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Authorizing a Water Service Agreement with the Town of Blooming Grove to allow properties within Protected Areas identified under the Town of Blooming Grove and City of Madison Cooperative Plan which are served by City sewer to connect to available City water service.
Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes a Water Service Agreement with the Town of Blooming Grove to allow certain properties to connect to available City Water service. To the extent authorized by applicable laws, Blooming Grove shall levy as a tax upon the parcels for which Madison Water Utility Service is provided. Upon the transition, each parcel will be treated as a customer of the Madison Water Utility. No appropriation is required.
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WHEREAS, in 2006, the City of Madison and the Town of Blooming Grove entered into a Cooperative Plan (the “Cooperative Plan”) related to boundary lines and other municipal issues between themselves. Under the Cooperative Plan, Blooming Grove will cease to exist and all of its operations will be taken over by Madison on November 1, 2027 (“Final Attachment”); and,
WHEREAS, Blooming Grove and Madison have agreed to cooperate for more efficient delivery of municipal services within the Cooperative Plan Area (as that term is defined in the Cooperative Plan), and have pursued further opportunities for cooperative actions before Final Attachment; and,
WHEREAS, the Cooperative Plan created several “Protected Areas” (as that term is defined in the Cooperative Plan) of lands in Blooming Grove which, although nearly surrounded by Madison at the time of Cooperative Plan negotiations, were protected from early attachment to Madison will remain in Blooming Grove until Final Attachment; and,
WHEREAS, Madison currently provides sanitary sewer services to some Blooming Grove parcels in Protected Areas, having taken over the Blooming Grove Sanitary District #10 in 2016, the Regas Road Sanitary District in 2016, and the Waunona Sanitary District No. 2 in 2017; and,
WHEREAS, Madison has been approached by property owners about providing municipal water service to certain properties in Protected Areas before Final Attachment, which water service connections are in the long-term interests of Madison, the property owners, and Blooming Grove; and,
WHEREAS, Section 13.16 of the Madison General Ordinances allows Madison to provide water service to properties outside of Madison’s corporate limits identified by an intergovernmental agreement, subject to certain conditions; and,
WHEREAS, Madison and Blooming Grove are agreeable to allowing parcels located in the Protected Areas (the “Protected Area Parcels”) to connect to Madison’s municipal water system, subject to certain terms and conditions.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and the City Clerk are authorized to enter into a Water Service Agreement (Protected Areas) with the Town of Blooming Grove, on terms consistent with the agreement attached hereto, which agreement will allow the Madison Water Utility to provide water service to Protected Areas Parcels served by the Madison sewer utility prior to Final Attachment.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council finds that the requirements of Madison General Ordinances Section 13.16 regarding out of jurisdiction water service have been met.