AT ITS MEETING TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN WILL:
• Hear a request to relocate a pole on Candle House Lane.

• Consider whether to renew the annual all alcoholic beverages innholder license for the Jared Coffin House (tabled from Dec. 12).

• Hear a town clerk's request for appointment of election officers.

• Hear a request from Our Island Home to accept a gift of a new dishwasher from Marine Home Center for use at the Adult Community Day Center.

• Hear a request from Nantucket Memorial Airport for execution of documents regarding a transfer of property at 58 Madequecham Valley Road (home of the Eric Shaw family) pursuant to approval of Article 71 of the 2007 Annual Town Meeting.

• Hear a Land Council request for a conservation restriction at 35 Pochick Ave.

• Hear a Land Bank request to approve two conservation restrictions on property on Phillips Run Road.

• Hear requests for late closings of establishments serving alcohol on Jan. 1, 2008. • Hear a request for a waiver from road opening regulations.

• Hold a publc hearing on an application from The Cellar to change its license from a seasonal wine and malt package store to a seasonal all alcoholic beverages package store.

• Hear a town administrator's request for approval of a temporary seasonal population increase estimate for 2008.

• Review a fuel charge subsidy in connection with taxi fares. • Discuss the FY09 general fund operating budget.

Tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 20, the selectmen will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the town

building conference room for an executive session regarding real estate

acquisition/disposition and pending litigation. At 2 p.m. the board will convene

as the Board of Health and continue the public hearing already begun on the Reis Trucking LLC application for a solid waste transfer station on Bunker Road.

That session will be in the conference room at 2 Fairgrounds Road.

AT ITS MEETING WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12 THE BOARD:

• Unanimously approved annual license renewals for liquor sales, common victualers, entertainment, vehicle rentals, flower and produce vendors, vehicle sales and mobile food units. License renewals were held for the Jared Coffin House, which has not served alcohol in its main dining room or Tap Room for many months and for the Bamboo Supper Club which needs more time for documentation of its sprinkler system.

• Unanimously approved a request for execution of easements for 39 and 43 Eel Point Road.

• Heard a review of Department of Public Works roadway surfacing policies. • Reviewed the timeline for FY09 general fund budget recommendations.

• Heard a departmental overview of the police department from Police Chief William Pittman who reported that through Verizon funding all Nantucket-related 911 emergency calls made on cell phones will now come directly to the island police and fire departments.

• Heard a presentation about upcoming strategic planning for the island. The intent is to involve public input to add to or enhance considerations already devised by the board that reflect its seven 2007-2008 goals. Questions are far-ranging, including topics such as whether to have some boards appointed or elected; if the town should pursue one large override or annual overrides; development of alternative energy sources; paving country district roads; an in-town parking garage; if Madaket should have a wastewater treatment plant; if the deer population should be reduced; issues about housing; and defining what growth management actually means. Board Chairman Whitey Willauer recently said the selectmen have been focusing on one or two topics at a time rather than the "big picture." A workshop will be scheduled for just after the new year begins to talk further about the planning process

- Compiled by Mary Lancaster