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The City of Madison's meeting portal lists "Board of Commissioners Meeting" for Aug. 3, 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 · 8/3/2026 City Commission Meeting Agenda · posted 2026-07-31
- - Agenda Packet · 8/3/2026 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted 2026-07-31
- 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 · 8/3/2026 City Commission Meeting Agenda · posted July 31, 2026
- - Agenda Packet · 8/3/2026 City Commission Agenda Packet · posted July 31, 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 10 numbered items, reproduced below exactly as the city wrote them:
- - 1\) Minutes – July 20, 2026
- - 2\) Bills for Approval – August 5, 2026
- - 3\) Bills for Ratification – July 29, 2026
- - 4\) Payroll Bills for Ratification – July 17, 2026
- - 5\) Approve updated Power of One Volunteer Program Policy
- - 6\) Approve 2024 Annual Financial Report
- - 7\) Review 2027 Non-Profit Funding Requests
- - 8\) Authorize sale of Renewable Energy Credits \(RECs\)
- - 9\) August 2026 Finance Updates
- - 10\) Next Regular Commission Meeting – Monday, August 17, 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.
- 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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