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Meeting Name: COMMON COUNCIL Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 7/31/2023 9:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Common Council Chamber
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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     Meeting convened at 9:38 AM     Roll call Video Video
     The Pledge of Allegiance was said followed by silent meditation. The question was put: Are there any corrections to the Common Council Journal of Proceedings for the regular meeting of July 11, 2023? Meeting minutes stand approved. There were no objections.    Not available
     An appearance of the following relative to the Item #6 File Number 230256: Retired Judge Clevert MPD Chief Jeff Norman Milwaukee Co. Sheriff Denita R. Bell Prior Milwaukee Co. Sherrif Earnell Lucas Honoree Sheriff Richard E. Artison, who addressed the Council.    Not available
     COMMENDATORY AND CONDOLATORY RESOLUTIONS    Not available
230480 01.CommunicationCommunication from the City Clerk relating to various commendatory/condolatory resolutions to be acknowledged and affirmed by the Common Council.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Video Video
     THE LICENSES COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS:    Not available
     APPROVAL OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230409 02.MotionMotion relating to the recommendations of the Licenses Committee relating to licenses.

Minutes note: Renewal with a fifteen (15) day suspension of the Class A Malt & Class A Liquor license based upon the preponderance of the evidence in the police report that demonstrates the operation results in a threat to health, safety or welfare of the public; for the premises located at 2643 W Atkinson Av. ("I Shop Supermarket ") in the 1st aldermanic district. (No Written Objections Have Been Filed) There was no one present when this item was called.
APPROVEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS:    Video Video
     APPROVAL OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230007 03.MotionMotion relating to the recommendations of the Public Works Committee relating to licenses.APPROVEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     ADOPTION OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230124 04.ResolutionResolution approving a Third Amendment to Lease Agreement with Verizon Wireless relating to extending the term of the lease at the Hawley Road Water Tower at 1235 North 57th Street.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Video Video
230177 15.ResolutionSubstitute resolution assigning the honorary street name "Elder Claude Edwards" to West Center Street from North 24th Street to North 25th Street in the 15th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230256 16.ResolutionSubstitute resolution assigning the honorary street name "Sheriff Richard E. Artison" to North 9th Street from West Highland Avenue to West Wisconsin Avenue in the 4th Aldermanic District.

Minutes note: Sponsors added: Chambers, Pratt, Stamper and Borkowoski
ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230255 17.ResolutionSubstitute resolution assigning the honorary street name "Patricia O'Flynn Pattillo" to North 6th Street from West Keefe Avenue to West Vienna Street in the 6th Aldermanic District.

Minutes note: Sponsors added: Coggs, Pratt and Stamper
ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230373 18.ResolutionSubstitute resolution assigning the honorary street name "Josephine D. Moutry-Hill” to West Vliet Street from North 30th Street to North 31st Street in the 15th Aldermanic District.

Minutes note: Sponsors added: Coggs, Murphy, Chambers, Pratt and Stamper
ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230381 19.ResolutionResolution authorizing the City of Milwaukee’s Department of Public Works - Milwaukee Water Works to execute a contract to accept and expend funds from a subaward from Employ Milwaukee (grantor) allocation of the United States Department of Labor’s allocation of Community Project Funds from the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 for the provision of an Essential Employee Workforce Development Program, and to set up project costs at a total estimated cost of $648,186, with costs fully covered by the grantor.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230388 110.ResolutionSubstitute resolution relating to the renaming of the 30th and Cawker Park Area located at 2929 North 30th Street as Alwin Lopez (Al) Jarreau Park in the 7th Aldermanic District.

Minutes note: Ald. Rainey made a motion to have all the members as sponsors of this file due the international projection of the musician Alwin Lopez (Al) Jarreau. There were no objections.
ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Video Video
230394 011.ResolutionResolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a document titled “2nd Revision State/Municipal Agreement for a State-Let Highway Project” with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the programming, design, and construction of North 20th Street (STH 57) from North Avenue to Hopkins Street. ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230395 012.ResolutionResolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a document titled “2nd Revision State/Municipal Agreement for a State-Let Highway Project” with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the programming, design, and construction of North 76th Street (STH 181) Intersection with Hampton Avenue.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230397 013.ResolutionResolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a document titled “State/Municipal Agreement for a State-Let Highway Project” with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the programming, design, real estate acquisition, and construction of South 84th Street (STH 181) from W Greenfield Ave. to W Adler Ave., to set up funds for design engineering at an estimated total cost of $600,000 with an estimated City share of $30,000 and a grantor share of $450,000. Remaining $120,000 of costs to be funded by City of West Allis, and to set up funds for real estate acquisition at an estimated total cost of $20,000 with an estimated City share of $0 and a grantor share of $20,000.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230401 114.ResolutionSubstitute Resolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute a document titled “Revision 2 State/Municipal Agreement for a State-Let Local Bridge Project” with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) for the South 70th Street Bridge over Canadian Pacific Railway / Hank Aaron State Trail in the 10th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230406 015.ResolutionSubstitute resolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to work with various cultural chambers of commerce and other relevant stakeholders on ways to increase the diversity of vendors who respond to and are awarded Department of Public Works contracts.

Minutes note: Sponsors added: Pratt, Perez and Taylor
ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230410 016.ResolutionResolution authorizing the City Comptroller to transfer additional funds to the previously established project for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the City of Milwaukee for cost participation for the design of West National Avenue between South 39th Street and South 1st Street in the 8th and 12th Aldermanic districts with a total estimated cost increase for the projects of $600,000, with an estimated Grantor share of $0, and an estimated City share of $600,000.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230414 117.ResolutionSubstitute resolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute State/Municipal Agreement for a Carbon Reduction Program Project with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the conversion of street lighting fixtures to LED from Center Street to Juneau Avenue and 60th Street to Lake Michigan, and to set up funds for design engineering review and procurement at a total estimated total cost of $1,635,000 with an estimated grantor share of $1,296,000 and City share of $339,000.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230415 118.ResolutionSubstitute resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Works and Comptroller to execute a State Municipal Agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the programming, design, and construction of traffic signal improvements under the Carbon Reduction Program at 14 intersections in various Aldermanic Districts and to set up funds for design engineering review at an estimated cost of $15,000 with estimated City share of $15,000.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230421 119.ResolutionSubstitute resolution approving levying of assessments and construction of assessable public improvement projects at various locations and appropriating funds for these purposes with the City cost of these projects approved by this resolution is estimated to be $33,365 for a total estimated cost of $91,600.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230423 120.ResolutionSubstitute resolution determining it necessary to make various assessable public improvements at various locations and appropriating funds for these purposes with the City engineering cost estimated to be $130,000 for a total estimated cost of these projects being $1,460,000.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230424 021.ResolutionResolution determining it necessary to make various nonassessable public improvements at various locations and appropriating funds for these purposes with the City engineering cost estimated to be $75,000 for a total estimated cost of these projects being $1,000,000.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230425 122.ResolutionSubstitute resolution approving construction of nonassessable public improvements at various locations and appropriating funds for these purposes with the City construction cost estimated to be $5,825,000 for a total estimated cost of these projects being $6,225,000.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230427 023.ResolutionResolution authorizing the City of Milwaukee to approve the Great Lakes Legacy Act Project Agreement Modification No. 2 with the US Environmental Protection Agency in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Milwaukee County, We Energies, and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District for the Focused Feasibility Study, Pre-Design Investigation, and Remedial Design of the Proposed Dredge Material Management Facility, the Removal of PCB Contaminant Soil Material, and the Remedial Action of Contaminated Sediment in the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230433 024.ResolutionResolution approving an Operating Agreement with Badgerland Striders Running Club for staging of the 2023 Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon in the City of MilwaukeeADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230449 025.ResolutionResolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute an Out-of-Program Agreement with the Milwaukee Board of School Directors for public water main improvements on South 24th Street.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     THE FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS:    Video Video
     PASSAGE OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230446 026.OrdinanceAn ordinance relating to the term of appointment for the director of the department of emergency communications.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Video Video
230456 127.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance to further amend the 2023 rates of pay of offices and positions in the City Service.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230458 128.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance to further amend the 2023 offices and positions in the City Service.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     ADOPTION OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230075 129.ResolutionSubstitute resolution authorizing attendance at conventions, seminars and other travel.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230325 130.ResolutionSubstitute resolution relative to acceptance and funding of the 2023-2024 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity: Project E - COVID-19 Enhancing Detection grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230413 131.ResolutionSubstitute resolution authorizing the sale and issuance of up to $50,000,000 Sewerage System Revenue Refunding Bonds. (Comptroller)ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     PLACING ON FILE THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
161099 032.CommunicationCommunication from the Superlative Group, Inc. relating to its 2016 annual report on the Milwaukee Civic Partnership Initiative.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Video Video
180309 033.CommunicationCommunication from the Department of Administration and other City departments relating to the progress of the City Accelerator partnership and efforts to grow inclusion and equity in City procurement.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
230087 034.CommunicationCommunication from the City Comptroller relating to the Audit of Milwaukee Streetcar Safety.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
230453 035.CommunicationCommunication from the Department of Employee Relations relating to classification studies scheduled for Fire and Police Commission action.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
230454 036.CommunicationCommunication from the Department of Employee Relations relating to classification studies scheduled for City Service Commission action.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
230455 037.CommunicationCommunication from the Department of Employee Relations amending the Salary and Positions Ordinances relating to clerical or administrative corrections.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
230472 038.CommunicationCommunication from the City Comptroller on the Audit of the Residents Preference Program for Development Agreements.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
230494 039.CommunicationCommunication from the Department of Employee Relations amending the Salary Ordinance to provide recruitment rates of pay for various trade supervisors and managers in the Fire Department and Police Department.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
     THE JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS:    Video Video
     PASSAGE OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230358 240.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance creating the division of legislative affairs.NOT ACTED ON   Action details Not available
     ADOPTION OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
221773 141.ResolutionSubstitute resolution relating to the claim of Dana Rhinehart.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230389 042.ResolutionResolution authorizing settlement of the lawsuit entitled Janisha Nelson; Darryl Nelson v. City of Milwaukee, et al., Case No. 22-C-0388.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230444 043.ResolutionResolution urging the Wisconsin Attorney General to initiate legal action against the fossil fuel industry.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230451 044.ResolutionResolution relating to an amendment to the contract between the City of Milwaukee (the “City”) and the law firm of Nathan & Kamionski, LLP (hereinafter LAW FIRM) for the lawsuit entitled Sam Hadaway v. City of Milwaukee, et al.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     DISALLOWANCE AND INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT OF THE FOLLOWING:     Not available
220922 045.ResolutionResolution relating to the claim of Chereritta Henderson.DISALLOWED AND INDEFINITELY POSTPONEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
221162 046.ResolutionResolution relating to the appeal of Jason Holdsberg for property damage.DISALLOWED AND INDEFINITELY POSTPONEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
221616 047.ResolutionResolution relating to the claim of Christine Papadogeorgis.DISALLOWED AND INDEFINITELY POSTPONEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS:    Video Video
     PASSAGE OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230399 148.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance relating to parking controls.

Minutes note: Ald. Chambers moved to amend this file by adding the following: Part 2. Section 115-42-2-c of the Code relating to Selling Articles from Parked Vehicles, Locations Where Selling is prohibited, is amended by adding the following: On the North and south sides of Silver Spring Drive from North 60th Street to Appleton Avenue. And further move to adoption as amended.
AMENDEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230399 1 OrdinanceA substitute ordinance relating to parking controls.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230400 249.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance relating to traffic controls.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     ADOPTION OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230457 050.ResolutionResolution relating to the creation of a Bronzeville Safety and Traffic Task Force.

Minutes note: Sponsor added: Chambers There were no objections.
ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     PLACING ON FILE THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
221400 051.ResolutionResolution relating to acceptance and funding of the 2023 Hepatitis B grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
     THE ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS:    Video Video
     PASSAGE OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
210880 252.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance relating to floodplain zoning regulations.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
221922 153.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance relating to the change in zoning from Industrial Light, IL2, to Downtown-Mixed Activity, C9G, to allow the development of a museum on the properties located at 1310 and 1340 North 6th Street and 520 West McKinley Avenue, on the east side of North 6th Street between West Vliet Street and West McKinley Avenue, in the 6th Aldermanic District.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230044 154.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance relating to the 1st Amendment to the Detailed Planned Development, DPD, known as Nova to add Commercial Hotel as a permitted use for a time limited two year period within the previously approved mixed-use residential building located at 1237 North Van Buren Street, on the west side of North Van Buren Street, north of West Juneau Avenue, in the 4th Aldermanic District.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230192 155.OrdinanceA substitute ordinance relating to the change in zoning from Two-Family Residential, RT4, to Local Business, LB2, on the property located at 1547 West Mineral Street to facilitate the expansion of an existing parking lot located at 1559 West Mineral Street, on the south side of West Mineral Street, east of South Cesar E. Chavez Drive, in the 12th Aldermanic District.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230317 056.OrdinanceAn ordinance approving Connecting MKE: Downtown Plan 2040 (the Downtown Area Plan) as part of the City of Milwaukee’s Overall Comprehensive Plan, in the 3rd, 4th, and 6th Aldermanic Districts.PASSEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     ADOPTION OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230196 157.ResolutionSubstitute resolution approving a Land Disposition Report and authorizing the sale of the City-owned tax deed property at 1547 West Mineral Street, in the 12th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230426 158.ResolutionSubstitute Resolution authorizing the sale of the City-owned property at 435-37 North 30th Street to its former owner, in the 4th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230428 059.ResolutionResolution authorizing the sale of the City-owned tax deed property at 2502 South 5th Place to St. Augustine Preparatory Academy, Inc. for development, in the 14th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230429 060.ResolutionResolution approving a Land Disposition Report and Due Diligence Checklist and authorizing acquisition and then sale of 5834 North 97th Street, in the 2nd Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230431 061.ResolutionResolution approving a Land Disposition Report and authorizing the sale of the City-owned tax deed property at 2743 North 59th Street, in the 10th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230434 162.ResolutionSubstitute resolution authorizing the sale of the City-owned tax deed property located at 1633-35 North 18th Street to its former owner and a relative of the former owner as joint purchasors, in the 15th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230460 063.ResolutionSubstitute resolution approving an Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement between the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee and the City of Milwaukee regarding data-sharing related to elevated blood lead levels of children residing in Housing Authority housing.

Minutes note: Ald. Bauman moved substitution of the file with Proposed Substitute A. (Prevailed 15-0)
SUBSTITUTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230460 1 ResolutionSubstitute resolution approving an Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement between the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee and the City of Milwaukee regarding data-sharing related to elevated blood lead levels of children residing in Housing Authority housing.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     THE COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS:    Video Video
     ADOPTION OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230356 164.ResolutionSubstitute resolution relative to the reallocation of the Community Development Block Grant -CV3, Emergency Solutions Grant-CV1 and Emergency Solutions Grant-CV-2 from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through the Community Development Grants Administration.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230485 065.ResolutionResolution authorizing the expenditure of up to $10,000 from the Community and Economic Development Committee Fund for Bronzeville Week.ADOPTEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     CONFIRMATION OF THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230342 066.AppointmentReappointment of Dan Naumann to the Business Improvement District #10 by the Mayor. CONFIRMEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230440 067.AppointmentAppointment of Steve Mech to the Business Improvement District #2 by the Mayor. (4th Aldermanic District)CONFIRMEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230441 068.AppointmentAppointment of Rosalind Cox to the Business Improvement District #28 by the Mayor. (15th Aldermanic District)CONFIRMEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
230442 069.AppointmentAppointment of Deonta Duncan to the Business Improvement District #28 by the Mayor. (15th Aldermanic District)CONFIRMEDPass15:0 Action details Not available
     PLACING ON FILE THE FOLLOWING:    Not available
230274 070.CommunicationCommunication from the Columbia Savings & Loan Association relating to its proposal for a partnership with the city.PLACED ON FILEPass15:0 Action details Not available
     MATTERS FOR IMMEDIATE ADOPTION:    Video Video
230499 071.Resolution-Immediate AdoptionResolution approving the Regional Hazardous Materials Response System Services contract between the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs-Division of Emergency Management and the City of Milwaukee for 2023-2025.ADOPTEDPass28:0 Action details Not available
230501 072.Resolution-Immediate AdoptionResolution conditionally approving a final certified survey map.ADOPTEDPass29:0 Action details Not available
230502 073.Resolution-Immediate AdoptionResolution conditionally approving a final certified survey map.ADOPTEDPass28:0 Action details Not available
230503 074.Resolution-Immediate AdoptionResolution conditionally approving final certified survey maps.ADOPTEDPass14:0 Action details Not available
230504 075.Resolution-Immediate AdoptionResolution approving final certified survey maps.ADOPTEDPass14:0 Action details Not available
230539 076.Resolution-Immediate AdoptionResolution removing a joining deed restriction from former tax-deed properties located at 5413 West Lisbon Avenue and 2510 North 55th Street, and adding a new joining restriction to 5413 West Lisbon Avenue, in the 10th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass14:0 Action details Not available
230540 077.ResolutionResolution directing the Milwaukee Water Works to obtain Common Council approval prior to implementing a plan for lead service line replacements.

Minutes note: Ald Zamarripa asked to be added as co-sponsor. There were no objections.
ASSIGNED TO   Action details Video Video
230541 078.Resolution-Immediate AdoptionResolution approving the issuance of revenue bonds by the Public Finance Authority for the benefit of Germania Historic, LLC to finance renovations and capital improvements, among other items, to its multifamily housing facility located at 135 West Wells Street, in the 4th Aldermanic District.ADOPTEDPass14:0 Action details Not available