Bennett County

Board of County Commissioners meets

1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, 2:30 PM.

Meeting location

Courtroom, Bennett County Courthouse, Martin, SD.

County Auditor

PO Box 460 · Martin, 57551 · (605) 685-6931 · fax (605) 685-6311

Agendas posted at

No official county website exists — public notices run through the local paper (Bennett County Booster).

Board of County Commissioners

Dave Bakley (Chairman), Cole Donovan, Bill Livermont, Susan Williams, Keeley Clausen — all at-large elected. No official Bennett County government website exists at all, a genuine structural gap. 202 Main Street, Martin, SD 57551 (Auditor Angie Hicks). A live, unresolved open-meetings complaint (OMC 2024-02) was pending against this Board as of Sept 2024, alleging a Feb 2023 executive-session procedural violation.

Other Known Local Governments Here

These local governments — special-purpose districts, and smaller incorporated cities and towns — are known to exist in this area, but haven’t been individually researched yet, so there’s no meeting info or contacts on file. Listed here as a starting point if you want to look into one yourself; where we could confirm an official website, the name links there. More may exist here than are listed.