Number
081215
Version
SUBSTITUTE 4
Reference
080956
Sponsor
ALD. BOHL, BAUMAN, DONOVAN, ZIELINSKI, KOVAC, DUDZIK, MURPHY, WITKOWIAK AND PUENTE
Title
A substitute ordinance establishing a capital improvements committee.
Sections
320-49 cr
Analysis
This ordinance creates a capital improvements committee to develop, maintain, and update a long-term capital improvements program for the city’s construction and maintenance of its infrastructure and facilities. The 7-person committee shall consist of the commissioner of public works, the department of administration budget and management director, the comptroller, the chairs of the public works and finance and personnel committees, a common council member appointed by the common council president, and a public member appointed by the mayor. The committee shall evaluate individual city departmental capital improvement recommendations for construction and maintenance of infrastructure and facilities and prepare, on an annual basis, a 6-year capital improvements program based on city priorities and objectives. Concurrently, the committee shall also prepare a report describing the condition of the city’s infrastructure networks and facilities and the adequacy of effort made to preserve such infrastructure and facilities and eliminate any deferred capital maintenance. Based on these reports, the committee shall submit to the department of administration budget and management division, not later than the 2nd Tuesday in May annually, a capital improvements budget for construction and maintenance of infrastructure and facilities for the ensuing fiscal year, and prepare semi-annual progress reports, with emphasis on the status of large scale capital projects, for submission to the common council.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 320-49 of the code is created to read:
320-49. Capital Improvements Committee.
1. ESTABLISHMENT. There is crea...
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