2019-1638 RESOLUTION NO. 2019-1638
A resolution authorizing the City Manager to proceed with the conveyance of a property
located at 655 S. Fremont Street to Everyone Cooperating to Help Others
WHEREAS, the City of Janesville owns the following described parcel:
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WHEREAS, the City of Janesville acquired the property located 655 S. Fremont Street in
October 2017 through the Rock County Tax Foreclosure Program for the purpose of
neighborhood improvement; and
WHEREAS, Everyone Cooperating to Help Others (ECHO) has expressed a willingness to
rehabilitate the single-family residential property at 655 S. Fremont Street to be used as a
transitional living, single-family home; and
WHEREAS, the rehabilitation is consistent with the City's Look West and Old Fourth Ward
Neighborhood Revitalization Plans and Comprehensive Plan, which call for the revitalization of
neighborhoods that have experienced decline and for the City to acquire vacant, dilapidated,
and tax-delinquent properties for rehabilitation and resale to increase owner-occupancy and
promote continued investment in existing neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City to convey 655 S. Fremont Street to ECHO for
rehabilitation; and
WHEREAS, the rehabilitated home will be used as a transitional living, single-family home.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL of the City of Janesville
that it hereby authorizes and directs the City Manager and the City Clerk to execute on behalf of
the City of Janesville, the conveyance of such property; and to negotiate and execute such
documents, papers and forms as may from time to time be necessary and/or desirable to
effectuate such transaction and the intent of this resolution as the City Manager may decide;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager is hereby authorized to take whatever
other actions or to make whatever other minor changes that may be necessary to effectuate this
land transaction.
ADOPTED: April 8, 2019 Motion by: Consent
Second by: Consent
APPROVED: Councilmember Aye Nay Pass Absent
* a Conley X
Farrell X
Mark A. F eitag, City Manager Gruber X
Jorgensen X
ATT Marklein X
' Williams X
Wolfe X
avid T. Godek, City Clerk-Treasurer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Wald Klimczyk, City Attorney
Proposed by: Neighborhood & Community Services
Department
Prepared by: Housing Services Director