Agenda for Regular Meeting Revision

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval.  This Ordinance amends Section 2-32 of the City Code to prohibit consideration of incumbent Council Members’ home addresses by the Redistricting Committee and City Council during the redistricting process.  To further such prohibition, this Ordinance also forbids the inclusion of incumbent Council Members’ home addresses on the maps used by the Redistricting Committee and City Council during the redistricting process.  This Ordinance shall apply starting with the redistricting that occurs as a result of the federal decennial census of 2030. 

Synopsis:  This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval.  This Resolution approves an amendment to the City’s comprehensive development plan entitled “Wilmington 2028: A Comprehensive Plan for Our City and  Communities” to change the land use of 3001 Bowers Street (being Tax Parcel No. 26-030.00-030) from “Mixed Commercial/Light Manufacturing” to “Institutions” by revising the Price’s Run/Riverside/11th Street Bridge Future Land Use Map for 3001 Bowers Street. 

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval.  This Ordinance rezones the parcel of land located at 3001 Bowers Street within the block generally bounded by Todd’s Lane, Bowers and Claymont Streets, and the City’s northern boundary (being Tax Parcel No. 26-030.00-030) from a zoning classification of M-1 (Light Manufacturing) to a zoning classification of R-3 (One-Family Row Houses). 

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval.  This Ordinance authorizes the removal of Mendenhall Court from the Official City Map.  

Synopsis:  This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval.  This Resolution authorizes the Office of Economic Development’s grant proposal to The Nature Conservancy in the amount of Seven Hundred Fifty-Three Thousand Dollars ($753,000.00) and its grant application to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in the amount of Four Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($475,000.00).  The funds will be used to purchase approximately ten (10) acres of degraded wetland adjacent to the South Wilmington Wetlands Park, which will be made part of the Wetlands Park, and to restore such land to a high functioning freshwater tidal wetland habitat.

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval.  This Ordinance amends Section 2-31 of the City Code by redistricting the Councilmanic Districts of Wilmington so as to have each district encompass as nearly as possibly a contiguous area within which is as nearly as practicable an equal population distribution, pursuant to the requirements of Section 2-102 of the City Charter and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, while using the population figures published by the United States Census Bureau in August of 2021, following the 2020 Decennial Census, including the last known addresses of incarcerated individuals who were City residents prior to incarceration.

Synopsis:  This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution outlines the proposed categorical use of $55,345,780 in grant funds from the American Rescue Plan Act in accordance with the Department of Treasury’s Interim Final Rule, effective as of May 17, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 26786) permitting the City of Wilmington to allocate such funds.

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval.  This Ordinance authorizes the execution of a multi-year amendment to the agreement between the City of Wilmington and Teladoc Health, Inc. for telehealth services for City employees and their dependents to add mental health services to the agreement.  The amendment is for a period of one (1) year and       nine (9) months from January 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023, with the possibility of three (3) extensions of one (1) year thereafter. 

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval.  This Ordinance authorizes the execution of a product purchasing agreement between the City of Wilmington and Cambridge Computer Services, Inc. for a storage area network. 

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval.  This Ordinance amends Chapter 2 of the City Code to codify the continued existence of the “Wilmington Neighborhood Conservancy Land Bank Corporation” (the “WNCLB Corporation”), which was previously authorized as the sole and exclusive land bank for the City of Wilmington by Substitute No. 1 to Ordinance No. 15-040 (As Amended) (“Ordinance No. 15-040”).  This Ordinance also revises the membership of the Board of Directors of the WNCLB Corporation as originally established in Ordinance No. 15-040 as follows: (i) replaces the Board Chair of the Wilmington Housing Partnership Community with the Community Development & Urban Planning  Committee Chairperson for Wilmington City Council and (ii) replaces the Finance Committee Chair of the Wilmington Housing Partnership and three (3) individuals working within the limits of the City of Wilmington as a community reinvestment officer or equivalent position for a bank or financial institution as designated by a majority of the other members of the Board of Directors of the WNCLB Corporation with four (4) representatives from the local community or community groups in the City of Wilmington.