Fiscal Note
As per State Statutes, beginning in 2013, the City will make annual payments for five years of an estimated $1,407 to the Town of Blooming Grove (an amount equal to the town levy on the parcel for the year 2011). The payments will come from the General Fund Miscellaneous account and will be accommodated in future budgets.
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Creating Section 15.01(579) of the Madison General Ordinances entitled "City Boundaries" and being part of the chapter entitled "Aldermanic Districts and Wards" attaching to the Sixteenth Aldermanic District the Ho-Chunk Attachment and assigning a temporary zoning classification of A Agriculture District, and amending Section 15.02(1) of the Madison General Ordinances to add the attached property to Ward 1.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance attaches land in the Town of Blooming Grove.
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An ordinance to create Subsection (579) 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, pursuant to Sec. 9A of the Town of Blooming Grove and City of Madison Cooperative Plan, the Ho-Chunk Nation lands identified on Attachment A shall be attached to the City of Madison; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 28.04(7), Madison General Ordinances, the annexed territory is declared to be in the Temp A Agriculture District; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 66.0217(14)(a)1., the City of Madison agrees to pay annually to the Town of Blooming Grove, for five (5) years, an amount equal to the amount of property taxes that the town levied on the annexed territory, as shown by the tax roll under Wis. Stat. § 70.65, in the year in which the annexation is final; and
WHEREAS, investigation by the City of Madison discloses that as of this date the above representations are true, the Common Council now determines that the said attachment proceeding meets the...
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