Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes the Parks Division to apply for and accept if awarded, grant funding of up to $25,000 from The FairWays Foundation. The grant will fund a portion of the costs of ecological restoration work as part of the Yahara Hills Golf Course Redesign Project. If awarded, the Parks Division's 2025 Adopted Capital Budget Park Land Improvement Program (Minor Project #15610, Golf Infrastructure Improvements) will be amended to appropriate the grant funding. No additional appropriation is required.
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Authorizing the Parks Division to submit, and, if awarded, accept a grant of up to $25,000 from The FairWays Foundation for golf course improvements and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into a contract with The FairWays Foundation to accept grant award. (District 16).
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WHEREAS, the Common Council created the nine member Task Force on Municipal Golf in Madison Parks (“Task Force”) to consider all options for the parkland currently in use for municipal golf and to make recommendations to the Mayor, Common Council, Committees and Commissions on the future of the City’s Municipal Golf Courses; and,
WHEREAS, the Task Force recommended the City should establish a plan and timeline to eliminate eighteen holes at Yahara Hills; and,
WHEREAS, the Board of Park Commissioners reviewed and approved the Yahara Hills Golf Course Redesign Project in September of 2023; and,
WHEREAS, design features of the project include ecological restoration, including long term restoration of natural areas and creation of new natural areas; and,
WHEREAS, the Task Force also recommended that the City should work to promote positive ecological outcomes at the golf courses through reducing reliance on limited natural resources and providing ecological assets; and,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Parks Division staff are hereby authorized to act on behalf of the City of Madison as follows:
· Submit an application to The FairWays Foundati...
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