2002-299RESOLUTION NO. 2002- 299
A Resolution authorizing the City Manager to acquire by purchase real property located at 2315 Beloit
Avenue for the Janesviile Transportation Improvements Project.
WHEREAS, the Janesville City Council has previously approved the right-of-way plat for the Janesville
Transportation Improvements Project and has authorized the City Manager to file a Relocation Order with the
Register of Deeds for Rock County, Wisconsin for Transportation purposes in accord with this project; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City of Janesville to acquire various land and land interests for the Janesville
Transportation Improvements Project, City of Janesville, Rock County, Project I.D. 5990-03-52, as approved by the
Wisconsin Department of Transportation; and
WHEREAS, Merdon Corporation owns the real property located at 2315 Beloit Avenue, Janesville, WI, which is
on the selected route for this transportation project as previously approved by the Janesville City Council in
Resolution NO 2001-171 approved and adopted on the 25t~ day of June, 2001; and
WHEREAS, The City Administration has negotiated an offer to purchase .06 acres of land and rights of vehicular
access, as shown in attached Exhibit A, contingent upon Common Council approval as the means to acquire the
Merdon Corporation property in the amount of Four Thousand Three Hundred and no/Dollars ($4,300.00); and
WHEREAS, the acquisition, plan and use(s) were groperly reviewed and approved by the Janesville Plan
Commission after public hearing thereon on the 15 day of October, 2001, but without review, comment or
recommendation concerning the f'mancial aspects of this transaction; and
WHEREAS, acquiring this property for such public transportation and related purposes is authorized by Section
62.22 and other related provisions of the Wisconsin Statutes, and it is in the best interest of the City and of benefit to
the Community.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Janesville that they hereby
authorize and direct the City Manager and/or his designees to purchase and acquire said property from the owner,
Merdon Corporation, in accord with the plan, offer to purchase and public purposes; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager and his designee(s) may, from time to time, negotiate, draft,
amend, execute and enter into such contracts, documents, and agreements and take such other actions as the City
Manager and/or his designees may deem necessary or desirable to effectuate the intent of this resolution.
ADOPTED: October 28~ 2002
APPROVED:
S~'~-E. Sheiffer, City Manager
ATTEST:
J~ Ann Wulf, Offy"Cle{kdT~:ea~ur~r -
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Atto~ey ' -
MOTION BY: Williams
SECOND BY: Steeber
COUNCILMEMBER AYE NAY PASS ABSENT
STEEBER X
MURPHY X
DAMRON X
WILLIAMS X
DEGARMO X
BRIEN X
O'LEARY X
Proposed by:
Prepared by:
City Administration
Assistant City Manager
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
Fee Title in and to the following tract of land in Rock County, State of Wisconsin,
described as follows: '
That part of Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map No. 848868a, recorded in Volume 5,
Pages 348-349, as Document No. 848868a, being part of the Southwest 1/4 of the
Southwest 1/4 of Section 7, in Town 2 North, Range 13 East, in the City of Janesville,
County of Rock, State of Wisconsin, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the Northwest corner of Lot 1, Certified Survey Map Number 848868a,
Volume 5, Pages 348-349, recorded as Document Number 848868a; thence South
89o46'10'' East, 45.00 feet along the North line of said Lot 1; thence South 44053'35''
West, 56.23 feet; thence South 00o26'41" East, 280.33 feet to the South line of said Lot
1; thence North 89°46'21'' West, 5.00 feet along said South line of Lot 1 to the West line
of said Lot 1; thence North 00o26'41" West, 320.33 along the West line of said Lot 1 to
the point of beginning.
This parcel contains 0.06 acres, more or less.
Also, all existing, future, or potential common law or statutory easements or rights
of vehicular access between the right-of-way of the highways, currently designated as
Beloit Avenue and Burbank Avenue, and all of the abutting remaining real property of the
owner, whether acquired by separate conveyance or otherwise, where the remaining real
property of the owner abuts Beloit Avenue and where the remaining real property of the
owner abuts that portion of Burbank Avenue lying in the Westerly 85.00 feet of the
Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of said Section 7.
Project I.D. 5990-03-52
11/09/01
Parcel 8