2023-2147 RESOLUTION NO. 2023-2147
A resolution authorizing the City Manager to proceed with the conveyance of a property located at 419 South
High Street to Everyone Cooperating to Help Others, Inc (ECHO)
WHEREAS, the City of Janesville owns the following described parcel:
ROCKPORT ADD. LOT 4 BLK.7 JC6006617
WHEREAS, The City of Janesville acquired the property located 419 S High Street October 2022, through the Rock
County Tax Foreclosure Program for the purpose of neighborhood improvement; and
WHEREAS, The Everyone Cooperating to Help Others (ECHO) has expressed a willingness to rehabilitate the single-
family residential properties at 419 South High Street to be used as a transitional living, single-family home; and
WHEREAS, The rehabilitation is consistent with the City of Janesville Look West and Old Fourth Ward Neighborhood
Revitalization Plans and the City of Janesville 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 of Janesville to convey 419 South High Street to Everyone Cooperating to
Help Others (ECHO) for rehabilitation and; 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: November 13, 2023 Motion by:
Consent
APPROVED: Second by:
Consent
Councilmember Aye Nay Pass Absent
Ke in M. Lahner, City anager Benson x
Burdick x
ATTEST: Jackson x
Marshick
Miller
Lorena Rae Stottler, City Clerk-Treasurer Neeno x
Williams x
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Wald Klimczyk, City Attorney
Proposed by: Neighborhood and Community
Services Department
Prepared by: Housing Services Director