City of Milwaukee - File #: 221945

• File #: 221945
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/18/2023
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 5/9/2023
• Title: Substitute resolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a document titled “Memorandum of Understanding Between the City of Milwaukee’s Department of Public Works and the Milwaukee County Transit System” with the Milwaukee County Transit System for the construction and coordination efforts related to the Vel R. Phillips Plaza Bus Stop and Shelter along the MCTS Bus Rapid Transit route.
• Sponsors: ALD. BAUMAN
• Indexes: BUS SHELTERS, BUS STOPS, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS, MILWAUKEE COUNTY

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
5/16/2023	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
5/9/2023	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
4/26/2023	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Holly Rutenbeck - DPW	Pass	5:0
4/26/2023	1	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	4:0
4/18/2023	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
221945
Version
Proposed Substitute 1
Reference
191114
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a document titled “Memorandum of Understanding Between the City of Milwaukee’s Department of Public Works and the Milwaukee County Transit System” with the Milwaukee County Transit System for the construction and coordination efforts related to the Vel R. Phillips Plaza Bus Stop and Shelter along the MCTS Bus Rapid Transit route.
Analysis
This resolution directs the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the Milwaukee County Transit System for the construction, and coordination of City owned facilities along the MCTS Bus Rapid Transit route. The Memorandum of Understanding provides for 100 percent MCTS funding for construction. The total estimated cost of this work is $486,000 with MCTS share of $486,000 and a City share of $0.
Body
WHEREAS, MCTS, in cooperation with the DPW, initiated in 2016, the BRT project, Milwaukee County’s planned 9-mile, regional, modern transit service connecting major employment, education and recreation destinations through downtown Milwaukee, Milwaukee’s Near West Side, Marquette University, Wauwatosa and the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center; and,

WHEREAS, MCTS has developed a Locally Preferred Alternative Report dated August, 2016 ("LPA"); "Milwaukee County East-West BRT Small Starts Application" updated August 31, 2018 ("Application"); and Federal Transit Administration (“FTA”) Finding of No Significant Impact confirmation dated November 29, 2018; and,

WHEREAS, File No. 160254 resolved in part that the City of Milwaukee would work with Milwaukee County to determine areas where the use and development of exclusive lanes was not feasible or possible, and where BRT would therefore operate in mixed traffic; and,

WHEREAS, funding for the East-West BRT project has been approved in Milwaukee County’s 2017 and 2019 Adopted B...