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I ON SELECTMEN
+ Consider a citizen request for waiver of the noise by-law for a wedding on July 14, 2007. + Hear a review of the Municipal Space Needs Option Study. + Hear a review by the Police Department of the pilot program for electronic ticket enforcement. + Hear a departmental overview of the Finance Department + Act on a request for approval of FY 2007 end-of-year budget transfers + Act on a request for endorsement of FY 2009 budget and 2008 Annual Town Meeting timeline. AT ITS MEETING OF JUNE 6, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN: + Recognized the Lady Whaler softball team for their undefeated season. + Heard an announcement that the week of June 11 is the Nantucket Regional Transit Authority's "Do The Ride Thing" week to encourage use of alternative transportation rather than by individual vehicles. + Heard from Police Chief William Pittman that four new parking modifications downtown are going into effect to increase parking spaces. They include installation of trees along a portion of Centre Street so cars do not park on the sidewalk; reducing taxi parking by three spaces at Straight Wharf and New Whale Street and relocating a taxi zone to the area of Cap'n Tobey's to improve traffic flow; allowing one new parking spot on Federal Street; and, allowing a new parking space by the town building where the sheriff currently parks and providing him with another spot. In addition, the parking area on E. Chestnut Street by the police station will now be open for public use after 5 p.m.
+ Voted unanimously to grant a common victualler's license for Blue Water Bakery, which is opening a seasonal branch of its West Creek Road bake shop at 7 Old South Wharf. + Voted unanimously to grant a citizen's request for a variance from the Sanitary Sewer Policy for a pressure sewer on the Hayford premises at 41 Madaket Road.
+ Voted unanimously to deny a request from the Veterans of Foreign Wars for a waiver of the Parks and Recreation $1,000 fee for the annual carnival held at Tom Nevers Park. + Unanimously accepted, with appreciation for service, two resignations from the Council for Human Services by Michelle Meckler, who names other responsibilities as her reason, and by Patty Roggeveen, who believes that now that she is a selectman it is appropriate for her to step down from the council. + Unanimously approved a request from Sherburne Turnpike abutters for the town to accept a monetary gift to defray expenses of pending real estate transactions to convey excess county land on Sherburne Turnpike to abutters pursuant to Article 64 of the Annual 2007 Town Meeting. + Postponed for one week a hearing on a citizen request for a noise bylaw waiver for a wedding to be held at 15 Tristram Avenue on July 14.
+ Unanimously approved a request from the trustees of the Nanahumacke Preserve sub-division for the town to accept an easement grant as part of a requirement of the project approval. + Unanimously approved a request from the Roads and Rights of Way Committee for endorsement of a revised private road takings priority list, adding Macy's Lane from Hinsdale Road to Old South Road. The approval was for the revised list but not on its priorities. + Heard an update on the development of 2 Fairgrounds Road as a public safety facility with housing on the property. The facility design is expected to be completed this fall. Plant and animal environmental surveys should be finished this month. A Request for Proposals issued at the end of May for the housing component of the project. A report on town office space needs will be on the June 13 agenda. + Reviewed but took no action on a draft mission statement for the Harbor Plan Implementation Committee.
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