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Council adds $600,000 direction for resident‑led budgeting in council‑led transfer fund
Summary
The Common Council amended and adopted a resolution directing the city clerk to expend council‑led transfer funds, adding two further resolves that set aside $600,000 for an MKE Community Impact Fund resident‑led budgeting program and require homelessness-prevention disbursements based on Department recommendations within 60 days.
The Milwaukee Common Council on April 2, 2025 amended and adopted council file 241394 to direct the city clerk’s expenditure of council‑led transfer funds and inserted two additional directives designating $600,000 for a resident‑led community budgeting program and requiring dispersal of funds for homelessness prevention based on Department of Administration recommendations within 60 days.
Alderman Mark Chambers spoke in support of the amended file, calling passage of the resolution “a statement to our values, our priorities, and our commitment to a stronger, more inclusive Milwaukee,” and praised organizations expected to receive funding, including neighborhood associations, legal aid, and violence‑prevention programs.
Alderman Jocasa Samaripa moved the amendment to insert two further resolves stating that (1) the process for expenditure of the $600,000 designated for the City of Milwaukee MKE Community Impact Fund resident‑led community budgeting program shall be established by separate resolution, and (2) the city clerk shall disperse the funds for support for existing programs to prevent homelessness based on recommendations from the Department of Administration, Community Development, Block Grant Administration, to be provided within 60 days of adoption. The amendment was distributed to members and adopted on the floor with no objection.
Clerks subsequently read the sponsor list for the file; members recorded as sponsors included Alderman Chambers, Alderman Coggs, Alderman Zamarripa, Marina Dimitrijevich, Alderman Regelis, President Jose Perez, Alderwoman Moore, and Alderman Stamper, with Alderman Taylor added as a cosponsor on the floor. The finance and personnel committee report that included the file was adopted by the council by roll call vote, recorded as 13 ayes and 1 excused.
The action directs the city clerk to establish expenditure procedures for the $600,000 designated to the resident‑led budgeting program by separate resolution and requires that funds intended for homelessness prevention be dispersed based on Department of Administration recommendations within 60 days of the resolution’s adoption. The council did not specify program-level allocations in the adopted language; the amendment requires a separate resolution to establish the resident‑led budgeting process.
