News Briefs 3/26/24
Virtual meeting March 27 on Deauville
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will host a virtual community meeting at 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 27, to present information about the transition of management for Deauville Beach from Rehoboth Beach.
The DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation will share a proposal for daily entrance fees and seasonal pass for use of Deauville Beach.
DNREC will provide lifeguards, parking, beach concessions, tennis courts, public restrooms and beach maintenance.
To join the March 27 virtual meeting, go to de.gov/dnrecmeetings.
Dewey board of adjustment to meet
The Dewey Beach Board of Adjustment will reconvene at 6 p.m., Thursday, April 4, at the Lifesaving Station, 1 Dagsworthy Ave., to discuss and possibly vote on three variances requested by homeowners of 1 McKinley Ave., Unit 11.
Property owners are seeking relief from setbacks to permit construction of a third-floor addition to extend 2-feet-2-inches into the 8-foot side-yard setback, to permit construction of a third-floor addition to extend 18-feet-7-inches into the 22-foot front-yard setback, and to permit construction of a second- and third-story deck to extend 4-feet into the 8-foot side-yard setback.
The meeting has been rescheduled from an original March 19 date and is a continuance of the Feb. 21 meeting in which the requests were first introduced. For the full agenda and meeting link, go to townofdeweybeach.com.
Rehoboth formally adopts budget
Following an error made during a March 15 meeting, Rehoboth Beach commissioners formally approved the Fiscal Year 2025 budget during a special meeting March 25.
As approved, the budget for the next fiscal year, which begins April 1, is $38,570,390. There was roughly an $80,000 discrepancy from the budget approved March 15 and the actual budget, which was related to not calculating the $100,000 removed from the administrative contingency fund and not accounting for the surplus from property taxes being raised.
