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History of Elsmere, Delaware:
Elsmere Is A Town Located In New Castle County, Delaware. As Of The 2000 Census, The Town Had A Total Population Of 5,800.
The Town Was Incorporated In The First Third Of The 20th Century To Keep The City Of Wilmington From Annexing The Area, Which Abuts Wilmington On That City's Southwest. By The End Of The Century, Mismanagement And Embezzlement By Elsmere's Mayors, Town Councilors, And Town Managers Had Bankrupted The Town, So That It Had To Cut Back On The Services Supposed To Be Provided To Residents And Paid For By Elsmere's Property Taxes.
Among The More Widely Publicized Of The Town's Problems Were:
Misappropriation Of The Town's Funds In The 1990s By Town Manager Janice S. Almquist, Who Then Used The Money To Fund Her Unsuccessful Campaign For A State Elective Office, Leaving The Town Without Enough Money For Basic Services, Such As Snow Removal And Garbage Pick-up, So It Imposed A One-time Tax On Its Residents, In Addition To The Annual Property Tax, To Replace The Funds Almquist Unlawfully Paid Herself And Her Relatives And Associates. (State Auditor Thomas Wagner, Jr., Whose Audits Are Usually Kept Confidential, Made His Report Of The Diversions Of Elsmere's Funds Public, Offering Free Copies By Mail And On The Internet. It Showed That, Besides Almquist, The Town's Police Officers' Pension Plans Had Also Received Unauthorized Monies.)
Sexual Misconduct By Its Police Officers, Who Also Conducted A Notorious "speed Trap" For Years Along Kirkwood Highway Within The Town's Limits, But The Latter Problem Was Solved In 2002 By The Installation Of Traffic Lights At Most Of The Intersections In That Stretch Of The Highway.
The Closing Of The Apartment Complex (Fenwick Park Apartments), In Autumn Of 2002, Where The Elsmere Police Spent Much Of Their On-duty Time With Alleged Prostitutes, For The Stated Reason That The Buildings Were Contaminated With Toxic Mold, Resulting From Flooding From The Nearby Creek A Decade Earlier -- Most Of The Residents Of The Apartments Were Of Other Races Than White, And They Were Evicted With Only Hours Of Notice. External Link: Local News Article (http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2002/10/25ingdirecthelpsf.html)
Continuing Litigation Since The Early 1990s With Various Residents Of The Town Who Complained About Certain Instances Of The Town's Officials' Misconduct, Including Some Who Petitioned To Amend The Town's Charter To Get Rid Of The Corrupt Officials And Separate Litigation Against Libertarian K. Kay Shearin, A Resident Of The Town Who Served As An Election Judge In Its Mayoral Election In 1993 And Claimed That The Election Almquist Supervised Was Fraudulent. (Local News Articles)
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