Milwaukee Common Council adopts multiple committee reports; approves TID amendment

The Milwaukee Common Council on Oct. 14 adopted recommendations from several standing committees and approved an immediate-adoption resolution amending the project plan and boundary for Tax Incremental District (TID) No. 84.

The council voted to adopt committee reports from the License Committee (file 250939), the Public Works Committee (multiple items including ordinances, resolutions and project agreements), the Finance and Personnel Committee (including file 250955 and related substitute ordinance matters), the Judiciary and Legislation Committee, the Public Safety and Health Committee, the Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee, and the Community and Economic Development Committee. Each committee report was adopted by roll call vote, with the clerk announcing 15 ayes for the committee-adoption votes recorded in the meeting.

Item 75 (file 251039), described on the floor as a resolution approving amendment number 2 to the project plan and boundary for Tax Incremental District Number 84 and authorizing additional expenditures and an amendment to the development agreement in the Fourth Aldermanic District, was taken up as a matter for immediate adoption. Alderman Stamper moved adoption; the clerk called the roll and recorded 15 ayes and zero nays. The motion carried and the council approved the TID amendment and associated development agreement amendment.

Several committee reports included specific items the council noted on the record. Examples listed in committee reports (as read into the record) included: a recommendation by the License Committee to adopt the committee’s recommendations relating to a food peddler license (file 250939); Public Works Committee recommendations that spanned resolutions on deferred special assessments, alley vacates, a fifth amendment to a lease with T‑Mobile Central LLC for a water tower site, state municipal agreements for highway projects (with estimated costs and city/grantor shares cited on the record), green infrastructure grant change orders, and multiple public improvement projects and appropriations; Finance Committee substitutes and resolutions relating to city accounting practices and grant acceptance; the Judiciary Committee’s recommendation for mandatory cultural competence training for city officials (file 29 as read into the record); and zoning and development items including a zoning change to downtown mixed‑use and historic district designation requests.

No roll‑call vote on any committee adoption or the immediate adoption item recorded fewer than 15 ayes in the meeting transcript. Where the committee report text read multiple ordinances or resolutions into the record, the council adopted the committee report as a whole; specific ordinance or resolution numbers were read into the record as parts of those committee reports.

Votes at a glance - License Committee recommendations (file 250939): adopted (roll call recorded 15 ayes). The file as read included a recommendation to approve with a 10‑day suspension a food peddler license for partners at 4101 W. Greenfield Ave. (location given in the committee report). Motion to adopt committee recommendations: not specified on the record; clerk called the roll; tally 15 yes, 0 no. - Public Works Committee report (multiple files called, including ordinances and resolutions noted in the committee listing): adopted (roll call recorded 15 ayes). Mover on the floor for the remainder of the report: Alderman Coggs. - Finance and Personnel Committee report (including substitute ordinance on accounting practices, file 250955): adopted (roll call recorded 15 ayes). Committee presenter: Alderperson Marina Dimitrijevich. - Judiciary and Legislation Committee report (including item 29 recommending mandatory cultural competence training): adopted (roll call recorded 15 ayes). Mover on the floor: Alderman Jackson moved adoption of the committee recommendations. - Public Safety and Health Committee report (multiple grant acceptances and program funding items): adopted (roll call recorded 15 ayes). The committee’s recommendations included grant acceptance resolutions from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and others. - Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee report (zoning change and historic designation items listed): adopted (roll call recorded 15 ayes). - Community and Economic Development Committee report (innovation district designation, community development block grant allocations and multiple appointments): adopted (roll call recorded 15 ayes). - Immediate adoption: Item 75, file 251039, resolution approving amendment No. 2 to the project plan and boundary for TID No. 84 and authorizing additional expenditures and an amendment to the development agreement (Fourth Aldermanic District): adopted (roll call recorded 15 ayes). Mover: Alderman Stamper.

The council’s action minutes show committee chairs and presenters summarizing the items during committee reports; in most cases the council adopted the committee recommendation as read rather than taking separate roll‑call votes on each individual ordinance or resolution within those reports. When items were identified for separate action they were read into the record during the respective committee report.