CHINA — Monday’s selectmen’s meeting will begin after two public hearings scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Town Office. The first hearing is on amendments to the appendices to the town’s general assistance ordinance, changing the maximum allowable assistance in different categories.

The second is on two proposed Nov. 8 local ballot questions. The first asks voters to approve amendments to the definitions pertaining to floodplain management as required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The second ballot requests an appropriation of up to $7,500 from surplus to continue the work of the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee and the Thurston Park II Committee as they seek to implement parts of the 2008 comprehensive plan. Money would be spent only with the selectmen’s approval.

Because of Columbus Day, the Town Office and transfer station will be closed Monday.

Road to school on China agenda

CHINA — Planning Board members, school officials and town officials intend to begin discussion of a proposed new road to China Primary School at Tuesday’s meeting.

Selectmen and town representatives on the Regional School Unit 18 board have talked informally about the need for a second access to the school, which is more than 600 feet off Lakeview Drive behind China Middle School. The proposed new road would run along the north boundary of the property, crossing town as well as school land.

Also on Tuesday’s agenda is a request from Kevin Gower and Danny Ouellette to extend their permit for a snow-tubing business on Gower’s Alder Park Road property. The Planning Board meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Town Office meeting room.

China plan pane lto meet Wednesday

CHINA — The Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Town Office meeting room.

Committee members will continue to review the land development code, focusing on Chapter Two. Chapter Two is a major section of the town ordinance, covering requirements for land uses and structures and the limited number of districts, like shoreland and resource protection, that voters have approved. The draft ordinance the implementation committee is using as a base proposes several additional districts.

Committee members also intend to discuss impact fees for development and continue plans to present the ordinance revisions they are working on to voters in advance of a proposed November 2012 vote.

Compiled from staff reports