Attention

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent our advertisers

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

I'll Bet Many Of You Didn't Know This?


Delmar is quite the unique Town, or should I say, Towns? As you look at the photo above, this is an image Monday night of the Town Council Meeting. What was quite interesting was the fact that in the very center of the tables were TWO Mayor's. Every time Delmar has a Council Meeting, both Delmar, Delaware and Delmar, Maryland meet at the same time.

If you have business with Maryland you simply face to the right and in Delaware you face to the left. I thought it was pretty cool when the Maryland Mayor was looking for documents, the Delaware Mayor looked in his briefing materials and handed it to the other Mayor to help move things forward.

On the Delaware side, they're looking to fill one of the seats on their Town Council and some people were joking around that their Council Members don't always show up. In fact, that evening one seat was obviously empty but after 15 minutes or so another Council Member left the meeting apparently not feeling well, so they couldn't vote on anything because they didn't have a quorum.

So if you live in the Town of Delmar, Delaware, perhaps you'd be interested in filling that empty seat? It should also be noted that their meetings don't start till 7:00, when Citizens can actually make it to the meeting without excuses, unlike Salisbury. Also take note of the schedule/agenda below. And Louise, Gary & Shanie complain, (making the BIG bucks) about having meetings that last longer than 2 hours!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

lets not allow delmar to turn into salisbury, this town has history and is very unique being in two states. we need clear and honest leadership to grow, but grow right. i dont know but is there any program that would keep all the houses single family dwellings? i think the rental properties mess a place up.

Anonymous said...

I'd like to fill a vacant seat for the Delaware side since I am a resident, but how do I go about it?

Anonymous said...

Check in with Town Hall to find out the requirements for candidacy and filing for office, then go from there.

Doug, the excessive number of rentals and misused rentals in single family areas do mess things up. Thanks again, Baaaaarrie.

Anonymous said...

Delmar is already 65 percent rental.