Number
081578
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
060292, 071402
Sponsor
ALD. BOHL
Title
Substitute resolution accepting a $10,000 cash contribution from the City of Wauwatosa for the purpose of funding the development of Hartung Park.
Analysis
This resolution accepts a $10,000 cash contribution from the City of Wauwatosa for the purpose of offsetting the City of Milwaukee’s costs of developing Hartung Park.
Body
Whereas, For over 40 years, the Department of Public Works has been using the former Hartung Quarry, located south of West Keefe Avenue and east of North Menomonee River Parkway, as a site for the deposit of clean fill; and
Whereas, In recent years, as the landfill neared capacity and the Department of Public Works prepared for its closure, neighborhood residents, representatives of various City and Milwaukee departments, and elected officials from the cities of Milwaukee and Wauwatosa (in which part of the site is located) developed a plan for redevelopment of the Hartung Quarry site as a recreational facility; and
Whereas, On July 12, 2006, the Common Council adopted File Number 060292, a resolution designating the Hartung Quarry property as the site of a future park, to be known as “Hartung Park,” and endorsing the “Hartung Quarry Park Conceptual Development Plan and Proposed Site Features” as the plan for future development of Hartung Park; and
Whereas, On February 26, 2008, the Common Council adopted File Number 071402, a resolution authorizing the Department of Public Works to fund and construct Phase 1 of the Hartung Park project with a State of Wisconsin Stewardship Local Assistance Grant in the amount of $250,000 and a City match of $250,000; and
Whereas, The 2008 City Budget provided $200,000 in capital funds for Phase 1 of the Hartung Park project; and
Whereas, The remaining $50,000 of the City match was provided in the form of DPW-Operations Division environmental remediation capital funding in the 2008 Budget; and
Whereas, Over one-third of the entire Hartung Park site - and all of Phase I of the park -- is located in the City of Wauwatosa; and
Whereas, The current Wauwatosa city budget includes funding for a $10,000 contribution to the City of Milwaukee to help defray the City’s costs of developing Hartung Park; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the City Comptroller is authorized to transfer these additional grantor funds to the project chartfield as follows:
Project Grant
BU320080100
Hartung Redevelopment Phase I
SP032090100
Fund 0306
$10,000
; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Department of Public Works-Operations Division is authorized to expend these funds for development of Hartung Park.
Requestor
Drafter
LRB09105-1
JDO
04/17/2009