Agenda for Regular Meeting

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to enter into a fifty-year lease agreement with Bottling Group, LLC for a portion of 3505 Governor Printz Boulevard for use as Eastlawn Park with perpetual ten-year renewals after the initial fifty-year term.

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution appoints nine (9) members to the Homelessness Subcommittee, a subcommittee of the Health, Aging, Environmental, and Disabilities standing committee. It further removes paid public employment as a disqualifying factor for service as a member of the Homelessness Subcommittee.

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution respectfully urges members of the Delaware General Assembly to give favorable consideration to Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 57 (SS 1 for SB 57), An Act to Amend Title 11 of the Delaware Code Relating to Postconviction Remedy, and to adopt the bill as amended to modernize post-conviction remedies, expand access to DNA testing, eliminate arbitrary time barriers, and update legal standards that advance fairness and justice for all Delaware residents.

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution expresses strong support for Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 58 (SS 1 for SB 58), An Act to Amend Title 11 of the Delaware Code Relating to Postconviction Remedy, that would strengthen access to justice, protect the innocent, and uphold the integrity of Delaware’s legal process.

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution requests the Delaware General Assembly to amend Section 2101 of the City Charter to provide for four-year staggered terms of office for City Council.

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution requests the Delaware General Assembly to amend Section 2- 100 of the City Charter to impose a term limit for City Council members of not more than three (3) terms in each representative capacity; council member elected from a councilmanic district, council member at large, and president of the council. 

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution initiates a proposed amendment to Wilmington City Charter Section 3-300 lowering the minimum age requirement of those desiring to serve as Mayor from twenty-five (25) to eighteen (18).

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution initiates a proposed amendment to Wilmington City Charter Section 2-103 lowering the minimum age requirement of those desiring to serve as members of Council from twenty-five (25) to eighteen (18). 

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance amends Chapter 45 of the City Code by dissolving the Wilmington Water, Sewer and Stormwater Citizens Advisory Board.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance amends Chapter 2 of the City Code by deleting a defunct African American History Museum Foundation Committee and establishing in its place a permanent African American History and Cultural Preservation Commission.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance requires the Department of Licenses and Inspections to create an online rental property registry.   It also requires owners, operators, or lessors who obtain rental dwelling business licenses to register their rental dwellings on the City’s online rental property registry.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance requires the department of licenses and inspections to create a Landlord Education and Resource Awareness Program.     

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the issuance of a General Obligation Bond (Supplemental Adams Street Green Infrastructure Project), Series A of 2026-WPCRF, in an amount not to exceed $808,242 (the “2026A Bond”), which will be sold to the Delaware Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund in order to (i) finance the increased construction costs associated with the installation of three (3) bioretention gardens, 1900 linear feet of stormwater pipe, sixteen (16) manholes, and five (5) trench drains located in and around the Adams Street Courts at 210 North Jackson Street, as set forth in the City’s capital budget for its Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2024, (ii) pay administrative costs relating to such capital projects, and (iii) pay the costs of issuing the 2026A Bond. 

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the issuance of a General Obligation Bond (Lead Removal Phase IV Project), Series A of 2026-DWSRF (the “2026A Bond”), in an amount not to exceed $13,000,000, which will be sold to the Delaware Drinking Water State Revolving Fund in order to (A) finance the replacement of approximately three (3) to four (4) miles of old cast iron watermain in the City’s water distribution system, as set forth in the City’s capital budget for its Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2026, (B) pay administrative costs relating to such capital project, and (C) pay the costs of issuing the 2026A Bond.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to enter into a multi-year contract with Belfint, Lyons, & Shuman, P.A. for the purposes of retaining an External Auditor, at an estimated price of One Hundred Ninety-Eight Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents per annum ($198,000.00). The primary purpose of the Contract is to retain the services of an External Auditor to provide full assurance that the City’s accounting records surrounding its Financial Audit, Single Audit, Firefighters’ Pension Fund Audit, and Police Pension Fund Audi are fair, complete and in adherence with generally accepted accounting principles, industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution urges the City of Wilmington’s Administration to build the remaining 42 beds laid out in the approved Hinge design for the Rodney Reservoir Community Garden to meet the strong community interest in time for the garden beds to be put into use for the 2026 gardening season. It further recommends that the Administration to consider collaborating with the community on garden operations.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to exercise a one-year extension option for Contract 26011LI “Vacant Property Services” with R&A Contractors, LLC.

Synopsis:         This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution expresses City Council’s concurrence with Mayor John Carney’s appointment of Robert Katzenstein and James McClain Jr. to the Wilmington Ethics Commission to each serve a four-year term beginning on the date of passage of this Resolution.