The Finance Committee of Delaware, Ohio, met on August 28, 2025, at 3:03 PM in City Hall Council Chambers, adjourning at 4:08 PM. The meeting focused on presentations and discussion of the proposed 2026-2030 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) from the Public Works and Engineering departments. No public comments were received. The committee approved the motion summary from the August 19, 2025 meeting by voice vote.
Airport Improvements (Director Bill Ferrigno):
Solid Waste Equipment:
Street & Traffic Division Equipment:
Fleet Expansion: Not in current CIP but a high priority. Current five service bays are insufficient (400+ pieces of equipment). Staff is exploring design-build expansion at the public works facility, contingent on Parks Department moving to a new location.
Infrastructure Maintenance (Existing):
Engineering Projects (City Engineer Jonathan Owen):
Yep. All right, good afternoon, everyone. It's 303. We will call to order to the Delaware City Finance Committee meeting for August 28th, 2025. Roll call, please. Mr. Hoffman is not here yet. Ms. Sorry, Mayor Riggle. Chair Schaefer. Chair Safer. Okay. Good. Item two is approval of the motion summary. Approval of the motion summary at the Finance Committee meeting held on August 19th, 2025 as recorded and transcribed. All in favor say aye. Item three is public comment. Anything by email. I did not. Anyone here want to make comments before we start the meeting today. We will move on to roads, bike paths, parking lots, and all things transportation. Mayor, um Bill Farino for the record, public works director, and Jonathan Owen, City Engineer, will give the presentation of transportation and public works today. So I'm going to start. If I can figure this out. Thank you. Did you do that or did I do that? Okay. Airport improvements. So that would be page two of your capital improvement packet. So I want to talk about a couple of improvements out there and um just to start working off the image there, the uh yellowish-orange color there is an actual project. It's in the CIP, but under construction this year. Uh just to go over some of the highlights, and that's the uh paving of the taxi lanes around hangers DE and F, um, actually under construction right now. So in the CIP, the next uh project next to that, highlighted in green is the hangar C1C2 paving project. Um that project is in the CIP for next year, but it's pending funding um through the state. And um we don't know if we're gonna get that funding or not, as a lot of the projects left at the airport now are are based on potential state funding. We do have some AIG funding left, and um discretionary funding is always possible, but not enough for any one of the particular projects to fully fund. So projects from really this point forward after this year's project are largely dependent on successful state and FAA applications. So you can also see two uh of the red squares on there. Those are the two of the two of the projects. One is a fuel storage facility and one is a maintenance hangar project. Um the maintenance hangar project actually does appear in the CIP uh in out years out in construction out in 2029, but it also is um heavily dependent on potential additional funding because it right now it's showing a 1.3 million dollar um general fund CIP allocation, which we probably won't be able to maintain that at that point that year comes around. Uh but it is an important project as uh the current old hangar blocks full access to that um apron area behind where the jet stream hangar is. And for us to get a potential customer back there with additional large jet aircraft, we need that. We need our hangar moved so they can get the um wingtip clearance to get back onto that pavement. So the next slide really shows a couple of the equipment, and I want to talk first about the actually image to the right is the Jet A fuel farm. That is not currently included in the CIP. It was um in prior CIPs. Uh and up to this point, that project of the FAA um and state does not pay for um reconstructing or relocating existing fuel farms on airport grounds. However, we just received last week notification from the state that they have um twelve million dollars in potential grant funding, and one of the eligible projects is fuel farm. So we um I'm send essentially putting us on notice right now that we are gonna put an application in October.