Number
001178
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution authorizing expenditures from the Advance Planning Fund for the Asset Mapping Project. (DCD)
Analysis
This resolution authorizes and directs the appropriate City officials to transfer $25,000 from the Advance Planning Fund account to a new subaccount. The funds will be used as a match to a grant from the Helen Bader Foundation to fund a new Asset Mapping Project in cooperation with the Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation.
Body
Whereas, The Department of City Development ("DCD") continues to work on neighborhood residential and commercial analysis and development as well as land use policy development; and
Whereas, The Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation ("NIDC") has an ongoing commitment to the revitalization of residential areas in central city neighborhoods; and
Whereas, NIDC was awarded a $29,000 grant from the Helen Bader Foundation ("Foundation") to undertake an Asset Mapping Project ("AMP") in partnership with the Department of City Development and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute ("UWM-ETI"); and
Whereas, The AMP is designed to help market the central city for development by dispelling both the urban myths that suggest that central city residents are not members of the work force or actively involved in employment and the marketing stereotypes which portray the inner city as an undesirable place for business; and
Whereas, The AMP will (1) detail purchasing power and generate a demographic profile for each of approximately 50 commercial districts and adjacent residential areas, (2) create databases for the City of Milwaukee by geographic level for income, expenditure, housing, and other variables, (3) create mapping and web site overlays for use in interactive mapping applications, and (4) formulate an approach which presents accurate analyses of neighborhood assets and confronts da...
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