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Resolution authorizing the Director of Development to enter into a professional consulting services contract for the preparation of plans and specifications for various nuisance and abandoned dwellings, at an estimated total amount of $32,000.
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WHEREAS, the Building Inspections and Neighborhood Services Director has obtained the proper court-ordered raze/repair orders for various properties around the City (the "Properties"), to eliminate blighting and unsafe environments that the Properties present; and,
WHEREAS, certain Properties' blighting conditions qualify all demolition-related expenses to be funded by the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Slum & Blight Removal activity as the expenses meet the CDBG Program's national objective of aiding in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight; and,
WHEREAS, the Common Council per Resolution No. R-2012-0124 has entered into master contracts with various professional consulting services who have the ability to prepare plans and specifications for demolition projects; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to enter into a professional consulting services contract for the preparation of plans and specifications in order to bid out the demolition of the various Properties; and,
WHEREAS, the funding of plans and specifications shall come from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Blight & Blight Removal activity, and City Contingency Reserve funds; and,
WHEREAS, the amount in Contingency Reserve as of January 1, 2014, is $3.2 million; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide Contingency Reserve funding for plans and specifications expenses to the Building Inspections Maintenance Account 100-2406-524.32-04.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of West Allis as follows:
1. That the Director of Development, or his designee, is hereby authorized to enter into, execute, and sign all necessary documents for a professional consulting services contract for the preparation of plans and specifications to various Properties identified by the Building Inspections and Neighborhood Services Department as Nuisance and Abandoned Dwellings.
3. That the sum of approximately $16,000 be and is hereby appropriated from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Blight & Blight Removal activity, and the sum of approximately $16,000 be and is hereby appropriated from the City Contingency Reserve fund.
4. That the City Attorney be and is hereby authorized to make such substantive changes, modifications, additions and deletions to and from the various provisions of the professional consulting services contract, 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.
cc: Department of Development
Grants Accounting Specialist
DEV-R-767-7-1-14