Number
061452
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
041449
Sponsor
ALD. DONOVAN AND ALD. MURPHY
Title
Substitute resolution approving Law Enforcement Services Grant Agreement with the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club for 2007 and 2008.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the entry into a Law Enforcement Services Grant Agreement with the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club Limited Partnership. Under the agreement, the City will provide specified levels of police officer staffing at Miller Park during the Brewers baseball seasons of 2007 and 2008 and at all other scheduled special events. The Brewers will compensate police officers, sergeants and lieutenants at their current overtime rate.
The initial term of the Agreement commences on March 25, 2007 and terminates on October 31, 2008. The City and the Brewers have a mutual option to extend the Agreement for 2 additional one-year terms (2009 and 2010). The Brewers will pay the City a total of $1.2 million for law enforcement services in 2007 and 2008 under this Agreement.
Body
Whereas, On February 22, 2005 the Common Council adopted Resolution File Number 041449, approving a 2-year Law Enforcement Services Grant Agreement with the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club Limited Partnership (the “Brewers”) under the criteria established in Common Council Resolution File Numbers 011573 and 021317; and
Whereas, The Brewers have offered the Milwaukee Police Department a grant for assignment of on-premise Milwaukee Police Department officers, sergeants and lieutenants at the Miller Park baseball facility and surrounding areas for 2007 and 2008; and
Whereas, The Police Chief has indicated a willingness to provide special assignment police officers, sergeants and lieutenants in accordance with the terms and conditions of the grant agreement attached to this file; and
Whereas, The Common Council has adopted a policy under which the City will accept grants to provide additional police officer services to non-City entit...
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