Number
020306
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution declaring improved, tax-deed property surplus to municipal needs and authorizing sales in various aldermanic districts. (DCD)
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Commissioner of City Development to dispose of improved, tax-deed property in accordance with the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances and with supplemental procedures described herein.
Body
Whereas, Chapter 304-49 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances ("Code") specifies the disposition process for surplus, City-owned real estate; and
Whereas, The Common Council of the City of Milwaukee ("Common Council") has, by adoption of resolution and other policy direction, supplemented the Code with procedural steps designed to streamline the process for returning property back to the tax roll and into the hands of responsible parties; and
Whereas, Those steps in the surplus property disposition process can be summarized as follows:
After the City Plan Commission declares property surplus to municipal needs and the Common Council approves an asking price, the Department of City Development ("DCD") shall market property in the following preferential order:
1. To qualified nonprofit organizations who can purchase property prior to being placed on the market either at the specified asking price if over $10,000, or for $750 if valued at $10,000 or less, provided that the proposed use and the contemplated improvements are deemed to be compatible with neighborhood context in all respects.
2. If there is no non-profit organization interest, area residents shall be given an exclusive opportunity to purchase property for 30 days prior to property being exposed to the open market.
3. If no acceptable area resident offers are received, property shall be advertised to the general public with stipulated bid due dates via an open listing method.
4. If no acceptable offers are received after initial open listing, property then goes on an extended listing and offers can be accepted at any time on a first-come basis.
; and
Whereas, The City Plan Commission and the Public Improvements Committee have determined that the following properties have no possible municipal use:
PROPERTY ADDRESS, TAX KEY NUMBER, LISTING PRICE, ALDERMANIC DISTRICT
2538 South 10th Street, TK #497-0658-000-9, $47,800, 8th
3243 North 13th Street, TK #284-1103-000-X, $14,800, 10th
3646 North 16th Street, TK #271-0877-000-2, $17,700, 10th
1434 North 18th Court, TK #363-2866-000-2, $41,100, 17th
2936-38 North 18th Street, TK #311-1343-000-4, $11,900, 7th
3730-32 North 21st Street, TK #270-1422-000-9, $17,400, 10th
824 South 21st Street, TK #434-0074-000-4, $10,200, 12th
2951 North 22nd Street, TK #310-0317-000-7, $7,100, 7th
2741 North 23rd Street, TK #310-0210-000-5, and the vacant lot at 2745 North 23rd Street, TK #310-0209, $18,900, 7th
3200-02 North 23rd Street, TK #285-1080-000-3, $22,500, 10th
2608 North 36th Street, TK #327-1525-000-3, $28,200, 7th
2001-03 North 38th Street, TK #348-0265-000-2, $35,400, 17th
2149 North 39th Street, TK #348-0600-000-2, $25,000, 17th
2144 North 40th Street, TK #348-0619-000-6, $37,900, 17th
2872-74 North 44th Street, TK #307-1230-000-7, $70,800, 7th
5800-02 North 83rd Street, TK #176-0427-000-6, $53,100, 5th
3231 North Achilles Street, TK #282-1829-000-2, $17,100, 6th
316-20 East Archer Avenue, TK #466-0302-000-6, $68,200, 14th
2215 West Becher Street, TK #470-2520-000-0, $38,400, 8th
1422 West Grant Street, TK #469-0654-000-2, $50,700, 12th
2224-26 West Greenfield Avenue, TK #434-2204-000-6, $24,400, 12th
3502 West Kilbourn Avenue, TK #387-0726-000-6, $48,300, 16th
3708 West Lisbon Avenue, TK #348-0312-000-7, $5,500, 17th
2607-09 North Palmer Street, TK #322-0615-000-8, $17,400, 6th
3235-37 North Palmer Street, TK #282-2524-000-2, $12,600, 6th
2529-31 North Richards Street, TK #322-0458-000-5, $7,400, 6th
8637 North Servite Drive, Unit 100, TK #43-0321-000-3, $85,000, 9th
3005-07 West Vliet Street, TK #365-0041-000-5, $5,900, 4th
4135 West Vliet Street, TK #366-0201-000-1, $38,000, 16th
; and
Whereas, The Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee recommends selling said properties, authorizing the Commissioner of City Development to accept offers to purchase on behalf of the City of Milwaukee and directing the Commissioner of City Development to close those transactions provided that:
1. Offers conform in all respects to procedural guidelines.
2. Offers, net of commissions, are greater than 75 percent of list price.
3. Buyers are not delinquent on the payment of real estate taxes, special assessments or any other municipal charges for any property a buyer may own in the city of Milwaukee, whether such property is owned individually or in partnership with others and/or under any other name.
4. Buyers do not have outstanding orders to correct code or other violations issued by any enforcement agency for any property a buyer may own in the city of Milwaukee, or have a history of non-compliance with any such agencies, whether such property is owned individually or in partnership with others and/or under any other name.
5. Buyers are not known to have been convicted of crimes the nature of which can be reasonably assumed to be detrimental to the health and quality of life in neighborhoods including, but not by way of limitation, mortgage fraud, property flipping, drug trafficking, sexual assault and other violent crime.
6. Buyers agree to bring property into code compliance within the time specified by the Department of Neighborhood Services.
; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that said properties are declared surplus; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Development is authorized and directed to dispose of the property in accordance with the procedures described herein; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Development is authorized and directed to market unbuildable adjoining vacant lots with said property, said vacant lots being declared surplus as if fully set forth herein; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Development is authorized and directed to make price reductions of up to 25 percent if and when property attracts no offers to purchase after being exposed to the market on at least two occasions; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of City Development shall deposit the proceeds from all sales, net of commissions, closing related expenses and a 15 percent disposition cost reimbursement to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee, into the Reserve for Tax Deficit Fund Account No. 0001-334106.
Drafter
DCD:KT:kt
06/04/02/A