Fiscal Note
The 2021 operating budget moved the Crossing Guard program from the Police Department to Traffic Engineering. This move was done for both budgeting and organizational purposes. The proposed ordinance change is needed to reflect the Crossing Guard's move to Traffic Engineering and does not require any change to the 2021 adopted budget.
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SUBSTITUTE - Repealing Subsection 5.01(4) and Creating Subdivision 3.14(3)(a)3 of the Madison General Ordinances to Formally Move the Crossing Guard Program from the Police Department to the Traffic Engineering Division.
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: As part of the 2021 adopted operating budget, the City’s crossing guard program, established under the authority of Wis. Stat. § 349.215, was relocated from the Police Department to the Traffic Engineering Division of the Department of Transportation. It is necessary, as part of this program relocation, to amend the ordinances. This ordinance will achieve that result.
This substitute corrects an oversight in the initial draft by eliminating the term “school crossing guard” from the new language.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subsection (4) entitled “Crossing Guards and School Crossing Guards” of Section 5.01 entitled “Who Compose the Police Department” of the Madison General Ordinances is repealed.
2. Paragraph 3 entitled “Crossing Guards” of Subdivision (a) entitled “Traffic Engineering Division” of Subsection (3) entitled “Divisions” of Section 3.14 entitled “Department of Transportation” of the Madison General Ordinances is created as follows:
“(3) Crossing Guards. Crossing guards, the location of which shall be determined by the Transportation Commission subject to Sec. 33.56(5)(c)5 of the Madison General Ordinances, after study and recommendation by the City Traffic Engineer, shall be under the direction of the City Traffic Engine...
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