Number
080180
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
041618
Sponsor
ALD. DAVIS
Title
Substitute resolution authorizing the appropriate City officials (the Main Street Milwaukee Partners Board) to enter into Agreements for the administration of the Main Street Milwaukee Program.
Analysis
This substitute resolution authorizes the Main Street Milwaukee Partners Board to enter into Agreements for 2008 with each of the Designated District Organizations selected to participate in the Main Street Milwaukee Program for revitalizing Milwaukee's neighborhood commercial districts. The Agreements set forth administrative and program requirements and contemplates that LISC will provide future financial support for the program.
Body
Whereas, The Department of City Development (“DCD”) and Milwaukee's Local Initiatives Support Corporation (“LISC”) have previously entered into an Agreement, as authorized by Common Council File No. 031155, to create the Main Street Milwaukee Program; and
Whereas, The Common Council of the City of Milwaukee (“Common Council”), in File No. 040858, authorized the creation of the Main Street Milwaukee Partners Board to implement the Main Street Milwaukee Program; and
Whereas, The Burleigh Street Community Development Corporation, the Layton Boulevard West Neighbors, the Lincoln Village Business Association, the West End Development Corporation, the North Avenue Community Development Corporation and the Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation in Partnership with the King Drive Business Improvement District (collectively, the “Designated District Organizations”) have each been selected to participate in the Main Street Milwaukee Program and have each been awarded a grant of Community Development Block Grant funds for that purpose; and
Whereas, The Common Council via adoption of File No. 041618, authorized the Main Street Milwaukee Partners Board to enter into Agreements with each of the Designated District Organizations selected to participate in the Main Street Milwaukee Program for revitalizing Milwaukee's neighborhood commercial districts; and
Whereas, Said Agreements set forth administrative and program requirements and contemplates that LISC would provide future financial support for the program; and
Whereas, Said Agreements have since expired and the Main Street Milwaukee Partners Board and each of the Designated District Organizations seek to enter into new Agreements, a sample of which is attached to this Common Council File as Exhibit A, which essentially describes in detail each parties' administrative responsibilities for the implementation of the Main Street Milwaukee Program for 2008; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the proper City officials (the Main Street Milwaukee Partners Board) are directed to execute six separate Agreements, as essentially described in Exhibit A, with each of the six Designated District Organizations.
Drafter
DCD:AEF:aef
05/30/08