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Equalization/Planning
COMING UP SOON:
2010 Mobile Home Registration
Stagebarn Special Zoning Area Update:
The next meeting, if you signed up will be September 23rd, 2010 at 7 pm at the Ramada.
The preliminary Zoning Map and highlights from the draft Ordinance can be downloaded below. Please note, these are draft items and are only preliminary.
Draft Proposed Stagebarn Special Zoning Area Map
Draft Highlights of Proposed Stagebarn Special Zoning Area Ordinance
Please send comments and input on these items to Bill Rich at brich@meadecounty.org or Jennifer Phillips at jphillips@meadecounty.org.
Public Meeting Notice:
Meade County will be holding a first reading for revisions to the Building Code & Construction Ordinance No. 34 on September 8th at 11:45 am; in the Commissioners Room at the Meade County Court House. The proposed revisions can be downloaded here:
APPEAL DEADLINES:
Local Board of Equalization: Written appeal must be filed with the clerk of the local board on or before the Thursday preceding the third Monday in March.
County Board of Equalization: Written appeal must be filed with the County Auditor on or before the 1st Tuesday in April.
Appeals are for the current assessment year, taxes payable the following year.
Equalization
The Meade County Director of Equalization is appointed by the Meade County Board of Commissioners.
The function of the Director of Equalization Office is to annually value all real property in Meade County at its full and true value. The Director of Equalization and his staff are responsible for discovering, listing, and valuing all real property within Meade County. They are also responsible for linking real properties to their respective owners and placing assessed values and owners' names on the assessment roles. Types of properties included in the assessment process are: residential, commercial, industrial, and agriculture classes of property. The office is responsible for determining the taxable value of over 19,000 parcels.
The Director of Equalization has a number of additional responsibilities which include providing equalization between classes of property; deciding on adjustments to properties; reviewing all abatement; administering all state laws pertaining to the ad valorem property tax assessment; providing for the review and appeal of assessments; testifying in court on assessments; and deciding on tax exemptions and tracking each exemption.
The Director of Equalization and his staff must be certified by the South Dakota Department of Revenue to assess real property for tax purposes. After initial certification, appraisers must be re-certified every five years. The requirements for re-certification include: attending and passing the annual Department of Revenue sponsored school, attending workshops, and attending the South Dakota Association of Assessing Officers conferences.
Planning
The Meade County Planning Office serves our citizens to perform a vital role in the vision of the county and acts as the primary coordinator in the development, adoption, and implementation of the county's policies for residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural growth. The office provides both current and long range planning services to the various county boards, including the Planning Commission, Board of Adjustment and County Commissioners, as well as to the general public and also coordinates planning activities with our municipalities. Our vision of the future for planning is unique in that Planning is citizen driven; citizens, through their local government, should work together to direct and guide the planning process.
The Planning office reviews subdivisions, site plans, and variances, building plans, permit issuance, and is also responsible for the development and enforcement of the Subdivision, Building, Wastewater, Signs and other Ordinances including future Zoning Ordinances, to enhance our community. It is the goal of the Planning office to provide timely, responsive and helpful service to all members of the public. We are committed and dedicated to promote sound planning that benefits the citizens of Meade County.
We are pleased to provide you the information contained on this website, and hope it helps you understand and participate in the planning and development review process. We welcome your comments and suggestions so please do not hesitate to contact us with your thoughts and ideas about how we can improve our services. Thank you.
GIS
GIS, Geographic Information Systems, is a technology in which data in the form of points, lines, and polygons are connected to databases providing information about a geographical area. GIS is a digital map containing several layers of data, each layer containing specific informational within the digital map. Parcels, flood data and street centerlines are a few examples of map layers.
Meade County GIS is a support service and is part of the Equalization and Planning Department whose mission is to provide support to all Meade County Departments and the general public. The GIS staff is responsible for creating, updating and maintaining an efficient geographic information system (GIS) or digital mapping in support of the Board of Commissioners, Elected Officials, and County Departments.
Meade County GIS provides fast and easy access to accurate digital and hard-copy mapping data and strives to develop and maintain the Geographic Information System of Meade County by providing efficient, high quality GIS leadership, coordination, data development and maintenance, and GIS services that meet the needs of Meade County Departments and the communities we serve.
GIS will continue to provide training, appropriate staff and public access to data to assist county departments, municipalities and the citizens of Meade County. We also support an innovative GIS web site for the internal and public use.
Please utilize the information on this web site and we hope it helps you with your business or project. If we can help you in anyway to achieve you goals by utilizing Meade County’s GIS please to do hesitate to contact us at (605) 347-3818.
Economic Development
Meade County is a dynamic prosperous area and is a balanced, growing community with economic opportunities for income potential allowing personal independence. Our goal is to foster a strong economic environment which supports businesses and the expansion of those businesses nurturing growth and new investment in the region, creating new jobs which provide year around employment throughout Meade County, while maintaining a high quality of life with a livable wage.
Meade County is where the community accepts that a certain level of growth and development are healthy and necessary to maintain our quality of life; where the enjoyment of a suburban and rural lifestyle is allowed without the necessity of urban services. We are focused on advancing the long-term economic viability of the suburban areas by encouraging and supporting small business and manufacturing as well as in our rural areas with an emphasis on ranching, farming, forestry, and other businesses consistent with the unique character of Meade County.
Growth is encouraged where appropriate infrastructure exists or is planned to exist, thus enabling urban, suburban and rural lifestyles to coexist; where the community is engaged with their elected leadership to accept responsibility for contributing to the solutions of continued community growth.
If you are looking for a pleasant and secure place to raise your family, start a small business, or expand an industry, we are a county with a healthy and positive attitude, nurturing growth and excellence, choosing Meade County is a wise choice.
Firewise
The primary goal of this Community Wildlife Protection Plan is to reduce the risk from wildfire to life, property, and critical infrastructure. The Wildland Urban-Interface, (WUI), is a set of condtions that exist when manmade fuels (e.g. structures and other human development) meets or intermingles with natural vegetative fuels. The U.S. Department of Agriculture in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Interior identified a list of communities at risk from wildfire and placed them inthe Federal Register. There communities are located in the WUI and are in the vacinity of federal lands and have been identified as being at high risk from wildfire.
The plan will help develop a core group of local government, fire agencies and state officials that will then be able to collaborate with federal agencies to identify areas at risk from wildfire. Programs to reduce these risk will be developed. Possible solutions will include, but will not be limited to, providing fuels reduction programs, field assessment of existing conditons, and collaboration between the different agencies to provide communicatoin that will help reduce the risk from wildfire across the landscape without regard to ownership or boundaries. Identifying and prioritizing areas of hazardous fuels and plan to treat these areas, which will reduce the threat from wilfire. Public education regarding firewise materials and firewise practices to recude the chance of initial ignition of structures in the WUI will be developed. Firefighter and public safety is a major concern when mitigating for wildfire. By providing adequate survivable space we can reduce a structures chance of initial ignition during a fire event. This also provides a safer environment and allows for more efficient fire suppression activities.
This Community Wildfire Protection Plan will be flexible to provide the best product possible to reduce the threat from wildfire for people residing in Meade County. The hazardous fuels reduction portion of the plan will identify property that is at risk from wildfire and will provide aid in treatment of these areas to make them better prepared to survive a wildfire event. Fuel loads, topography, and survivable space will determine who is eligible to participate in the hazardous fuels reduction program. If the landowner will assume responsibility for the maintenance of the treated area for ten years, the cost share will be increased.
Kirk Chaffee, Director
Phone (605) 347-3818
E-mail:doe@meadecounty.org
Address: 1425 Sherman, Sturgis, SD 57785
Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday-Friday
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