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| | | | The Pledge of Allegiance was said followed by a moment of silent mediation. | | | |
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| | | | THE FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS: | | | |
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170001
| 0 | 1. | Budget | Communication from the Mayor relating to the proposed 2018 budget.
Minutes note: Amendments approved by the Finance and Personnel Committee were considered first, followed by amendments from the 24-hour packet.
Amendment 1C
Various departments; add funding for early voting, FPC Risk Management, Collaborative Reform, Fresh Food Promotion, Early Childhood Initiative, Residential Code Enforcement Inspectors, Disease Intervention Specialists, opiate/heroin education, lead lateral marketing, street lighting repair, MPS Drivers Education, Reckless Driving Training, technology growth initiative, community service officers.
Ald. Bohl moved substitution of Amendment 1C with Amendment 1G. (Prevailed 15-0) | SUBSTITUTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 1G
Add funding for additional voting sites to the Election Commission, add two Risk Management and one Investigator/Auditor positions and $100,000 for Collaborative Reform in the Fire & Police Commission, add $200,000 in DCD for Fresh Food Promotion, establish an Office on Early Childhood Initiatives in the LIbrary, restore four Residential Code Enforcement inspectors in DNS, add two Disease Intervention Specialists and funding for opiate and heroin addiction education and lead lateral marketing in the Health Department, restore $150,000 in street lighting repair funding to DPW, add $50,000 for the MPS Driver's Education SPA, create a $10,000 Reckless Driving Training SPA, create a $50,000 technology growth initiative SPA, add a footnote designating up to $300,000 in CDBG reprogramming funds for the Keeping the Promise, add 8 Community Service Officers in the Police Department, add a footnote reserving $20,000 in 2018 CDBG funds for the Midnight Basketball program, and increase the Parking Fund transfer. Add positions and funding to DNS and eliminate the DPW In-House Demolition Program to reflect Coundcil adoption of CCFN 170188. The tax levy effect of the amendment is offset by the additional Local Street Aids and an increase in Parking Fund transfer revenue if recognized by the Comptroller. | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | | Budget | Communication from the Mayor relating to the proposed 2018 budget.
Minutes note: Amendment 2
Fund $500,000 disparity study by shifting DOA IT capital projects from levy to borrowing
Ald. Murphy, Perez, and Witkowski noted their objections.
Ald. Stamper moved substitution of Amendment 2 with Amendment 2C. (Prevailed 15-0) | SUBSTITUTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | | Budget | Communication from the Mayor relating to the proposed 2018 budget.
Minutes note: Amendment 2C
Shift $380,000 for DOA capital projects from cash levy to new borrowing. Increase the Parking Fund Transfer to the General Fund by $120,000 by eliminating funding and FTE for a Traffic Control Engineer in the Department of Public Works. Add $500,000 in funding to the DOA Community Disparity Study Special Fund. Amendment will require revenue recognition by the Comptroller to reduce the levy effect to $5,700. If revenue is not recognized, the levy impact of this amendment will be as stated.
Ald. Stamper withdrew Amendment 2C. | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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170001
| 0 | | Budget | Communication from the Mayor relating to the proposed 2018 budget.
Minutes note: Ald. Bohl moved substitution of Amendment 2 with Amendment 2B. (Prevailed 15-0) | SUBSTITUTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | | Budget | Communication from the Mayor relating to the proposed 2018 budget.
Minutes note: Amendment 2B
Add $500,000 for the Disparity Study and also provide funding for an additional 5 Police Officer recruits in the last class of 2018. Offset the increase through increased Personnel Cost Adjustments for all General City departments except for the Police and Fire departments.
Ald. Bohl, Rainey, Coggs, Lewis, Johnson, Bauman, Hamilton, and Zielinski added as cosponsors.
Ald. Lewis moved to call into question. | AMENDED | Pass | 12:3 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 3A
Create Neighborhood Investment Beautification Program in DOA
Ald. Witkowski, Murphy, and Bohl noted their objections.
Ald. Rainey added as a cosponsor. | AMENDED | Pass | 11:4 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 6
Transfer RACM positions to DCD | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 17A
Add one Bilingual Investigator/Auditor to the Fire & Police Commission | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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Minutes note: Amendment 23A
$50,000 for MHD STI treatment and intervention; offset with fuel cut in DPW
| AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 24A
Add one Disease Intervention Specialist in MHD | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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Minutes note: Amendment 26
$20,000 in MHD for a Eviction Database; offset with General Office expense cut in MPD | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 48
Footnote for Council approval to fill Small Cell Antenna installation positions in DPW
| AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 50
Restore two Custodial Workers in DPW | AMENDED | Pass | 14:1 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 53A
$30,000 Youth Snow Shoveling initiative; offset with MADACC payment cut | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 54A
Footnote for DNS to work with MPD and other departments to develop anti-dumping strategies | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 57
$20,000 for Midnight Basketball League | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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Minutes note: Amendment 60A
Footnote for DCD to work with DPW and other departments for space needs study for FPC | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 61A
Add $150,000 to the Housing Infrastructure Preservation Fund | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 64
Add $350,000 for the Strong Homes Loan program | AMENDED | Pass | 14:1 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 66
Footnote for Assessor & DCD to develop plan to increase PILOTs from tax-exempt entities | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 67
Footnote for DCD to develop an Anti-Displacement Plan for areas surrounding downtown | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 68
Footnote for DPW to report on how to implement a targeted Pay As You Throw pilot program | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 69
Footnote for DPW to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of creating a City Deconstruction Crew | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendments from the 24-hour packet were considered.
Amendment 71
CITY ATTORNEY, POLICE - Increase funding for sworn Police Officers by eliminating position authority, funding and FTE for three Assistant City Attorney positions and reducing the City Attorney Professional Services account by $76,000. The impact of the amendment is an average of 7 additional Police Officers.
Ald. Witkowski moved to go into Committee of the Whole and withdrew the motion subsequently. | AMENDED | Fail | 6:9 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 11
ELECTION, DNS, DPW - Add $80,862 to the Election Commission to increase early voting sites. Fund the cost through the savings assumed in CCFN 170188 for deconstruction. | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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Minutes note: Amendment 70
FIRE & POLICE COMMISSION, PARKING - Create a $225,000 special fund in the FPC to implement recommendations from the DOJ Collaborative Reform report by increasing the Parking Fund transfer to the General Fund. | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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Minutes note: Amendment 20
FIRE - Add funding to restore one Fire heavy apparatus. Intent is to restore Engine 28 located at 424 North 30th Street.
Ald. Bauman moved substitution of the Amendment 20 with Amendment 20B. (Prevailed 15-0) | SUBSTITUTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 20B
Add funding in a new Special Purpose Account to restore one Fire heavy apparatus. Intent of amendment is to restore Engine 28 at the Fire Station located at 424 North 30th Street to service. Add a footnote providing that any difference between the appropriation for and the actual cost of operating Fire Station 28 will be made up by contributions from the Near West Side Partners and other non-City donors. The Council cannot direct funding to particular stations. The location of the restored apparatus would be determined by the Fire Chief.
Ald. Bohl noted his objection.
Ald. Bauman moved substitution of Amendment 20B with Amendment 20C. (Prevailed 15-0) | SUBSTITUTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 20C
Add funding in a new Special Purpose Account to restore one Fire heavy apparatus. Intent of amendment is to restore Engine 28 at the Fire Station located at 424 North 30th Street to service. Add a footnote providing that any difference between the appropriation for and the actual cost of operating Fire Station 28 will be made up by contributions from the Near West Side Partners and other non-City donors. The Council cannot direct funding to particular stations. The location of the restored apparatus would be determined by the Fire Chief. | AMENDED | Fail | 6:9 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 27
MAYOR, POLICE - Eliminate four positions in the Mayor's Office and increase Police Officer funding. | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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Minutes note: Amendment 38
POLICE, DPW, PARKING, ERS - Fund a class of 10 Community Service Officers by eliminating funding for the streetcar and increasing the Parking Fund transfer to the General Fund. | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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Minutes note: Amendment 40
POLICE, DPW, PARKING -Increase funding for Police Officer positions by increasing the Parking Fund transfer to the General Fund and eliminating funding for the Streetcar System Manager and Streetcar Safety Manager in DPW | AMENDED | Fail | 5:10 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 41A
POLICE - Eliminate funding for one Assistant Chief of Police and one Media Producer and use funds to increase police average sworn strength. The impact of the amendment is an average of 5 additional Police Officers. | AMENDED | Pass | 10:5 |
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Minutes note: Amendment 44
POLICE, DCD - Increase funding for Police Officers by eliminating the DCD Deputy Commissioner | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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Minutes note: Amendment 46
POLICE, DPW, ERS, PARKING - Increase funding for Police Officers by eliminating streetcar funding in DPW and increasing the Parking Fund transfer to the General Fund | AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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| 0 | | Budget | Communication from the Mayor relating to the proposed 2018 budget.
Minutes note: Loose amendments were considered.
Ald. Stamper offered Amendment 32 for consideration. (Failed 7-8) Noes - Johnson, Kovac, Bohl, Donovan, Murphy, Witkowski, Stamper, Hamilton
Ald. Stamper moved reconsideration to offer Amendment 32. Ald. Stamper subsequently withdrew his motion for reconsideration and Amendment 32.
Amendment 32
Increase the Parking Fund Transfer to the General Fund by eliminating position authority, funding and FTE for the Streetcar System Manager and Streetcar Safety Manager in the Department of Public Works. Use the increased Transfer to the General Fund to increase funding in the DNS Community Sanitation Fund in order to fund additional neighborhood cleanups. Amendment will require revenue recognition by the Cmptroller to reduce the tax levy effect to zero. If revenue is not recognized, the levy effect of this amendment will be as stated
| AMENDED (WITHDRAWN) | | |
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| 0 | | Budget | Communication from the Mayor relating to the proposed 2018 budget.
Minutes note: This file was held until later in the meeting without objection. Items 2 through 15 were considered. This item was reconsidered after item 15.
Meeting recessed at 12:35 p.m.
Meeting reconvened at 12:50 p.m.
All members present.
Ald. Stamper offered Amendment 32A for consideration. (Prevailed 15-0)
Amendment 32A
Add a footnote to the Department of Neighborhood Services directing the department to create a new Ziggy Clean-up Program and to seek private donations to fund the program.
All Council members added as cosponsors.
| AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Ald. Bauman offered Amendment 72 for consideration. (Prevailed 11-4) Noes - Kovac, Bohl, Murphy, Witkowski
Amendment 72
Reduce the salary for the Chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals by $25,000 and create a new Neighborhood Improvements Special Purpose Account funded at $25,000. | AMENDED | Pass | 10:5 |
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Minutes note: Ald. Coggs offered Amendment 73 for consideration. (Prevailed 15-0)
Amendment 73
Reduce the City tax levy by reducing the Energy account in the Fire Department by $50,000 and by reducing the Animal Pound Contract special fund in the Department of Neighborhood Services by $15,000. | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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Minutes note: Meeting recessed at 1:20 p.m.
Meeting reconvened at 2:29 p.m.
All members present.
Item was held until later in the meeting after items 16 and 17.
For the 2018 adopted budget the total budget is $1,533,771,915, property tax levy supported budget is $1,176,732,196, tax levy is $273,502,917, and tax rate is 10.77. | ADOPTED | Pass | 11:4 |
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| 0 | 2. | Resolution | Resolution relating to the adoption of the proposed 2018 budget for the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee.
Minutes note: Amendment 6 (Transfer RACM positions to DCD) adopted in CCFN 170001 is reflected in the RACM budget within this file. | ADOPTED | Pass | 13:2 |
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| 1 | 3. | Ordinance | A substitute ordinance to make uniform the rates of pay of offices and positions in the City service and in the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee (RACM) | PASSED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 1 | 4. | Ordinance | A substitute ordinance determining the offices and positions in the various departments, bureaus, boards and commissions in the City Service and the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee (RACM) under control of the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee. | PASSED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | 5. | Resolution | Resolution authorizing a one year extension to the term of Tax Incremental District No. 15 (27th and North) and using the resulting tax incremental revenue to benefit affordable housing and improve housing stock in the City of Milwaukee with the 2017 levy. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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170907
| 0 | 6. | Resolution | Resolution authorizing a payment from the 2017 Parking Fund to the 2018 Debt Service Fund to pay principal and interest for various parking projects. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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170908
| 0 | 7. | Resolution | Resolution effectuating provisions of the 2018 adopted city budget relating to the use of $5,000,000 in the Employer’s Reserve Fund within the Employe’s Retirement Fund to offset employer paid contributions by the city to the Employes’ Retirement System. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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170909
| 0 | 8. | Resolution | Resolution establishing the 2018 Local Sewerage Charge. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | 9. | Resolution | Resolution establishing the 2018 Snow and Ice Removal Cost Recovery Charge. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | 10. | Resolution | Resolution establishing the 2018 Solid Waste Charge. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | 11. | Resolution | Resolution establishing the 2018 Equivalent Residential Unit and 2018 Equivalent Residential Unit Rate used in calculation of the Storm Water Management Charge. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | 12. | Resolution | Resolution approving the 2018 monthly and quarterly solid waste collection charges for multi-unit dwellings with 5 or more units. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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170349
| 0 | 13. | Communication | Communication from the Milwaukee Public Schools relating to the tax levy for the City of Milwaukee. | PLACED ON FILE | Pass | 15:0 |
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170871
| 0 | 14. | Communication | Communication from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue relating to the Revised Estimated 2017 and the 2018 Shared Revenue and Expenditure Restraint. | PLACED ON FILE | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | 15. | Communication | Communication from the Wisconsin Division of Transportation Investment Management relating to the 2018 General Transportation Aids and Connecting Highway Aids Estimates. | PLACED ON FILE | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | 16. | Resolution | Resolution relative to establishing the rate of taxation for 2018 budget purposes as computed by the Commissioner of Assessments of the City of Milwaukee. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 0 | 17. | Resolution | Substitute resolution authorizing a further Tax Stabilization Fund withdrawal for 2018.
Minutes note: Ald. Coggs moved to amend by inserting the amount "$7,803,745". (Prevailed 15-0) | AMENDED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| 1 | | Resolution | Substitute resolution authorizing a further Tax Stabilization Fund withdrawal for 2018. | ADOPTED | Pass | 15:0 |
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| | | | There being no further business to come before the Common Council, the meeing was adjourned at 2:41 p.m.
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