Board Members Present: Jon Lockman, Rodney Lynch, Theresa Oleksiw, Doug Webster, Matt Nazar, Fred Marshall, and Jim Fisher by teleconferencing

Absent: David Schmidt, Jean Marshall and Sarah Flaks

Meeting open by President Jon Lockman at 12:25 PM

Moved and seconded to approve the February 2, 2000 Meeting minutes with the amendment "attend as the guest speaker at the Annual Meeting could be Randall Arendt." Passed

The Treasury has balance of $15,873.58 as of April 5, 2001. The transfer of funds to the Reserve Account is put on hold until MAP receives the final bills for our share of the NNECAPA Conference.

The President reported that spent a great deal of time before the Legislative Natural Resources Committee on the following bills:

• The bill on loosing up the practical difficulties standard received an "ought not to pass".
• There was no action on the proposal by Kennebunk to exempt a pathway from the Shoreland Zoning Law.
• The so-called toilet tax received an "ought not to pass".
• Three Growth Management Bills were reviewed including: postponing until next year the bill on outcome base, pre-certification and transfer of development rights; establishing a Legislative Standing Committee on Growth Management; extending the Comprehensive Plan deadline; and removing local minimum lot size ordinances as a land use ordinance for determining consistency with the Growth Management Law.

It appears that the a deadline requirement for Comprehensive Plans will be retained; however, the State Planning Office does not have more grant money to award.

The MAP newsletter for the May 8, 2001 will include the President’s Message, Planning Bytes Around the State, and an SPO article on Legislation.

Moved by Doug Webster and seconded by Jon Lockman the full newsletter be delayed for posting on the Webpage until after six months from the initial date of publication, and that only a brief synopsis of each article be placed on the Webpage after publication. Passed 7-0.

Sarah Flaks reported that the guest speaker will be Anton Nelessen who is a specialist in visual preference surveys and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

It was the consensus of the Committee to use the schooner/windjammer Eastwind for the boat trip which is limited to 28 persons. To ensure reservations the registration form will include a boat ride check off and additional fee.

Fred Marshall will prepare the registration form for insertion into the next newsletter. Fred Marshall will handle the registration at the door and Jon Lockman will handle the liaison with the hotel management.

Jim Fisher reported on the results of the MAP Awards. To date there is no Student Planner nominee; two Professional Planner of the Year nominees; no Citizen Nominee; one Plan of the Year nomination; and one Project of the Year nomination.

Moved by Theresa Oleksiw and seconded by Rodney Lynch that the cut off date for the awards is the post mark date of April 6, 2001. Passed 7-0.

Theresa Oleksiw reported on the following MAP Executive Board nominations for 2001-20002: Past President Jon Lockman; President David Schmidt; Vice-President Jim Fisher; Treasurer and Membership Secretary Fred Marshall; Recording Secretary Doug Webster; and Directors: Sarah Flaks, Theresa Oleksiw, James Fortune, Karen Martin, Carolyn Allam and Judy Cooper.

There was discussion regarding some possible revised language for the MAPS By-Laws that could be proposed at the upcoming annual meeting. Jon Lockman indicated that the By-Laws was available through e-mail and that he had sent them to all executive board members.

The following draft language was proposed for section 6, subsection 6.2, (c) and (e);

c. In the event of lack of unanimity, the association president shall call for a meeting of the executive board.

e. Two proposals; First sentence: add "for consideration". Add to end: However, when the pace of legislative activity is to rapid to prepare position statements, the legislative committee will prepare comments regarding its position to the membership. In the event that the legislative committee does not have a unanimous vote, © above will be followed.

It was agreed that there should be a May 4th meeting to finalizing the proposed By-Law amendments as the primary agenda item. The consensus was that State Planning Office meeting room seemed to work well given the size of the group and it would be a good location for the May meeting.

The agenda for the May 4^th, 2001 meeting should include the following;

1. Annual meeting wrap-up

2. Legislative policy report

3. Review of proposed By-Law amendments

4. Status of NNECAPA meeting (Sept.)

The meeting was adjourned at 1:55 P.M.

Submitted by: Rodney Lynch, Secretary and Doug Webster