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The City of Madison's meeting portal lists "Board of Commissioners Meeting" for May 18, 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 · 5/18/2026 City Commission Agenda · posted 2026-05-14
    • - Agenda Packet · 5/18/2026 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted 2026-05-14
    • 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 · 5/18/2026 City Commission Agenda · posted May 14, 2026
    • - Agenda Packet · 5/18/2026 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted May 14, 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 22 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1\) Minutes – May 5, 2026
    • - 2\) Bills for Approval – May 20, 2026
    • - 3\) Bills for Ratification – May 13, 2026
    • - 4\) Payroll Bills for Ratification – May 8, 2026
    • - 5\) Personnel
    • - 6\) Property Tax Abatement 2026-08
    • - 7\) Property Tax Abatement 2026-09
    • - 8\) Property Tax Abatement 2026-10
    • - 9\) Property Tax Abatement 2026-11
    • - 10\) 2026-2027 Retail \(on-off sale\) Malt Beverage & SD Farm Wine Licenses Renewals
    • - 11\) Declare Surplus Property and Appoint Appraisers - Scrap Wire / Scrap Miscellaneous
    • - 12\) Adopt Resolution 2026-08 Approve a Plat - JD’s Addition in the NW1/4 of Section 16, Township 106 North, Range 52 West of the 5th P.M. in Lake County, South Dakota
    • - 13\) Public Hearing Upon Application for a Temporary Retail \(on-off sale\) Alcohol License - Madison Area Chamber of Commerce - MadTown Bike Jam
    • - 14\) Consider Approval of Temporary Retail \(on-off sale\) Alcohol License - Greater Madison Area Chamber of Commerce - MadTown Bike Jam
    • - 15\) Public Hearing Upon Application for a Temporary Retail \(on-off sale\) Alcohol License - Greater Madison Area Chamber of Commerce - DownTown in MadTown
    • - 16\) Consider Approval of Temporary Retail \(on-off sale\) Alcohol License - Greater Madison Area Chamber of Commerce - DownTown in MadTown
    • - 17\) Approve Resolution 2026-09 - Reaffirm 2023 Memorandum of Understanding with Lake County
    • - 18\) Digital currency mining facility discussion - staff update on project status and upcoming consideration of Electric Service Agreement and Land Lease Agreement with Giga Energy
    • - 19\) Approve 2024 Audit Report from Williams and Company
    • - 20\) Award Bid \#990 — Green Substation Distribution Feeder Exits
    • - 21\) May 2026 Finance Updates
    • - 22\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Monday, June 1st, 2026 at 12:00 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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