Fiscal Note
Revenues of $2,000 are anticipated in 2010, $2,200 in 2011 and $2,300 in 2012. No appropriation is required, nor is any impact on the tax levy anticipated.
Title
To authorize Mayor and City Clerk to enter into a three (3) year agreement on behalf of the City with Madison Area Radio Control Society (MARCS) for use of Kettle Field, City parkland. (AD 16)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Madison has provided space in parkland for operation of radio-controlled model airplanes for over three decades; and
WHEREAS, the Madison Area Radio Control Society (MARCS), which is affiliated with the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) and as such subscribes to a strict code of safety in the operation of model airplanes, wishes to continue to use City parkland for this purpose; and
WHEREAS, in practice, the Parks Division, by the authority conferred in Sec. 8.30, Madison General Ordinances, and in the interest of citizen safety, has not allowed radio-controlled model airplanes to be operated in any other park in the City except Kettle Field; and
WHEREAS, the parties have agreed to the terms and conditions of MARCS continued use of Kettle Field whereby MARCS will pay an annual fee of $2,000 for 2010, $2,200 for 2011 and $2,300 for 2012 to cover all City costs for the maintenance of the parkland, located north of the Yahara Hills Golf Course, for the safe operation of radio-controlled model airplanes.
NOW, THEREFORE, LET IT BE RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Clerk are authorized to enter into a three (3) year contract with MARCS beginning January 1, 2010, for the use of Kettle Field for the operation of radio-controlled model airplanes.