City of Milwaukee - File #: 050650

• File #: 050650
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/7/2005
• In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Final action: 9/27/2005
• Title: Substitute resolution authorizing the City to accept a portrait of former Mayor Frank Zeidler for placement in the City Hall complex.
• Sponsors: ALD. BAUMAN
• Indexes: MONUMENTS AND STATUES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/6/2005	2	MAYOR	SIGNED
9/27/2005	2	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
9/14/2005	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	AMENDED	Pass	4:0
9/14/2005	2	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	4:0
9/13/2005	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
9/9/2005	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/8/2005	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
9/7/2005	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO

Number

050650

Version

SUBSTITUTE 2

Reference

Sponsor

ALD BAUMAN

Title

Substitute resolution authorizing the City to accept a portrait of former Mayor Frank Zeidler for placement in the City Hall complex.

Analysis

This resolution authorizes the City to accept a portrait of former Mayor Frank Zeidler for placement in the City Hall complex.

Body                     

Whereas, Frank P. Zeidler served with distinction as Mayor of Milwaukee from 1948 to 1960; and

Whereas, During the Zeidler administration, the City’s land area doubled, the public infrastructure was substantially rebuilt, and important studies were made in the areas of housing redevelopment, library services and vocational education; and

Whereas, Frank P. Zeidler has remained extraordinarily active in retirement as an educator, political figure, community leader, and Milwaukee’s most beloved historian; and

Whereas, The Milwaukee Public Enterprise Committee and the Wisconsin Labor History Society would like to donate a portrait of Mayor Frank P. Zeidler, painted by the well-known artist, Thomas Pelham Curtis, for public display in the City Hall complex; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council that the proper City officials are authorized and directed to accept said portrait on behalf of the City.

Requestor

Drafter

LRB 05372-3

RAC

9/14/05