Number
160658
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
55-2560
Sponsor
ALD. WITKOWSKI
Title
Substitute resolution relating to the establishment of an alternate site of City government during a state of emergency.
Analysis
This resolution directs the City’s Director of Emergency Government and Homeland Security to submit to the Common Council, by November 1, 2016, a possible alternative site for consideration by the Mayor and Common Council as a temporary location of City government during a state of emergency.
Body
Whereas, Section 6-13 of the City Charter provides for the designation of an alternate site as an emergency temporary location of City government where all, or any part, of the public business may be conducted whenever during a state of emergency it becomes imprudent, inexpedient or impossible to conduct the affairs of City government at the regular or usual place of government; and
Whereas, Common Council Resolution File Number 55-2560, adopted November 29, 1955, approved the designation of St. John’s Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin, as the alternate site of City government during a state of emergency; and
Whereas, Pursuant to s. 6-13 of the City Charter, it is prudent to designate a new alternate site as a temporary location of City government during a state of emergency; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the City’s Director of Emergency Government and Homeland Security is directed to submit to the Common Council, by November 1, 2016, a possible alternate site for consideration by the Mayor and Common Council as a temporary location of City government during a state of emergency if it becomes imprudent, inexpedient or impossible to conduct the affairs of City government at the regular or usual place of City government.
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Requestor
Drafter
LRB166262-2
Teodros W. Medhin
9/7/2016