Number
020651
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution declaring improved, tax-deed property surplus to municipal needs and authorizing sales in various aldermanic districts.
Analysis
This substitute resolution authorizes the Commissioner of City Development to dispose of improved, tax-deed property in accordance with the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances and with supplemental procedures described herein.
Body
Whereas, Chapter 304-49 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances (“Code”) specifies the disposition process for surplus, City-owned real estate; and
Whereas, The Common Council of the City of Milwaukee (“Common Council”) has, by adoption of resolution and other policy direction, supplemented the Code with procedural steps designed to streamline the process for returning property back to the tax roll and into the hands of responsible parties; and
Whereas, Those steps in the surplus property disposition process can be summarized as follows:
After the City Plan Commission declares property surplus to municipal needs and the Common Council approves an asking price, the Department of City Development (“DCD”) shall market property in the following preferential order:
1. To qualified nonprofit organizations who can purchase property prior to being placed on the market either at the specified asking price if over $10,000, or for $750 if valued at $10,000 or less, provided that the proposed use and the contemplated improvements are deemed to be compatible with neighborhood context in all respects. (Whenever a nonprofit organization is acting as a facilitator of a transaction for a homebuyer/owner-occupant, DCD may convey property directly to a third party deemed qualified by the nonprofit organization.)
2. If there is no nonprofit organization interest, area residents shall be given an exclusive opportunity to purchase property for 30 days prior to property being exposed to the open market.
3. If no acceptable area resident offers are received, property shall be advertised to the general public with stipulated bid due dates via an open listing method.
4. If no acceptable offers are received after initial open listing, property then goes on an extended listing and offers can be accepted at any time on a first-come basis.
; and
Whereas, The City Plan Commission and the Public Improvements Committee have determined that the following properties have no possible municipal use:
PROPERTY ADDRESS, TAX KEY NUMBER, LISTING PRICE, ALDERMANIC DISTRICT
2465 North 10th Street, TK #323-1225-000-3, $9,400.00, 17th
2744 North 11th Street, TK #312-3109-000-5, $11,100.00, 17th
3064 North 11th Street, TK #312-0404-000-4, $17,700.00, 10th
2840 North 13th Street, TK #312-3207-000-8, and the vacant lot located at 2836 North 13th Street, TK #312-3206-000, $7,700.00, 17th
1932-34 North 20th Street, TK #351-3406-100-4, $16,000.00, 17th
2552 North 21st Street, TK #325-0822-000-5, $22,200.00, 7th
2732 North 24th Street, TK #310-0419-000-1, $6,700.00, 7th
2925 North 26th Street, TK #310-2117-000-6, $6,800.00, 7th
3229-31 North 26th Street, TK #285-0781-000-6, $9,900.00, 10th
2745-47 North 37th Street, TK #308-0945-000-3, $14,000.00, 7th
3436 North 44th Street, TK #288-0823-000-5, $28,800.00, 10th
2377-79 North Holton Street, TK #321-1225-000-9, and the vacant lot located at 419 East Meinecke Avenue, TK #321-1224, $71,400.00, 6th
2121-23 West North Avenue, TK #350-0887-000-2, $11,300.00, 7th
5129-33 West North Avenue, TK #346-1606-000-9, $137,500.00, 17th
; and
Whereas, The Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee recommends selling said properties, authorizing the Commissioner of City Development to accept offers to purchase on behalf of the city of Milwaukee and directing the Commissioner of City Development to close those transactions provided that:
1. Offers conform in all respects to procedural guidelines.
2. Offers, net of commissions, are greater than 75 percent of list price.
3. Buyers are not delinquent on the payment of real estate taxes, special assessments or any other municipal charges for any property a buyer may own in the city of Milwaukee, whether such property is owned individually or in partnership with others and/or under any other name.
4. Buyers do not have outstanding orders to correct code or other violations issued by any enforcement agency for any property a buyer may own in the city of Milwaukee, or have a history of non-compliance with any such agencies, whether such property is owned individually or in partnership with others and/or under any other name.
5. Buyers are not known to have been convicted of crimes the nature of which can be reasonably assumed to be detrimental to the health and quality of life in neighborhoods including, but not by way of limitation, mortgage fraud, property flipping, drug trafficking, sexual assault and other violent crime.
6. Buyers agree to bring property into code compliance within the time specified by the Department of Neighborhood Services.
; and
Whereas, In the near future, the city of Milwaukee expects to take title to the following properties, which were the subject of a City Attorney Receivership action, and upon doing so, the Department of City Development recommends immediate conveyance of said properties to the Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation (“NIDC”) for a total of $1.00:
PROPERTY ADDRESS, TAX KEY NUMBER, ALDERMANIC DISTRICT
1512 South 13th Street, TK #461-1289-000-9, 8th
1940 South 19th Street, TK #469-2206-000-2, 12th
1904 West Rogers Street, TK #469-2243-000-4, 8th
1930 West Rogers Street, TK #469-2264-000-9, 8th
2008-10 South 28th Street, TK #471-0932-000-1, 8th
2420-22 South 19th Street, TK #496-0325-000-0, 8th
2754 South 15th Street, TK #496-1618-000-1, 8th
2434 South 9th Street, TK #497-0317-000-X, 8th
2528 South 10th Street, TK #497-0660-000-X, 8th
2558 South 6th Street, TK #498-1554-000-9, 14th
; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee that said properties are declared surplus; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Development is authorized and directed to dispose of the property in accordance with the procedures described herein; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Development is authorized and directed to market unbuildable adjoining vacant lots with said property, said vacant lots being declared surplus as if fully set forth herein; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Development is authorized and directed to make price reductions of up to 25 percent if and when property attracts no offers to purchase after being exposed to the market on at least two occasions; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Development shall deposit the proceeds from all sales, net of commissions, closing related expenses and a 15 percent disposition cost reimbursement to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee, into the Reserve for Tax Deficit Fund Account No. 0001-334106.
Drafter
DCD:KT:kt
09/06/02