Fiscal Note
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Title
Authorizing the execution and acceptance of quit claim deeds to correct the boundaries of land owned by the Madison Water Utility at 2023 Wheeler Road, Town of Burke; authorizing the City to cooperate in the re-division of the Madison Water Utility lands; and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a petition to attach the subject lands to the City.
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WHEREAS the Madison Water Utility is the owner in fee simple of two parcels of land totaling 32,840 square feet (0.75 acres), more or less, and generally addressed as 2023 Wheeler Road in the Town of Burke (“Town”), which contain a former well and reservoir owned and operated by the former Burke Utility District 1; and
WHEREAS the land was conveyed to the Madison Water Utility by a quit claim deed executed by the Town on March 18, 2009 and recorded at the Dane County Register of Deeds as Document No. 4546991, in accordance with stipulations in the 2007 Final Town of Burke, Village of Deforest, City of Sun Prairie and City of Madison Cooperative Plan (“the Plan”), and as approved by the Common Council on April 22, 2008 as Resolution 08-00414 (ID 09592); and
WHEREAS the Madison Water Utility parcels were previously conveyed to the Town by Cherokee Park, Inc. (hereinafter “CPI”); and
WHEREAS the legal descriptions of the original conveyances to the Town and later to the City of Madison ("City"), contained minor errors that cause the boundaries of the two Madison Water Utility parcels to not correctly represent the land owned and occupied by the City; and
WHEREAS CPI as owner of the lands adjacent to the Water Utility parcels, has filed a petition to attach their lands to the City in accordance with the requirements for immediate attachments in the Plan; and
WHEREAS the attachment petition should contain a correct description of the lands owned by the petitioner; and
WHEREAS the City wishes to correct the boundaries of its property, which includes...
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