GSST GOETTE CONNECTION TRAIL PERMIT

Committee Status: 
Board Review
Budget Status: 
No Fiscal Impact
Decision Impact: 
Routine
FTE Impact: 
No
Funding Source: 
Other (see budget status)

Purpose

Resolution Authorizing Sauk County to Submit to the State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) a Trail Permit to Occupy and Use Certain Rail Property Owned by WisDOT.

Background

BACKGROUND: As established by the Great Sauk State Trail Master Plan – Sauk Prairie Segment and Badger Unit Map therein, dated April 29, 2015 (Exhibit A), Sauk County desires to build a trail connection to the public right-of-way known as Goette Road, located in the Town of Merrimac. The current Great Sauk State Trail dead ends approximately 2,600 feet before reaching Goette Road. To complete the trail connection, WisDOT requires that Sauk County, Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, LLC enter into a Trail Permit agreement that species the conditions by which Sauk County abide by to construct and maintain a trail adjacent to an active rail line (Exhibit B).

Resolution Files: 
PDF icon EXHIBIT A PLAN MAP
PDF icon EXHIBIT B DRAFT TRAIL PERMIT
PDF icon RESOLUTION - TRAIL PERMIT
Budget Status (Other/External Sources): 

Fiscal Impact: [x ] None   [ ] Budgeted Expenditure    [   ] Not Budgeted

Resolution Body

RESOLUTION #

Resolution Authorizing Sauk County to Submit to the State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) a Trail Permit to Occupy and Use Certain Rail Property Owned by WisDOT.

Resolution offered by the Land Resources and Environment Committee

Resolved by the Board of Supervisors of Sauk County, Wisconsin:

BACKGROUND: As established by the Great Sauk State Trail Master Plan – Sauk Prairie Segment and Badger Unit Map therein, dated April 29, 2015 (Exhibit A), Sauk County desires to build a trail connection to the public right-of-way known as Goette Road, located in the Town of Merrimac. The current Great Sauk State Trail dead ends approximately 2,600 feet before reaching Goette Road. To complete the trail connection, WisDOT requires that Sauk County, Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, LLC enter into a Trail Permit agreement that species the conditions by which Sauk County abide by to construct and maintain a trail adjacent to an active rail line (Exhibit B).

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Sauk County Board of Supervisors, met in regular session, that a Sauk County submit to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation a Trail Permit to construct the Great Sauk State Trail to Goette Road.

Approved for presentation to the County Board by the Land Resources and Environment Committee, this 13th day of April, 2023.

Requested Board Review Date: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Committee Review 1: 
Approved
Committee Review 2: 
Approved
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