City of Milwaukee - File #: 100126

• File #: 100126
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/25/2010
• In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Final action: 6/15/2010
• Title: Resolution directing the proper City officials to prepare and execute an intergovernmental cooperation agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the City of Wauwatosa relating to maintenance responsibilities with respect to Hartung Park.
• Sponsors: ALD. BOHL
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS, PARKS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/24/2010	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
6/15/2010	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	14:0
6/3/2010	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Individual present: Ghassan Kroban, Department of Public Works	Pass	5:0
6/1/2010	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
5/25/2010	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
100126
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. BOHL
Title
Resolution directing the proper City officials to prepare and execute an intergovernmental cooperation agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the City of Wauwatosa relating to maintenance responsibilities with respect to Hartung Park.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes and directs the proper City officials to prepare and execute an intergovernmental cooperation agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the City of Wauwatosa relating to the assignment of maintenance responsibilities at Hartung Park to the two municipalities. This agreement shall, at a minimum, assign the following responsibilities to Milwaukee and Wauwatosa:

City of Milwaukee: Scheduled trash collection, tree pruning, maintenance of wood chip paths and wood chip playground surfaces, site inspections.

City of Wauwatosa: Maintenance of all grass, sod and prairie, provision and maintenance of portable toilet facility.

Body
Whereas, For over 40 years, the Department of Public Works has been using the former Hartung Quarry, located south of West Keefe Avenue and east of North Menomonee River Parkway, as a site for the deposit of clean fill; and

Whereas, In recent years, as the landfill neared capacity and the Department of Public Works prepared for its closure, neighborhood residents, representatives of various City and Milwaukee departments, and elected officials from the cities of Milwaukee and Wauwatosa (in which part of the site is located) developed a plan for redevelopment of the Hartung Quarry site as a recreational facility; and

Whereas, On July 12, 2006, the Common Council adopted File Number 060292, a resolution designating the Hartung Quarry property as the site of a future park, to be known as “Hartung Park,” and endorsing the “Hartung Quarry Park Conceptual Development Plan and Proposed Site Features” as the plan for future development of Hartung Park; and

Whereas, On February 26, 2008, the Common C...