City of Madison - File #: 78136

• File #: 78136
• Version: 1
• Name: Yahara Landfill Siting Resolution
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/30/2023
• In control: Attorney's Office
• On agenda: 6/20/2023
• Final action: 6/20/2023
• Enactment date: 6/23/2023
• Enactment #: RES-23-00465
• Title: Authorizing the City to participate in negotiations and, if necessary, arbitration with Dane County regarding the County’s development of a proposed landfill, Landfill Site No. 3 at the Yahara Hills Golf Course, creating the Landfill Site No. 3 Negotiating Team Committee, and authorizing the Mayor to appoint members to the Landfill Site No. 3 Local Committee and the Landfill Site No. 3 Negotiating Team Committee.
• Sponsors: Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, Jael Currie, Derek Field, Regina M. Vidaver

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/20/2023	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt	Pass
6/12/2023	1	FINANCE COMMITTEE	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
6/6/2023	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer	Pass
5/30/2023	1	Attorney's Office	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes the City to participate in negotiations and, if necessary, arbitration with Dane County regarding the County’s development of a proposed landfill, Landfill Site No. 3, at the Yahara Hills Golf Course. Additionally, the resolution authorizes the Mayor to appoint four members to the Landfill Site No. 3 Local Committee, who would also serve on the Negotiating Team Committee. There is no appropriation required for the formation of the committees.
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Authorizing the City to participate in negotiations and, if necessary, arbitration with Dane County regarding the County’s development of a proposed landfill, Landfill Site No. 3 at the Yahara Hills Golf Course, creating the Landfill Site No. 3 Negotiating Team Committee, and authorizing the Mayor to appoint members to the Landfill Site No. 3 Local Committee and the Landfill Site No. 3 Negotiating Team Committee.
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Authorizing the City to participate in negotiations and, if necessary, arbitration with Dane County regarding the County’s development of a proposed landfill, Landfill Site No. 3 at the Yahara Hills Golf Course, creating the Landfill Site No. 3 Negotiating Team Committee, and authorizing the Mayor to appoint members to the Landfill Site No. 3 Local Committee and the Landfill Site No. 3 Negotiating Team Committee.

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WHEREAS, State law gives municipalities affected by the development of new landfills certain rights in the approval process; and,

WHEREAS, on May 10, 2022, the Council adopted RES-22-00319 (File No. 70597), which resolution authorized the City to sell portions of the Yahara Hills Golf Course to the County for the County’s development of the lands as a future landfill, compost site and sustainable business park. The eastern 231.8 acres of the Golf Course were sold to the County for this purpose on February 27, 2023; and,

WHEREAS, on May 3, 2023, as required under Wis. Stat. Sec. 289.22, the City of Madison received Dane County’s writ...