2014-1132 RESOLUTION NO. 2014 -1132
A resolution authorizing the expenditure of $10,653 to support the purchase and installation of
signage at Traxler Park.
WHEREAS, Traxler Park is one of Janesville's most treasured and widely used public
open spaces, and the City and several user groups continue to work collaboratively to preserve
and enhance this resource for current and future generations; and
WHEREAS, Rock Aqua Jays Water Ski Show Team has been an active and successful
user group that has both benefitted from and added to the amenity of Traxler Park; and
WHEREAS, the Rock Aqua Jays Water Ski Show Team has provided citizens and
visitors to Janesville with more than fifty years of entertainment, philanthropy, and positive
economic impact; and
WHEREAS, the leadership of the Rock Aqua Jays Water Ski Show Team have solicited
and received donations for the improvement of the entrance sign to Traxler Park totaling more
than $70,000 in valuable materials, labor, and money; and
WHEREAS, upon completion and installation of the entrance sign to Traxler Park it will
become an asset owned wholly by the City of Janesville; and
WHEREAS, the leadership of the Rock Aqua Jays Water Ski Show Team has sought
City financial participation to purchase and install said signage, in the amount of $10,653; and
WHEREAS, Tax Increment Finance District No. 33 has a project plan that was adopted
in 2008, and that plan provides that public infrastructure improvements can and should be made
within 1 /2 mile of the boundary of TIF 33; and
WHEREAS, Traxler Park is within 1/2 mile of the boundary of TIF 33, and identification
signage at the gateway to Traxler Park is a public infrastructure improvement; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council authorizes and currently has sufficient balance in TIF
33 to provide $10,653 to support the purchase and installation of signage at Traxler Park; and
WHEREAS, the City may grant these funds to a non - profit, non -stock organization for
use towards the renovation and rehabilitation, such as the Rock Aqua Jays Water Ski Club, Inc.,
P.O. Box 754, Janesville, Wisconsin, pursuant to Wis. Stats. Secs. 62.11(5), 62.22(1), and other
applicable Wisconsin statutes and laws for their expenditure solely pertaining to the Traxler Park
Entry Sign project and purposes, and may use such funds after and /or with the expenditure of
privately raised monies pertaining to such work; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager shall have the authority to determine and require the
proper mechanisms, means, and timing for the appropriated expenditure(s) of the City's grant
monies for this project, and to make take actions thereto from time to time as he determines to
be in the best interests of the City, the project, and the public; and
WHEREAS, the Common Council find that such proposed construction, related activities
and purposes, and City funding are of benefit to the public and in the best interest of the City, its
residents, and public facility users; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of
Janesville that:
1. Each of the above recitals is hereby reiterated and incorporated herein by
reference as if fully set forth verbatim; and
2. The proposed renovations, rehabilitation, preservation, and City monies grant
appropriation are hereby approved and authorized; and
3. The City Manager and his designee(s), on behalf of the City of Janesville, is /are
hereby authorized and empowered to negotiate, draft, modify, review, execute, and enter into
additional agreements, understandings, and arrangements; to make modifications thereto; and to take
whatever other actions as the City Manager may determine, from time to time and at any time,
necessary and/or desirable to effectuate the intent of this Resolution, project, and/or public purposes.
ADOPTED: August 11, 2014 Motion by: Kealy
Second by: Marklein
APPROVED: Councilmember Aye Nay Pass Absent
Bobzien X
Mark A. Fr itag, City Manager Farrell X
Fitzgerald X
ATTEST: Kealy X
Liebert X
4/ 41 4I 1 II, Marklein X
J - an Ann Wulf, ' ity Clerk- reasur- Severson x
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Tim Wellnitz, Assista City Attorney
Proposed by: Economic Development Department
Prepared by: Economic Development Department