| Bay Colony Marina Monthly Board Meeting |
October Board of Directors Meeting; October 28, 2025
Approval and web posting of Minutes from the September 2025 Monthly Board Meeting held on September 30, 2025.
Attendees: D. Bodnar, D. Shapiro, K. Moore, P. Hekl
Upfront Items for Information, Discussion, and Decision
- None
Marina Financial Update
- Review the Marina Monthly Budget spreadsheet
- Provide Slip transactions update
- Slips sold
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- New Slip Owner addresses
- Welcome email sent to new Slip Owners (David)
- Add email to Constant Contact List (Don)
- Slip sales – totals
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- 2025 – 7ea
- 2024 – 10ea
- 2023 – 10ea
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Marina Replacement Committee – MRC
- Conducted September MRC meeting
- Draft a shorter Marina Replacement Survey on potential ways forward
- Reviewing Capital Improvement loan information with banks
- Marina Replacement proposals; previous estimate August 2020 at $3.8M, and May 2023 at $4.35M; awaiting new 2025 estimates
Marina Maintenance Update
- Completed Maintenance
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- PJ (Carpenter) dock repairs – floats; triangles, aluminum covering – completion in October
- Replaced Pedestal and Marina Office building light bulbs – Board member conduct check at night to make sure all work – take off tape for those that work.
- New and Ongoing Maintenance
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- Re-trim around Marina basin – Dockmaster, Board, and MRC Volunteers
- Conduct dump run
Marina Business Update
- Previous Business
- Marina incidents
- Boating accident discussion between boat owners – completed
- Dockmaster purging and updating master files and display board
- Marina incidents
- New and Ongoing Business
- Dockmaster Tom completed season on October 26
- Slips for Rent and Sale on Marina website
- 2 x Slips for Rent; F-1, Negotiable, E-6: $7000
- 6 x Slips for Sale; A-6 $67.5K; C-5 $65.9K; F-10 $60K; F-15 $58.5K; F-22 $64.9K, F-6 $59.9K
- Constant Contact emails sent out
- Marina winterization – done
- MRC Survey – TBD
- Marina Dredge Update
- State and Federal Permits all submitted
- Dredge Permit Consultant, Verdantas – David Small, PE, and Savannah Budka, EiT
- Dredge material spoil site contract, April 3, 2025, deposit of $10K
- Land owner – Chris Magee, Frankford, DE
- Price is $10 per yard (4,000 yards x $10 = $40K)
- Dredging Company – develop and sign contract – Clarke Droney, Millville, DE
- Price is $45 per yard (4,000 yards x $45 = $40K)
- Tentative dredge date – determined by DNREC and USACE – Jan – Feb 2026
- Conduct bathymetric study in 2026 at the conclusion of dredging
- State and Federal Permits all submitted
- November – Mail Annual Letter and 2026 assessments; $1,200
Future Business
- Spring 2026 – Host Delaware Boater Safety Course conducted by the USCG Auxiliary Indian River Station. Cost is $20 per student. Include an Indian River Inlet familiarization portion for new Owners/Renters.
Next Monthly Board meetings and Special Board Meeting;
- November – Tuesday, November 25, 10:00AM
- December – no meeting
Next Marina Replacement Committee (MRC) Meeting;
- TBD