City of Milwaukee - File #: 180184

• File #: 180184
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution-Immediate Adoption
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/8/2018
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 5/8/2018
• Title: Resolution authorizing the receipt of contributions for the purpose of erecting a statue in honor of Ald. Vel Phillips.
• Sponsors: ALD. JOHNSON, ALD. COGGS, ALD. STAMPER, ALD. LEWIS, ALD. RAINEY, ALD. HAMILTON
• Indexes: GIFTS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
5/17/2018	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
5/8/2018	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED; Minutes note: To be Added as co-sponsors: Rainey Hamilton Lewis There were no objections.	Pass	14:0

IMMEDIATE ADOPTION

Number
180184
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. JOHNSON, COGGS, STAMPER, II, LEWIS, RAINEY AND HAMILTON
Title
Resolution authorizing the receipt of contributions for the purpose of erecting a statue in honor of Ald. Vel Phillips.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Common Council-City Clerk to accept up to $100,000 in contributions received for the purpose of erecting a statue in honor of Ald. Vel Phillips. The funds will be released by a subsequent Common Council resolution.
Body
Whereas, In 1956, Ald. Vel Phillips became the first woman and first African American to be elected to the City of Milwaukee Common Council; and

Whereas, As a member of the Common Council, and a trailblazing figure in Wisconsin’s civil rights movement, Ald. Vel Phillips fought for fair housing, civil rights and social justice in Milwaukee; and

Whereas, After leaving the Common Council, Ald. Vel Phillips had a long and noteworthy career as a judge, politician, champion of civil rights and community leader, becoming the first woman judge in Milwaukee County and the first African American judge in Wisconsin, the first woman and first African American to be elected to a statewide office in Wisconsin, Secretary of State, serving briefly as Acting Governor, and in later years chairing her namesake foundation, which provides scholarships for minorities and funding for social justice and minority economic participation programs; and

Whereas, City officials, residents and members of the wider community were saddened to learn of the passing of Ald. Vel Phillips on April 17, 2018; and

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee may receive contributions from community residents and businesses to provide for the expenses of erecting a statue in honor of Ald. Vel Phillips; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Common Council-City Clerk is authorized to accept up to $100,000 of contributions for the purpose of ere...