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The attorneys looked at an equal protection clause in state statutes as the basis for their opinion. "If the city can identify a rational basis for requiring licensed childcare centers to replace their lead service lines, then such a targeted effort will not violate the equal protection clause," Langley and Miller wrote in the letter. Vel Phillips honored In other business Tuesday, the council took up a pair of visual propos- als to honor the legacy of local civil rights pioneer Vel Phillips, who died April 17 at age 94. The 15-member council unanimously sponsored legislation to rename North 4th Street Vel R. Phillips Avenue, between West St. Paul Avenue and West Capitol Drive. Several council members weighed in on Phillips' influence on Milwaukee over the years and asserted the renaming was a means of keeping her spirit and determination active. "She fought, very often, a solitary battle," Alderman Jim Bohl said as he reflect- ed her leadership for civil rights at a time when the effort was just gaining trac- tion — in Milwaukee and elsewhere across the U.S. Aldermen also passed a resolution setting the stage for a possible statute of Phillips to be erected in her honor. A proposed location was not discussed at Tuesday's meeting. The resolution author- ized the city clerk's office to accept up to $100,000 in con- tributions toward the planned statute. continued from Page 3 fed through the three ancil- lary bodies of water chan- neling through the area: Kinnickinnic, Menomonee and Milwaukee rivers. Benji Timm, project man- ager with the city's redevel- opment authority, said what exists of the wetland system today is about 6.5 acres, though the exact extent of Grand Trunk's beginnings and endings are still being determined because of years of disruption at the site. 10 feet of fill in places Last year, officials involved in the restorative work contracted with Applied Ecological Services Inc. to conduct a top-down environmental analysis of the site in the hopes of delin- eating the wetland's true nat- ural characteristic borders. In the report, ecologist Mark O'Leary with the Brodhead-based consulting firm outlined the challenges of getting to the root of Grand Trunk's true origins. "Rock, gravel, concrete and coal slag fill, ranging from several inches to in excess of 10 feet, are found on the Grand Trunk parcel," O'Leary wrote in the report. Later in the report, O'Leary wrote the site "is significantly disturbed by the placement of the historic fill," based on Applied Ecological Services' analy- sis, which was conducted last fall. The efforts to restore Grand Trunk are the out- growth of a more extensive Harbor District Water and Land Use Plan document, which was minted a year ago. "This is one of our early wins coming out of that proj- ect," Timm said at an open house gathering May 3 to dis- cuss the restoration work on the horizon. While work on Grand Trunk's restoration is birthed out of the Harbor District document, data out of the city's Department of City Development reveals restorative goals were cited at least a decade ago. It was included in a long- range planning document, the Southeast Side Area Plan, in 2008. At last week's open house, organizers discussed the timeline and plans envi- sioned for the remediation work at the site. In the march toward the second half of 2018, plan- ning on restoration and remediation efforts will con- tinue, and a timeline on dis- play at the open house revealed a construction doc- ument is set for completion this fall. Five-year plan Beginning next year, plans call for the beginning of a five-year effort that will include remediation and restoration of the site and take steps toward re-estab- lishing original wetlands and native plantings to the area. The goal, Timm said, is to eventually have an area des- ignated for public access. The multi-faceted steps toward bringing Grand Trunk back to its original glory received a shot in the arm last month when Mayor Tom Barrett announced receipt of a $3 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant, which is being admin- istered through the state Department of Natural Resources. In a news release announcing the grant, Barrett pointed out Milwaukee's marshes and wetlands "all but vanished" through the course of hun- dreds of years of changes as the city became progressive- ly more urbanized. "This restoration work will re-establish a portion of that wetland," Barrett said in the statement. Grand Trunk: Restoration efforts hope to unveil natural area continued from Page 1 Conley News Service WAUKESHA — Boy Scouts of America announced some major changes last week with the Scout Me In campaign. Girls and boys will be welcome to join the Cub Scouts program in the United States for the first time starting this sum- mer. With this integration also comes a name change to the program for older Scouts: Scouts BSA. While there is substantial change coming for girls, the boys won't have much to pre- pare for. "The thing that's impor- tant to understand is that it is not co-ed ... there will be boy troops and girl troops. They will not be together. I think that's important for people to understand," said Paul Schwartz, Scout execu- tive and CEO of the Potawatomi Area Council. He says that locally, there are around 40 to 50 girls signed up to join the pro- gram right now. They will go through the exact same ranks and programming as their male counterparts and earn the same patches. A news release from the Scouts explains that part of the rea- son behind the name change to Scouts BSA is to make older girls in the Cub Scouts program feel more welcome. "The United States is one of the last places in the world that doesn't have boys and girls participating," Schwartz said. Cub Scouts to welcome all-girl troops starting in summer

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