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REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA January 9, 2012 - 7:30 P.M. - Council Chambers - City Hall - City of Dover 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. Discussion of any item appearing on the agenda is prohibited and 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 COUNCILMAN LYNN 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 December 12, 2011 2. Proclamation - National Mentoring Month 3. Public Hearing/Final Reading - Proposed Ordinance #2011-29 The First Reading of the following proposed ordinance was accomplished during the Council Meeting of November 28, 2011. Copies of the proposed ordinance are available at the entrance of the Council Chambers. A. Appendix B - Zoning, Article 3 - District Regulations, Section 2 - General Residence Zones (RG-1 and RG-2), Subsection 2.4 - Conditional Uses (New Subsection (d)) and Article 6 - Off-Street Parking, Driveways and Loading Facilities, Section 3 - Required Off-Street Parking Spaces, Subsection 3.1 - Schedule of Requirements * 4. Special Safety Advisory and Transportation Committee Report - December 12, 2011 A. Traffic Signal Warrant Analysis for Weston Drive and Forest Street - Recommendation to Remove Signal at Ridgely Street (Committee Recommended Support for the Addition of a Traffic Signal at Forest Street and Weston Drive and the Removal of the Traffic Signal at Route 8 and Ridgely Street Once the New Signal is in Place) B. Update - Dover High School Construction Project (Committee Action Not Required)

Council Agenda - January 9, 2012 Page 2 * 5. Utility Committee Report - December 12, 2011 A. Net Energy Metering Tariff Revision (Deferred by Committee on November 28, 2011) (Committee Recommended Approval of the Revised Net Energy Metering Tariff Portion of the Electric Service Handbook and the Addition of a New Subsection "4.11 Definitions” to Section 4 of the Handbook) B. Review of Utility Related CIP’s (Electric and Water/Wastewater) (September and October) (Committee Took No Action) 6. Legislative, Finance, and Administration Committee Report - December 12, 2011 * A. Proposed Amendment to Personnel Policy - Compensatory Time (Committee Recommended Approval of the Revisions to Article III, the Pay Plan - Section 9, Overtime, of the City of Dover Personnel Policy) * B. Controller/Treasurer's Briefing on the Activity of the State Communications Tax Review Group (Committee Action Not Required) C. Review of Open Forum Rules (Committee Recommended that the Open Forum Rules Be Revised to Allow Discussion of Agenda Items, with the Exception of Public Hearing Items) * D. United Networks of America Letter of Agreement (Committee Recommended Tabling the Letter of Agreement with United Networks of America until Such Time that Some Type of Accounting Assurance is Provided to the City) * E. Public Comment Period (No Public Comments) * 7. Monthly Reports - November 2011 A. Budget D. City Manager F. Dover Fire Department B. Chief of Police E. City Planner G. Capital Investment Plan (CIP) C. City Assessor 8. Review and Recommendation - Filling Critical Positions - Police Officers (3) (On November 28, 2011, Council Referred the Matter to the City Manager, Controller/Treasurer, and Staff to Gather Data on the Costs to Fill the Police Officer Positions for a Preliminary Report Back to Members During the First Meeting in January 2012) * 9. Council Appointment - 2011/2012 Staff - Building Inspector - Ann Marie Townshend - Annual Appointment to Expire May 14, 2012 * 10. Appointment of Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation (DEMEC) Director and Alternate Director (Scott Koenig and Jeremy Johnson) * 11. Reappointments - Youth Advisory Committee - One (1) Year Terms to Expire January 24, 2013 A. Kenneth Anderson C. Chidinma Emenike E. Karly Jones G. Valerie Provotorova B. Kristen Dietz D. Dennis Hallock II F. Sonya Modi H. Rachel Voak * 12. Appointments Recommended by Mayor Carey - Human Relations Commission - Three (3) Year Terms A. Justina Hilary Brewington (To Fill the Unexpired Term of Maisha Britt - Term to Expire 2/2013) B. Linda Hackett (To Fill the Expired Term of Ivan L. Finney - Term to Expire 2/2015) 13. Council Members Announcements /tm S:\AGENDAS & MINUTES\Council-Agendas\2012\01-09-2012.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.