City of Milwaukee - File #: 070649

• File #: 070649
• Version: 3
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/31/2007
• In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Final action: 11/21/2007
• Title: Substitute resolution relating to City policy concerning the sale of water to neighboring communities pending the Great Lakes Charter Annex Implementing Agreements are ratified.
• Sponsors: ALD. MURPHY, ALD. D'AMATO, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. DUDZIK, ALD. WITKOWSKI
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS, WATER SALES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/4/2007	3	MAYOR	SIGNED
11/21/2007	3	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
11/21/2007	2	COMMON COUNCIL	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Proposed Substitute A	Pass	13:1
11/21/2007	3	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	13:1
10/30/2007	2	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
10/30/2007	1	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Ald. Murphy offered a proposed substitute A.	Pass	4:0
10/30/2007	2	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearances by: Ald. Murphy, 10th Aldermanic Dist. Carrie Lewis, Superintendent, Water Works Mayor Jack Chiovatero, New Berlin Ann Beier, Environmental Sustainablility Director, Dept. of Admin. Pam Fendt, Good Jobs & Livable Neighborhoods Coalition	Pass	5:0
10/30/2007	2	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECONSIDERED; Minutes note: Appearance by: Paul Lincoln Scheuble, MMSD Citizen Advisory Board member and is a former New Berlin 4th district alderman	Pass	5:0
10/30/2007	2	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	5:0
10/25/2007	1	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added
10/25/2007	1	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/25/2007	1	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/1/2007	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
9/5/2007	0	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Alds. D'Amato, Bauman and Dudzik added as co-sponsors.
8/6/2007	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
7/31/2007	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
070649
Version
SUBSTITUTE 3
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY, D’AMATO, BAUMAN, DUDZIK AND WITKOWSKI
Title
Substitute resolution relating to City policy concerning the sale of water to neighboring communities pending the Great Lakes Charter Annex Implementing Agreements are ratified.
Analysis
This resolution states it is the City of Milwaukee’s policy that no signing of final agreements relating to sale of water to neighboring communities outside the Great Lakes basin shall occur before the state of Wisconsin ratifies the interstate compact.

Lake Michigan water issues are collectively managed by the Council of Great Lakes Governors under the 2001 Great Lakes Charter Annex. The Council of Great Lakes Governors is represented by 10 jurisdictions - Wisconsin; Illinois; Indiana; Michigan; Minnesota; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; and Ontario and Quebec, Canada. To implement the 2001 Annex agreements, the governors and premiers of these jurisdictions signed the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement and endorsed the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, collectively known as the Great Lakes Charter Annex Implementing Agreements.

The agreements are not binding on states or provinces, but rather provide a framework for each state and province to enact laws that will protect the Great Lakes’ St. Lawrence River Basin; and in the U.S., each of the 8 states will enact into law and enforce the agreements through an interstate compact, and the United States Congress will be asked to ratify the compact.
Body
Whereas, The Council of Great Lakes Governors, represented by 10 jurisdictions - Wisconsin; Illinois; Indiana; Michigan; Minnesota; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; and Ontario and Quebec, Canada - collectively manages Lake Michigan water issues under the 2001 Great Lakes Charter Annex; and

Whereas, Annex 2001 agreements were developed by representatives from the 10 jurisdictions’ environmen...