NUMB:
991874
VERS:
ORIGINAL
REF:
XXBY:
ALD. WITKOWIAK
TITL:
Resolution appropriating $5,521.59 from the 2000 Common Council Contingent Fund to pay select special charges from the property tax bill for the property at 601-615 W. Historic Mitchell St.
ANLS:
- Analysis -
This resolution appropriates $5,521.59 from the 2000 Common Council Contingent Fund to pay select special charges from 1993 through 1998 totaling $5,521.59 from the property tax bill for the property at 601-615 W. Historic Mitchell St (Tax Key Number 461-0501-100-8).
BODY:
Whereas, The property at 601-615 W. Mitchell St. (Tax Key Number 461-0501-100-8) had numerous special charges placed on the property tax bill for the years 1993 through 1998; and
Whereas, Many of these charges were the result of inaction on the part of the owner of the property from 1993 to 1998 in correcting building and health code violations; and
Whereas, This property had 27 police calls from April through July 1998; and
Whereas, This property was declared unfit for human habitation in July 1998 and was boarded up by the city; and
Whereas, This property was scheduled to be the target of a city nuisance abatement team action involving the City Attorney's Office, the Police Department, the Department of Neighborhood Services and the Department of City Development; and
Whereas, Such abatement action would have cost the city approximately $400,000 in Community Development Block Grant money; and
Whereas, This property was purchased by Elktown Properties in March 1999; and
Whereas, This purchase has resulted in a cancellation of the abatement action; and
Whereas, The new owners are rehabilitating the property to make it an asset to the neighborhood; and
Whereas, The new owners have requested that the special charges specifically related to inaction by the previous owners be removed by the city; and
Whereas, The new owners may also work with the Milwaukee Water Works to make a...
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