Agenda for Regular Meeting

This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration, through the Parks and Recreation Department, to accept a $65,000 grant from Bank of America to support the City’s summer youth employment program. No local matching funds are required in order to accept this grant.

This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration, through the Parks and Recreation Department, to accept a $321,984 grant from the Delaware Department of Labor to support the City’s summer youth employment program. No local matching funds are required in order to accept this grant.

This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration, through the Parks and Recreation Department, to accept a $10,000 grant from the Laffey McHugh Foundation to support the City’s summer youth employment program. No local matching funds are required in order to accept this grant.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing a one-year extension of traffic and parking regulations affecting East 12th Street, East 13th Street, North French Street and Wilson Street related to traffic activity associated with the Community Education Building at 1200 North French Street. The temporary traffic regulations that are being extended through this Ordinance were due to expire on May 14, 2016.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration to issue a General Obligation Bond not to exceed $20 million to support upgrades and improvements to the City’s Porter Water Treatment Plant and a General Obligation Bond not to exceed $5 million to support upgrades and improvements to water mains throughout the City.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration, through the Public Works Department to enter into a one-year, $29,900 contract with Modern Controls, Inc., for HVAC preventive maintenance and general and emergency repairs at the City’s Municipal Complex on Wilmington Avenue. The contract contains two possible one year extensions at the City’s option for the same annual contract cost as listed in this Ordinance. Modern Controls, Inc. was selected as the vendor through a public bidding process.

This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be urging the Administration and the Wilmington Police Department to form its own Gang Intelligence Unit to focus on crime committed by gangs in Wilmington. The Resolution urges that such a gang unit consist of dedicated investigators, including a civilian computer expert, who would gather intelligence, make arrests and assist with the process of charges being filed against gang members who commit crimes.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration, through the Human Resources Department, to enter into a three-year contract with Express Scripts to administer and provide a prescription drug program for City employees beginning July 1, 2016. The cost of the agreement is $5.6 million in the first year, $6.3 million for the second year and $7 million in the third year. The agreement also allows for successive one year renewals of the contract until terminated by either party with 90 day notice. Express Scripts was selected as a vendor through a public bidding process.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing a property tax rate for the new fiscal year. Passage of this Ordinance will keep the City’s current property tax rate of $1.855 per $100 of assessed value of a property the same for the new fiscal year (FY 2017) that begins July 1.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing a water, sewer and stormwater rate for the new fiscal year. Passage of this Ordinance will keep the City’s current water and sewer rate the same for the new fiscal year (FY 2017) that begins July 1.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing a six-year capital budget program for the City. The Capital Budget is funded through the issuance of general obligation bonds with a resulting debt service obligation on the part of the City requiring yearly cash payments over a particular period of time to repay the interest and principal on a debt. Items funded in capital budgets often include repair, renovation and construction of facilities, infrastructure, streets, etc. The FY 2017 – FY 2022 Capital Program totals $282,616,000 which is the estimate of all funds necessary to meet the future capital needs of the City based on this program. Of the total amount needed to fund the program, $106,502,000 would come from the General Fund Budget, $145,801,000 would come from the Water/Sewer Budget, $5,063,000 would come from the Internal Service Fund and $25,250,000 would come from other funds.

The first year of the City’s six fiscal year Capital Improvements Program is known as the Capital Budget. In alternating years, the Capital Budget includes two full fiscal years of funding because the City goes to the bond market biennially instead of annually. This process results in what are known as “off years” when the budget requests will be zero. FY 2017 will be a zero budget year.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing a General Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2017 that totals approximately $154,038,640. This is an increase of 1.5% over the current Fiscal Year 2016 Operating Budget. The Operating Budget is compiled annually by the Administration based on revenue projections and requested appropriations to fund various expenditures such as employee salaries and benefits, and City programs and services such as police, fire, public works, license and inspections, trash and recycling collections, etc. The new budget, if approved by Council, will become effective on July 1, 2016 and will expire on June 30, 2017. The new budget would also include approval of $73.3 million for the Water/Sewer Fund to finance water, sewer and stormwater services and infrastructure needs for the three water-related systems.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration, through the Division of Integrated Technologies (IT), to enter into a five year agreement with VAR Resources LLC to finance the procurement of hardware and software to upgrade the City’s IT services. The total cost of the agreement is $1,108,098.63 to be paid in five equal installments of $221,619.73.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing an extension of the current agreement between the City and M&T Bank for the bank to serve as the City’s active depository for banking services. Based on a recommendation of the City’s bank Selection Committee, the agreement, set to expire on June 30, 2016 would be extended to June 30, 2020.

This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be extending the authorizing of the City Treasurer through Fiscal Year 2016 to access funds from the City’s Reserve Account needed for City expenditures and to then to replenish the Account on or before October 1, 2016.

This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration, through the Wilmington Police Department, to apply for a two-year, $110,000 grant from the Delaware Criminal Justice Council. The City would use the funding to hire a civilian crime analyst who would review violent crime statistics, assess violent crime trends and identify potential shooting suspects. This grant requires no local matching funds.

This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Administration, through the Wilmington Police Department, to apply for five grants totaling $60,208.23 from the State of Delaware’s State Aid to Local Law Enforcement Program (SALLE). The funding would be used by the WPD for specialized drug enforcement training, automatic external defibrillators for department vehicles, and infrared lens for the department drone, tools for technicians of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team and electronic materials to create IED’s to assist with the training of department personnel.

This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be supporting the creation of a Drug Overdose Fatality Review Commission by Governor Markell to help stem the tide of the abuse of heroin and opioids in Delaware and the resulting overdoses and deaths. The new commission is tasked with studying overdose deaths in Delaware and reporting its findings on how to prevent opiate abuse and deaths to the Governor and General Assembly.