Public Comment

Public Comment

Call to Order

Item II

Approval of Minutes

Item III

Committee Reports

Item IV

Acceptance of Treasurer’s Report

Item V

Non-Legislative Business
All Council Sympathy Mrs. Mary E. Watson
All Council Recognize Cornerstone Baptist Church 23rd Anniversary
All Council Recognize Lolita Lopez – Westside Family Health 25th Anniversary
Chukwuocha 50th Anniversary Linda and Elliott Smith
Gregory Recognize National NAACP and Richard Smith
Gregory Sympathy Theodore Spaulding
Shabazz Recognize Dorothy Taylor Thompson 75th Birthday
Williams Recognize Darion Gray
Wright Recognize Shiloh Baptist Church 27th Anniversary
Wright Recognize Faith-Based Recovery Celebration Day at Ezion Fair Baptist Church

Item VI

Legislative Business
PRADO
#4095 A Resolution Declaring Prospective Properties as Surplus
Synopsis: This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for City Council’s review
and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Department of Real Estate and
Housing (RE&H) to declare 23 city-owned properties as surplus for the purpose of allowing
them to be disposed of by RE&H. Such disposal could include rehabilitation and sale to a
private owner. The properties are located at 860 N. Bennett Street, 854 N. Bennett Street, 414 E.
10th Street, 934 N. Pine Street, 2702 Moore Street, 858 N. Spruce Street, 860 N. Spruce Street,
509 Concord Avenue, 2227 Lamotte Street, 316 New Castle Avenue, 20 South Street, 608 E.
11th Street, 400 W. 30th Street, 402 W. 30th Street, 917 N. Bennett Street, 10 E. 23rd Street, 728
E. 10th Street, 916 N. Bennett Street, 914 N. Kirkwood Street, 2907 N. Market Street, 0
NS Green Street, 301 S. Heald Street and 405 S. Claymont Street.
WILLIAMS
#4080 An Ordinance to Amend Chapter 5 and Chapter 42 of the City Code Regarding
the Creation of a Pilot Program of Regulations Surrounding Mobile Food
Vending Units (1st & 2nd Reading)
Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration and City Council for City
Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the City to establish
a pilot program for mobile food vending vehicles to park on City streets in metered parking
spaces that are designated by the Commissioner of Public Works. The pilot program will begin
when this Ordinance becomes law and will end on June 30, 2016. Licensed, inspected and
properly permitted food vending vehicles would be given an opportunity to reserve Citydesignated
parking spaces on a daily basis from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and during evening hours. Each
approved food vendor would pay the City a daily fee of $22.00 which is an amount that would
cover the daily average income of two metered parking spaces which would be required to
accommodate a food vending vehicle. Each vendor would also pay a transactional fee to an
online vendor approved by the Public Works Commissioner which would handle the daily
scheduling of the locations which the mobile food vendors would reserve. Under this Ordinance,
a food vending vehicle operator will be allowed to conduct business if he/she has a valid State
and City business license, has passed a safety inspection by the City Fire Marshal’s Office and
has obtained proper insurance and State health inspection documentation, all of which has been
verified by the City’s Department of Licenses and Inspections. Currently, food vending trucks
are only required to be inspected by the City Fire Marshal’s Office prior to a special event in the
City.
#4096 An Ordinance to Amend Chapter 40 of the City Code Regarding Employees’
Disclosure of Delinquent Property Taxes, Water/Sewer Fees, Licenses and
Inspections Fees, Fees Related to Parking or Red Light Violations, or Other
Obligations Owed to the City (1st & 2nd Reading)
Synopsis: This Ordinance is being presented by City Council for Council’s review and approval.
If approved, Council would be authorizing amendments to Chapter 40 of the City Code that
would require City employees to report annually any outstanding delinquencies to the City in
taxes or fees. Specifically, this Ordinance would require all elected and appointed City officials
to file an annual declaration of delinquent obligations with the City’s Human Resources
Department by the last day in January. Employees would have to declare if they were delinquent
on property taxes, water/sewer fees, license and inspection fees, parking or red light fines or
fees, or any other obligation owed to the City. Failure to comply with the law would result in
disciplinary action up to and including discharge.
FREEL
#4097 A Resolution Declaring the City of Wilmington to have a Vacancy Rate in Excess
of Three (3%) Percent for Residential Structures Located within the Limits of the
City of Wilmington. The Delaware Neighborhood Conservation and Land
Banking Act Requires the City of Wilmington to Make this Finding in Order to
Proceed with the Formation of a Land Bank that will Service the City of
Wilmington
Synopsis: This Resolution is being presented by the Administration and City Council for
Council’s review and approval. If approved, Council would be declaring that the vacant
residential property rate in the City of Wilmington exceeds 3% of the total number of residential
properties in the City. Such a public declaration of a vacancy rate in excess of 3% is required by
the State of Delaware’s law which enables Land Banks to be established. Wilmington’s vacant
residential property rate stood at 16% in calendar year 2013 and at 15% in calendar years
2012, 2011 and 2010.
#4098 An Ordinance to Authorize the Establishment of the Wilmington Neighborhood
Conservancy Land Bank (1st & 2nd Reading)
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 establishment of
a non-profit corporation to be known as the Wilmington Neighborhood Conservancy Land Bank
Corporation (WNCLBC), granting this entity all of the rights and powers provided to a Land
Bank by the Delaware Code. The Ordinance also establishes the composition of the Board of
Directors of the WNCLBC which will serves as the management of the Land Bank as well as the
WNCLBC Technical Board comprised of State, City and community-based organizations which
will advise the WNCLBC. A land bank is a public authority created to efficiently hold, manage
and develop vacant/blighted properties and acts as a legal and financial mechanism to
transform vacant, abandoned and tax-foreclosed property back to productive use. A land bank
can revitalize blighted neighborhoods and direct reinvestment back into these neighborhoods to
support a comprehensive or longer-term community vision.

Items VII & VIII

VII. Petitions and Communications
VIII. Adjournment