Number
020318
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
990598
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution approving contract for regional hazardous materials response team services between the State of Wisconsin, State Emergency Response Board and the City of Milwaukee. (Fire Department)
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Fire Department to enter into a 3-year contract with the State of Wisconsin, State Emergency Response Board (SERB) to provide regional hazardous response team services within an area including Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Washington and parts of Jefferson County. The Department has been providing these services for SERB since the adoption of Common Council File Number 941618 on February 14, 1995, as extended by Common Council File Number 990598, adopted July 29, 1999. Under the terms of the contract, the City will be eligible for stand-by costs of up to $285,943 annually.
Body
Whereas, 1991 Wisconsin Act 104 authorized the State Emergency Response Board (SERB) to contract with no fewer than 7 public entities with regional emergency response teams to assist in emergency responses to Level A releases in a region of the State designated by the SERB; and
Whereas, Common Council File Number 941618, adopted February 14, 1995, authorized and directed the Milwaukee Fire Department to enter into an agreement with the SERB to provide these services for a geographical area consisting of Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Washington and parts of Jefferson County; and
Whereas, The agreement authorized by Common Council File Number 941618 was extended by Common Council File Number 990598, adopted July 29, 1999; and
Whereas, The Fire Department has negotiated an extended contract for regional hazardous materials response team services with the SERB to provide these services for a 3-year period from July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2005, a copy of which is attached to this file; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the Ci...
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