Camden Select Board to review meeting protocol; consider reducing windjammer, daysailer fees
Camden Harbor in August is normally packed full of boats and tourists. (File photo Lynda Clancy)
Camden Harbor in August is normally packed full of boats and tourists. (File photo Lynda Clancy)
CAMDEN — Two Camden Select Board members, Alison McKellar and Chair Bob Falciani, will commence their respective second terms in office Tuesday, July 21, when the board convenes for the first time following annual town meeting. The board will elect a chair and vice chair, in addition to addressing a business agenda that includes reappointing a police chief, fire chief, town manager and other municipal leaders.
Additionally, the board will discuss its own rules and order of conducting itself as a governing body during meetings. (See sidebar for those expectations).
The agenda also includes considering an expanded outdoor seating plan for 40 Paper, a restaurant on Washington Street, and a request by schooner and daysailer owners to reduce harbor fees this year, given the pandemic, resulting health and safety restrictions, and the financial effect on the yachting season.
“We have been asked by the town manager to submit thoughts about the 2020 season windjammer license fees,” wrote schooner owners Ray and Ann Williamson, Dennis Gallant and Candace Kuchinski, Jennifer Tobin & Garth Wells, and Barry King and Jennifer Martin. “Our wish is that the harbor budget remains balanced and serves the needs of the greater harbor community we value. Because we lack a big picture view of this years' harbor operating budget, we cannot offer any specific request. We would appreciate any reduction in the 2020 season windjammer license fees that you deem is in the best interest of the town.”
The Select Board will also consider conceptual travel lanes to be painted on Washington Street to clarify safer driving and walking parameters. The conceptual drawing outlines traffic calming markings and narrower lanes.
Also on the agenda is a scheduled discussion about brown tail moths and the town’s late summer remediation plans.
And, the town’s financial director, Jodi Hanson, will update the board on the town’s budget, and deliver an expense/revenue report.
She wrote in a July 16 memo that a preliminary summary indicates the town is doing relatively well, as it weathers the “COVID 19 storm.”
Underperforming accounts include the summer recreation revenue stream, with decreased enrollment of participants; uncollected revenues from the Opera House rentals, given that it was closed; and, permit collections of windjammers and daysailer permits are down, with limited tourist excursions.
She also reported the the Snow Bowl ended its fiscal year in better shape than anticipated, thanks to generous donations from the Ski Club, RMRA Foundation, season ticket sales, and a successful toboggan weekend.
TOWN OF CAMDEN
RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS FOR SELECT BOARD MEETINGS
July 21, 2020
A. The Select Board will meet on the first and third Tuesday evening of each month unless the Board decides at a prior meeting to hold special meetings and workshops, or not to hold a meeting.
B. The Select Board will hold its meetings in the John French Conference Room, unless an alternative location is selected. If a different location is selected, the Select Board must provide sufficient prior notice to make the public aware of the different meeting location.
C. The Select Board meetings will begin at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
D. A draft agenda will be transmitted to the local newspapers by close of business on Friday and be posted in a few prominent locations around Camden including the Town Office, Post Office, Public Library, Public Safety Building, and the town’s website. Any revisions to the agenda will be immediately posted to the website.
E. Select Board meetings will be recorded and broadcast on the government access Channel 1303 and are web streamed www.youtube.com
F. Agenda items and necessary back-up information must be submitted to the Town Manager’s Office no later than noon on the Wednesday prior to the meeting.
G. The Select Board will only act on items that appear on the final posted agenda unless the immediacy of the issue requires an item to be added to the agenda at the meeting.
H. The Select Board will follow the agenda order unless the Board decides to change the order.
I. The Select Board allows comments on agenda items. Comments are asked to be kept at three minutes and relevant to the agenda item. The Select Board will also set aside a time on every agenda that allows the public to speak on non-agenda items.
J. Three members are required to be present for a quorum. Three votes in the affirmative will be required for passage of a motion.
K. All persons attending Select Board meetings will be treated with respect. Approved by the Camden Select Board on
In addition to the oath we took:
- Prep for each meeting -
- Packet - read early
- Questions in advance, etc.
- It is your responsibility to come into the town office and sign the weekly payroll
- and accounts payable warrants and check your mailboxes at the Town Office
- At meetings - follow agenda - listen - be concise
- Most important - once we have voted on an item - we move on.
- Respect each person's view(s) - and make them feel welcome to express
- their opinion(s) - always in a civil manner.
- Keep executive session meeting discussions CONFIDENTIAL - (Stay on topic
- as it is printed)
- Audra is the Town Manager -
a. Always confer with Audra on any issue related to town employees. Select Board should not attempt to micro-manage the Town Manager or Department Heads.
c. Follow town policies as they are written and interpreted by town attorney. 4. Liaison to Committees / Boards -
- Keep in contact with committee / board chairperson
- Select Board liaison is there to listen not act as part of the committee/board or
- vote on any items.
- Attend when it is appropriate.
Select Board July 21 agenda
1. Select Board Organizational Meeting:
i. Swearing in of newly elected Board member by the Town Moderator
- Election of Select Board Chairperson
- Election of Select Board Vice-Chairperson
- Reappointment of the Town Attorney for the term July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 pursuant to Article v.
IV of the Town Charter.
Reappointment of the following for ensuing year, pursuant to Article II of the Town Charter:
a. Police Chief
b. Fire Chief
c. Overseer of the Poor (General Assistance Director)
Public Input on non-agenda items
Discussion of the Rules of Order to be followed at Select Board Meetings
Approval of Board Minutes from July 7, 2020
Approval of Request for Extension of Liquor License for 40 Paper to expand outdoor seating during COVID
Fees for Windjammers and Daysailers during COVID 19
Discussion on Advisory Lanes
Reappointment of the Town Manager pursuant to Article II, Section 5 of the Town Charter.
Reappointment of the Road Commissioner pursuant to Title 23 M.R.S. Section 2701
Reappointment of the Harbormaster pursuant to the Harbor & Waterways Ordinance, Article III, Section 3.
Confirmation of the Town Manager's appointments of the Treasurer, Tax Collector, and the Town Clerk and Department Heads pursuant to Article III of the Town Charter.
Browntail Moth: Mid-Late Summer Remediation Activities
AS WASTEWATER COMMISSIONERS
1. Discussion of the Rules of Order to be followed at Wastewater Commissioner Meetings.
Setting a Date for a Workshop on Priorities for Planning and Policy Development
2. Appointment of Chief Executive and Administrative Official of the Wastewater Department, and of the Superintendent of the Wastewat
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