The Millsboro Town Council met on Monday, June 1, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. (later voted to move future meetings to 6:00 p.m.). The meeting covered public comments on stormwater issues, downtown development, and road conditions; police department updates including a new victim advocate and a request for additional sergeants; budget approval; a contested decision on which town-owned properties to include in a request for proposals (RFP); and numerous routine approvals.
Like to call the meeting to order, please. Today is Monday, June 1st. This is a meeting of the Millsborough Town Council. Please stay in and drum me in the Pledge of Believers. Miss Connor? Here. Miss Rider Fox? Here. Bob McKay. Present. Mr. Burke. Present. Miss Sunder. Present. Mr. O'Neal? Present. Mr. Mason. Present. Mr. Presley. President. So moved. All the favorite? All right. Motion fest. Public comments. First one up is Mark and Lori Kalpis. Hi, good evening. Um, yeah, my name is Mark Kapas, and with me is Lori Kopas. And uh tonight we wanted to take our three minutes to discuss uh a lot of the uh uh land and erosion problems that exist in plantation lakes. And it's been going on since uh 2014. So I I figured I might kind of bring you up the date, but it it's um it's a long-standing stormwater management issues that have been affecting our community, inclusion including erosion sinkholes, drainage failures, and uncontrolled runoff. The problems are not new, as I said, it's been since 2014, and uh residents have been reporting them for years, but you know, between the HOA and everything else, they just say they're going to get to it maybe you know next year. And that includes the HOA is as well as Lenar. But what began is isolated concerns has become a uh community-wide uh issue, impacting community areas, retention basins, and neighborhood properties in several locations. Significant erosion has wash away soil and vegetation. Retention basin areas have developed sinkholes and depressions that raise concerns about structural stability and public safety. During storm events, runoff flows through the areas where drainage systems appear unable to properly manage the volume of water being discharged. These conditions are not merely cosmetic landscape concerns. They involve critical stormwater infrastructure that was designed to protect homes, common areas, waterways, walkways, downstream properties from flooding and erosion. Residents have reportedly uh uh have uh re reported that these deficiencies uh to the appropriate parties uh have sought inspections, corrective actions, and transparency regarding the condition of stormwater facilities. However, many of the concerns remain unresolved. We respectfully request that the township and relevant agencies conduct a comprehensive inspection of the stormwater management system serving the community, and that was already outlined. Uh uh much of this was outlined, or some of this was outlined in an email to the township made by Lori uh on June 1st, if you want to go back and reference or excuse me, May 19th. And yeah, now here we are, June 1st, and we we haven't heard from anybody, so yeah. But in any event, if you can help us out to evaluate the erosion and sinkhole problems for public potential safety and environmental impacts, determine whether the the facilities are functioning as originally and designed and approved, ensure the responsible parties address deficiencies and implement necessary repairs, keep residents informed regarding finding directive action. And greatly appreciate it.