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TO: Honorable Mayor &Members of the Common Council
Mark Rohloff, City Manager
FROM: Allen Davis, Community Development Director
DATE: January 2, 2019
RE: Oshkosh Corporation Global Headquarters Construction, Public
Improvements, Tax Increment Finance Plan, Timeline
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Construction of Westfield and the related utilities have been completed as planned.
Westfield has been opened for traffic. This schedule is in accordance with the
Development Agreement. The stormwater management excavation, located to the west
of the Oshkosh Corporation Corporate Headquarters building, is continuing as long as
the weather cooperates. The Koeller Street extension construction is scheduled to start in
2019, although utility extensions on Koeller have already started and the water main has
been installed.
The Traffic Signals at Westfield and Oshkosh Ave have been re-installed on a temporary
basis and will remain operational until the new signal hardware can be delivered and
installed in 2019. The contractor was going to attempt to clean up some of the traffic
painting/marking in the area in December, pending weather. Some of the old lines were
removed, but not all.
City staff is finishing the analysis required for proposed Special Assessments for the
Public Improvements for Oshkosh Ave, Westfield and Koeller Street. It is anticipated
that the Council will hold the Special Assessment Public Hearing in the near future.
The Plan Commission recommended approval of the official mapping for widening
Koeller to about 80', north of the round-about. Council will be holding the first reading
on January 8, 2019. The City will also hire a round-about traffic engineer for the design
of the new Koeller approach to the round-about as was recommended in the Traffic
Impact Analysis. Design would be done this winter and spring, and construction would
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be completed in the summer to early fall of 2019, in accordance with the Development
Agreement.
The WisDOT-TEA grant of$787,500 that was awarded will help offset costs for the public
infrastructure improvements. Staff continues to work on grant administration and
allocate the grant dollars for the appropriate grant eligible activities for reimbursement.
The WisDNR staff has reported that the City has been tentatively awarded a riverwalk
grant that City staff submitted in May, 2018. The $793,247 grant will help build the
asphalt riverwalk from the I-41/Tribal Heritage Trail to the Oshkosh Corporation site,
and in addition, extend the new riverwalk east to Punhoqua Street. The riverwalk grant
would also add lights, bollards, and benches to match the existing riverwalk design.
WisDNR reports that the final award will not be made until Joint Finance Committee
approval, planned in January, 2019. City staff and AECOM are working on the final
design for the riverwalk from I-41 to Punhoqua. Design and permitting will be completed
over the winter, bid in late winter, and construction of the riverwalk project would start
in spring of 2019, with completion in the fall of 2019.
The City has also received a $255,000 Transportation Assistance Program (TAP) grant
from WisDOT to help pay for the costs of extending the riverwalk trail from Punhoqua,
east through Rainbow Memorial Park. The construction of this segment of riverwalk
could be constructed in 2021. This project would help implement the Rainbow Memorial
Park Master Plan and connect the lakeshore riverwalk to Oshkosh Ave. and Sawyer
Street. The 2019-2023 CIP includes funding in 2020 for design services for Rainbow
Memorial Park improvements and funding for these improvements in 2021 to coincide
with the planned Riverwalk improvements through the park.
TAX INCREMENT FINANCE PLANS
The Common Council adopted both Tax Increment Finance #34 and #35 Plans on January
23, 2018. The Joint Review Board approved both TIF Plans on January 30, 2018. Private
developers are working on plans for development in TID #35 along Oshkosh Ave.
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND OTHER AGREEMENTS
Staff continues to work on the remaining agreements which include easements for
stormwater connections. The Plan Commission reviewed and recommended approval
of the draft stormwater easements on November 6, 2018. The draft easement should be
scheduled for consideration by the Council at an up-coming meeting once final language
is created.
A Landscape Maintenance Agreement that would assign maintenance responsibility for
the City-owned land between the Oshkosh Corporation property and the proposed
riverwalk to Oshkosh Corporation will also be needed, and should be approved after the
final design of the riverwalk is completed.
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TIMELINE
Inspection staff has issued the full building permit for Oshkosh Corporation's Global
Headquarters' project. Inspection staff are on-site regularly for inspections.
The Oshkosh Corporation contractor, Miron Construction, started mobilization for
building construction on June 11, 2018. Erosion control practices are in place and
excavation and grading work is on-going. The foundation work and structural steel is
largely done for the season. Concrete floors are being installed in the building.
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