NUMB:
981568
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ORIGINAL
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XXBY:
THE CHAIR
TITL:
Resolution relative to the naming of the new Metcalfe Park Community Center. (DCD)
ANLS:
- Analysis -
This resolution approves naming the new facility that will house a new school and Boys & Girls Club in Metcalfe Park the Todd Wehr Metcalfe Park Community Center. This resolution also recommends to the Milwaukee Public School System that the school to be located in that facility is named the Ralph H. Metcalfe Neighborhood School.
BODY:
Whereas, The Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation ("NIDC") is developing a new community facility on North Avenue in the Metcalfe Park neighborhood; and
Whereas, This new facility will house a K-4 through 8 Milwaukee Public School and a new Metcalfe Park Branch Boys & Girls Club; and
Whereas, NIDC is seeking funds to construct this facility from local Foundations, Corporations, individuals, as well as local units of Government; and
Whereas, The Todd Wehr Foundation, Inc., has agreed to pay NIDC, without interest, $100,000 within 90 days of the commencement of actual construction, but not prior to June 30, 1999; and
Whereas, The Todd Wehr Foundation has agreed to pay $100,000 annually on or before December 15th of each of the years following commencement of actual construction, until a total of $600,000 has been paid; and
Whereas, The Todd Wehr Foundation has requested that the facility be named the Todd Wehr Metcalfe Park Community Center; and
Whereas, Ralph Metcalfe was a prominent African American graduate of Marquette University who went on to win Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics and was a Member of Congress representing Illinois from 1971 until his death in 1978; and
Whereas, The Metcalfe Park Residents Association has endorsed the naming of the new facility the Todd Wehr Metcalfe Park Community Center and has requested that the school be named the Ralph H. Metcalfe Neighborhood School; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee that the construction by NIDC of the school and Boys & Girls Club in Metcalfe Park is endorsed; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the name of the facility, during its entire useful life, shall be the "Todd Wehr Metcalfe Park Community Center"; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee respectfully requests that Milwaukee Public Schools name the new school to be constructed as a part of this facility, the "Ralph H. Metcalfe Neighborhood School".
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02/09/99/A