CAMDEN – Select Board action items June 6 include improving water testing and monitoring in Megunticook Lake and River and amending parental leave policy.

The Megunticook Watershed Association proposes to merge the Association and town’s water quality monitoring programs and to begin a water level monitoring program. The Association would serve as lead organization in administering the program.

The new program would provide the town with more data, in many more locations on the Megunticook River and Lake, provide much improved data on the health of the Watershed, and help all municipalities in the watershed better understand and address sources of degradation to water quality, Town Manager Audra Caler writes.

The Board will consider a recommendation to change current parental leave policy. The change would provide six weeks of paid parental leave and then allow employees to cover the remainder of the 12-week period allowed under the Family Medical Leave Act with accrued sick and/or vacation time. Current policy requires use of existing accrued sick and vacation leave, and then unpaid leave if accrued leave is depleted.

Select Board meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. in the French Conference Room on Washington Street, broadcast live on Spectrum Cable TV channel 1303 and web streamed at: www.youtube.com/TownofCamdenMaine. The full agenda packet can be viewed here.

Agenda

1) Public Comment on non-agenda items

2) Approval of Minutes from May 2nd and May 16th

3) Public Hearings
a) Application of Brevetto, LLC, d/b/a 40 Paper at 40 Washington Street for a renewal Class A Restaurant/Lounge Liquor License
b) Application of Barren’s Restaurant at 2 Wayfarer Drive for a renewal Class A Restaurant/Lounge Liquor License
c) Application of Camden Deli at 37 Main Street for a renewal Class I Restaurant Liquor License
d) Application of Captain Swift Inn at 73 Elm Street for a renewal Class V Bed & Breakfast Liquor License
e) Application of Salt Wharf at 3 Wayfarer Drive for a renewal Class A Restaurant/Lounge Liquor License
f) Application of Camden Windward House at 6 High Street for a renewal Class V Bed & Breakfast Liquor License

4) Consent Agenda
a) Renewal Victualer & Lodging Establishment Licenses: Camden Deli, Captain Swift Inn, Lyman Morse Crewquarters, Normbega Inn, Scott’s Place, and Timbercliffe Cottage Bed & Breakfast
b) Taxicab Operator’s (Driver’s) License for Ellen Curtis
c) Application for telephone pole at Rawson Avenue

5) Action Items
a) Amend Harbor Dogs License Agreement
b) Appointment of Conservation Commission Member(s)
c) Approval of revocable license with Reeves for paving of driveway on Central Street
d) Transfer of Lazy Jack Daysailer License
e) Proposal from Megunticook Watershed Association for Water Quality Monitoring
f) Personnel Policy Amendment: Paid Parental Leave
g) Authorization to Pay the Balance of Lease/Purchase for Knox Mill & Knowlton Street Parking Lots

6) Management Reports & Communications

7) Select Board Report