Agenda for Regular Meeting

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 2-300 to require City Council approval to appropriate grant funds in the annual operating budget. In order for the Wilmington City Charter to be amended as proposed, three fourths (3/4) of all the members elected to Wilmington City Council must adopt this Resolution and two thirds (2/3) of all the members elected to the General Assembly must approve the proposed amendment.

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 2-301 to require City Council approval to make certain supplemental appropriations of excess revenues, grant funds or special funds during the fiscal year.

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 2-205 to require City Council approval to make emergency appropriations from available revenues, grant funds or special funds in order to meet a public emergency affecting life, health, property or other public peace.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This ordinance creates a municipal low-income rental assistance program, to be administered by the Department of Real Estate and Housing, to provide eligible low-income residential tenants in the City of Wilmington up to $1,500.00 of monthly rental assistance, for a maximum of four (4) months in any given twelve (12) month period.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance adds a new section under Chapter 2, Article V of the City Code and establishes a new office named the “Office of Community Safety” within the Mayor’s Office. The Office of Community Safety will address violence from both prevention and intervention perspectives by coordinating among government agencies, community organizations, and third party providers, identifying violence hotspots, and supporting and directing resources to at-risk populations, and carry out the long-term goal of the city government to reduce crime, restore social trust, and enhance public safety.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance amends Chapter 8 of the City Code by establishing housing trust, and a community-based oversight board, that is intended to help address the severe shortage of affordable housing in the city. 

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to enter into one or more contracts for the purchase of electricity with one or more of three electricity providers starting in fiscal year 2027 for a term not to exceed five (5) years.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance amends Chapter 40 of the City Code to allow regular City employees to donate unequal amounts of sick and vacation leave to designated employees or the donated leave bank.  This Ordinance allows regular City employees to donate: 1) up to twenty (20) days of vacation leave per calendar year; or 2) up to 6 days of sick leave per calendar year without having to match with donated vacation leave.  The Ordinance also permits regular City employees to donate in excess of 6 days of sick leave per calendar year, but such donations must be matched with an equal amount of donated vacation leave.  This Ordinance has been influenced by similar amendments made to the Delaware Code in September 2017, and substantially mirrors the donated leave policies of other entities.  This Ordinance is intended to make it easier and more convenient for regular City employees to donate accumulated sick and vacation leave to assist colleagues in times of need, thereby encouraging such donations.  Finally, as housekeeping matters, this Ordinance adds some clarifying language to Sections 40-340(b) and (c) and changes the term “director of personnel” to “director of human resources” in Section 40-340(d).

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance amends Chapter 45 of the City Code to establish charges for inspections and re-inspections conducted pursuant to the City of Wilmington Cross-Connection Control Program.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance empowers the Department of Licenses and Inspections to document cable television, telecommunications, or similar utility wires and cables which impede the public right of way and to provide notice to the service providers responsible.  The Department is further empowered to issue civil penalties to service providers or to take other reasonable steps to ensure the public right of way is clear of wires and cables in the event the service provider fails to take steps to eliminate the obstruction within 10 days of notice from the Department. 

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to execute a first amendment to a professional services agreement with Itron, Inc. for mobile automated meter reading operations and system maintenance to transition from automated meter reading (AMR) to advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for collection of water meter usage information from City water meters.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to enter into a five-year Network-As-A Service Agreement with Delmarva Power & Light Company for the City and Itron, Inc. to use Delmarva’s Automated Metering Infrastructure Mesh Network to collect water meter usage information from City water meters.  The Network-As-A-Service Agreement contains two (2) five-year extension options.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to execute a first amendment to an agreement with American Water Resources, LLC (“AWR”) that makes water and sewer line warranty protection services available to homeowners in the City.  The amendment will (i) extend the duration of the agreement for five (5) years commencing on July 1, 2026 and ending on June 30, 2031 and (ii) cap the fees that AWR may charge homeowners for warranty protection services at $12.99 per month.

Synopsis:         This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance is the second amendment to the Fiscal Year 2026 Annual Operating Budget, which was originally enacted in Substitute No. 1 to Ordinance No. 25-009.

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 City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution Council respectfully urges SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority), DelDOT (Delaware Department of Transportation), and DTC (Delaware Transit Corporation), pursuant to their operating agreements and commitments to transit accessibility, to maintain a fully staffed SEPTA ticket office at the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Railroad Station.