The Boothbay selectmen will review the new comprehensive plan’s first draft as group during their Aug. 12 meeting. The comprehensive planning committee submitted the draft for board approval last week. The committee began updating the plan in May 2013. 

This is the first proposed comprehensive plan update since 1989. The selectmen will review the document and briefly discuss it during the meeting, according to Town Manager Dan Bryer. The board will likely decide what is the next step during the Aug. 26 selectmen’s meeting.

Town officials hope to adopt a new comprehensive plan this fall. The selectmen have until mid-September to place an updated comprehensive plan on the November referendum ballot.

In other action, the selectmen will consider appointing members to the Admin and newly created Clifford Park redevelopment committees. The selectmen are reconvening the Admin Committee after a one year absence. The four person committee reviews various municipal administrative codes and policies, according to Bryer.

The selectmen are also expected to appoint all 14 volunteers who signed up this spring for the Clifford Park Redevelopment Committee. The selectmen are considering plans for updating the town’s recreation fields. The redevelopment would expand one Little League baseball field into three, create more space for soccer and lacrosse, a playground, a dog park and walking trails. The plan also calls for a lighted baseball diamond.

The selectmen will also review a request by a Boothbay Region High School sophomore for an Ulmer Scholarship. Student Tori Morin requested $2,000 for a class trip to France in April.

The selectmen will also discuss selling a half-acre of town owned property on Route 27. The property is located near the Boothbay Region Ambulance Service and Leighton and Associates.

The selectmen will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in the municipal building.