Politics
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BBH Boards and Committees
- Board of Appeals
- Board of Selectmen
- Boothbay Harbor Sewer District
- Boothbay Region Water District
- Budget Committee
- Cemetery District Trustees-BBH
- Planning Board
- Port Committee
- Refuse District
- School Committee Members -BBH
- School District Trustees-BBH
- Shellfish Committee
Board of Selectmen
| Till year | Name | Position |
| 2020 | Denise Griffin | |
| 2020 | Tricia Warren | Vice Chair |
| 2021 | Wendy Wolf | |
| 2022 | Kenneth Fitch | |
| 2022 | Michael Tomko | Chair |
Legislation
Subdivision Ordinance
"If the proposed subdivision is located on a lake, pond, river, saltwater body or stream, a portion of the waterfront area shall be included in reserved land. If the dimension along the waterfront shall be a minimum of 200 feet, ..." Selectmen's Meeting 01/27/2020
Port Regulations Ordinance Amendment
"The Port Committee will have the power to establish and revise guidelines and rules for the safe use and operation of floats, including, but not limited to, the use of slides, swings, diving boards, trampolines, and other ..." Selectmen's Meeting 01/13/2020
Blasting Ordinance Amendment
"No blasting shall be done without first obtaining a permit to blast from the Code Enforcement Officer pursuant to this section. The application for a permit to blast shall include ..." Selectmen's Meeting 01/13/2020
Mobile Food Vendors Ordinance
"No retail/wholesale sales or services of food, beverages or other items intended for immediate human consumption shall be offered or solicited except on privately owned property, in which the retail sales or services are located, except for restaurants, which ..." Selectmen's Meeting 12/23/2019
NOTE
The above information comes from text in a transcript that was tagged as relating to an ordinance, bill, proposal, proclamation, etc. Clicking on a meeting link would take the user to the full text of that discussion.
Meetings
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BBH Meetings
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2-12-20 | Planning Board |
| 2-10-20 | Board of Selectmens |
| 1-27-20 | Board of Selectmen |
| 1-13-20 | Board of Selectmen |
| 12-23-19 | Board of Selectmen |
| 12-9-19 | Board of Selectmen |
| 11-25-19 | Board of Selectmen |
NOTE
Users will be able to click a meeting link to go to an easily browsable and searchable transcript of that meeting.
Govmeeting News
For example:
- Names of newly registered locations.
- Number of newly registered volunteers.
- Number of transcripts and recordings processed in past week/month
- Names and activity of most acttive volunteers
- New Govmeeting system features that were added
Edit Transcript
Council Meeting - Jan. 15, 2018
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[This code is under development.] It will have the following functions:
- Edit the text for transcription errors.
- Add/change speaker, topic or section names.
- Move speaker, topic or section names.
View Transcript
Board of Selectmen - Sept. 8
[ Under Development ]
- Click a topic to see what was said on that topic.
- Click a speaker name to see what that person said.
Register Government Body
Work Items
This component will display a list of meetings for which manual processing is needed. This includes proofreading transcribed text or assigning issue tags.
After a meeting is transcribed by Google Speach API, the video and matching text is split into short work segments. Different volunteers can then work simultaneously on proofreading the same meeting.
A list of the work items and their status will be displayed: "To be done", "In progress" or "Completed". Volunteers will be able to select a item to work on.
Issues
This component allows users to get information about current and past issues.
Users will be able to:- See what issues are currently being discussed at recent meetings.
- Select an issue and read what was said about it at past meetings.
- See issues arranged by category (Zoning, Public Safety, Housing, etc. )
- Compare issues by activity and amount of discussion.
- Compare types of issues discussed across different communities.
Officials
This component allows users to get information about current and past officials.
Users will be able to:- See a list of current officials and their titles.
- See what they said on issues.
- See how they voted.
- View their attendance at meetings.
Virtual Meeting
A "virtual meeting" will be held a day or so after the transcript of the "real meeting" is available. Here people can discuss issues raised at the real meeting, plus raise additional ones. Only people who have registered for this location can attend.
- This meeting will be structured similar to a "real meeting". It will attempt to adhere to Robert's Rule Of Order as closely as possible:
- There will be a set starting time.
- The initial agenda will be the list of issues already discussed at the real meeting.
- At the start of the meeting, new items can be added to the agenda. A vote will be taken on each topic to decide whether to include it.
- Each item will be discussed in the order on the agenda. The software will generate a time schedule of when discussion on each issue is estimated to start.
- Attendees can be alerted when discussion of specific issues are about to start. They will be sent a text message or email at that time.
- When discussion on an issue starts, all attendees will have a specific time limit to submit remarks on the issue. (time limit TBD)
- Remarks will be limited to a maximum length (perhaps 150 words - TBD)
- When the first round of discussion has expired, there will be one (or more) rounds. They will be slightly longer in time so that everyone also has time to read remarks from the prior round.
- At this time, attendees may vote to add an additional round of discussion on the current topic.
- Remarks may not include discussion of personalities or another's motives. Inappropriate remarks may be flagged as such by other attendees. Remarks with a specified minimum number of flags will be deleted.
Alerts
This component will allow users to manage alerts.
Users can determine the criteria for alerts:- Choose from present and past issues.
- Choose references to pending legislation.
- Choose comments from officials whom they are interested in.
- Choose from general categories of issues/laws.
- Set up combinations of criteria.
- Via email or text
- Set a schedule for when they should be sent
- See a list of past alerts received.
- Click on a past alert and see the content.
- See statistics on reasons for alerts.
- See the information in graphical form.
Chat
Chat Application
[ NOTE: There will likely be separate chat rooms for different issues being discussed -- and a separate one for volunteers on the project. ]
Charts
[ Under Development ]
This component will allow data to be compared with pie, bar and line charts.
This component will allow data to be compared with pie, bar and line charts.