Koval and Bus Rapid Transit resolutions will be withdrawn. Plastic straw ordinance, approving City Engineer and Director of Planning, Community and Economic Development, Performance Excellence presentation and more.
Here’s the agenda, here’s what they are expecting to do with it – including passing everything on the agenda with their recommendations except the following:
NOTE – KOVAL RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN
1. Legislative File No. 59349 – Expressing sincere appreciation to Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval for his years of dedicated service and congratulate him on his retirement. (Honoring Resolution – Ald. Barbara Harrington-McKinney, Council Vice-President – Recommendation: PLACE ON FILE)
Agenda Items #3 – #24 are PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS
CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
28. Legislative File No. 58946 – Submitting the appointment of Matthew R. Wachter for confirmation of a five-year term as the Director of Planning and Community and Economic Development. (Business by the Mayor)
29. Legislative File No. 59154 – Submitting the appointment of Robert F. Phillips for confirmation of a five-year term as the City Engineer. (Business by the Mayor)
The following items are EXTRA-MAJORITY ITEMS
Extra Majority vote items will be recorded as unanimous votes unless a roll call or exclusion is requested:
80. Legislative File No. 59139 – Amending the 2020 Engineering Major Streets Capital Budget to transfer$510,000 of existing GO borrowing authority between major program W. Washington Avenue project, Wilson Street project and Monroe Street project to the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard project and transfer $100,000 of special assessment revenue authority from Reconstruction Streets major to the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard project. (4th and 13th AD) (Report of Finance Committee – 15 votes required)
83. Legislative File No. 59194 – Amending the 2020 Stormwater Utility Operating Budget to fund additional watershed studies for the Willow Creek Watershed and the Yahara River/Isthmus Watershed. (Report of Finance Committee – 15 votes required)
Agenda Items part of the CONSENT AGENDA WITH ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS as noted:
114. Legislative File No. 59356 – Adopting the recommendations from the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Downtown Routing and West Side Routing reports and incorporating the recommendations into the BRT east-west corridor Locally-Preferred Alternative (LPA), and recommending that LPA enter into project development and the next phases of planning, preliminary engineering, design and environmental evaluation. (New Business for Referral – Mayor Rhodes-Conway – Requestd resolution be WITHDRAWN)
Items requested for EXCLUSION:
30. Legislative File No. 59243 – Update: Performance Excellence – Q1 – Karalyn (Kara) Kratowicz, Performance Excellence Specialist (Business by the Council President)
121. Legislative File No. 56836 – 3rd SUBSTITUTE Creating Section 23.62 and amending Section 1.08(3)(a) of the Madison General Ordinances to regulate the distribution of plastic straws and plastic stir sticks in the City of Madison and establish a bail deposit for violation thereof. (Report of Disability Rights Commission – Ald. Keith Furman, District 19)
Items Introduced from the Floor for Referral
Any business to be referred may be introduced from the floor, and if no fiscal note is prepared, will be referred to the Finance Director for a fiscal note. Introduction of any matters by title only or without a fiscal note shall require a two-thirds (o/a) majority vote. Any matter introduced from the floor shall be either (i) referred to the next Common Council meeting for action or (ii) automatically referred to the next Common Council and be placed on the agenda as if for introduction, solely for the purpose of additional referrals. (MGO 2.05(1)(b))
Legislative File No. 59123 – BY TITLE ONLY – Authorizing the City’s execution of an Underground Electric Easement to Madison Gas and Electric for electric service to the Madison Metro Transit Administrative building located at 1101 E. Washington Avenue. (Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6)
- Recommended Action: Refer to Finance Committee (lead), Board of Public Works (lead), Plan Commission, Transportation Commission
Legislative File No. 59333 -Authorizing an allocation of up to $1,045,000 in federal HOME Investment Partnerships Program funds to construct 11 rental housing units leased to qualified low- to moderate-income renters by Common Wealth Development. (Ald. Zachary Henak, District 10)
- Recommended Action: Refer to Finance Committee (2/10/20), Community Development Block Grant Committee (2/6/20)
Legislative File No. 59334 – Awarding up to $1,800,000 from the Affordable Housing Fund to support a rental housing development project, proposed by Rule Enterprises LLC and Movin’ Out, Inc., selected through a City Request for Proposals (RFP) process, that will construct approximately 150 units of rental housing at 1402 S. Park Street in Madison, with 94 units affordable to households with incomes at or below 50% of the county median income, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a loan agreement with the developer. (Ald. Zachary Henak, District 10)
- Recommended Action: Refer to Finance Committee (2/10/20), Community Development Block Grant Committee (2/6/20)
Legislative File No. 59248 – Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute an amendment to the contract with AVA Civic Enterprises, Inc. as a sole source for Project Director Services for the private development phase of the Judge Doyle Project (Blocks 88 and 105) through December 31, 2020. (Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4)
- Recommended Action: Finance Committee
