Number
010902
Version
SUBSTITUTE
Reference
990416, 990947
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution authorizing and directing the proper City Officials to execute a "Connecting Highway Change Agreement" and a "Park East Freeway Land Disposition Plan and Agreement" both between the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the City of Milwaukee, and Milwaukee County, as appropriate, relative to the reconfiguration of the Park East transportation corridor from approximately North 8th Street to North Jefferson Street in the 4th and 6th Aldermanic Districts of the City of Milwaukee.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes and directs the City Engineer, Commissioner of Public Works, and the Commissioner of the Department of City Development, as appropriate, to execute and implement the terms of a "Connecting Highway Change Agreement" and a "Park East Freeway Land Disposition Plan and Agreement" with the State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation and with Milwaukee County relative to the reconfiguration of the Park East Transportation Corridor from approximately North 8th Street to North Jefferson Street.
Body
Whereas, On April 26, 1999, Governor Tommy Thompson, County Executive F. Thomas Ament and Mayor John O. Norquist announced they had reached an agreement on how to expend the $241 million in Interstate Construction Estimate ("ICE") funds for transportation improvements in and around downtown Milwaukee ("ICE Agreement"); and
Whereas, The terms of said agreement were set forth in a document entitled "Letter of Agreement on the Allocation of ICE Dollars and on Milwaukee Transportation Projects" ("ICE AGREEMENT") and executed by Mayor John O. Norquist, Milwaukee County Executive F. Thomas Ament, and Governor Tommy Thompson; and
Whereas, The ICE AGREEMENT, in part, defined a project to reconfigure the Park East Freeway Transportation Corridor by ". . .reducing the length of the current facility, re-establishing a connection to I-43, con...
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