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Committee reviews $2 million reassessment reserve appropriation for reassessment project
Summary
The Administrative Finance Committee reviewed Ordinance 25-139 to appropriate $2 million from a reassessment reserve to the county reassessment capital project; members asked whether the appropriation requires a supermajority and the chair said the council would confirm voting rules before the full-council vote.
Councilman John Cartier, chair of the New Castle County Administrative Finance Committee, introduced Ordinance 25-139 on Nov. 18 to amend the FY2026 capital program by appropriating $2,000,000 from the reassessment reserve to the Department of Administration’s reassessment 2024 capital project. "We set up [the reserve] to pay for expenses related to the reassessment, which has been completed," Cartier said, describing the appropriation as payment for remaining reassessment charges.
The matter prompted a procedural question from Councilman Smiley about the required voting threshold. Smiley asked whether funding drawn from the reassessment reserve requires a simple majority; a colleague said they would confirm the correct threshold. Chair Cartier said the committee would "confirm that issue on the four councils this evening when we take it to a vote." The committee did not record a final vote on the ordinance at this meeting.
The appropriation would use a dedicated reserve established to cover reassessment-related costs rather than the county’s general fund, a detail the chair emphasized as the rationale for using the reassessment account. The committee did not take action and deferred the ordinance for the upcoming council vote.
