CITY COUNCIL AGENDA Monday, December 9, 2013 6:00 p.m.

Government Office Building Room 301

Times shown for agenda items are estimates only.

6:00 p.m. CALL TO ORDER

6:01 p.m. WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS

6:03 p.m. INVOCATION/MEDITATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

6:10 p.m. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PRESENTATION

 Village of Hope – presented by Jasmine Rogers

6:20 p.m. ADOPTION OF LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

6:25 p.m. CONSENT AGENDA – City Clerk Kim Nichols

 November 18, 2013 work session minutes

 November 25, 2013 regular meeting minutes

 Resolution No. 2350 - accepting grant funds from the State of Maryland through the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to purchase mobile fingerprint scanners

 Resolution No. 2351 - supporting an application for the City of Salisbury to become a Maryland Smart Energy Community

6:30 p.m. AWARD OF BIDS – Assistant Director of Internal Services – Procurement & Parking Jennifer L. Miller

 Declaration of Surplus – W-16 JCB Backhoe

6:35 p.m. PRESENTATION OF AUDIT – Internal Services Director Keith Cordrey/Ms. Pam Baker (Barbacane, Thornton and Co.)

 FY13 audit and financial statements

7:00 p.m. PUBLIC HEARING/ RESOLUTION (COMCAST RATE FILING) – Interim City Administrator M. Thomas Stevenson

 Resolution No. 2352 - approving the calculation of maximum permitted rates for limited basic service and regulated equipment rates and installation charges as set forth in Comcast’s rate filing dated October 1, 2013

7:15 p.m. RESOLUTIONS – Interim City Administrator M. Thomas Stevenson

 Resolution No. 2353 - authorizing the Mayor to sign a renewal lease with the Tri-County Council for the Lower Shore of Maryland for the use of a grass strip on Calvert Street as a Shore Transit bus stop and transfer station

 Resolution No. 2354 - authorizing the Mayor to sign a renewal lease with the Tri-County Council for the Lower Shore of Maryland for the use of a grass strip and the sidewalk parallel thereto on Circle Avenue between the corner of Division Street and the entrance to Parking Lot #1 as a Shore Transit bus stop

 Resolution No. 2355 - accepting the donation of a desktop computer from the Delmarva Zoological Society for the Salisbury Zoological Park

7:25 p.m.

ANNEXATION RESOLUTIONS – Merritt Mill Road/Smith Annexation – Interim City Administrator M. Thomas Stevenson

 Resolution No. 2356 - approving the Merritt Mill Road/Smith Annexation and establishing a date for the public hearing

 Resolution No. 2357 - approving the Merritt Mill Road/Smith Annexation plan

7:50 p.m.

ORDINANCES – City Attorney Mark Tilghman

 Ordinance No. 2271 – 2nd reading – to establish a mechanical permit fee

 Ordinance No. 2272 - 1st reading - rezoning property (former Linens of the Week property) located on the Northerly side of Anne Street and on both sides of Short Street from General Commercial to R-5a Residential

 Ordinance No. 2273 - to authorize and empower City of Salisbury (the “City”) to issue and sell from time to time, upon its full faith and credit, General Obligation Bonds in one or more series in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed three million one hundred seventy-eight thousand dollars ($3,178,000.00), the proceeds of the sale thereof to be used and applied for the public purpose of financing, reimbursing or refinancing costs (as defined herein, which include issuance costs and capitalized interest) of the public purpose projects identified herein as: Riverwalk, Mainstreet Master Plan, Coty Cox drainage improvements, and Germania Circle

8:15 p.m.

PUBLIC COMMENTS

8:20 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT