NUMB:
980360
VERS:
ORIGINAL
XXBY:
The Chair
TITL:
Resolution relative to application, acceptance and funding of a Community Tree Planting Demonstration Project Grant. (Forestry)
ANLS:
This original resolution authorizes the Department of Public Works Forestry Division to accept and fund a Community Tree Planting Demonstration Grant project/program from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in the amount of $100,000 with no city share and a grantor share of $100,000. The purpose of the project/program is to improve Milwaukee's urban forest canopy cover through partnership with the Milwaukee Community Service Corps (MCSC) and Greening Milwaukee.
BODY:
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee appears to be eligible for grant funds from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to develop a community tree planting demonstration project to improve Milwaukee's urban forest canopy cover through partnerships with the Milwaukee Community Service Corps and Greening Milwaukee; and
Whereas, The operation of this grant project/ program over the 1997-1999 state biennium would cost $100,000 of which none would be provided by the city and $100,000(100%) would be provided by the grantor; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Department of Natural Resources is authorized and the Department of Public Works Forestry Division shall accept this grant without further approval unless the terms of the grant change as indicated in Common Council File 940843 (Grant Ordinance); and, be it
Further Resolved, That the City Comptroller is authorized to:
1. Encumber in the parent accounts of the 1998 Special Revenue Accounts-Grant and Aid Projects, the following amounts for the project/program titled Community Tree Planting Demonstration Project:
Account No. Account Amount
32-010-0000 Grantor Share $100,000
32-010-0002 City Share Required Match Budget Authorized Borrowing $ 0
32-010-0003 City Share Required Match In-kind $ 0
2. Create within the Capital-Grant and Aids Projects Fund the necessary expenditure and revenue accounts; appropriate to these accounts the amount required under the grant agreement and transfer the corresponding offsetting estimated revenue; and, be it
Further Resolved, That these funds are appropriated to the Department of Public Works Forestry Division which is authorized to:
Expend from the amount appropriated sums for specified purposes as indicated in the grant budget and incur costs consistent with the award date.
DFTR:
Forestry Division
PDC/cjw
6/11/98