WILMINGTON — Delaware’s top U.S. Small Business Administration official will retire at the end of May, leaving the state’s lone U.S. SBA office with just one employee to handle the full-time district field work.

Six employees—including a procurement representative, legal counsel and lending specialists —are currently tasked with handling Delaware-based U.S. SBA events and outreach from a downtown Wilmington office located in the I.M. Pei Building. But after U.S. SBA Delaware District Director Michelle Harris departs, only one staff member will remain to coordinate field operations with local agencies like chambers of commerce across the state as well as the Small Business Development Center.

Even though reports state the U.S. SBA has considered cutting staff by 40% in recent

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