Number
211183
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
Resolution approving the signing of a License Agreement for a Fresh Coast Protection Partnership project funded by Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District on the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee property at 1255 North 22nd Street, in the 4th Aldermanic District.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee to sign a License Agreement allowing the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District’s Fresh Coast Protection Partnership team access to the Lynden Hill park site at 1255 North 22nd Street for the construction and maintenance of green infrastructure on the property.
Body
Whereas, The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (“MMSD”) has a program called the Fresh Coast Protection Partnership (“FCPP”) to fund the design and installation of Green Infrastructure (“GI”) in order to provide stormwater capture and infiltration, reduce stormwater pollution, and reduce the volume of stormwater that enters the sanitary sewer on public and private properties across the MMSD service area; and
Whereas, This program provides the opportunity to have GI installed at Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee-owned (“RACM”) properties at no cost to RACM; and
Whereas, This program currently pays for two years of operation and maintenance upon completion of GI installation, after which the property owner assumes operation and maintenance responsibilities; and
Whereas, As part of this program, a property owner must sign an 11-year Limited Term Conservation Easement designed to preserve the GI installed on the site; and
Whereas, RACM has identified the Lynden Hill park site, at 1255 North 22nd Street as a viable location for a FCPP project; and
Whereas, RACM has been coordinating with the Department of Public Works (“DPW”)/MKE Parks about the potential to in the future convert the Lynden Hill site into a MKE Parks site that would be compatible with green infrastructure; and
Whereas, On May 26, 2021, RACM signed a Letter of Intent acknowledging their understanding of the program, their interest in the site entering into the design process, and their intent to ultimately allow the work to be performed on their property, subject to completed design and permitting activities and approval of final design and construction plans; and
Whereas, The FCPP design team is now at the 30 percent design stage and has shared these engineering plans with RACM, MKE Parks, and DPW Stormwater staff and these staff have approved of the plans and design direction; and
Whereas, The project as currently designed will accept storm water runoff from portions of the public right-of-way (“ROW”) into the GI on the subject property; and
Whereas, The next formal step in development of the FCPP project is the signing of a License Agreement that permits members of the FCPP design and construction team, subject to appropriate insurance coverage and other pertinent requirements, to enter onto and work on the property, install materials and equipment, and transport construction materials and equipment as reasonably necessary to carry out the project; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee (“Common Council”), that the proper officers of RACM are hereby authorized and directed to sign the License Agreement for the Lynden Hill site in order to advance the FCPP project development and construction; and, be it
Further resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the proper RACM officials are authorized to make non-substantive changes to the License Agreement prior to signing, without further Common Council action as necessary to achieve the intent of the Common Council’s action; and, be it
Further resolved, That the proper RACM officials are authorized to enter into a Stormwater Easement to allow MMSD and RACM to install and maintain infrastructure in the public ROW and conversely for the City to allow waters flowing from the public ROW into the GI system installed at the Lynden Hill property; and, be it
Further resolved, That the proper RACM officials are authorized to sign the required 11-year Limited Term Conservation Easement designed to preserve the GI installed on the site.
Drafter
DCD:Tory.Kress:tk
11/23/21/A