Number
100277
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. DAVIS, MURPHY, HINES AND WITKOWIAK
Title
Substitute resolution appropriating $200,000 from the 2010 Community Development Block Grant contingent fund for Milwaukee Police Department and the Department of Public Works for abandoned and foreclosed home stabilization efforts.
Analysis
This resolution provides that 2010 Community Development Block Grant contingent funds be appropriated to the Milwaukee Police Department in the amount of $110,000 and to the Department of Public Works in the amount of $90,000 to supplement abandoned and foreclosed properties stabilization efforts.
Body
Whereas, A major objective of Community Development Block Grant funding is Neighborhood Improvement Project programming; and
Whereas, Quality of life issues which have an adverse impact upon neighborhoods will be aggressively enforced; and
Whereas, Abandoned and foreclosed properties become havens for vandalism, arson and drug crimes; and
Whereas, The Common Council has developed a committee to manage the problem of abandoned and foreclosed properties; and
Whereas, Milwaukee Police Department officers investigating abandoned and foreclosed properties have the power to fully secure properties eliminating much of the criminal activity occurring within them; and
Whereas, The Department of Public Works plays a vital role in sustaining neighborhoods through collection of nuisance garbage and vacant lot maintenance; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that 2010 Community Development Block Grant contingent funds shall be appropriated to the Milwaukee Police Department in the amount of $110,000 and to the Department of Public Works in the amount of $90,000, for a total appropriation of $200,000, for abandoned and foreclosed properties stabilization efforts; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the City Comptroller is directed to appropriate $200,000 from the 2010 Community Development Block Grant contingent fund to the Milwaukee Police Department Operation Safe Neighborhoods fund account in the amount of $110,000 and to the Department of Public Works in the amount of $90,000; and, be it
Further Resolved , That the Milwaukee Police Department and the Department of Public Works shall each submit a budget and activity reports in the amounts and according to any conditions approved by the Common Council and in accordance with Common Council File Number 74-92-5v, to the Community Development Grants Administration and the City Comptroller; and, be it
Further Resolved, That payments for CDBG cost incurred shall be paid for in accordance with approved CDBG reimbursement policy based on approval by the Community Development Grants Administration; and, be it
Further Resolved, That except as modified by this resolution, the guidelines for handling the Community Development Block Grant Program set forth in Common Council File Number 74-92-5v are fully applicable to the 2010 Community Development Entitlement Funding Program.
Requestor
Drafter
LRB10293-3
AEH
7/7/2010