NUMB:
990416
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 2
REF:
XXBY:
ALD. JOHNSON-ODOM
TITL:
Substitute resolution authorizing the appropriate City officials to execute a Jurisdictional Transfer Agreement relating to the removal of the Park East Freeway east of North 4th Street and related infrastructure improvements.
ANLS:
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This resolution authorizes the appropriate City officials to execute a Jurisdictional Transfer Agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Milwaukee County that will provide for the demolition of that segment of the Park East Freeway extending east of North 4th Street, the reconnection of local streets with Interstate Highway 43, the improvement of the surface-level arterial streets in the area and the construction of a new Milwaukee River crossing.
BODY:
Whereas, On April 26, 1999, Governor Tommy Thompson, County Executive F. Thomas Ament and Mayor John Norquist announced that they had reached an agreement on how to expend the $241 million in Interstate Construction Estimate ("ICE") funds for transportation improvements in and around downtown Milwaukee ("ICE Agreement"); and
Whereas, The ICE Agreement calls for the removal of the portion of the Park East Freeway (State Trunk Highway 145) that is located east of North 4th Street, reconnection of local streets to Interstate Highway 43 and improvement of the local street system, including the construction of a new crossing of the Milwaukee River as a replacement for the removed segment of the Park East Freeway; and
Whereas, The ICE Agreement calls for the Park East Freeway modification to be funded as follows:
STATE CITY COUNTY
ICE MATCH TOTAL ICE MATCH TOTAL ICE MATCH TOTAL
$6.8M $1.2M $8.0M 14.5M $2.5M $17.0M $0 $0 $0
; and
Whereas, Under the ICE Agreement, the roles of the State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County and the City of Milwaukee in this project were outlined as follows:
1. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will take the lead role in removing the freeway and reconnecting the local street system to Interstate 43.
2. Milwaukee County will be the lead agency for program initiation and for the environmental and public processes that will precede any actual freeway removal.
3. The City of Milwaukee will be the lead agency for designing and constructing local street system improvements and the Milwaukee River crossing. Said improvements will be designed and constructed in consultation with Milwaukee County.
; and
Whereas, The specifics of the ICE Agreement now need to be incorporated in an inter-jurisdictional agreement relating to the Park East Freeway demolition; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the appropriate City officials are authorized to execute a Jurisdictional Transfer Agreement (a copy of which is attached to and made a part of this file) with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Milwaukee County that will provide for the demolition of the segment of the Park East Freeway (State Trunk Highway 145) extending east of North 4th Street, the transfer of jurisdiction for such demolished segment from the State to the County, the reconnection of local streets to Interstate Highway 43 and State Trunk Highway 145, and the improvement of surface-level arterial streets as replacement routes for the Park East Freeway, including a new crossing of the Milwaukee River; and, be it
Further Resolved, That non-substantial changes to the Jurisdictional Transfer Agreement may be made without further Common Council approval.
ZDPT:
DFTR:
99214-3
JDO
6/30/99
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