Number
191139
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution authorizing City entry into Green Infrastructure Funding Agreements, Green Solutions Funding Agreements, and Conservation Easements with MMSD and MPS for MPS properties, in the 1st , 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th Aldermanic Districts.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the City of Milwaukee to enter into Green Infrastructure Funding Agreements, Green Solutions Funding Agreements, and Conservation Easements with MMSD and MPS for grant funding for installation of green infrastructure at various MPS properties.
Body
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee is the owner of record of the following Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) sites concerning which the MPS Board has the duty of care, control and management under Wis. Stat. 119.16 (1m) and (3)(b) and Wis. Stat. 119.60 (2):
• 1021 S. 21st Street (Longfellow School)
• 2616 W. Garfield (Starms Early Childhood Center)
• 5610 W. Wisconsin Avenue (Hawley Environmental School)
• 4348 S. Griffin (Burdick School)
• 4001 W. Custer Avenue (Custer Playfield)
• 1345 W. Columbia Street (Columbia Playfield)
• 3350 S. 25th Street (Southgate Playfield)
• 503 S. 4th Street (Lynde and Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School)
• 823 S. 4th Street (Escuela Vieau)
• 1712 S. 32nd Street (Academia de Lenguaje y Bellas Artes at the Walker Multiplex) (ALBA)
• 1817 W. Lincoln Avenue (Lincoln Avenue Elementary School)
• 1801 W. Olive Street (Rufus King International High School)
• 3666 S. Clement Avenue (Clement Avenue School)
• 3014 W. Scott Street (Doerfler School)
• 1555 N. Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive (Golda Meir School)
• 7501 N. Granville Road (Vincent High School)
• 1945 N. 31st Street (Westside Academy)
• 1755 S. 32nd Street (Burnham-Roger Playfield); and
Whereas, The Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District (MMSD) is willing to use funds available to it to reimburse MPS for green infrastructure improvements at MPS school sites, in particular “Green Solutions” (GS) funds (MMSD uses “5” as the digit code for GS funding) for the Longfellow, Hawley, Starms, Burdick, Custer, Columbia, and Southgate MPS school sites, and “Green Infrastructure Partnership Program” (GIPP) funds (MMSD uses “4” as the digit code for GIPP funding) for the Longfellow, Hawley, Starms, Burdick, Clement Avenue, Doerfler, Golda Meir, Vincent, Westside Academy, and Burnham-Roger Playfield MPS school sites; and
Whereas, Green infrastructure improvements through these two funding streams will help divert storm water from local sewerage systems; and
Whereas, MMSD requires MPS, and the City as the record title holder of the MPS sites: to enter into respective GIPP and GS funding agreements on a per parcel basis; and to enter, after the infrastructure has been installed at each site, a conservation easement on a per parcel basis; and
Whereas, The respective GIPP and GS funding agreements now needed for the respective MPS school sites (with the exception of the GIPP funding agreement for the Burnham-Roger Playfield site), and a template conservation easement to be used post-installation, have all been submitted to this file; and
Whereas, MMSD previously provided GS funding for green infrastructure projects at the ALBA, Lincoln Avenue, Rufus King, Esuela Vieau, and Bradley Tech MPS school sites and respective conservation easements for those sites, where the infrastructure has already been installed, are now also needed and call for MPS and City signature, and those respective conservation easements have also been submitted to this file; now therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the GIPP funding agreements, the GS funding agreements, the template conservation easement, and the other conservation easements that were submitted to this file are hereby approved, and City personnel, including the DPW Commissioner, are authorized: (i) to cause the City to enter those documents in the same form, or in substantially the same form and substance, as have been submitted to this file; and (ii) to take such further acts as may be contemplated or required to be taken by the City thereunder so as to carry out the intent and purpose of this resolution and those documents; and, be it
Further Resolved, that, when MPS, MMSD, and the City (by its Department of Public Works with the assistance of the City Attorney’s Office) have finished negotiating the MMSD funding and project parameters concerning the GIPP funds for the Burnham-Roger Playfield site, that City personnel, including the DPW Commissioner, are authorized: (i) to cause the City to enter into a GIPP funding agreement with MPS and MMSD concerning that Burnham-Roger Playfield site so long as the GIPP funding agreement for that site is in substantially the same form and substance as the other GIPP funding agreements that have been submitted to this file; and (ii) to take such further acts as may be contemplated or required to be taken by the City under such agreement to carry out the intent and purpose of this resolution and that document.
Requestor
Department of Public Works
Drafter
Gregg Hagopian, Asst. City Attorney