Number
051150
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
051098
Sponsor
ALD. WITKOWSKI
Title
Substitute resolution directing the Intergovernmental Relations Division - Department of Administration to seek introduction of state legislation necessary for implementing various recommendations of the Outstanding Debt Task Force.
Analysis
This resolution directs the Intergovernmental Relations Division - Department Administration to seek introduction of state legislation necessary for implementing various recommendations of the Outstanding Debt Task Force, namely:
1. Amend s. 74.53 (4), Wis. Stats., to allow the City to recover the actual attorney fees incurred in the collection of outstanding razing charges and delinquent property taxes and interest and penalty charges through an in personam suit.
2. Establish a time frame to adjudicate parking citations for cities of the first class. The language is permissive whereby the City may adopt by ordinance an alternative method for enforcement of parking violations. In addition, this legislation would allow the Municipal Court to enter a default judgment without requiring signed acceptance of responsibility by the vehicle owner or violator.
3. Allow for the towing/booting and impounding of vehicles for unpaid parking citations and refusal to release the vehicles until all outstanding citations are paid or adjudicated. This language is permissive whereby a city may tow or boot a legally parked or illegally parked vehicle for unpaid parking citations and hold the vehicle until citations are paid.
4. Expand existing statutory language to allow municipalities to use income assignment orders to collect both forfeiture and non-forfeiture debts.
5. Achieve a more equitable distribution of Municipal Court collection costs through statutory revisions.
Body
Whereas, the City of Milwaukee Outstanding Debt Task Force was created by Common Council File Number 041446 on April 12, 2005, to evaluate and make recommendations relating to procedures for collecting delinquent taxes, forfeitures, judgments and fees owed to the City of Milwaukee; and
Whereas, The Task Force held 9 public meetings, beginning on May 13, 2005, and submitted its final report and recommendations to the Common Council on December 13, 2005; and
Whereas, Certain Task Force recommendations require enactment of state legislation; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Intergovernmental Relations Division- Department of Administration is authorized and directed to seek introduction and passage of state legislation that enacts the following recommendations of the City of Milwaukee Outstanding Debt Task Force:
1. Amend s. 74.53 (4), Wis. Stats., to allow the City to recover the actual attorney fees incurred in the collection of outstanding razing charges and delinquent property taxes and interest and penalty charges through an in personam suit.
2. Establish a time frame to adjudicate parking citations for cities of the first class. The language is permissive whereby the City may adopt by ordinance an alternative method for enforcement of parking violations. In addition, this legislation would allow the Municipal Court to enter a default judgment without requiring signed acceptance of responsibility by the vehicle owner or violator.
3. Allow for the towing/booting and impounding of vehicles for unpaid parking citations and refusal to release the vehicles until all outstanding citations are paid or adjudicated. This language is permissive whereby a city may tow or boot a legally parked or illegally parked vehicle for unpaid parking citations and hold the vehicle until citations are paid.
4. Expand existing statutory language to allow municipalities to use income assignment orders to collect both forfeiture and non-forfeiture debts.
5. Achieve a more equitable distribution of Municipal Court collection costs through statutory revisions.
Requestor
Drafter
LRB05499-4
JWC
1/4/06