Number
080534
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY
Title
Resolution urging the U.S. Congress to pass the Great Lakes Compact.
Analysis
This resolution urges the U. S. Congress to pass the Great Lakes Compact and directs the Intergovernmental Relations Division-Department of Administration to use its best efforts to support passage of the compact.
Body
Whereas, Water is central to our economy, trade, industry, health, recreation and quality of life; and
Whereas, The purposes of the Great Lakes Compact are, through means of joint or cooperative action:
1. To promote the orderly, integrated, and comprehensive development, use, and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin.
2. To plan for the welfare and development of the water resources of the Basin as a whole as well as for those portions of the Basin which may have problems of special concern.
3. To make it possible for the states of the Basin and their people to derive the maximum benefit from utilization of public works, in the form of navigational aids or otherwise, which may exist or which may be constructed from time to time.
4. To advise in securing and maintaining a proper balance among industrial, commercial, agricultural, water supply, residential, recreational, and other legitimate uses of the water resources of the Basin.
5. To establish and maintain an intergovernmental agency that the purposes of this compact may be accomplished more effectively.
; and
Whereas, The Great Lakes Compact has been ratified by all 8 Great Lakes states; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the U.S. Congress is urged to pass the Great Lakes Compact; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Intergovernmental Relations Division-Department of Administration is directed to use its best efforts to support passage of the Compact; and that the City Clerk send certified copies of this resolution to each member of the Wisconsin U. S. Congressional delegation.
Requestor
Drafter
LRB08404-2
MET
7/29/08