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The City of Madison's meeting portal lists "City Commission Work Session" for Dec. 8, 2025

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Article identifier: meeting-madison-civicclerk-637

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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.
    • The city's agenda for this meeting lists 4 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1\) Finance Operations - Progress & Strategic Direction, Digital Budget Book
    • - 2\) Electric - OATI AMI Update
    • - 3\) Information Technology - 2025 Update
    • - 4\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Monday, December 15, 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.
    • 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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  2. Version 3

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    • - Agenda · 12/8/25 City Commission Work Session Agenda · posted 2025-12-05
    • - Agenda Packet · 12/8/25 City Commission Work Session Agenda Packet · posted 2025-12-05
    • The city's agenda for this meeting lists 4 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1\) Finance Operations - Progress & Strategic Direction, Digital Budget Book
    • - 2\) Electric - OATI AMI Update
    • - 3\) Information Technology - 2025 Update
    • - 4\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Monday, December 15, 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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    • - Agenda · 12/8/25 City Commission Work Session Agenda · posted Dec. 5, 2025
    • - Agenda Packet · 12/8/25 City Commission Work Session Agenda Packet · posted Dec. 5, 2025

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  3. Version 2

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

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

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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 4 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
    • - 1\) Finance Operations - Progress & Strategic Direction, Digital Budget Book
    • - 2\) Electric - OATI AMI Update
    • - 3\) Information Technology - 2025 Update
    • - 4\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Monday, December 15, 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.

    Content hash: b4343c6a13357f8fdaa755bfd346aded48c52446593e2475e197aa6ce18ee929

  4. Version 1

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

    Content hash: c69bccd838ae93752a2b1edb1a37d1c6ff7f6f7b4bf1fbc8a4d2aa009512d636

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