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Votes at a glance: Sussex County Council approves contracts, sewer actions and funding on March 4, 2025
Summary
Sussex County Council approved a mix of professional service agreements, purchase orders, annexations, bond authorization and grant allocations during its March 4, 2025 meeting; a conditional-use request for a landscaping business was denied and one solar array hearing was deferred.
Sussex County Council on March 4, 2025 approved a set of professional agreements, purchase orders, annexations and funding measures and took separate votes on zoning and conditional-use items.
The council approved awarding a five-year professional aeronautical consulting agreement to Delta Airport Consultants for services at Delaware Coastal Airport; authorized the issuance of up to $9,963,400 in general obligation bonds tied to the Warwick Park septic elimination project (phase 2); approved two annexations into the Sussex County Unified Sanitary Sewer District (Travellini parcel and Bay Oaks subdivision); accepted a county engineering recommendation to purchase an elevated storage tank for the Inland Bay loop project and approved a related $1,903,250 purchase order to Pittsburgh Tank and Tower Group; and approved two budget items on the consent agenda. Council also approved $2,200 in county funding for American Legion Post 8 emergency aid to veterans, and passed two resolutions to pursue Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) applications, including an Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing resolution and authorization to submit applications to the state housing authority.
Council denied a conditional-use application to operate a landscaping business on a 5.04-acre parcel in the Georgetown area after hearing objections from adjacent neighbors and reviewing the planning and zoning commission recommendation. A conditional-use application for a 20-acre (of a 49.7-acre parcel) solar array in the Broad Creek area was deferred for further consideration.
Votes with recorded tallies where available: - Award professional aeronautical consultant agreement to Delta Airport Consultants (5-year RFQ): Motion carried; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Gruenbaum/Grunbaum/Kornbaum Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. - Ordinance authorizing issuance of up to $9,963,400 in general obligation bonds for Warwick Park septic elimination (phase 2): Motion carried; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Grenobaugh Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. The draft ordinance references potential principal forgiveness of up to $5,470,360 from the State Revolving Loan Fund with the remaining balance amortized at 2% over 30 years (as stated by engineering staff). - Purchase order to Pittsburgh Tank and Tower Group for an elevated treated effluent storage tank (Inland Bay loop project) in the amount of $1,903,250: Motion carried; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Bruno/Grunenbaum/Kornbaum Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. Presenter noted the tank is one of three ARPA-funded projects and will be used to control pressure on the distribution loop. - Delta Airport Consultants professional services agreement (Delaware Coastal Airport, five-year term): Motion carried; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Gruenbaum/Kornbaum Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. County engineering reported Delta was the only respondent to the RFQ. - Extension of time (subdivision 2021-05, Turnberry, formerly Unity Branch) — six-month time extension granted per planning & zoning recommendation: Motion carried; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Kornbaum Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. - Consent agenda (includes use of existing wastewater infrastructure agreement and one other consent item): Motion carried on voice/roll call as part of consent agenda; recorded roll call at vote: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Gruenbaum Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. - American Legion Post 8 emergency aid grant ($2,200 total; $2,000 from Councilmember Riley, $200 from Councilmember Lloyd): Motion carried; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Fenerbah Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. - CDBG-related resolutions (Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and authorization to submit applications): Both motions carried on roll call; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Grunbaum/Gruenbaum Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. - Annexation into the Sussex County Unified Sanitary Sewer District (Travellini parcel, Parcel 134-11-141): Motion carried; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Scrutinbach/Grunbaum Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. - Annexation into the Unified Sanitary Sewer District (Bay Oaks subdivision, Angola Neck area; exceptions noted for specified lots): Motion carried; recorded roll call: McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; McMillan Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. - Ordinance rezoning (Change Zone No. 2039) from B-1 to AR-1 for 5.171 acres in Baltimore Hundred: Motion carried; recorded roll call: Councilmember for the district voted yes and the roll call recorded McCarron Yes; Lloyd Yes; Cornwell Yes; Riley Yes; President Yes. - Conditional use application for a landscaping business (CU-2501) in Georgetown Hundred: Motion to grant failed. Recorded votes showed division; final outcome: application denied (council cited planning & zoning recommendation and testimony). Exact roll call recorded in the transcript shows multiple members voting no and the motion failed.
Several other staff reports and informational items were presented but did not require a vote (for example, briefing on engineering project completions and a briefing that the airport runway extension appears on the FAA-approved capital improvement plan). Council recessed to an executive session after the public hearings and votes above.
