SIOUX FALLS, SD, (KELO.com)– The Sioux Falls City Council voiced problems at tonight’s meeting about the brokenness of the amendment process.
Council Member Greg Neitzert says that bringing these amendments up at the last minute is frustrating.
“I just want to state I’m going to vote no on any amendment that’s brought tonight because, frankly, the process is broken because we’re just springing amendment after amendment without talking to anybody else at the last minute,” Neitzert says.
Council Member Rick Kiley also refused to vote on any amendments brought forward and said the Council needs to follow the process.
Kiley says, “It has to go back to the process. I mean, there’s been a number of us that have been hit over the head with the word ‘transparency.’ This is anything but transparent. And so, I, like councilor Neitzert, am not going to vote on anything that is brought forward for the first time this evening.”
He also says that the Council needs to ‘do better.’
Neitzert also said that the Council needs to be given amendments ahead of time and given more than thirty seconds to process it.
This discussion comes after Council Members Theresa Stehly and Janet Brekke requested two last-minute amendments about planting more flowers on all state-owned properties, so Sioux Falls is a more bee and butterfly friendly city.
