File #: R-2020-0280    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 5/19/2020 In control: Public Works Committee
On agenda: 5/19/2020 Final action: 5/19/2020
Title: Resolution authorizing and directing the City Engineer to amend the Maintenance Agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to include furnishing, installing and maintaining an historic plaque to commemorate May Eliza Wright Sewall on the existing retaining wall located on W. Greenfield Ave. (STH 59) between the I-894 NB off ramp and S. 98 St.
Sponsors: Public Works Committee
Attachments: 1. Maintenance Agreement Amendment, 2. 14 11 14 West Allis Maint Agreement_141114, 3. Exhibits for the May Eliza Wright Sewall Historical Marker, 4. Retaining wall - Historic plaque, 5. Signed R-2020-0280 May Eliza Wright Sewall, 6. Maintenance Agreement Amendment signed6-05-20 R-2020-0280

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Resolution authorizing and directing the City Engineer to amend the Maintenance Agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to include furnishing, installing and maintaining an historic plaque to commemorate May Eliza Wright Sewall on the existing retaining wall located on W. Greenfield Ave.  (STH 59) between the I-894 NB off ramp and S. 98 St.

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WHEREAS, The West Allis Historical Society has requested that the City install a plaque on the retaining wall in honor of May Eliza Wright Sewall, a West Allis woman who worked with Susan B. Anthony to obtain a women’s right to vote 100 years ago.   May Eliza Wright Sewall was born on a farm at the exact location of that retaining wall at the I-894 NB off ramp at Greenfield Avenue; and,

 

WHEREAS, the City of West Allis and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation entered into a maintenance agreement on November 11, 2014 as authorized by resolution of the City Common Council (R-2014-0311) for features proposed as part of the Zoo Interchange Project along W. Greenfield Avenue (STH 59) at the new berm constructed between the I-894 NB off ramp and S. 98th Street including a decorative retaining wall, City emblem, trees, shrubs, perennials, and other miscellaneous decorative features; and,

 

WHEREAS, the City of West Allis Historic Society will provide the historic marker plaque commemorating May Eliza Wright Sewall and the City of West Allis Department of Public Works will install and maintain the plaque on the existing retaining wall at City expense; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and City of West Allis have agreed to share maintenance responsibilities as outlined in the November 11, 2014 Maintenance Agreement and amended in Maintenance Agreement (Amendment #1).

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED By the Common Council of the City of West Allis that the City Engineer be and is hereby authorized and directed to enter into this Maintenance Agreement (Amendment #1) with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for this work.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Engineer forward a certified copy of this Resolution, together with the executed Maintenance Agreement (Amendment #1), to the office of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and take whatever further action is required to initiate and effect the services described herein.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Attorney be and is hereby authorized to make such non-substantive changes, modifications, additions and deletions to and from the various provisions of the Amendment, including any and all attachments, exhibits, addendums and amendments, as may be necessary and proper to correct inconsistencies, eliminate ambiguity and otherwise clarify and supplement said provisions to preserve and maintain the general intent thereof, and to prepare and deliver such other and further documents as may be reasonably necessary to complete the transactions contemplated therein.