City of Milwaukee - File #: 200028

• File #: 200028
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/27/2020
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 6/1/2020
• Title: Substitute resolution relating to delinquent property tax interest and penalties.
• Sponsors: COMMON COUNCIL
• Indexes: PROPERTY TAXES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/1/2020	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
6/1/2020	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
6/1/2020	0	COMMON COUNCIL	TAKEN FROM COMMITTEE	Pass	15:0
6/1/2020	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED; Minutes note: Ald. Spiker moved to enter into Committee of the Whole to obtain answers to questions raised. There was no objection. Appearing: Spencer Coggs, City Treasurer Jim Klajbor, Deputy City Treasurer Ald. Stamper, Rainey, Lewis, Hamilton, Dodd, Johnson, Perez, Dimitrijevic, and Kovac added as cosponsors. There was unanimous consent to add all Common Council members as sponsors. Ald. Dodd moved to rise from Committee of the Whole. There was no objection.	Pass	15:0
5/27/2020	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
200028
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
THE COMMON COUNCIL
Title
Substitute resolution relating to delinquent property tax interest and penalties.
Analysis
This resolution directs the City Treasurer to waive interest and penalty charges on an outstanding property tax balance owed by a taxpayer on the property tax installment payment program between April 1 and September 30, 2020. To be eligible, a taxpayer’s property tax installment payments must be current and not delinquent on April 1, 2020, and the taxpayer must be found to be experiencing economic hardship. The resolution further finds every Milwaukee taxpayer has, and is, experiencing economic hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and is therefore eligible for a waiver.
Body
Whereas, A novel coronavirus began spreading in December, 2019, causing a disease known as COVID-19; and

Whereas, COVID-19 has spread throughout the world, including to the United States and the State of Wisconsin, in a pandemic known as the COVID-19 pandemic; and

Whereas, The federal, state and local governments are working together to contain the further spread of COVID-19 and treat existing cases of the disease; and

Whereas, On January 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a Public Health Emergency, on March 12, 2020, the Governor of Wisconsin declared a Health Emergency in the State of Wisconsin, and on March 13, 2020, Milwaukee County issued a proclamation declaring a state of emergency; and

Whereas, Secretary-designee Andrea Palm of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services issued Emergency Order #12, known as the Safer at Home Order, on March 24, 2020, requiring residents to stay at their place of residence except in limited circumstances until April 24, 2020, and extended this order with Emergency Order #28 on April 16, 2020; and

Whereas, Federal, state, local and private-sector responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have created economic hardship and uncertaint...