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The City of Madison's meeting portal lists "Board of Commissioners Meeting" for Oct. 6, 2025

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Article identifier: meeting-madison-civicclerk-487

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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 · 10/6/2025 City Commission Agenda · posted 2025-10-03
    • - Agenda Packet · 10/6/2025 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted 2025-10-03

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    • - Agenda · 10/6/2025 City Commission Agenda · posted Oct. 3, 2025
    • - Agenda Packet · 10/6/2025 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted Oct. 3, 2025

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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 13 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1\) Minutes – September 15, 2025
    • - 2\) Special Meeting Minutes - September 24, 2025
    • - 3\) Bills for Approval – October 8, 2025
    • - 4\) Bills for Ratification – September 24 & October 1, 2025
    • - 5\) Payroll Bills for Ratification – September 12 & 26, 2025
    • - 6\) Appoint Kerry Barlow to Planning Commission to fill vacancy ending in December 2026
    • - 7\) Declare Surplus Property and Appoint Appraisers - IT Surplus
    • - 8\) Public Hearing Upon Application for a Temporary Retail \(on-sale\) Alcohol License - Knights of Columbus - St. Thomas Gala - November 1, 2025
    • - 9\) Consider Approval of Temporary Retail \(on-sale\) Alcohol License - Knights of Columbus - St. Thomas Gala - November 1, 2025
    • - 10\) Approve 2023 Annual Financial Report
    • - 11\) Discussion and action on selection of audit firm for 2024 financial audit
    • - 12\) October 2025 City Updates
    • - 13\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Monday, October 20, 2025 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.

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