Agenda for Regular Meeting

Synopsis: 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 receive a multiple year grant from the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families in the amount of $67,500. The grant, which does not required a City match of funding, would enable the City to keep the William “Hicks”Anderson Community Center open on weekends for extended hours during the summer months of 2016 and 2017.

Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the City, through the Department of Parks and Recreation, to enter into a 2.5 year contract with Cintas Corporation for providing uniforms to approximately 26 Parks and Recreation Maintenance Division employees. The annual cost of the contract is $9,000 and contains one year renewal options under the same terms and conditions.

Synopsis: 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 Real Estate and Housing Department, to convey City ownership of six properties in the 800 and 900 blocks of Bennet Street to the Wilmington Housing Partnership (WHP). The WHP would redevelopment the properties for future homeownership opportunities.

Synopsis: This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be supporting the concept of “Open Data” whereby the City government encourages more citizen participation in the local government process by providing more government information that can be more easily accessed and shared. “Open Data” further supports the concept that governments today have access to software, applications and tools that can enable a government to collect, store, organize and share information in new and innovative ways.

Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Department of Public Works to initiate a series of new traffic and parking regulations as well as the rescission of certain traffic and parking regulations. Use this link to access a copy of the Ordinance www.WilmingtonDE.gov/government/ccagendawhich lists all of the proposed signage additions and deletions.

Synopsis: 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 Department of Public Works, to seek a $50,000 state grant for the purpose of allowing the City to conduct a cybersecurity assessment of the Wilmington Water Department’s Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. The grant is available through the Department of Health and Social Services. The assessment would be conducted by Allied Control Systems, Incorporated.

Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be codifying a current City policy that governs when vehicles may be immobilized or towed by the City because of non-payment of a citation or fine. Specifically, Council would be amending Chapter 37 of the City Code to direct that that an unpaid fine will not be considered towards boot eligibility until the appeal period for that citation or fine has expired. The Ordinance would make certain in law that because a citizen has an option to either appeal or pay the fine during an active appeal period, or to challenge the citation on appeal, that particular unpaid fine should not be counted toward eligibility for vehicle immobilization or towing.

Synopsis: 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 Real Estate and Housing Department, to declare these two properties as surplus which would allow the City to dispose of the properties.

Synopsis: 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 Real Estate and Housing Department, to declare this property as surplus which would allow the City to convey ownership of the property to Habitat for Humanity for future development.

Synopsis: 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 Real Estate and Housing Department, to purchase this property from the Wilmington Housing Partnership (WHP) in the amount of $42,250 from Neighborhood Stabilization Trust funds. The City would add this property to its current stock of homeownership-ready properties that the City will eventually convey to an eligible purchaser.

Synopsis: 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 Human Resources Department, to enter into a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with AFSCME Local 1102B for the period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018.

Synopsis: This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be supporting a $15.00 federal and state minimum wage and would be urging the State and Federal governments to enact such legislation or policies needed to bring about the new minimum wage throughout Delaware and the nation. The Resolution notes that Wilmington’s poverty rate for families with children under 18 years of age is more than twice the State of Delaware’s average. The Resolution also cites other reasons why the minimum wage should be increased such as evidence that persons who earn lower wages are more likely to become involved in criminal acts or instances of domestic violence.