Call the meeting to order.
» I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America and to
the republic for which it stands, one
nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
» Amy, would you take roll, please?
>> Absolutely. Commissioner Dibdal?
Commissioner Wolf?
>> Here.
>> Commissioner Wyer?
Commissioner Bearish?
>> Here.
>> And Mr. Mayor Lindsey?
>> Here.
You have before you the agenda for this
evening.
>> Make a motion to approve the agenda.
>> Second.
>> We have a motion and a second. All those
in favor signify by saying I.
>> I.
>> Those opposed same sign.
Motion carries.
Is there anything anyone wants to
discuss
uh on the consent calendar?
If not, do I have a motion?
>> I would move to approve the consent
calendar as presented.
>> Second.
>> We have a motion and a second. All those
in favor signify by saying I.
>> I.
>> Those opposed same sign.
Motion carries.
Seeing no unfinished business, under new
business,
proclamation recognizing and
congratulating the Madison Baseball
Association
2026
state championship teams.
And whereas the Madison Baseball
Association
provides opportunities for local
athletes to develop their skills,
build character, learn the value of
teamwork, and represent the Madison
community through the sport of baseball.
And whereas the summer of 2026
has been an extraordinary season for
Madison baseball
with four teams affiliated with the
Madison Baseball Association
earning South Dakota championship titles
in their respective divisions.
And whereas
the Madison High School baseball team
captured the 2026
South Dakota High School baseball
championship
demonstrating exceptional talent,
determination, teamwork, and
sportsmanship throughout the season.
And whereas the VFW
8 and under Madison team earned the 2026
VFW 8 and under state championship
showcasing the enthusiasm, teamwork, and
dedication of the next generation of
Madison baseball players.
And whereas Madison Post 25
14 and under Legion team secured the
2026
American Legion 14 and under state
championship
bringing another state title to Madison
and demonstrating the continued
development success of its young
athletes.
And whereas the Madison Post 25
senior Legion team
claimed the 2026
American Legion senior state
championship bringing another state
title to Madison and demonstrating the
commitment, perseverance, and
competitive spirit of its players and
coaches, and whereas these four
championship teams represent a
remarkable accomplishment accomplishment
for the Madison Baseball Association
and reflect the dedication of the
players, coaches, families, volunteers,
sponsors, and the community members
who support baseball in Madison.
And now, therefore, I Roy L. Roy J.
Lindsey, Jr., Mayor of the City of
Madison, do hereby recognize and
congratulate
the Madison Baseball Association and its
four 2026 state championship teams for
their outstanding achievements and for
bringing pride and recognition to our
community.
And further, the City of Madison extends
its sincere congratulations
to the players, coaches, families,
volunteers, and supporters of these
championship teams
and celebrates this exceptional summer
of baseball in our community.
Proclaimed the 17th day of August 2026.
Do we have someone who would like to
come up to receive the proclamation?
» Don't all rush.
» Congratulations.
>> Thank you.
>> You bet.
>> [applause]
» Moving on, number 11.
Adopt resolution 2026-14,
release of an easement.
Jameson, you want to address that?
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is a release
of a 50-ft
um 50-ft storm sewer and drainage
easement in the property in the
southeast side of our industrial park.
Um previously, it discharged to the east
from the end of where the road
was ended. And then now with the
completion of South Industry Avenue and
16th Street Southeast in the industrial
park, that uh area was filled in and
then the drainage area was rerouted a
little bit further to the southeast. And
there was appropriate storm water uh
infrastructure installed at that time.
So, since the the drainage was rerouted,
um we can relieve we can uh discharge
this um easement. Uh it's not needed
anymore and that allows this area to be
uh more fully developed.
I'll stand by for any questions.
Okay. Questions or comments?
If not, do we have a motion?
>> Ryan, I have one question. What What's
this process? Did this go through
planning and zoning as well or your
department or how did we get
where we are?
>> Yeah. Um so, MADC had worked with Sayre
and Associates and they had drawn up a
document to um release this easement and
then it comes to our office. We review
that. We reach out to the US Army Corps
of Engineers. Um they determine that any
wetlands there are non-jurisdictional.
Uh we also reach out to South Dakota
Department of Ag and Natural Resources.
>> So, what is
>> They will not require any avoidance or
minimization or compens-
compensatory mitigation. Um so, we're
all clear there and it just comes
straight to you as the city commission.
Does not go to the planning commission.
>> And then just to clarify it further in
that uh
where the drainage did go across before,
when they did some dirt work there and
that that area was uh filled in and the
water is directed further south.
And so, that's why we have this release
of the easement is because the water no
longer drains across that area because
it's been uh regraded.
» And you said it was not a wetland.
>> Yeah, that's right. It's It's
non-jurisdictional wetland.
» Thank you.
>> Any other questions?
Okay. Seeing none, do we have a motion?
» I'll make a motion to adopt resolution
2026-14
releasing
Did the easement have a number or
anything associated to it?
Are we just referring to it as the
easement?
>> Uh it's just an easement recorded on a
plat. So, we'd just be releasing that.
» I'll second that.
>> We have a motion and a second. All those
in favor signify by saying I.
>> I.
>> Those opposed same sign.
Motion carries.
August 2026 city updates. Jameson, would
you want to take that?
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. As that's coming
up on the screen here, um this is uh the
updates for
um the last month, um
mid-July to mid-August. And as that
comes up,
here we go.
The first thing we'd want to do is
recognize our employee Justin Anderson.
He is recently been promoted to a new
role as the lead with water and
wastewater operator. He has been an
operator in our treatment department uh
for over 8 years now. He's done a
fantastic job and we're very excited to
see him move up into this lead role um
and and take on more responsibilities
within that department. It's great to
have him as part of our our
organization, and we're just excited to
see what he does next.
So, congratulations, Justin.
Next slide has the standard list of
active projects, nothing crossing off
this month, and then we'll move on to
Egan Avenue.
Um since Ryan's here, Ryan, do you want
to take the two Egan Avenue slides?
>> Sure, be happy to. Um
so, between [clears throat]
uh Second and Fifth Street, there's
still some installation of um
median dirt and uh landscaping that
remain. Uh I talked to the
contractor today that's going to be
doing the sod, and they had indicated
they they want to do all of the sod at
once, but it remains to be seen if
they'll if they'll do those first three
blocks for us. We kind of
hope that they would. Um Fifth to Sixth
Street, all of the underground utilities
have been completed. They've more
completed a while back. Uh the traffic
lanes are all done.
Um they're working on sidewalks and the
remaining retaining walls of this week.
Uh Sixth to Eighth Street, again, all
the utilities are are complete. Um the
paving of the east lanes through Eighth
Street has been completed. Um the valley
gutter has been poured. That was poured
Friday.
And the parking areas next to DSU are
um ready, and uh we've broken cylinders,
and they're those are safe to park on,
so that should be good by
the first day of classes for DSU.
Um the west traffic lanes are only
completed to Seventh Street. They plan
on completing those to Eighth Street
this week, but that'll depend on
weather and um if they can get there.
They're trying to get the sidewalks done
next to DSU first.
Um then they'll work on driveways and
everything.
Um from Eighth Street to Ninth Street,
the subgrade is prepared and has been
proof rolled.
Um
the gravel installation is going to be
underway shortly. Um there was an
equipment breakdown that prevented them
from hauling gravel today, but that
should be underway tomorrow.
Uh the 9th Street intersection, the curb
and gutter was completed last week. Um
asphalt was supposed to be done today
and was not. It will be done right away
in the morning.
» Any questions on Egan?
» Okay.
>> Brian.
>> You
What was the timeline on 9th and it will
be passable Wednesday?
>> Um it was supposed the uh
Oh, the new timeline for it?
>> Yes. Yeah, or yeah.
>> Um yeah, so once it's done, we should be
able to open it up probably in the
evening tomorrow.
Either that or early morning on
Wednesday.
It was originally supposed to be done a
couple weeks back. Um we had a gas main
that was hit that created some some
issues with getting that prepped. Um
It was by contract supposed to be
completed by August 14th. So, they're a
few days late and are in penalty phase
on that.
» Thank you.
>> Any other questions on Egan?
Okay, just want to note a couple other
of our projects will be coming up.
Nothing new since last month, but our
annual chip seal for 2026 will be
starting either late August or early
September. And then our sidewalk
project, the city's contractor is able
to start work as early as August 24th.
Um we give land owners up until this
time to complete them themselves if they
so choose. And so this fall you'll start
seeing some of those sidewalk and chip
sealing projects proceed.
On the electric side of the world, um
our two substation projects are moving
along. On the green substation, the work
on the control building is a lot of
where the work's been occurring lately,
um including the interior finishing and
then some minor exterior repairs around
the building uh from the building
installation.
Um construction of the communication
tower is nearing completion. Only the
top sections remaining. And then the
transformer field services um was
completed on the 7th. And then the
electrical crews are reworking the
cables in the vault so they can energize
the station power for deep for the
commissioning of the building which is
scheduled on the 17th. Um, this project
is expected to be energized by November
of this fall.
And then the southeast substation uh
with the transformer arrived on the
10th. Um, that has been been late but
they were happy to see that get in um
offloaded and set on the 11th. And so
insulation services were able to start
right away and the completion was
scheduled to be the 14th.
Testing of the breakers, CCTV's,
arresters, and the switch began on the
12th. And so this is bringing us to the
second planned power outage which was
scheduled to begin uh today and last
approximately two weeks. This has been
rescheduled due to the delay in the
transformer delivery date um and allows
the crews to complete the final
transmission connections and power and
control wiring.
>> And then uh with this uh
it says, you know, the
uh
power outage but that doesn't mean to
the citizens.
>> Yes. So when we uh the outages at this
station would would uh not be energized
at the time but we since we have three
substations, we'll be able to operate
the the city on the other two
substations. So outages on both of these
are planned um as those construction
projects continue. The southeast sub is
expected to be energized re-energized on
August 30th um and be bringing in that
115 kV to the community.
Jumping into some past events, we had
National Night Out a couple Tuesdays ago
which had some beautiful weather and was
a big hit um between the foam party
hosted by the library to the dunk tank
um and and all the the equipment and and
the uh
the little train that was pulled around
for the kids. That was another
successful National Night Out and so we
want to thank all of our uh law
enforcement and and fire responders for
their service to our community and also
for putting on another great event
downtown Madison.
We got a few slides here showing some
pictures from the library. They've had a
very successful summer reading program.
There was a dinosaur theme this year and
we had a lot of great participation. And
so you see a few pictures here from some
of the the runs and the walks that they
started out of the year with.
And then
there's also
pictures from their craft afternoon, um
from the events of the graphic novel
club, and also the Nerf night event. And
then the garden club is listed on here
as well. The garden club um it has a lot
of great community support and uh kids
are able to to learn about growing their
own produce and putting them to use in
some tasty dishes.
When we look at summer reading program
as we're nearing the end of the summer,
we uh have seen that we've had 229
elementary age kids read almost 170,000
minutes of of of books. It's lots of
phenomenal job by those kids and you may
have seen some of the yard signs around
the community for those who have logged
at least 10 hours of reading throughout
the summer.
There was also 74 teens who read 994
books books and 42 adults who read 392
books. And so in total the summer
programs from the Madison Public Library
this year had uh 1,902 attendees
throughout its different activities.
Last past event we'll note is our most
recent city circle at the library. We
had uh great conversations including
topics such as the city budget, uh our
proposed digital currency mining
facility, the license plate reader
cameras, as well as emerald ash borer.
And then switching to upcoming events,
um library's always got good things in
store and so they have the the school
bus event coming up on August 18th 11:00
a.m. um at the library park. And they're
also working on a teen teen created
mural to the children section of the
library.
So that wraps up the updates for this
month. Are there any questions?
» Okay, questions or comments?
No? It's been a very good summer.
Surprising that it's already
school starting here. So,
do we have any public comment?
Okay.
Our next regular commission meeting will
be Tuesday, September 8th at noon.
And at this point in time, do we have a
motion to go into executive session?
>> Make a motion.
>> Pursuant to SDCL 1-2524,
to move into executive session.
>> Second.
>> We have a motion and a second. All those
in favor signify by saying aye.
>> Aye.
>> Those opposed same sign.
Motion carries.
Thank you everyone for attending
tonight.
So, I think I'll take a minute.
And