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Rapid City Council: Meeting – November 16, 2020
Amended Sioux San land swap passes 9-1
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
RAPID CITY, South Dakota — An amended resolution for a land swap to resolve three outstanding land deeds associated with the Rapid City Indian Boarding School lands was passed 9-1 in Rapid City Council on Monday, November 16. The resolution was not presented to the public prior to the meeting and council members only had a day to review the material.
Ritchie Nordstrom, who was indicated as one of the authors of the amended resolution with Heather Dawn Thompson and Greg Strommen, made the motion to approve. He said that the three main changes from the original resolution was the replacement of the word “swap” for “exchange”, set a hard due date of June 30, 2021, and set the compensation at $20 million.
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