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The City of Madison's meeting portal lists "City Commission Work Session" for Sept. 14, 2026

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Article identifier: meeting-madison-civicclerk-790

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  1. Version 2

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    The body text changed; the headline did not. (compared against version 1)

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    • The city's agenda for this meeting lists 3 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1\) Update and overview of License Plate Readers \(LPR\) usage
    • - 2\) Review of Communications Survey Action Plan
    • - 3\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Monday, September 21, 2026 at 5:30 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.

    Content hash: cc2b6b56aa80075e78d9f21acf81f695e29286744c360d720c6ea94fc0caeb61

  2. Version 1

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    Content hash: 6c26e905d247cbfcc11e3eb401a2201528414d6688d5a15a88791e310c51b3bd

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