2023-2095 RESOLUTION NO. 2023-2095
A resolution authorizing the City Administration to expend funds for the
replacement of a playground at Washington Park.
WHEREAS, the City of Janesville is known as Wisconsin's Park Place; and
WHEREAS, the park system is home to forty-four (44) playgrounds; and
WHEREAS, in the 1990s, Janesville established a plan to replace playgrounds on an
annual basis so that equipment would not become worn, rusty, and unsafe for children;
and
WHEREAS, the 2023 Capital Improvement Plan proposes $60,000 for the purchase of a
playground at Washington Park; and
WHEREAS, a current playground sale would allow for the purchase of a playground and
swing set to fulfill the replacement need at Washington Park for Fifty-Nine Thousand Four
Hundred Thirty-One Dollars and Seventy-Five cents ($59,431.75); and
WHEREAS, the Common Council hereby find that this expenditure and purchase
acquisition are in the best interest of and benefit to the City of Janesville and the
community.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Janesville,
that they hereby approve and authorize the City Administration to expend funds in the
amount of$59,431.75 for the replacement of playground equipment at Washington Park;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Common Council that this authorization commits
the Common Council to include $59,431.75 in the 2023 tax exempt obligation promissory
note issue for this purpose as permitted by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. This
declaration of official intent is consistent with the budgetary and financial circumstances
of the City. The purpose of the Resolution is to satisfy the "official intent" requirement of
the Treasury Regulation Section 1.150-2.
ADOPTED: February 27, 2023 Motion by: Consent
Second by: Consent
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APPROVED: Councilmember Aye Nay Pass Absent
Benson X
Burdick X
David J. Moor , Actin City Manager Jackson X
Marklein X
Marshick X
ATTEST: ,[�� Miller X
�Zd /�\ 2ti ffii, Williams X
Lorena Rae Stottler, City Clerk-Treasurer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Wald Klimczyk
Wald Klimcz k, City Attorney
Proposed by: Parks Division
Prepared by: Parks Division