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The City of Madison's meeting portal lists "Board of Commissioners Meeting" for Aug. 18, 2025

Published automatically from public-record data — not reviewed by an editor. This heading is the article's current headline.

Article identifier: meeting-madison-civicclerk-497

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  1. Version 4

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    The body text changed; the headline did not. (compared against version 3)

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    • The portal marks that time UTC, and it is not: the city's own records contradict the mark, because the plain-English posting time the portal prints for this meeting's agenda states the same clock reading as the machine-readable field that claims to be UTC. The time above is therefore the local wall clock the city published, reproduced without conversion. South Dakota keeps two time zones — Central east of the Missouri River, Mountain west of it — so 605Buzz prints the city's own wall clock rather than converting it for anyone.
    • This article was assembled from [the City of Madison's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.cityofmadisonsd.gov/362/Agendas-Minutes). See the [corrections ledger](/corrections) if a field is wrong.

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    • The portal marks that time UTC, and it is not: the city's own records contradict the mark, because the plain-English posting time the portal prints for this meeting's agenda states the same clock reading as the machine-readable field that claims to be UTC. The time above is therefore the local wall clock the city published, reproduced without conversion.
    • This article was assembled from [the City of Madison's public agendas and minutes page](https://www.cityofmadisonsd.gov/362/Agendas-Minutes).

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    • - Agenda · 8/18/2025 City Commission Agenda · posted 2025-08-15
    • - Agenda Packet · 8/18/2025 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted 2025-08-15

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    • - Agenda · 8/18/2025 City Commission Agenda · posted Aug. 15, 2025
    • - Agenda Packet · 8/18/2025 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted Aug. 15, 2025

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    605Buzz began publishing the numbered item lines from the agenda file this article already linked to

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    • 605Buzz does not fetch, parse or summarise those documents. Follow the link above to read them at the city's own page.

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    • 605Buzz does not summarise those documents. Follow the link above to read them at the city's own page.
    • The city's agenda for this meeting lists 15 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1\) Minutes – August 4, 2025
    • - 2\) Bills for Approval – August 20, 2025
    • - 3\) Bills for Ratification – August 13, 2025
    • - 4\) Payroll Bills for Ratification – August 1, 2025
    • - 5\) Personnel
    • - 6\) Acknowledgement Surplus Sale of Transformers, Switch & Cabinet
    • - 7\) Second Reading of Ordinance No. 1681 Amend Appropriation Ordinance No. 1672
    • - 8\) Resolution 2025-19 - Adopt the Powers and Duties of the Mayor and Commissioners
    • - 9\) Consider Approval of Change Order No. 2 - Madison Water Improvements Segment 4 - Metro Construction Inc.
    • - 10\) Consider Approval of Change Order No. 3 - Madison Water Improvements Segment 5A - Asphalt Surfacing Company Inc.
    • - 11\) Authorize Signature on Grant Agreement - MDS-GLG-3-46-0029-027-2025 – Madison Municipal Airport
    • - 12\) Review 2026 Non-Profit Funding Requests
    • - 13\) August 2025 Finance Updates
    • - 14\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 5:30 pm
    • - 15\) Appointment to Planning Commission available to fill a vacancy ending in December 2026
    • 605Buzz reproduces the numbered item lines from that file and nothing else. Lines the city labels Petitioner, Property Owner, Location or Staff Report are not reproduced here, and neither is a street address; the agenda packet is not read at all. Where an item names a person — an official presenting it, or a resident being appointed to something — that name is part of the item the city wrote, and it stands as written. The text is the plain-text rendering the city's own portal returns for that file. Nothing above is a summary, and an item on an agenda is something a body may consider rather than something it did.

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    No earlier version is in this record, so there is nothing to compare against.

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