| Bay Colony Marina Monthly Board Meeting |
November Board of Directors Meeting; November 25, 2025
Approval and web posting of Minutes from the October Monthly Board Meeting held on October 28, 2025
Attendees: D. Degidio, D. Shapiro, K. Moore, P. Hekl, Bill Hoyle.
Upfront Items for Information, Discussion, and Decision
- Tree Cutting – decision to cut down the dead tree by Colony Drive, as well as trim branches off Marina roof and private house bordering the Marina.
- Annual Letter – compile annual letter and annual assessments for mailing.
- Dredging – update and planning for 6xweek dredge period Jan – Mar.
- Gate and Restroom Codes. Change for the 2026 season. 4 x digits, 1-4.
- 2026 repairs. Budget dock repairs, mainly carpentry (PJ).
- Marina Replacement Committee (MRC) – Plan for 2026 to be able to brief at the Annual meeting.
- Winter construction – Bay Colony POA conducting drainage work off Colony Drive and the Marina parking lot in December/January.
- Parking lot striping – budget parking lot line striping for Spring 2026, ICW Bay Colony POA line striping for a better price.
- Slip Owner File Updates – send updates during the off season to those Slip Owners that use their slips to update their overdue insurance/boat registration.
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 – 9ea
- 2024 – 10ea
- 2023 – 10ea
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Marina Replacement Committee – MRC
- Draft a shorter Marina Replacement Survey on potential way 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) completed the 2025 dock repairs – floats; triangles, aluminum covering (budget for 2026 repairs)
- Replaced Pedestal and Marina Office building light builds
- Put out winter buoys and recovered buoy chains
- Repaired Summer red buoy bottom eye hook
- Repaired 3” water main break at Gate #1
- Shut off water to Docks and drained pipes
- New and Ongoing Maintenance
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- Re-trim around Marina basin for Winter
- Conduct dump run
- Winterize Marina office (once Bay Colony POA is done using office)
Marina Business Update
- Previous Business
- Marina incidents
- Boat accidents in Marina – too many this year.
- F-42 boating accident – did not find boat that was involved in accident
- 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
- 1 x Slip for Rent; F-11, Negotiable
- 5 x Slips for Sale; A-6 $67.5K; C-5 $65.9; F-6 $59.9K; F-15 $58.5; F-22 $64.9K
- Constant Contact emails sent out
- Marina winterization – almost done
- Annual assessments
- MRC Survey – TBD
- Marina Dredge Update
- State and Federal Permits submitted. Federal permit approved, awaiting State permit approval.
- 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 yrd (4,000 yrds x $10 = $40K)
- Provided a $10K down payment
- Dredging Company – develop and sign contract – Clarke Droney, Millville, DE
- Price is $45 ($55) per yrd (4,000 yrds x $45 = $180K)
- Tentative dredge date – determined by DNREC and USACE – Jan – Feb – Mar 2026
- Conduct bathymetric study in 2026 at the conclusion of dredging
- State and Federal Permits submitted. Federal permit approved, awaiting State permit approval.
- December – 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. POC Slip G-10 Renter – USCGA
Next Monthly Board meetings and Special Board Meeting;
- December – no meeting
- January 27, Tuesday, 10:00AM – Annual Assessment update (reduced Board)
- February 24, Tuesday, 10:00AM
- March 31, Tuesday, 10:00AM
- April 28, Tuesday, 10:00AM
Next Marina Replacement Committee (MRC) Meeting;
- TBD