City of Milwaukee - File #: 120683

• File #: 120683
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/25/2012
• In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Final action: 10/16/2012
• Title: Resolution authorizing the Department of Public Works, to accept and expend a contribution of $25,000 for taking first place in the 2012 Cans for Cash - City Recycling Challenge.
• Sponsors: ALD. WADE, ALD. BAUMAN
• Indexes: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, RECYCLING, REWARDS, PRIZES, ETC.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/19/2012	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
10/16/2012	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
10/3/2012	0	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Wade and Ald. Bauman added as sponsors.
10/3/2012	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Individual appearing: Rick Meyers, Department of Public Works Ald. Wade and Ald. Bauman request being added as co-sponsors.	Pass	5:0
10/1/2012	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
9/25/2012	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO	Fail

Number
120683

Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
Ald. Wade and Ald. Bauman
Title
Resolution authorizing the Department of Public Works, to accept and expend a contribution of $25,000 for taking first place in the 2012 Cans for Cash - City Recycling Challenge.

Analysis
This resolution authorizes the City of Milwaukee, Department of Public Works (DPW), to accept and expend a contribution of $25,000 from the Novelis Corporation for placing first in the 2012 Cans for Cash - City Recycling Challenge. DPW intends to use the $25,000 first prize award to provide additional funding for the City’s recycling education efforts.

Body
Whereas, Section 304-24 of the Code of Ordinances regulates the receipt, appropriation and expenditure of contributions received by the City; and

Whereas, The Novelis Corporation and the U.S. Conference of Mayors annually sponsor the Cans for Cash - City Recycling Challenge, a national contest that rewards cities for recycling aluminum beverage cans; and

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee has participated in the Cans for Cash - City Recycling Challenge each year since 2004; and

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee placed first in the 2012 Cans for Cash - City Recycling Challenge by collecting over 39 million aluminum cans from March 26 through April 22, 2012; and

Whereas, The Department of Public Works (DPW) will be receiving a $25,000 contribution from the Novelis Corporation for placing first in the contest; and

Whereas, Funding for the City’s recycling education and outreach efforts have been reduced since the elimination of the State of Wisconsin’s Recycling Efficiency Grant program in 2009; and

Whereas, DPW intends to use the $25,000 first prize to provide additional funding for the City’s recycling education efforts such as neighborhood outreach and environmental programming for schoolchildren; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Department of Public Works, accepts the ...