UPDATED: Sussex County Receives Payment in Lieu of Taxes from Federal Government
UPDATED – 07/16/24 – The Sussex County Council recognized two retiring employees during this week’s meeting. Denise Burns who worked in the Finance Department. She was a county employee for nearly 18 years. Thomas Jefferson, Jr. was a Paramedic 3 / EMS and worked for the County for over 33 years!
Manager of Finance, Andrea Wall brought the Council a check from the Federal Government – from the US Department of the Interior – Fish and Wildlife Service. The check in the amount off $38,898 is a federal payment in lieu of taxes for the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge and represents payments under the Refuge Revenue Sharing Act – covering FY 2023. The funding is allocated to the Milford School District ($7549.88), Cape Henlopen School District ($24,455.00), Sussex Tech ($3471.17), Libraries ($359.11) and the County ($3062,84). The shares are based on the percentage of Refuge land assessed value in Sussex County that is within the School Districts – 23.14% in the Milford School District and 76.86% within the Cape Henlopen School District.
There were nine public hearing scheduled for the Council – 3 were sewer annexations – all were approved. There were six Conditional Use applications. The first five were approved with no comments from the public. The final application, CU No. 2431 on behalf of Play it Safe, LLC, is for a professional office and had a rougher time. It met with opposition from a neighbor who had issues with the number of entrances allowed and parking. The Council has deferred its vote on this matter and will revisit this at a future meeting.
The Sussex County Council will not meet next Tuesday, so the next meeting will be on Tuesday, July 30th.
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ORIGINAL STORY – 07/15/24 – The Sussex County Council will be back in session Tuesday – but not starting until 1pm. The Council will recognize several retiring County employees and also receive a check from the Federal Government that is in lieu of federal taxes for the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. At 1:30 there will be public hearings on three sewer district annexations and six Conditional Use applications. The meeting begins at 1pm in the County Administration building on The Circle in Georgetown.
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