Agenda for Regular Meeting

Synopsis: This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Department of Parks and Recreation to accept a $342,100 grant from the Delaware Department of Labor to pay the wages of youths who are employed as part of the City’s Summer Youth Employment Program from June 16 throughAugust 22, 2014. This funding will enable the City to employ approximately 273 youths.

Synopsis: This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Parks and Recreation Department to accept a $526,000 federal grant administered through the Delaware Department of Education to fund the Summer Food Service Program. This program would be available to youths who are involved in both City and non-City managed summer youth programs. There is no financial impact on the City by the acceptance of this grant.

Synopsis: This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be urging the U. S. Congress to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act which supports technical and career training (CTE) programs throughout the United States. Council would be also be supporting the efforts of a non-profit, bi- partisan group called Opportunity Nation which has joined with 200 companies around the nation to support the reauthorization of the law and to support the premise that CTE programs are key to overcoming the skills gap thus providing greater opportunities for America’s youths and adults to gain meaningful employment.

Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and
approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing changes to Chapter 37 of the City Code by adding a section creating a parking permit program for certain non-profit organizations that are located only in the City’s 4th and 5th Council Districts. Under the terms of the Ordinance,
certain non-profits would be eligible to receive no more than four permits to be used by patrons of eligible non-profits. The permits would be administered by the Department of Finance. Non- profits seeking such permits would be required to demonstrate that no contiguous off-street parking is available for patrons. Organizations seeking such a permit would also be required to obtain a petition in support of its request from 80% of the residents and/or business owners on the block in which the non-profit is located. The program would be reviewed for effectiveness

by the Department of Public Works at the end of one year of operation.

Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing a one-year contract (with the possibility of two, one-year extensions with the same terms and conditions) for animal control services for the City. The City would pay the Kent County SPCA, also known as First State Animal Center and SPCA, a sum not to exceed $600,000 per year (or $50,000 per month) for animal control and related services as outlined in the contract attached to the Ordinance. The agreement would begin on July 1, 2014 if approved by City Council.

Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, the Ordinance would be authorizing new language to the City’s existing noise control and abatement law to prohibit excessive noise coming from within a dwelling. Specifically, the new language would prohibit citizens from yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or otherwise making or generating any loud or raucous sound within a dwelling or structure that is plainly audible across real property, through common property partitions, or audible at a distance of 50 feet or more from the property boundary. The revision to the law would apply if any loud or raucous sound unreasonably annoys or disturbs persons of normal sensitivities who live or are located on adjacent parcels or in adjacent dwelling units.

Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration and City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Department ofPublic Works to make changes in traffic and parking regulations affecting certain streets in the City. Streets affected by this Ordinance include portions of the following roadways: West 17thStreet, West 6th Street, North Scott Street, West 3rd Street, West 4th Street and King Street. Additional details about this Ordinance are available atwww.WilmingtonDE.gov/government/ccagenda.

Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing changes to Chapter 36 of the City Code related to prohibitions against smoking in parks, playgrounds, public plazas and transit facilities. Persons smoking in publicly-owned outdoor areas open to the public are subject to a misdemeanor citation and a $50 fine for the first offense, a $90 fine for a second violation within three months of the first violation and a $100 fine for all subsequent violations. Warnings may be issued to those violating the anti-smoking laws by employees of the Parks and Recreation Department, State Division of Parks, Downtown Visions or DART Transportation Corporation. The Ordinance also stipulates that no person shall receive a citation or fine unless smoking prohibition signage that is readily visible to the public are posted at the entrances to areas where smoking is prohibited. The intent of this proposed law is to protect non-smokers from involuntary exposure to environmental tobacco use.

Synopsis: This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Parks and Recreation Director and the Manager of the Division of Procurement to transfer the title of a lawn mower which has been declared as surplus by the City to the non-profit Friends of Mt. Zion Cemetery. Officials of the non-profit, who along with volunteers, maintain the Mt. Zion and Mt. Olive cemeteries have requested that the City donate the 2009 Toro Groundmaster 7200 lawn mover to the organization.