Zidek said that as the county authorized DELCORA’s 1971 creation under the state Municipality Authoroties Act, so too could the county terminate it. Zidek and Madden decried the sale at the time as politically motivated and claimed it was a reward for Aqua’s support of Republican candidates.Ĭounty took a further step in May by drafting an ordinance to terminate DELCORA and transfer its assets to the county. The Republican-control county council then voted in December 2019 to amend DELCORA’s articles of incorporation and grant it the ability to establish a trust “to exist for the benefit of rate payers to distribute to rate payers some or all of the proceeds received from any transfer and sale” of the authority’s assets. Environmental Protection Agency Long-Term Control Plan. The board said the plan was meant to save the average retail customer $1,400, help offset almost $1.2 billion in new and ongoing capital costs over the next 20 years, and control costs associated with regulations under the U.S. It indicated the $276.5 million purchase price would be used to pay off outstanding debt and to invest in a rate stabilization plan. The DELCORA board – appointed by county council – unanimously approved the merger with Aqua in September 2019. Council filed suit in April to block creation of the trust as part of the merger deal that was set up in late 2019 under the 3-2 Republican-controlled county council.ĭELCORA, an independent municipal authority overseen by a nine-member board, treats wastewater for roughly 500,000 customers in 42 municipalities in Delaware and Chester counties. 28 order from Common Pleas Judge Barry Dozer upheld DELCORA and Aqua’s agreement to a merger and creation of a ratepayer trust over objections from county council. The court battle over DELCORA saw some resolution in the waning days of the year.
Hill Correctional Facility and DELCORA – and both would be focal points of 2020. Two county institutions had figured into the 2019 campaign – George W.
The three Democrats joined fellow party members Kevin Madden and Brian Zidak to give their party control of county government for the first time since the Civil War. January saw newly elected county Councilwomen Elaine Paul Schaefer, Christine Reuther and Monica Taylor, Ph.D., take their seats on the five-member panel. The Times will now look back at the stories that played out through a year like no other in recent memory. Residents said goodbye to figures of local, state and global renown, longstanding legal controversies resolved while new ones emerged, and the government officials and business owners adjusted to the coronavirus-challenged landscape. soil and the biggest political power shift in a century-and-a-half coming to the Media Courthouse, life continued on Delaware County throughout 2020. Beneath the upper strata of the largest pandemic in a century touching down on U.S.
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