Number
150772
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
150164
Sponsor
ALD. WITKOWSKI
Title
Resolution amending Common Council Resolution File Number 150164 relating to fast-tracking of property tax collections for vacant or abandoned buildings.
Analysis
This resolution amends the policy established by Common Council Resolution File Number 150164 for fast-tracking property tax collections for vacant or abandoned residential properties that are registered in the City’s vacant building registry or in the residential properties pending foreclosure registry.
The amended language:
1. Adds Code violations and neighborhood stabilization to the criteria for fast-tracking a property.
2. Authorizes the Commissioners of Neighborhood Services and City Development, as well as Common Council members, to file “fast tracking” reports to the City attorney.
3. Establishes a policy goal that fast tracking not cause an increase to the City’s inventory at any one time to more than 250 properties.
Body
Whereas, Section 75.521(3)(a)2, Wis. Stats., allows the City of Milwaukee to commence in rem property tax foreclosure against a delinquent parcel when one year has elapsed from the date of the tax certificate for the parcel; and
Whereas, On June 2, 2015, the Common Council adopted File Number 150164, a resolution establishing a policy for fast-tracking property tax collections for vacant or abandoned residential properties that are registered in the City’s vacant building registry or in the residential properties pending foreclosure registry; and
Whereas, File Number 150164 resolved that parcels improved with single-family or multi-family dwellings where the structures or, as applicable, the units are vacant or abandoned, and where the parcels are registered in the City’s “vacant building registry” under s. 200-51.7 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances (MCO), or under the City’s “residential properties pending foreclosure registry” under s. 200-22.5 of the MCO, are eligible f...
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