City of Milwaukee - File #: R13588

• File #: R13588
• Version: 0
• Type: Housing Authority Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/1/2025
• In control: HOUSING AUTHORITY
• On agenda: 5/14/2025
• Final action: 5/14/2025
• Title: Resolution approving the submission by the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee to the Department of Housing and Urban Development of a Disposition Application for the release of the Leasehold Interest in the property located at 1916 North Vel R. Phillips Avenue
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
5/14/2025	0	HOUSING AUTHORITY	ADOPTED; Minutes note: Ken Barbeau, HACM’s Interim Secretary-Executive Director, summarized the memorandum included with the agenda. He stated in 2011, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development announced a notice of funding availability that would allow for construction or rehabilitation to provide adult education, and/or job training programs for public housing residents. HACM, in partnership with Employ Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Area Technical College, the Adult Learning Center and others, applied for the Capital Fund Education and Training Community Facilities (CFCF) program grant to provide a technology training facility in the Hillside Terrace area. With the awarded CFCF program grant funds, HACM renovated two under-utilized spaces on the second floor and built a new entrance at the facility located at 1916 North Vel R. Phillips Avenue then being used for trainings by the Adult Learning Center. To use the grant funds, HACM had to prove that it had site control, and so entered into a 40-year long-term lease with the owners of the building, the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph (the Province). The grant ended in 2020. During the pandemic, the Adult Learning Center stopped offering trainings in the building and the space was vacated. Jeanne Dawson, HACM Program Specialist, explained that the Province is requesting a mutual termination of the lease because they would like to sell the building. Commissioners asked questions about the current ongoing costs of the agreement and if counsel has been involved with the lease termination process.	Pass	5:0

Number
R13588

Version
Original

Reference
R12582

Sponsor
The Chair

Title
Resolution approving the submission by the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee to the Department of Housing and Urban Development of a Disposition Application for the release of the Leasehold Interest in the property located at 1916 North Vel R. Phillips Avenue

Analysis

Body
WHEREAS, the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) received from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a grant from its Capital Fund Education and Training Community Facilities (CFCF) Program for $1,237,900; and

WHEREAS, the grant was used to make capital improvements in the building allowing for the operation of educational and job training opportunities for public housing residents; and

WHEREAS, HACM entered into a 40-year lease agreement with the owner of the building, St. Francis of Assisi Church (SFAC) on May 23rd, 2014 to lease the space for the operation of educational programs; and,

WHEREAS, the building has fallen into disrepair and is no longer being used by SFAC or HACM; and,

WHEREAS, SFAC has requested a mutual lease termination so the building can be sold and/or redeveloped by another entity; and;

WHEREAS, the conditions of the grant require that termination of the leasehold interest in the property require HUD approval through the Section 18 Disposition process; and

WHEREAS, the Acting Secretary-Executive Director recommends approving the submission by the Housing Authority of the Disposition application to remove the leasehold interest HACM has in the property at 1916 North Vel R. Phillips Avenue; and, therefore, let it be

RESOLVED, that the recommendation to submit the Disposition application to remove the leasehold interest HACM has in the property at 1916 North Vel R. Phillips Avenue is hereby accepted; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Acting Secretary-Executive Director is hereby authorized to take whatever action is necessary to compl...