On February 11, 2026, the Town of Millsboro held a community meeting to recruit volunteers and gather public input for upcoming events and initiatives. Town Manager Jamie Burke, Mayor Bob McKee, Assistant Town Manager Ashley Sander, and Chamber of Commerce President Kim Benton led the session. Approximately 400 survey responses were received, with over 200 residents indicating interest in volunteering. The meeting focused on reviving the farmers market, planning the Millsboro 250 celebration, and other downtown revitalization efforts.
We're going to talk today. First off, just to let you know there are coffee in the back. And since you came out to help support Millsboro, we're going to give you a little parting gift. There's a Millsboro coffee cup back there. Feel free to take it with you. If we run out, I have back stock. But but just wanted to start the conversation. We have some projects coming up on the horizon. We can need some help. Or most importantly, is the farmers market. I don't know if show of hands. Has anybody been to a farmer's market in Millsboro? It was a really great setup out here. And um we need to bring that back. And to do that, we need to get market managers. And it's a it's a pretty straightforward uh opportunity for volunteers to come out on a Saturday. And what's what that role is is the liaison between the Department of Agriculture and the market members. And um, that's the one reason we haven't had a farmers market last couple of years. We haven't been able to get the volunteers to do that. So we don't really need anyone to take it for the whole summer. Um, if they wanted to, great. Uh, but if uh if they wanted to set up a team and somebody cover one week and somebody cover another week, that works as well. Um, there's training coming up in March. So we're looking to get those volunteers signed up so we can get uh in on the training with the department uh agriculture. And really the kind of things that you're looking at is just making sure that the vendors know the temperature their eggs are supposed to be at. Um they know this, they get the information. Um, but if the market with the department of agriculture sends an inspector down, they would talk to that market manager, and then that market manager would then talk to the people at the farmers market, whoever whatever their stand was uh to make sure that they are in compliance. So um we've done it in the past, it was a couple hours on Saturdays. Uh, we still would want to have it here in the town parking lot. We've got the advertising, we've got everything we need, but what we need is you. So um that's one of the things we've looking for for some time. And and I can turn it over to the mayor as well. There's some other opportunities we're looking for. Uh, some things simple as just a trash cleanup downtown. So uh we appreciate you coming out today, and we're we're looking forward to working with you moving forward. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Jamie. And and thank you all for coming. This is the probably the biggest turnout that I've seen for for requests for volunteers, which is excellent. And have to commend uh the assistant town manager Ashley Sander for sending out the survey and reaching out to so many people. We got 400 responses back. We've never had that kind of uh feedback before. And of the 400 people, 150 or more. It was over 200. I said they would volunteer to do something. So that so that's very very encouraging. Uh the farmers market is is something that could be a mainstay here. And it's an exciting time for Millsboro. The the opening of the bypass has done a couple of things for the town. It's taken some of the truck traffic away from the center of town, but it's also giving us the ability now to shut down the main street to have different festivals and fairs.