CITY HALL
The City of Plankinton conducts the business of city government at Plankinton City Hall, located at 102 S Main St in Plankinton. Residents of the community are represented by a mayor/council form of government, with the town divided geographically into wards.
The Plankinton City Council meets the first Monday of each month at 6:30pm in City Hall. Meetings that fall on holidays are moved to Tuesday evening at 6:30pm. Members of the public are encouraged to attend. Please schedule with City Hall at 605.942.7767 prior to the meeting if you would like to speak and be added to the agenda.
City Finance Officer, Cindy Geiman, manages the daily business of Plankinton City Hall. Utilities Superintendent, Chance Boyd and Maintenance Superintendent, Darin Cranny, manage city infrastructure development and maintenance, including electrical, streets and water utilities. Plankinton offers one of the lowest electrical rates in South Dakota through use of an innovative energy management system.
Other services provided by City Hall include:
Plankinton recently completed the underground utilities infrastructure to support citywide distribution from our new and beautiful tall water tower. Our community is proud of being selected as a former South Dakota Community of the Year in the Small Community category. Much hard work and teamwork among community members resulted in this exciting award. Please visit Plankinton and see for yourself what our progress is all about!
The spreadsheet in the link below provides a view of the electrical rates in Plankinton and compares the rates with other nearby communities. Chance included Central Electric since they are the surrounding COOP, and also included NorthWestern Energy as they serve many of the cities on this side of the state. Chance included every Municipal electric that had a city website where he could get the info. There are tabs for Residential, Outside of City Limits, Small Commercial, and Large Commercial. The purple shaded cell in row 1 to the right edge allows the reader to enter their usage for the month. The far right column lists the total bill for the month based their usage.
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