Saddleback Road District
Where a whole lot of shenanigans is going on.
This site is a blog-style sequence of events concerning our rogue road district. While this site carries all the news of this district, it also serves as ‘beware’, for anybody else involved in a road district, other special district or is possibly on the verge of getting roped into one. If you are a regular Joe, living in South Dakota, and feel you are at your wits end dealing with a local governmental body and can’t get help, this site can support your pro se venture and provide some guides. And you can live vicariously through my process and rants and snark. If you don’t have snark and grit, you may not make it through the ordeal.
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
~Samuel Adams
Latest Blunders
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What an Honest, Sincere Road District Board Would Actually Do
If the people who sit on your local road district board truly cared about the taxpayers who pay their salaries and fund the roads, here’s exactly how they would run things. Not the bare-minimum, check-the-legal-box version we usually see — but the way a board that respects its community would operate every single time. 2….
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Why Bother Showing Up?
The Road District Meetings That Make “Public Participation” a Joke If you live in a local road district and you’ve ever thought, “Maybe I should go to the board meeting and speak up,” let me save you the gas money and the headache. It’s pointless. Here’s what actually happens once you walk through those doors:…
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Saddleback Road District Special Meeting, Saturday April 11, 2026
Any bets on what the bylaw change will be this time? The Board could be giving themselves even MORE CYA powers… or perhaps they are making a change to one or more of the many bylaws that are unlawful… and which were pointed out to them long ago.