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File #: 241968    Version: 0
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/22/2025 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 5/13/2025
Effective date:    
Title: Resolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a document titled “1st Revision State/Municipal Agreement for a State-Let Highway Project” with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the programming, design, and construction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive intersection with North Avenue, with a total estimated cost decrease for the project of $840,225, with an estimated Grantor share decrease of $588,150 and an estimated City share decrease of $252,075.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: AGREEMENTS, STREET IMPROVEMENTS, WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Attachments: 1. 2568-00-02_72 DrMLKDr CMil NorthRev.pdf

Number

 241968

Version

ORIGINAL

Reference

 

Sponsor

THE CHAIR

Title

Resolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a document titled “1st Revision State/Municipal Agreement for a State-Let Highway Project” with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the programming, design, and construction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive intersection with North Avenue, with a total estimated cost decrease for the project of $840,225, with an estimated Grantor share decrease of $588,150 and an estimated City share decrease of $252,075. 

Analysis

This resolution directs the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a State/Municipal Agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the programming, design, and construction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive intersection with North Avenue.  The State/Municipal Agreement provides for 90 percent Federal and State aid and 10 percent local cost sharing for preliminary engineering and construction.  The revised total estimated cost of this project is $1,247,500 with a City share of $125,960 and grantor share of $1,121,850. Construction funds for this project will be included in future resolutions.

Body

Whereas, A project agreement has been requested and received from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) to be executed by the City of Milwaukee for the programming, design, and construction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive intersection with North Avenue with Federal and State aid under the Highway Safety Improvement Program; and

 

Whereas, The Department of Public Works shall notify the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee of project cost overruns and changes in scope approved by the Department of Public Works; and

 

Whereas, The Common Council of the City of Milwaukee recognizes that the City may be 100 percent liable for project cost overruns and changes in scope as approved by the Department of Public Works; and

 

Whereas, The Common Council of the City of Milwaukee recognizes that the City may be liable for any cost incurred by the State should the City decide to withdraw from the project; and

 

Whereas, Construction funds for the project will be included in a separate resolution; now, therefore, be it

 

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee that the Commissioner of Public Works is hereby authorized to execute the agreement for the programming, design, and construction of the aforementioned connecting highway project with Federal and/or State aid, copies of which are attached to Common Council Resolution File Number 241968, and are incorporated into this resolution by reference as though set forth in full; and, be it

 

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of Public Works is hereby authorized to undertake or engage a consultant to undertake preliminary engineering for the improvement of the aforementioned project and to reimburse the WisDOT for preliminary engineering costs they incur from the improvement; and, be it

 

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of Public Works is hereby authorized to install the permanent street lighting and traffic control facilities necessary in conjunction with the aforementioned project, following the execution of the traffic control and street lighting agreement, the cost of which will be included in future resolutions; and, be it

 

Further Resolved, That the City Comptroller is hereby authorized to create within the Capital Improvement Fund, Grant and Aid Projects, the necessary Project Grant Chartfield Values for design engineering for the project (Expenditure) and transfer to any of these accounts the amount required under the grant agreement and City Accounting Policy but not to exceed a 10 percent increase of the total amounts reserved for the grantor’s share and local share or $5,000, whichever is greater, as follows:

 

State I.D. 2568-00-02

ST320230801

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive

Intersection with North Avenue

 

City Share Non-Assessable Paving Fund

ST320250000

Fund 0333

$0

 

Grantor Reimbursable Funds

SP032250100

Fund 0306

$0

 

Grantor Non-Reimbursable Funds

$0

 

Estimated Total Preliminary Engineering $257,500

Total Preliminary Engineering Previously Authorized $257,500

Current Estimated Cost of Total Project Including this Resolution $1,247,500

Original Estimate Cost of Total Project (Resolution #221230) $2,087,725

 

 

Further Resolved, That the City Engineer is hereby authorized to approve and make periodic payments to the WisDOT upon receipt of invoices for the City’s share of the project costs.

Requestor

Department of Public Works

Drafter

Infrastructure Services Division

DAVID J TAPIA:C.Ciano

April 10, 2025