Fiscal Note
The detachment will result in an annual loss of City property tax proceeds of an estimated $2.00.
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Creating Section 15.01(574) of the Madison General Ordinances entitled "City Boundaries" and being part of the chapter entitled "Aldermanic Districts and Wards" detaching from the Sixteenth Aldermanic District the Alsmo property and amending Section 15.02(1) of the Madison General Ordinances to remove the detached property from Ward 1.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance detaches approximately 19 feet of land from the 16th Aldermanic District due to a mistake in a Certified Survey Map.
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An ordinance to create Subsection (574) of Section 15.01 of the General Ordinances of the City of Madison entitled “City Boundaries” and being part of the chapter entitled “Aldermanic Districts and Wards”.
WHEREAS, a certified survey map created in 1987 unintentionally split the Alsmo property between two jurisdictions. The Westerly nineteen and one-half (19.5) feet is located in the City of Madison, with the remainder located in the Village of McFarland; and
WHEREAS, the owner currently receives a tax bill from both the City of Madison and the Village of McFarland; and
WHEREAS, to remedy the above inefficiency, a Notice of Intent to Circulate a Petition for Detachment of the nineteen and one-half (19.5) feet of the Alsmo land in the City of Madison (the “Territory”) was published as a Class I Notice, under ch. 985, Wis. Stats., on June 30, 2010; and
WHEREAS, on July 15, 2010, a Petition for Detachment (the “Petition”) of the Territory, described in Exhibit A and shown on Exhibit B, both attached hereto, was timely filed in the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Madison (“Madison”); and
WHEREAS, said Petition has been signed by a majority of the owners of three-fourths of the taxable land in area within the Territory proposed to be detached; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Wis. Stats. Sec. 6...
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