File #: R-2015-0160    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 8/4/2015 In control: Common Council
On agenda: 8/4/2015 Final action: 8/4/2015
Title: Resolution authorizing and directing the Director of Public Works/City Engineer to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the construction of a new Local Street Connection between 60th Street and 70th Street to facilitate local traffic accessing Interstate Highway 94.
Sponsors: Public Works Committee
Attachments: 1. WashingtonStreetMOU, 2. MOU signed, 3. R-2015-0160 signed
Title
Resolution authorizing and directing the Director of Public Works/City Engineer to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the construction of a new Local Street Connection between 60th Street and 70th Street to facilitate local traffic accessing Interstate Highway 94.

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WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is tentatively planning to reconstruct the I-94 freeway from 70th Street to 25th Street in the year 2019; and

WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is contemplating the construction of a preferred alternative which does not include the replacement of access ramps to Hawley Road/ 60th Street and which may have a dramatic effect on the land use and development patterns in the City of West Allis; and

WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has proposed to design and construct a new Local Street Connection between 60th Street and 70th Street to facilitate local traffic accessing Interstate Highway 94; and

WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation will provide the design and construction of the new local street connection including the new signalized intersections, the purchasing of all needed right of way, and the relocating of the existing State Service facility; and

WHEREAS, the City of West Allis shall accept jurisdiction of the new Local Street Connection once it is completed, including the right of way.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of West Allis that the Director of Public Works/City Engineer be and is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for the new Local Street Connection project, a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding being attached hereto and by reference made a part hereof.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Public Works/City Engineer shall forward a certified copy of this Resolution, to...

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