PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

City Hall City of Milwaukee 200 East Wells Street Milwaukee, WI 53202 Meeting Minutes PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ALD. ROBERT BAUMAN, CHAIR Ald. Willie Wade, Vice-Chair Ald. James Bohl, Ald. Joe Davis, Sr., and Ald. Robert Donovan Staff Assistant, Molly Kuether, 286-2775 Fax: 286-3456, Molly.Kuether@milwaukee.gov Legislative Liaison, Aaron Cadle, 286-8666, acadle@milwaukee.gov Wednesday, January 27, 2016 1:30 PM Room 301-B, City Hall Amended 1/25/16 -- Item #6 Added PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN MEETING TIME The meeting convened at 1:36 PM Present 4 - Bauman, Wade, Bohl, Donovan Excused 1 - Davis 1. 151418 Substitute 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 $4,133,900 for a total estimated cost of $5,280,000. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Mary Dziewiontkoski - Deparment of Public Works 2nd Aldermanic District W. Medford Ave. - W. Congress St. to N. 68th St. (TD04284001): Asphalt pavement resurfacing, replace curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (7-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Bohl moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) 3rd and 6th Aldermanic Districts N. Pierce St. - E. Center St. to E. Burleigh St. (ST211120159): Concrete pavement reconstruction, replace all curb and gutter, replace sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, narrow street from 38 feet to 36 feet, sodding (7-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Kovac stated he had 10 in favor and 9 opposed, he stated the project is for a wider tree border, narrower street and traffic flow issues. George Brush 3021 N Pierce St stated narrowing the street would be a disaster because of the bus traffic from Pierce School and this will not allow cars to pass in the winter. Michael Ziedler 2737 N Pierce St stated he lives across the street from Pierce School and there are school buses and parent traffic that cause a lot of congestion. There is City of Milwaukee Page 1 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 an automatic narrowing during the winter because of the snow. Nancy Morris 2970 N Pierce St stated she and her renters don’t like the narrowing of the streets. Ald. Bohl moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) 5th Aldermanic District N. 91st St. - W. Center St. to W. Locust St. (ST211150134): Asphalt pavement resurfacing, replace curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (9-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Bohl moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) 6th Aldermanic District N. Holton St. - E. Capitol Dr. to E. Hope Ave. (ST211150173): Asphalt pavement resurfacing, replace curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (7-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Wade moved approval. (Prevailed 3-0) E. Hope Ave. - N. Richards St. to N. Holton St. (ST211150174): Asphalt pavement resurfacing, replace curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (7-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Wade moved approval. (Prevailed 3-0) 7th Aldermanic District N. 53rd St. - W. Roosevelt Dr. to W. Keefe Ave. (ST211150165): Concrete pavement reconstruction, replace all curb and gutter, replace sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (6-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Wade moved approval. (Prevailed 3-0) 8th Aldermanic District S. 23rd St. - W. National Ave. to W. Pierce St. (ST211160109): Concrete pavement reconstruction, replace all curb and gutter, replace sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (6-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Donovan moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) S. 25th St. - W. National Ave. to W. Pierce St. (ST211060138): Asphalt pavement resurfacing, replace all curb and gutter, replace sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (6-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Donovan moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) 9th Aldermanic District W. Woolworth Ave. - N. Sherman Blvd. to N. 51st St. (ST211040107): Asphalt pavement resurfacing, replace curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (5-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Bohl moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) 11th Aldermanic District W. Howard Ave. - W. Loomis Rd. to S. 43rd St. (Sponsored by the City of Greenfield) (ST211150181): Asphalt pavement resurfacing, replace curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway approaches where necessary, sodding (15-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Wade moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) 14th Aldermanic District E. Stewart St. - S. Marina Dr. to S. Hilbert St. (ST21100147): Concrete pavement City of Milwaukee Page 2 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 reconstruction, replace all curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway approaches, sodding (5-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Bohl moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) 15th Aldermanic District N. 32nd St. - W. Lisbon Ave. to W. North Ave. (ST211140129): Concrete pavement reconstruction, replace all curb and gutter, sidewalk and driveway approaches, sodding (7-foot width of tree border area), and grading. Ald. Wade moved approval. (Prevailed 4-0) A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 4- Bauman, Wade, Bohl and Donovan No 0 Excused 1- Davis 2. 151417 Substitute 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 $18,000 for a total estimated cost of these projects being $457,000. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Proposed Subsitute A A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Resolution be SUBSTITUTED. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 4- Bauman, Wade, Bohl and Donovan No 0 Excused 1- Davis Mary Dziewiontkoski - Deparment of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 4- Bauman, Wade, Bohl and Donovan No 0 Excused 1- Davis 3. 151420 Substitute resolution 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 $555,000 for a total estimated cost of these projects being $6,620,000. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Proposed Substitute A City of Milwaukee Page 3 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be SUBSTITUTED. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 4- Bauman, Wade, Bohl and Donovan No 0 Excused 1- Davis Mary Dziewiontkoski - Deparment of Public Works Ald. Bohl stated there is no bridge at 6300 W Burleigh St, and the file should actually read 9900-1000 Burleigh St bridge over the Menomonee River in the 5th Aldermanic district, not 10th Aldermanic District. Ald. Bohl moved approval as amended. A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Resolution be . This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 4- Bauman, Wade, Bohl and Donovan No 0 Excused 1- Davis 4. 151421 Proposed Substitute A A motion was made by ALD. DONOVAN that this Resolution be SUBSTITUTED. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 4- Bauman, Wade, Bohl and Donovan No 0 Excused 1- Davis 151421 Substitute resolution approving construction of nonassessable public improvements at various locations and appropriating funds for these purposes with the City construction cost estimated to be $1,830,000 for a total estimated cost of these projects being $2,085,000. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Mary Dziewiontkoski - Deparment of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 4- Bauman, Wade, Bohl and Donovan No 0 Excused 1- Davis Present 3 - Bauman, Wade, Bohl City of Milwaukee Page 4 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 Excused 2 - Davis, Donovan 5. 150953 Communication relating to Time Warner Cable broadcasting and MATA Communications signals and access to viewership data. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Margaret Bailey Stewart, Government Relations Manager - Time Warner Cable Paul Leipold, Technical Communications Manager - Time Warner Cable Vel Wiley, Executive Director - MATA Community Media A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Communication be HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 6. 151375 Communication from the Department of Administration-Information and Technology Management Division and the City Attorney relating to the municipal construction, ownership and operation of facilities to provide broadband service to the public. Sponsors: Ald. Bauman Nancy Olson, Chief Information Officer - Department of Administration, Information Technology Management Division Peter Block, Assistant City Attorney - City Attorney's Office A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Communication be HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 7. 151419 Resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Works to execute Cost Sharing Agreements with Milwaukee County for the planned paving of West Mill Road (CTH S) from North 43rd Street to North Sidney Place and traffic signal improvements at the intersection of West Mill Road (CTH S) and North 43rd Street (CTH G), and authorizing costs for plan review of $10,000, which will be funded 100 percent by the City of Milwaukee. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Chad Christbaum - Department of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl City of Milwaukee Page 5 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 8. 150354 A substitute ordinance renaming a portion of East Polk Street, from Erie Street to its eastern terminus, to East Summerfest Place in the 4th Aldermanic District. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Jerrel Kruschke - Department of City Development Frank Nicotera - Milwaukee World Festival Inc Clayborn Benson - Milwaukee Black Historical Society Fred Royal - NAACP Milwaukee Chapter A motion was made by ALD. DONOVAN that this Ordinance be RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 4- Bauman, Wade, Bohl and Donovan No 0 Excused 1- Davis 9. 140373 Substitute resolution amending a special privilege to Breakwater Condominium Association Incorporated for addition of raised planters, pet waste disposal bins, and moveable planters in the public right-of-way for the premises at 1313 North Franklin Place, in the 4th Aldermanic District. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Dawn Schmidt - Department of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 10. 150853 Substitute resolution to vacate North Granville Road from West Good Hope Road north to relocated North Granville Road, in the 5th Aldermanic District. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Klye Gast - Department of City Development A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl City of Milwaukee Page 6 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 11. 150855 Substitute resolution to vacate the unimproved portion of the east-west alley in the block bounded by West Cherry Street, West Vliet Street, North 48th Street and North 49th Street, in the 10th Aldermanic District. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Klye Gast - Department of City Development A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 12. 151457 Resolution authorizing Conveyance of Rights in Land and a Quit Claim Deed to Wisconsin Department of Transportation, in the 2nd Aldermanic District. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Solomon Bekele - Department of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 13. 151365 Resolution relative to the cost participation and installation of street lighting in conjunction with the Federal State Aid paving of West Fond du Lac Avenue from North 68th Street to West Capitol Drive in the 2nd and 7th Aldermanic Districts at a total estimated cost of $793,707.23, with one hundred percent of the total cost funded by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Sponsors: Ald. Davis Chris Fornal - Department of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 City of Milwaukee Page 7 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 14. 151408 Resolution 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 and construction of five projects at various locations in various Aldermanic Districts with a total estimated cost increase for the projects of $190,000, with an estimated City share of $190,000. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Joseph Blakeman - Department of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION AND ASSIGNED to the FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE . This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 15. 151409 Resolution authorizing the City of Milwaukee to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District for the purposes of establishing the maintenance responsibilities of the two parties with respect to the upper and lower retaining walls along reconstructed Congress Avenue and the bridges located over Lincoln Creek at 37th and Congress and North Sherman Boulevard and Congress. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Craig Liberto - Department of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 16. 151410 Resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Works and Comptroller to execute a State Municipal Agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for geometric and traffic signal improvements and to fund preliminary engineering for a project on West Fond du Lac Avenue at six intersections in the 7th and 15th Aldermanic Districts with a total estimated cost of $225,000, with an estimated grantor share of $202,500, and an estimated City share of $22,500. Sponsors: THE CHAIR City of Milwaukee Page 8 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 Jospeh Blakeman - Department of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 17. 151413 Resolution directing the Commissioner of Public Works to enter into an agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the development, implementation and funding of traffic control and other safety measures necessary to mitigate traffic diversion on City streets due to construction activity on the Zoo Interchange Project in 2016 and 2017, with the total cost being $100,000 of which 100% is grantor funded. Sponsors: THE CHAIR Chris Fornal - Department of Public Works A motion was made by ALD. WADE that this Resolution be RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan The meeting recessed at 3:10 PM The meeting reconvened at 3:13 PM Present 3 - Bauman, Wade, Bohl Excused 2 - Davis, Donovan 18. 151292 A substitute ordinance relating to minimum allowable rates for meter fare taxicabs. Sponsors: Ald. Bauman Andrew VanNatta - Legislative Reference Bureau Adam Stephens, Deputy City Attorney - City Attorney's Office Harpeet Singh, 3824 S 16th St, Vice-President of the Southeastern Wisconsin Cab Driver's Association stated that $12 is not enough of an increase and would prefer $15-20. Ald. Bauman moved to amend the title from "maximum" to "minimum" (Prevailed 3-0) Ald. Bauman moved to amend the rate from $12 to $15 (Prevailed 2-1, Ald. Bohl voting no) A motion was made by ALD. BAUMAN that this Ordinance be RECOMMENDED City of Milwaukee Page 9 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 FOR PASSAGE. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 2- Bauman and Wade No 1- Bohl Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 19. 150356 An ordinance relating to body colors for affiliated taxicabs. Sponsors: Ald. Bauman Adam Stephens, Deputy City Attorney, City Attorney's Office A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Ordinance be RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan 2:00 PM 20. 151144 Motion relating to the recommendations of the Public Works Committee relative to licenses. Sponsors: THE CHAIR JETT, Dana M, Driver's License, Public Passenger Vehicle Renewal Application. (Expired 10/31/2015) Ald. Bohl moved to Hold to the Call of the Chair. (Prevailed 3-0) A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Motion be AMENDED. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan Agenda Only – Warning Letter ANDERSON, Clark A, Agent for "ACM Fire Protection Inc", Alarm Business Renewal Application as agent for "ACM Alarm and Detection" at 2206 Miller Park WA. Ald. Bohl moved approval. (Prevailed 3-0) A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Motion be AMENDED. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan City of Milwaukee Page 10 PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE Meeting Minutes January 27, 2016 A motion was made by ALD. BOHL that this Motion be RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL. This motion PREVAILED by the following vote: Aye 3- Bauman, Wade and Bohl No 0 Excused 2- Davis and Donovan The meeting adjourned at 3:46 PM Molly Kuether Staff Assistant City of Milwaukee Page 11