Town of Brooklin, Maine
Meeting of the Select Board
Tentative Agenda
Tuesday, July 27, 2010; 4: 10 p.m.
Brooklin Town House, Brooklin, Maine.
Item # 1: Call to Order
- Adjustments to the Agenda
- Minutes of Select Board meeting of June 13, 2010 (Vote)
Item # 2: Unfinished Old Business:
- Veterans Memorial
- Shellfish Committee
- Commitment book on Web and update on tax billing
- Concealed Weapons Permits.
Item # 3: New Business:
- Appointments to the committee to prepare drafts of ordinances regulating wind turbines and cell towers.
- Introduction of topic concerning public access to waters and in particular what neighboring towns have done to address this issue.
- Discussion on the charge to be given to Committee to be formed concerning the center of town and specific issues including speed, parking, walkways, lighting and signage. Appointment of committee chair.
Item # 4: Date of Next Agenda Meeting: (SuggestedS:August 10 at 4:10 pm)
Item # 5 Warrant(s):
July 13, 2010
July 20, 2010
July 27, 2010
Item # 6: Adjourn:
“Call for Volunteers”
The Select Board is asking for volunteers to help on committees with particular projects (i.e. above) in the Town. Should you be interested in helping Brooklin move forward in any of these areas, or others, please either phone a Selectman or come in to the Town Office Tuesdays, during Business Hours. Thank You!
Brooklin, Maine was incorporated as the town of Port Watson on June 9, 1849 and a few weeks later, the name was changed to Brooklin on July 23, 1849. The community was named for the brook line that separated the towns of Brooklin and Sedgwick.
The population was 841 at the 2000 census and the town has a total area of 41.2 square miles of which, 18.0 square miles of it is land and 23.2 square miles is water.
One of Brooklin’s best known residents was E.B. White author of “Charlotte’s Web”, “The Trumpet of the Swan” and “Stuart Little”. E.B. White was a long time writer for The New Yorker and he and his wife, Katharine, a founding editor of The New Yorker, are both buried in a Brooklin cemetery. James Russell Wiggins, a former Washington Post editor and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations also lived in Brooklin.
The village has a general store — truly the center of Brooklin and a great source for information — a restaurant, church, inn and town office building. It also has a village green enjoyed by hundreds during the 4th of July events every year, a wonderful library, several boat building businesses and the home of WoodenBoat Magazine and the WoodenBoat School.