Number
221805
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. STAMPER, MURPHY, BAUMAN, ZAMARRIPA AND BROSTOFF
Title
Resolution approving the signing of an access License Agreement to facilitate the Fresh Coast Protection Partnership project funded in part by Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District on the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee properties at 3010 West North Avenue, 3014 West North Avenue and 3001 West Meinecke Avenue, in the 15th Aldermanic District and a corresponding conservation easement designed to preserve the green infrastructure to be installed.
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 site at 3010 West North Avenue, 3014 West North Avenue and 3001 West Meinecke Avenue 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; such work to be facilitated by CIS MMSD, LLC, as manager of MMSD’s program, and it’s contractors; 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, except for an agreed-upon cost-share component for disposal of contaminated soils; and
Whereas, This program currently pays for five 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 3010 West North Avenue, 3014 West North Avenue and 3001 West Meinecke Avenue (“Project Site”) as a viable location for a FCPP project; and
Whereas, RACM has been coordinating with additional partners to develop a portion of the Project Site into a line-worker training facility operated and managed by Milwaukee Area Technical College (“MATC”), and a portion of the Site into a public greenspace in collaboration with Metcalfe Park Community Bridges (“MPCB”), with both portions served by the FCPP GI project; and
Whereas, In May 2021, the RACM Board, through Resolution No. 10863, authorized the signing of 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 RACM 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 final design stage and has shared these engineering plans with RACM, MATC, MPCB, and other partners and these representatives have approved of the plans and design direction; 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 Project 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 sign the required 11-year Limited Term Conservation Easement designed to preserve the GI installed on the site.
Drafter
DCD:Tory.Kress:tk
03/21/23/B