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File #: 180678    Version:
Type: Charter Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/5/2018 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 10/16/2018
Effective date: 1/1/2019    
Title: A substitute charter ordinance relating to city public debt.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: DEBTS, PUBLIC, MUNICIPAL FINANCE
Attachments: 1. Hearing Notice List, 2. Notice Published on 11-1-18
Number
180678
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
A substitute charter ordinance relating to city public debt.
Sections
15-02 am
15-05 am
15-07 am
15-08 am
15-10 cr
15-11 rc
15-12 rp
15-13 am
15-14 am
Analysis
This charter ordinance:
1. Authorizes the city comptroller and city treasurer to designate representatives to attend meetings of the public debt commission.
2. Authorizes the city comptroller, instead of the public debt commission, to negotiate and dispose of bonds issued by the city.
3. Updates charter provisions relating to bond interest and sinking funds.
4. Repeals provisions relating to surrender of bonds and partial retirement bonds.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 15-02 of the charter is amended to read:

15-02. Meetings. The commissioners of the public debt shall fix their own times of meeting, and the mode of calling their meetings. The action of a majority of them shall be deemed the action of the commissioners. They shall transact all their business at the city hall. The comptroller shall be ex officio the secretary of the commissioners and shall preserve a full record of all their proceedings. The city treasurer shall be ex officio treasurer of the commissioners and shall have the sole responsibility for the physical custody of the securities of the public debt amortization fund, subject to such direction as the commissioners of the public debt may from time to time prescribe. Both the comptroller and the treasurer >>,or their designees,<< shall attend meetings of the public debt commission and shall be available for consultation.

Part 2. Section 15-05 of the charter is amended to read:

15-05. Bonds: Requirements. An accurate account shall be kept by the comptroller, or by such other officer as may be appointed by law for that purpose, of the issue of all the bonds by the [[said]] city, of their numbers, dates and amounts, of the dat...

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