City of Milwaukee - File #: 051694

• File #: 051694
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/11/2006
• In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
• Final action: 5/9/2006
• Title: Substitute resolution approving a settlement agreement with the United States of America relating to a complaint filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act and approving amendment no. 13 to the riverwalk development agreement with Business Improvement District No. 15. (This resolution will appropriate City funds.)
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS, BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT 15, RIVERWALKS, SUITS SETTLEMENT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
5/15/2006	2	MAYOR	SIGNED
5/9/2006	2	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:0
5/1/2006	2	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
5/1/2006	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Ald. Hamilton moved to accept Proposed Substitute A.	Pass	4:0
5/1/2006	1	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	4:0
4/24/2006	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/21/2006	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
4/11/2006	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
051694
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution approving a settlement agreement with the United States of America relating to a complaint filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act and approving amendment no. 13 to the riverwalk development agreement with Business Improvement District No. 15. (This resolution will appropriate City funds.)
Analysis
This resolution approves the settlement agreement by and among the United States of America, City of Milwaukee, Board of Business Improvement District No. 15 (“Board”) and Milwaukee County (“County”). The settlement agreement resolves an August 6, 2003 United States Justice Department (“Department”) investigation that was instituted as a result of a complaint filed with the Department under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The settlement agreement requires the City, County, and Board to undertake, subject in part to subsequent annual budgetary appropriations and assessments, certain remedial work (including the addition of ramps and lifts to the riverwalk) to sections of the Milwaukee Riverwalk located between Juneau Avenue and Clybourn Street. The total estimated cost of all of the remedial work, including all design costs, is $1.5 million. The City will pay for all initial remedial costs, except the work to be undertaken by Milwaukee County, and then will recover back 22% of those costs from the owners within BID-15 who will be specially assessed over an approximately 15 year period. This was the same funding method used to initially fund the construction of the riverwalk segments under the 1994 Riverwalk Development Agreement, as amended, between the City and the Board. By entry into the settlement agreement, the City, County and Board do not admit to any violations of the ADA.
Body
Whereas, On August 6, 2003, the United States Department of Justice (“Department”) commenced an investigation of a complaint made to the Department. The co...