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REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA FEBRUARY 13, 2012 - 7:30 P.M. CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 15 LOOCKERMAN PLAZA DOVER, DELAWARE OPEN FORUM - 15 MINUTES PRIOR TO OFFICIAL MEETING (7:15 P.M.) The “Open Forum” segment is provided to extend the opportunity to the general public to share their questions, thoughts, comments, concerns, and complaints. Citizen comments are limited to three (3) minutes. Council is prohibited from taking action since they are not in official session; however, they may schedule such items as regular agenda items and act upon them in the future. INVOCATION BY CHAPLAIN WALLACE DIXON PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY COUNCILWOMAN WILLIAMS AGENDA ADDITIONS/DELETIONS * CONSENT AGENDA Those items on the Council Agenda which are considered routine and non-controversial shall be marked with an asterisk (*) and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the Council. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of Council so requests, in which event the matter shall be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered a separate item. * 1. Adoption of Minutes - Regular Council Meeting of January 23, 2012 2. Public Hearings - Violation of Dangerous Building Ordinance A. Property Located at 22 Fairwind Place (Owner Jackie S. Powell) B. Property Located at 123 Blue Beach Drive (Owner Deborah D. Statler) (Emergency Case) 3. Utility Committee Report - January 23, 2012 * A. Request for Alley Abandonment (Unimproved) - 16 Sackarackin Avenue - Alexis Bailey (At the Request of the Applicant, The Committee Took No Action) B. Reconsideration - Cost of Service Study (Committee Recommended Approval of the Proposal Submitted by Burns & McDonnell to Perform an Updated Electric Cost-of-Service and Rate Design Study for FY 2012 at a Cost Not to Exceed $28,500) * C. TEA/NAES Monthly Reports (October and November) (Committee Recommended Acceptance of the Reports) * D. Updates (Committee Action Not Required) * 4. Legislative, Finance, and Administration Committee Report - January 23, 2012 A. Proposed Ordinance #2012-03 - Related to Senior Citizen Income Exclusions (Committee Referred Back to Staff for Clarification of the Language) B. Minority Recruitment Committee Recommendations (Committee Recommended That the Minority Recruitment Committee (MRC) Report Be Referred to Staff for a Report Back to the Committee Within 60 Days) C. Public Comment Period (No Public Comments)

Council Agenda - February 13, 2012 Page 2 * 5. Safety Advisory and Transportation Committee Report - January 25, 2012 A. Discussion - Establishing City Emergency Operations Center (Committee Recommended Referral Back to Staff for a Report at the Next Committee Meeting) B. Update - Dover High School Construction (Committee Recommended That Staff Be Authorized to Send a Letter to Secretary Bhatt Relaying Support of the Signalization of the East Entrance Intersection, with Pedestrian Crossing, for the New Dover High School) C. Briefing on Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) Projects (Committee Action Not Required) D. Briefing on Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Projects (Report Not Provided) * 6. Monthly Reports - December 2011 A. Budget E. City Planner B. Chief of Police F. Dover Fire Department C. City Assessor G. Capital Investment Plan (CIP) D. City Manager * 7. Annual Reports A. Dover Human Relations Commission B. Planning and Community Development 8. Evaluation of Bids A. McKee Run Unit 3 Air Heater Repairs B. McKee Run Unit 3 Turbine Repairs and Transfer of Funds Between Capital Improvement Projects (CIPs) * 9. Reappointment Recommended by Council President Leary - Human Relations Commission - Aaron Yatskevich - Three (3) Year Term to Expire February 2015 10. Final Reading - Proposed Ordinance The First Reading of the following Proposed Ordinance was accomplished during the Council Meeting of January 23, 2012. Copies of the proposed ordinance are available at the entrance of the Council Chambers. A. Ordinance #2012-01 Amending Chapter 74 - Parks and Recreation - Silver Lake Boating Regulations 11. Council Members Announcements /tm S:\AGENDAS & MINUTES\Council-Agendas\2012\02-13-2012.wpd THE AGENDA ITEMS AS LISTED MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED IN SEQUENCE. THIS AGENDA IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE TO INCLUDE THE ADDITION OR THE DELETION OF ITEMS, INCLUDING EXECUTIVE SESSIONS.