September 18 Delco desk: health follow-up, election agenda and revised tax-sale list

Continuing health follow-up—not a new case: the county’s September 15 notice says an incarcerated person at George W. Hill tested positive for bacterial meningitis September 13. Close-contact tracing and preventive treatment covered potential exposure September 2–12. No newer release resolving the response was found. Personal health questions should go to a healthcare provider; the county wellness line is 484-276-2100.

Health response: latest published account September 15; resolution not verified. Election changes: agenda items—not yet voted. Tax sale: scheduled—not sold. No new material action found in the Council outcome records reviewed; this desk has not verified September 16 roll calls.

Delaware County Health Department; Board of Elections; Tax Claim Bureau; County Council.

Election agenda posted September 17 for September 22, 2026, at 9 a.m., County Council Room, 201 West Front Street, Media. County Council meeting under review: September 16.

No recorded vote.

• The new election agenda includes a report on mail/absentee ballot mailings and contingencies, a Lower Chichester drop-box removal item, and proposed polling-location changes affecting Aston, Darby Borough, Radnor, Springfield, Upper Darby and Yeadon. It lists no Marple or Newtown polling-place change. Voters should not treat proposed locations as final.
• The Tax Claim Bureau’s September 17 list contains 1,035 property records, counted by this desk. The auction remains scheduled for September 24 at 10 a.m. Owners, courts and public agencies may cause entries to be removed; the list is not a record of completed sales.
• County Council’s September 16 portal currently offers the agenda, packet, attachments and a recording, but this desk has not established the final action on the borrowing ordinance or major contracts. An agenda’s use of the word approval is a proposed motion, not proof it passed. No new vote tally is reported here.

Polling locations and ballot-distribution arrangements affect access to the November 3 election. The tax-sale revision has immediate property consequences. Debt and contract coverage must rest on confirmed outcomes, not agenda language.

• Why is removal of the Lower Chichester drop box proposed, and what alternative access will be available? The agenda supplies no explanation.
• What final amendments and roll calls accompanied the September 16 debt and contract decisions?

No materially comparable prior decision identified.

No discrimination or unequal access is alleged. Reasons, alternatives and final election-board action still need verification; no prior decision is treated as a valid comparator here.

• September 22, 9 a.m.: Board of Elections meeting, County Council Room, Media. Track the motion, affected precincts, public notice and exact vote on each change.
• September 24, 10 a.m.: scheduled upset sale; recheck the county’s current list.
• Next reporting checks: official health follow-up, September 16 roll calls and signed debt/contract documents.

• County meningitis notice — September 15
• County press-release index
• September 22 Board of Elections agenda — posted September 17
• County upset-sale page — list revised September 17
• September 17 sale list — local entries on PDF pages 108–109 and 111–112
• September 16 County Council agenda and attachments

None used. This report relies on official records only.

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