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Dr. Ken Woodbury, PCEDC
Regular Meeting
Sandee's, Milo Maine USA
- 02-04-09 - There were 12 members in attendance at the regular morning meeting at Sandee’s Restaurant on Wednesday morning. We had an inter-club from Dover-Foxcroft with five members in attendance. Josh, Stephanie, and Camille were present from the Key Club and Jessica was present from the Builders Club.
Eben DeWitt led us in the Pledge of Allegiance, Herbie Dunham offered the Morning Prayer, and Jim Lord provided the Thought for the Day. Bonnie Hurley celebrates a birthday today and Kent and Karen Ladd have an anniversary on the 5th. Next week the superintendent will be the speaker at the meeting.
We had ten Happy/Sad dollars: Edwin is happy that Eben had a time saving idea for the Key Club project; happy to be here; trip to Washington coming up; Lee is happy to be alive and have supportive friends as he recuperates from surgery; being able to attend a Builders club meeting and they also meet after school sometimes during the week.
May 8th is the date of the Variety Show. Ethelyn will be meeting with Cathy Knox this week and with all the elementary schools on a K-kids project.
Dr. Ken Woodbury, from the Piscataquis County Economic Development Corporation, is our speaker today on the grants received by Milo for downtown revitalization and new grant writing projects for the town of Milo and Brownville. Ken thanked the club for their pledge of support when the initial grant was completed; this made a difference and increased our chances of receiving the grant. Part of the revitalization was to make downtown more attractive to potential businesses. Though approximately $197,000 has been received in grants there is continuing work on submitting more grants to improve upper Main Street in a progressive long-term improvement project.
Ken is also working with the Brownville PTO to upgrade their playground, following Milo Elementary’s successful grant project to improve their playground. There is also a grant submitted for the Milo Historical Society that they will hear from in March.
Milo does have a comprehensive plan in place with an effort now to develop zoning and building codes before any new development occurs downtown. There is a 6 month moratorium on development in place at this time.
Some of the goals are to put property back on the tax roles, achieve a concentrated downtown shopping area, parking, and make the business environment more attractive to customers, existing businesses and potential investors in rebuilding local business. There are many grant proposals being considered that could financially support revitalizing business and the community if the grant proposal are successful. We would like to thank Dr. Woodbury for speaking to our club today and assisting the community in successfully achieving the revitalization grant.
Meeting Adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Heidi Finson, Secretary
Three Rivers Kiwanis, Milo-Brownville
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