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File #: 070045    Version: 0
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/17/2007 In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 5/8/2007
Effective date:    
Title: Resolution directing the City Comptroller to transfer $1,000 for payment to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District due to a stipulation among the tributary communities.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: LITIGATION, MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT, SEWERS
Attachments: 1. Fiscal Note.pdf, 2. Infrastructure Services Division Cover Letter.pdf

Number

070045

Version

ORIGINAL

Reference

Sponsor

THE CHAIR

Title

Resolution directing the City Comptroller to transfer $1,000 for payment to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District due to a stipulation among the tributary communities.

Analysis

This resolution directs the City Comptroller to transfer $1,000 from parent account SM498050000 to sub-account SM498050008.  This amount is required to be paid as penalty per Section 33 of a Stipulation between the State of Wisconsin and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s tributary communities.

Body

Whereas, Following sanitary overflow events in mid-2004, a stipulation was entered into by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's (MMSD) tributary communities, including the City of Milwaukee, and the State of Wisconsin in December 2005; and

 

Whereas, Section 33 of said stipulation imposes a $1,000 penalty for the first Nonexempt Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO); and

 

Whereas, In September 2006 a mechanical failure at the City’s lift station located at 2500 North Lincoln Memorial Drive caused an SSO; and

 

Whereas, Per Section 36 of the Stipulation, any and all stipulated penalties shall be paid into MMSD’s Conservation Easement Program; and

 

Whereas, The 2005 budget for the Sewer Maintenance Fund included funding and borrowing authority in the amount of $1,206,000 for flow reduction projects (Account number SM498050000); and

 

Whereas, The adoption of Resolution File Number 050267 removed the borrowing authority for $137,500 of the original budget amount for the downspout disconnection project, which is one of the aforementioned flow reduction projects; and

 

Whereas, payment for this penalty shall be made from account number SM498050000; now, therefore, be it

 

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the City Comptroller is hereby authorized to transfer $1,000 from parent account SM498050000 to sub-account SM498050008; and, be it

 

Further Resolved, That after said transfer has been made, the Sewer Maintenance Fund is directed to issue a check in the amount of $1,000 to the MMSD.

 

Requestor

Department of Public Works

Infrastructure Service Division

Drafter

Environmental Engineering Section

NMJ/kf

March 29, 2007