Fiscal Note
This resolution provides an annual contribution to Metro Transit by Sam Van Galder, Inc. It will have a positive impact on Metro's budget during the three-year contract term and the three-year option, if chosen. The contribution by Sam Van Galder, Inc. to Metro Transit will be $26,500 during the first year of the agreement, which has been included in Metro's 2008 Operating Budget. The contribution amount will be adjusted each subsequent year based on the Milwaukee Consumer Price Index, and that amount will be included in the corresponding year's budget.
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Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute an agreement with Sam Van Galder, Inc., a member of the Coach USA family, for three years for provision by Van Galder of an annual contribution to Metro Transit to help defray maintenance costs for the Dutch Mill Park & Ride lot, with one three-year option for renewal.
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PREAMBLE
In May 1984, the State of Wisconsin and City of Madison entered into a Lease Agreement wherein the State would build, at its expense, the Dutch Mill Park & Ride lot, providing major capital maintenance from time-to-time, and the City would maintain the lot by providing snow clearance, litter clearance, general upkeep, electricity for lighting the lot, signage, and connecting transit service into Madison.
Metro was assigned the responsibility by the City to provide the connecting transit service and to perform and bear the cost of the aforementioned lot maintenance expenses. In the spring of 2002, the City entered into an agreement with Van Galder wherein it would make an annual contribution to Metro Transit to help defray the cost of maintenance expenses for the lot. Van Galder uses the Dutch Mill Park & Ride lot as a major Madison area boarding and parking site for its customers.
WHEREAS the City of Madison has an agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation wherein the City will maintain the Dutch Mill Park & Ride lot; and
WHEREAS the City wishes to continue an agreement with Van Galder to provide an annual contribution to Metro Transit to help defray the on-going maintenance expenses of the lot from June 1, 2008 through May 31, 2011 (and through May 31, 2014 if the option is exercised); and
WHEREAS Sam Van Galder, Inc. wishes to continue the successful agreement and has negotiated the agreement terms with Metro Transit;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Mayor and City Clerk are authorized to enter into an agreement with Sam Van Glader, Inc., a Coach USA Company, to accept an annual contribution for each year of the contract term towards maintenance at the Dutch Mill Park & Ride lot.