Agenda for Regular Meeting

Synopsis:  This Substitute Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval.  This Substitute Ordinance creates a municipal loan program, to be administered by the Department of Real Estate and Housing, to provide eligible homebuyers with loans of up to $15,000 to assist with down payment or settlement costs related to the purchase of a primary residence in the City of Wilmington.

Synopsis:  This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution authorizes the Office of Economic Development’s grant applications to the Transportation Infrastructure Investment Fund program in the respective amounts of Three Million Six Hundred Seventy Three Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($3,673,800.00) and One Million Three Thousand Three Hundred Dollars ($1,003,300.00). The funds will be used to (i) elevate the existing roadway system on East 7th Street and (ii) add drainage pipes to improve drainage to alleviate flooding concerns of business owners located on the 7th Street Peninsula.

Synopsis:  This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval.  This Resolution authorizes the Office of Economic Development’s grant application to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Rebuilding   American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity grant program in the amount of Seventeen Million Dollars ($17,000,000.00). The funds will be used to construct a new, expanded network of roads branching from South Market Street that will extend the Wilmington grid system for pedestrian and cyclist accommodations on roadways.

Synopsis:  This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval.  This Resolution approves the second amendment to a lease between the City and Comcast Cable Communications, LLC f/k/a Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.  “Comcast”) that allows Comcast to operate a building used for cable television equipment and a utility shed to house utilities used in  connection with local services at 1400 Concord Pike (also known as the Porter Reservoir).  The second amendment will (1) extend the term  of the lease for five (5) additional years commencing on February 15, 2022, with the option to extend the lease for one (1) additional five-year term thereafter and (2) increase the rent payable by Comcast to the City under the lease to $48,381.00 for the first year of the second amendment, with an increase of three percent (3%) annually for each year thereafter.

Synopsis:  This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval.  This Resolution amends the composition of the City Council Taskforce to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans to add a current Wilmington City  Councilperson.

Synopsis:  This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval.  This Resolution appoints Nigel Sanderson as a Producer for the 108th Session of the Council of the City of Wilmington. 

Synopsis:   This Resolution is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Resolution appoints Kendra Brumfield-NaWangna as the Legislative & Policy Analyst for the 108th Session of the Council of the City of Wilmington. 

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance approves various parking regulations in the City, including the addition and removal of certain bus stop signs, related to the DART Service  Change/Wilmington Transit Corridor Improvement for Orange and King Streets.

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to enter into a contract with USI Insurance Services LLC for property and casualty insurance brokerage services for the period of one (1) year from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, with the possibility of three (3) extensions of one (1) year each thereafter upon the same terms and conditions.

Synopsis:  This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council’s review and approval. This Ordinance authorizes the City to enter into a contract with USI Insurance Services LLC for life and health insurance brokerage services for the period of one (1) year from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, with the possibility of three (3) extensions of one (1) year each thereafter upon the same terms and conditions.

Synopsis:  This Substitute Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval. This Substitute Ordinance  amends Chapter 2 of the City Code to codify the continued existence of the “Wilmington Neighborhood Conservancy Land Bank Corporation” (the “WNCLB Corporation”), which was previously authorized as the sole and exclusive land bank for the City of  Wilmington by Substitute No. 1 to Ordinance No. 15-040 (As Amended) (“Ordinance No. 15-040”).  This Substitute Ordinance also revises the membership of the Board of Directors of the WNCLB Corporation as originally established in Ordinance No. 15-040 as follows: (i) replaces the Board Chair of the Wilmington Housing Partnership Community with the Community Development & Urban Planning Committee Chairperson for Wilmington City Council and (ii) replaces the Finance Committee Chair of the Wilmington Housing Partnership and three (3) individuals working within the limits of the City of Wilmington as a community reinvestment officer or equivalent position for a bank or financial institution as designated by a majority of the other members of the Board of Directors of the WNCLB Corporation with four (4) representatives from the local community or community groups in the City of Wilmington designated by the Board of Directors of the WNCLB Corporation.