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File #: 990416    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 6/22/1999 In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 7/13/1999
Effective date:    
Title: Substitute resolution authorizing the appropriate City officials to execute a Jurisdictional Transfer Agreement relating to the removal of the Park East Freeway east of North 4th Street and related infrastructure improvements.
Sponsors: ALD. JOHNSON-ODOM
Indexes: EXPRESSWAYS, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS, PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Attachments: 1. Fiscal note, 2. King Dr redevelopment strategy, 3. Transfer agreement
NUMB:
990416
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 2
REF:

XXBY:
ALD. JOHNSON-ODOM
TITL:
Substitute resolution authorizing the appropriate City officials to execute a Jurisdictional Transfer Agreement relating to the removal of the Park East Freeway east of North 4th Street and related infrastructure improvements.
ANLS:
- Analysis -

This resolution authorizes the appropriate City officials to execute a Jurisdictional Transfer Agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Milwaukee County that will provide for the demolition of that segment of the Park East Freeway extending east of North 4th Street, the reconnection of local streets with Interstate Highway 43, the improvement of the surface-level arterial streets in the area and the construction of a new Milwaukee River crossing.


BODY:
Whereas, On April 26, 1999, Governor Tommy Thompson, County Executive F. Thomas Ament and Mayor John Norquist announced that 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 ICE Agreement calls for the removal of the portion of the Park East Freeway (State Trunk Highway 145) that is located east of North 4th Street, reconnection of local streets to Interstate Highway 43 and improvement of the local street system, including the construction of a new crossing of the Milwaukee River as a replacement for the removed segment of the Park East Freeway; and

Whereas, The ICE Agreement calls for the Park East Freeway modification to be funded as follows:

STATE CITY COUNTY
ICE MATCH TOTAL ICE MATCH TOTAL ICE MATCH TOTAL
$6.8M $1.2M $8.0M 14.5M $2.5M $17.0M $0 $0 $0

; and

Whereas, Under the ICE Agreement, the roles of the State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County and the City of Mi...

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