City of Milwaukee - File #: 100076

• File #: 100076
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/4/2010
• In control: COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
• Final action: 7/7/2010
• Title: Resolution directing the Department of City Development to create a “Neighborhood Improvement District Handbook.”
• Sponsors: ALD. BAUMAN
• Indexes: DEPARTMENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT, DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS, NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
7/9/2010	0	MAYOR	RETURNED NOT SIGNED
7/7/2010	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:0
6/28/2010	0	COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: City Develpment Ms. Rhonda Manuel and Ald. Bauman	Pass	5:0
6/24/2010	0	COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
5/4/2010	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
100076
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
Resolution directing the Department of City Development to create a “Neighborhood Improvement District Handbook.”
Analysis
This resolution directs the Department of City Development to create a “Neighborhood Improvement District Handbook” that provides clear, easy-to-read information on the procedures for creating and operating a neighborhood improvement district. The Department shall complete this Handbook within 60 days of adoption of this resolution and place a copy of the Handbook on its website.
Body
Whereas, In 2006, the Wisconsin Legislature created the state’s neighborhood improvement district law (s. 66.1110, Wis. Stats.), which enabled a municipality to create a neighborhood improvement district (or “NID”) -- a defined geographic area from which the municipality collects special assessments that are used to fund various improvements (in such areas as public safety, litter control, streetscaping and marketing/promotion) within the neighborhood, as set forth in a NID project plan that is developed by the neighborhood and approved by the local governing body; and

Whereas, The 2006 NID law permitted special assessments to be collected only from non-residential taxable properties and from residential properties containing 8 or more dwelling units; and

Whereas, In 2010, the Wisconsin Legislature passed 2009 Wisconsin Act 147, which amended the NID law to allow for special assessments to be collected from all residential properties, not just large apartment buildings, thereby greatly expanding the potential application of the NID procedure to include predominantly single-family and duplex neighborhoods; and

Whereas, The creation and operation of neighborhood improvement districts could prove to be an invaluable tool for Milwaukee neighborhoods that seek to pool their financial resources to improve the quality of life within their boundaries; and

Whereas, Currently, there is lim...