PENDING & ADOPTED LEGISLATION

District 2 Related

08666 101-109 North Franklin Street - PUD (GDP) for the relocation of the Conklin House. 2nd Ald. Dist.

06572 Rezoning 119, 123 & 125 North Butler Street and 120 & 124 North Hancock Street, Proposed Use: Remove 1 House, Demolish 2 Houses and 3 Garages, and Build 4-Story Apartment Building. (Cliff Fisher Project)

08171 Rezoning 301 N. Hamilton Street, Purpose: Demolish 6 buidings for future construction of 70-unit apartment building. (Pinkus McBride Project)

05532 Alternate Resolution Accepting the Final Report of the East Washington Capitol Gateway Plan Advisory Committee and adopting the East Washington Capitol Gateway Corridor Plan and Urban Design Guidelines as a supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, and other City plans to be used to guide future land use and development within the East Washington Capitol Gateway Corridor.

06761 Adopting the Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood Plan as a supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan.  

ADOPTED LEGISLATION

Allied Drive
05427 SECOND SUBSTITUTE - Adopting an Affordable Housing Plan for the Allied Drive area.

05379 AMENDED SUBSTITUTE - Directing the Director of Planning and Development to provide written authorization to Meyer Realty and Management, Inc. to enter into new leases with individuals and families who are displaced from their housing due to nuisance abatement actions of the City of Madison if they are not part of the reason for the City nuisance abatement action and to renew leases of current tenants who are in good standing.

Childcare

05868 Amending the 2007 Operating Budget to appropriate $20,000 from Contingent Reserve and authorizing the expenditure of an additonal $20,000 in Child Care Stabilization Funds through the City Child Care Assistance Program.

05462 To adjust the Child Care Assistance income guidelines to keep them in line with those adopted by the State and to reflect inflationary increases.

03313 SUBSTITUTE - Urging the Department of Workforce Development Child Care Section to take Dane County out of the multi-county urban region and to treat it as a separate entity with its own rate structure that actually reflects the reality of childcare expenses in this area.

Clean Elections and Open Government

05772 AMENDED SECOND SUBSTITUTE - Supporting the investigation of full public financing of municipal elections for alderperson, mayor, and municipal judge and establishing a "Blue Ribbon Committee on Clean Elections" to study and issue recommendations related to the specifics of a clean elections ordinance.

03151 AMENDED - Creating a non-partisan Madison Election Advisory Committee.

02368 Amending Sec. 3.27(1) of the Madison General Ordinances to eliminate U.S. citizenship requirement for volunteer members of boards, commissions and committees.

02324 Creating Subdivision 3.27(4)(h) of the Madison General Ordinances to establish a policy that boards, committees and commissions shall not schedule meetings on the same nights that the Board of Estimates is considering the annual City budgets.

01742 Creating a TID 36 Stakeholders Advisory Committee.

District 2 Related
04950 SUBSTITUTE - Establishing a James Madison Park Surplus Property Planning Committee for the following properties: 640 and 646 E. Gorham, the Collins House, and the land under Lincoln School under the guidelines of the Procedures for the Disposal of the Surplus City Real Property, and to appoint the Committee Members.
03110 Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a development agreement to fund a $2,200,000 Tax Incremental Financing to the Gorman & Co, Inc. and its assigns plus a $2,000,000 additional financing instrument to assist in the development of the first phase of a mixed-use redevelopment project located in the 800 Block of East Washington Avenue in TID #36 (Capital Gateway).

01722 Authorizing expenditure of $50,000 from the Planning and Development Preliminary Planning capital account in support of the continuing Dane County BUILD (Better Urban Infill Development) program in conjunction with the East Washington Capitol Gateway Corridor land use planning and authorizing addenda to existing consultant contracts for the additional work.

01716 SUBSTITUTE - Creating Tax Incremental Finance (TIF) District #36 (Capitol Gateway Corridor) City of Madison and approving a Project Plan and Boundary for said TIF District.

Economic Development Legislation

Unlimited Bus Ride Pass for Small Businesses
05914 SUBSTITUTE - Authorizing the Transit Division to participate in an RFP process to identify a broker to advertise and manage an unlimited ride pass program for smaller employers in the Metro Transit service area for a pilot period of one year.

Local Purchasing
03234 AMENDED - A study to determine the ability and efficacy of a local preference purchasing policy for the City of Madison.

Good Development Legislation

Skinny Streets

02634 SUBSTITUTE - Repealing Section 16.23(4), amending Sections 16.23(8)(a)1. and 16.23(8)(a)8.a., creating Sections 16.23(9)(d)6.h. and 16.23(9)(e)6. of the Madison General Ordinances to provide for local streets of variable size.
Granny Flats

01358 Creating Section 16.23(7)(a)21 and amending Sections 16.23(7)(b) and 28.03(2) of the Madison General Ordinances to require identification of secondary dwelling units on subdivision plats.

Housing Related Legislation
Affordable Housing

06811 Amending Section 4.22 of the Madison General Ordinances to update language and terms in the Affordable Housing Trust Fund ordinance.

04735 SECOND SUBSTITUTE - Accepting the Inclusionary Zoning Advisory Oversight Committee recommendation regarding a consultant for the Housing Market Study, authorizing the use of certain City funds appropriating $20,000 from the Contingent Reserve to match a private donation for the study, and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into a contract for professional services from the chosen consultant.
04170 SUBSTITUTE - Directing the Director of Planning and Development to issue a Request for Proposals for a Housing Needs Study and directing the Mayor to appoint a committee to evaluate the proposals.

04169 AMENDED - Creating an Advisory Oversight Committee for Madison's Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance.

03588 AMENDED SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE - Amending Section 28.04(25) to add a sunset provision, creating new Section 28.04(26) to set out a new inclusionary housing program, and renumbering current Section 28.04(26) to (27) of the Madison General Ordinances.

00248 SECOND SUBSTITUTE - That the City of Madison establish policies and guidelines to assist in making the decision to support Section 42 low-income housing tax credit and tax exempt bond projects within the City of Madison.

Discrimination

04842 Amending Section 3.23(4)(a) of the Madison General Ordinances to prohibit discrimination in housing based on the tenant's source of income being from rental assistance under the federal Section 8 Housing Program.

Tenant/Landlord
06834 Amending Sec. 27.03(2) to define mail receptacles and creating Sec. 27.05(2)(aa) of the Madison General Ordinances to create a requirement that all owners of rental dwelling units provide and maintain mail receptacles for the rental dwelling units.
06496 Amending Sections 32.12(4) and 32.15(2) and creating Section 32.15(4) of the Madison General Ordinances to provide expanded tenant protection against landlord retaliation to include specifically refusals to renew leases and threats to undertake retaliatory behavior, as well as providing for the recovery of double damages by tenants that arise due to violations of these sections, and creating severability clauses for these Sections.

04748 SUBSTITUTE - Amending Section 32.07(7) of the Madison General Ordinances to clarify that any statement sent to a tenant to explain the withholding of any portion of a security deposit shall specify the amount of rent credit due to the tenant.

03515 SUBSTITUTE - Amending Section 32.07(5) of the Madison General Ordinances to require separate Check-In and Check-Out forms for rental properties.

Hiring Practices and Personnel Issues

06764 AMENDED - Requesting a report on recommendations for changes to the Madison General Ordinances and the Administrative Procedure Memoranda regarding hiring practices.

06423 AMENDED SUBSTITUTE - Request for study on and recommendations to improve the balance of genderwomen, racial/ethnic minorities and people with disabilitiesbalance in top City of Madison management positions and subsequent salaries.  

Living Wage

06831 Creating Sec. 4.20(3)(d) of the Madison General Ordinances to prohibit proportional calculation of wages to employees performing both City and non-City work.

Neighborhood Conservation Districts

05736 SECOND SUBSTITUTE - Creating Section 28.108 of the Madison General Ordinances to establish a "Neighborhood Conservation District" and creating Section 28.12(9)(d)21. of the Madison General Ordinances to add variance of a requirement in a Neighborhood Conservation District to the list of variances that may be requested.

Oath of Office

05348 SUBSTITUTE - Providing an addendum to a supplemental statement with the oath that is required of members of boards, committees and commissions for those who object to article XIIXIII, section 13 of the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin.

Public Input and Access

06832 Creating new Section 2.04(4), renumbering current Sections 2.04(4) - (15) to 2.04(5) - (16), respectively, and amending Section 2.29 of the Madison General Ordinances to provide an Early Public Comment period at each Common Council meeting.

06424 AMENDED SUBSTITUTE - Request for a study and recommendations to improve the balance of women, racial/ethnic minorities and people with disabilities balance in City of Madison committee, commission and board appointments.

06019 Creating an Ad Hoc Committee to Explore the Creation of an Office of Neighborhood Support.

TIF
04562 Establishment of a Tax Incremental Financing Policy Committee.

Water Utility
04191 Adopting the attached TIF Policy, as amended, per the recommendations of the Board of Estimates Sub-Committee on Tax Increment Finance.

06305 Requesting the Common Council Organizational Committee to make recommendations regarding increasing the size of the Water Utility Board and receiving regular reports regarding the Water Utility.