Cities Encouraged to post meeting minutes to Local Government WebsitE

In 2021, the South Dakota Municipal  League in collaboration with the  counties' associations and Associated  School Boards of South Dakota,  established the Local Government  Boards and Commissions website to  be used by local governments to post  meeting agendas and minutes as well  as other meeting documents.

Municipalities can use the website to  any extent that you wish; for something  as simple as posting a link to your  own website for meeting information,  to using it as a primary website for  posting all meeting information,  meeting documents and governing  body information. The goal is to have all municipalities post, at a minimum,  minutes for all council meetings.

Each municipality will need to create  an account for the website, https:// sdlocalgov.appssd.sd.gov/cms/login. aspx. The account will be electronically  approved by SDML staff. You will be  notified of that approval and then  you will be able to update your  account profile and begin updating  and posting information. Each South  Dakota Local Government Board and/ or Commission will have at least one  person assigned admin privileges for  the site. These privileges allow the user  to post information about the board or  commission they are affi  liated with.

Information that can posted or edited  includes:

• Meetings - Schedule, Agenda,  Minutes, Other Pertinent Meeting  Information

• Board/Commission Members

• Documents and Related Links

• Board Information

Please send us an email once you’ve  created an account and let us know if  you have questions about any aspect  of the website.

Send inquiries to Mindy Sargent  at mindy@sdmunicipalleague. org or Sara Rankin at sara@ sdmunicipalleague.org. ■