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A resolution authorizing and directing the Director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture to negotiate an agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that would continue student parking at the lakefront.
(3/8/11: Laidover)
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by recommending adoption of the following:
WHEREAS, Milwaukee County provides parking at various lots and drives along the lakefront for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) students to use during the school year, consistent with an existing lease; and
WHEREAS, the lease expires at the end of the 2010-2011 school year; and
WHEREAS, the Parks Director indicated to UWM officials that the lease would not be renegotiated at the end of its term; and
WHEREAS, as a result, UWM secured parking for students at the former Columbia Hospital site for a $4/day fee, which students feel is financially more onerous than paying the current segregated fees for parking at the lakefront; and
WHEREAS, the Parks Department receives approximately $95,000 in annual revenue from the lease arrangement, which is critical at a time when the Department is losing revenue from the closure of the O'Donnell Park parking structure; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors hereby authorizes and directs the Director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture to negotiate an agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that would continue student parking at the lakefront.