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New Castle County entered a contract with Veteran Services CEO Joseph M. Walls, supporting an effort to create affordable transitional housing for veterans and unhoused people in Bear.

Henry laid out a gloomy fiscal landscape, detailing a deficit exceeding $36 million in the upcoming fiscal year — and a 17.2% tax hike and spending cuts needed to fill it.

Even the ordinance's most vocal opponents ended up voting in favor.

After an hour of public comment deeply in favor of regulations, County Councilmember David Carter said he wished he could pass the original draft. But his colleagues did not vote in favor of the such strict legislation.

The county received about $11 million in funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury through the SIPPRA Family HOPE Project.

The County Executive will now appoint the Board's chairperson, a decision that was previously left to the Boardmembers.

County officials expect to mail sewer bills to residents in the last week of January.

Councilmembers will vote on the ordinance Nov. 18.

New County Councilmembers heard the resolution presenting the partnership with Delaware Family Hope at Tuesday’s Council meeting.

Council members passed an ordinance to develop a payment plan for residents.