City of Milwaukee - File #: 210576

• File #: 210576
• Version: 1
• Type: Motion-Immediate Adoption
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/27/2021
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 7/27/2021
• Title: Motion establishing a procedure for allocating a portion of the funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act.
• Sponsors: ALD. JOHNSON
• Indexes: FEDERAL GRANTS, FEDERAL LEGISLATION

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
7/27/2021	0	COMMON COUNCIL	AMENDED; Minutes note: Ald. Murphy moved to suspend the rules to offer an amendment not in writing. There was no objection. Ald. Murphy moved to offer the following verbal amendments: 1. All deadlines for submission of allocations shall be stricken. These deadlines will be established by a separate motion to be offered on September 1, 2021. 2. All allocations shall be submitted to the Department of Administration -- Office of Equity and Inclusion for comment.	Pass	14:0
7/27/2021	1	COMMON COUNCIL	APPROVED	Pass	14:0

IMMEDIATE ADOPTION

Number
210576

Version
SUBSTITUTE 1

Reference

Sponsor
ALD. JOHNSON

Title
Motion establishing a procedure for allocating a portion of the funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act.

Analysis
This motion establishes a process for the allocation of the first tranche of funds to be received under the American Rescue Plan Act. It is patterned after that used by the Common Council for the deliberation of the annual budget.

Body

It is moved, By the Common Council of the CIty of Milwaukee, that the following procedure shall be used for the allocation of the first tranche of funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act.

1. Common council members shall submit requests for American Rescue Plan Act allocations to the Office of the Common Council - CIty Clerk. Allocations submitted previously to the Common Council as resolutions need not be re-submitted.

2. Requests shall be prepared in the order received and submitted to the Department of Administration - Budget and Management Division and the Office of Equity and Inclusion for comment. Allocations submitted as resolutions shall be referred to the Department of Administration - Budget and Management Division and the Office of Equity and Inclusion for comment.

3. A compilation of all requests shall be made public.

4. The Finance and Personnel Committee shall schedule a special meeting to take up all amendments submitted until par. 1. Amendments shall be taken up by department affected, departments being sorted by alphabetical order. The Finance and Personnel Committee shall submit its recommendations to the Common Council. Given the $3.8 million previously allocated to the “Earn and Learn” program, these recommendations may not exceed $193 million.

5. When the recommendations created in par. 4 are reported to the Common Council by the Finance and Personnel committee, the council shall first consider any amendments recommended for adoption by the committee, in order b...