Number
211666
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. ZAMARRIPA
Title
Resolution authorizing the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission to accept and expend a Certified Local Government grant received through the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission to accept and expend a Certified Local Government grant of $46,500 awarded by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The grant will fund and intensive-level survey of religious architecture built in Milwaukee from 1920-1980, and will look at approximately 200 purpose-built houses of worship.
Body
Whereas, The Wisconsin Historical Society has awarded the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission a Certified Local Government grant of $46,500; and
Whereas, The City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission has developed the Certified Local Government grant project, and will oversee this project for the duration of the grant; and
Whereas, There is no City match required for this grant; and
Whereas, As Wisconsin’s largest city, boasting some of the state’s finest architects and architecture, Milwaukee is an ideal place for an in-depth, thematic study of architectural Modernism and 20th-century religion; and
Whereas, The most recent effort to survey Milwaukee’s religious buildings was the 1996 report titled “City of Steeples”; and
Whereas, This grant funds a new survey intended to expand on the “City of Steeples” report, and catalog Milwaukee’s Modern religious architecture, with an eye towards documenting Milwaukee’s Black and non-Christian religious histories; and
Whereas, Very little post-war architecture has been researched in the city or the state, particularly large, high-style buildings; and
Whereas, By using houses of worship as a basis and covering previously neglected areas of the city, the Historic Preservation Commission will engage in citywide outreach, focusing on 20th-century targets in every aldermanic district; and
Whereas, This grant will allow the Historic Preservation Commission to initiate an outreach process in areas of the city and communities that have not traditionally interacted with the Historic Preservation Commission, and expand public understanding of Milwaukee history and Modern architecture; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission is authorized to accept and expend up to $46,500 in Certified Local Government grant funds awarded by the Wisconsin Historical Society to conduct an intensive architectural survey of Milwaukee’s Modern religious houses of worship; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission is authorized to accept and expend this grant funding without further approval unless the terms of the grant change, as indicated in s. 304-81 of the Code of Ordinances; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission is authorized to issue requests-for-proposals and let contracts consistent with City policy as needed for the services to conduct the survey and research for this Certified Local Government grant project; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the City Comptroller is authorized and directed to:
1. Commit funds within the Project/Grant Parent of the 2022 Special Revenue - Grant and Aid Projects Fund, the following amount for the project titled Certified Local Government Grant:
Project/Grant GR0002200000
Fund 0150
Org 9990
Budget Year 0000
Subclass R999
Project Grantor Share
Amount $46,500
2. Create the necessary Grant and Aid Project/Grant and Project/Grant levels and budget against these Project/Grant values the amount required under the grant agreement.
; and, be it
Further Resolved, That these funds are budgeted for the City Clerk’s Office - Historic Preservation Commission, which is authorized to expend from the amount budgeted for, sums for specified purposes as indicated in the grant budget and incur costs consistent with that award.
Requestor
Drafter
LRB177240-1
Luke Knapp
2/7/2022
Technical Correction
Chris Lee
2/24/2022