Number
050946
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. WITKOWIAK
Title
Substitute resolution approving a Cooperation Agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation.
Analysis
This substitute resolution authorizes the execution of a Cooperation Agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation. Under the agreement, the City, mainly through its Department of City Development, will furnish certain management and administrative services, materials and equipment to NIDC. The agreement also authorizes the Office of the City Attorney to provide legal services to NIDC. NIDC will reimburse both DCD and the City Attorney for all services and other items received. The agreement also formalizes the January 1, 2003, transfer of NIDC, and all of its assets and functions, from the Department of Neighborhood Services to DCD.
Body
Whereas, The purpose of the Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation (“NIDC”) is to further the neighborhood preservation and neighborhood development of the City of Milwaukee (“City”); and
Whereas, The City, through its Department of City Development (“DCD”), is engaged in neighborhood development preservation and revitalization of the City, has staff with particular expertise in such activities and has resources from various programs, which it administers, to provide financial assistance to business enterprises and residential property owners; and
Whereas, NIDC and the City have been engaged in a cooperative effort, since the mid-1970’s, with the City providing management and administrative services to NIDC; and
Whereas, Such cooperative effort has also evidenced itself in the City choosing to have NIDC administer certain Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”) and other grant funds and various neighborhood revitalization programs; and
Whereas, Continuation of such cooperative effort is to the mutual benefit of NIDC and City in order to achieve the economic development and neighborhood preservation goals of each; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Cooperation Agreement between the City and NIDC, a copy of which is attached to this Common Council File, is approved and the proper City officials are authorized to execute the agreement on the City’s behalf.
Drafter
City Attorney
PBM:dms
11/17/05