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The City of Madison's meeting portal lists "Board of Commissioners Meeting" for Jan. 20, 2026

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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.
    • - Agenda · 1/20/2026 City Commission Agenda · posted 2026-01-16
    • - Agenda Packet · 1/20/2026 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted 2026-01-16
    • 605Buzz does not fetch, parse or summarise those documents. Follow the link above to read them at the city's own page.
    • 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.
    • - Agenda · 1/20/2026 City Commission Agenda · posted Jan. 16, 2026
    • - Agenda Packet · 1/20/2026 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted Jan. 16, 2026
    • 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 17 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1\) Minutes – January 5, 2026
    • - 2\) Bills for Approval – January 21, 2026
    • - 3\) Bills for Ratification – January 14, 2026
    • - 4\) Payroll Bills for Ratification – January 2, 2026
    • - 5\) Personnel
    • - 6\) Approve 2026 Employee Wages
    • - 7\) Acknowledge 2026 Tapping and Meter Fees and 2026 Service Fees
    • - 8\) Approve Memorandum of Understanding with Almost Home Canine Rescue \(AHCR\)
    • - 9\) Approve Project Skills Work Experience Agreement with Madison Central School District
    • - 10\) Approve Advertisement and Set Bid Date - Bid No. 988 - Green Substation Construction - February 19, 2026
    • - 11\) Public Hearing Upon Application for a Temporary Retail \(on-sale\) Alcohol License - Sporty's Bar & Grill - Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Event - January 24, 2026
    • - 12\) Consider Approval of Temporary Retail \(on-sale\) Alcohol License - Sporty's Bar & Grill - Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Event - January 24, 2026
    • - 13\) Approve First Reading of Ordinance No. 1685 - Amend Appendix B - Zoning Section 17.02
    • - 14\) Monthly Finance Update
    • - 15\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Monday, February 2nd, 2026 at 12:00 pm
    • - 16\) State of the City Address - Monday, January 26, 2026 at 5:30 pm
    • - 17\) Date to begin circulation of petitions for City Commission is Monday, February 2nd, 2026. Deadline to file petitions is Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 at 5 PM.
    • 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.
    • 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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