Number
240861
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
210894, 220703, 230897, 231182, 240222, 240360
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
Substitute resolution terminating the Environmental Collaboration Office’s contract with Habitat for Humanity to build net-zero homes.
Analysis
This resolution terminates the Environmental Collaboration Office’s contract with Habitat for Humanity to build net-zero homes.
Body
Whereas, Common Council File Number (CCFN) 210894, adopted October 21, 2021, appropriated $43,500,000 of the City’s first installment of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for affordable housing, and CCFN 220703, adopted November 22, 2022, appropriated $4,700,000 from the City’s second installment of ARPA funds for affordable housing and housing support projects; and
Whereas, Exhibit A and the “Finance & Personnel Committee 2021 ARPA Proposal Recommendations (Yellow Packet) Revised” attachment of CCFN 210894 described how the City’s appropriation would include $1,000,000 for the Modular Housing Program administered by the Environmental Collaboration Office (ECO); and
Whereas, Federal guidelines from the U.S. Department of Treasury require that the City of Milwaukee expend ARPA funds directly by December 31, 2024 and/or have ARPA funds under firm or fixed-price contracts by December 31, 2024 in order to expend them by December 31, 2026; and
Whereas, CCFN 231182, adopted on December 12, 2023, directs the use of funding from the American Rescue Plan Act to be placed in the control of the Common Council if any funds are unused or unencumbered by June 30, 2024; and
Whereas, At a Joint Committee on Redevelopment of Abandoned and Foreclosed Homes meeting on May 6, 2024, the Department of Administration’s Budget and Management Division presented a report on ARPA-funded housing projects (CCFN 230897 attachment “May-ARPA-Funded Housing Projects”) which indicated that the Environment Collaboration Office had spent or encumbered only $105,190 of the $1,000,000 alloca...
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