMC Insurance $1,989.67; QuickBooks $387.63; Verizon $79.46; Post Office $88.44; M&M $123.08; Runnings $152.40; ACE Hardware $137.94; Prussman $500.00; RFD Newspaper $169.78; SDRS $1,292.66; Brookings City Landfill $226.14; SDML $2,809.00; Office Peeps $542.00; CarQuest $161.67; Glacial Lakes $160.00; Dennis DeBoer $120.00; Austreim Landscaping $1,013.32; SD One Call $6.72 Payroll: Finance Office: Aundrea Saathoff $4,793.55, Maintenance: Zack Stokes $4,223.78; Animal Control: Matthew Ridgeway $161.65; Epay $318.34; Taxes $2,856.81;
Maintenance Report:
Sewer- Straw bales have been placed on the ponds for the winter. Attended the Sewer Seminar in Lake Norden.
Streets- Plow truck and tractor are snow ready. Rodney DeBoer is willing to step in and plow snow if necessary, during the time Zack will be absent. Wage discussion will take place in the December 9th, 2025, meeting. Zack inquired if sick leave could be used for leave. FO will call the State to see if it is able to be used.
Parks- Blew out the campground and ball parks have been blown out as well as fall spraying has taken place.
Office Report: New printer was installed today. It works great and prints faster than the old one. Audit is still going on, haven’t heard when she plans to return and work on more items. We are still waiting on one part for the speaker/microphone system.
Old Business:
Wagner Street/ Brad Farber- Reading of the reports from two Tree Services. Farber did not agree to carry an additional insurance policy. Request to remove Insurance Clause as his intention was to take care of the tree should it fall. FO to contact Steve to have clause removed.
Fire Files- Pictures of the fire files were presented to the council. Newman would move fire files into the space where files would be kept. A motion by Diedrich to approve the two fire files presented at $500.00 each, second by Ruden. With all voting aye, motion carried. Diedrich abstained.
New Business:
Ordinances- 7-1-5 – 7-1-8 reading. Update verbiage in 7-1-5, 7-1-7 and 7-1-8. Will read the update verbiage in the December 9th, 2025, meeting.
A motion by Diedrich to adjourn the meeting at 6:36 PM, second by Ruden. With all voting aye, motion carried.
Dated this 12th day of November 2025 in Bruce, South Dakota.
Aundrea Saathoff
Finance Officer
City of Bruce (Unapproved Minutes)