Title
Authorizing The Mayor And City Clerk To Apply For And Accept A DNR Lake Planning Grant For Yahara River Estuary and Cherokee Marsh Monitoring and Scientific Assessment. (Various ADs)
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PREAMBLE
City Engineering recognizes the importance of understanding restoration of lost wetlands and their responses depending on wave climate, water flow velocity, and sediment concentrations.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Lake Planning Grant Program offers financial assistance for planning projects that will assess and study the Yahara River Estuary to improve and protect water quality.
City Engineering will apply for this grant in 2009. Should the City of Madison receive a grant for this project, the funds would be used to purchase necessary equipment and other monitoring costs and a portion of the work subcontracted to UW-Madison Engineering for collecting data.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Madison requests $20,000 in funds available from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Lake Planning Grant Program in the form of two separate grant proposals;
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Fiscal Note
DNR Planning Grant in the amount of $20,000.
There is no additional cost to the City of Madison. Matching funds from in kind City time (ESTM-73216-563310-00-53W0822).