ORRINGTON — Orrington is busy wrapping up town business in preparation for the annual town meeting Monday, June 22. A number of meetings have been scheduled to conclude town business.

Town reports are being printed, according to Town Manager Candy Guerrette, and should be available to the public soon.

The manager said Tuesday afternoon that budget workshops have been held and a public hearing on the municipal budget will be held at the town office at 7 p.m. Monday, May 11.

It is too early yet to say what the town’s mill rate will be until all the figures have been compiled, but there have been no major increases in this year’s proposed budget. “We have tried hard to keep it down,” said Guerrette. The town is mid-way through a two-year revaluation of town properties. This year new valuations are being determined on town land and beginning July 1, the start of the town’s fiscal year, there will be a revaluation conducted on town buildings.

A public hearing will be held on the educational budget at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, at the town office.

The Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 6, to receive comments on the proposed shoreland zoning ordinance.

Copies of the proposed changes are available for review at the town hall. This ordinance, said Guerrette, has been drafted to comply with the state mandate that all towns have a shoreland ordinance by July 1 or have the state impose one on the community. She said the town has had shoreland regulation under its existing zoning ordinance. Basically, the new ordinance would change shoreland regulations by expanding definitiions to meet state standards.

A public hearing on the town’s emergency preparedness plan will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, May 18, at the Center Drive School. Guerrette said the plan will contain aspects of the town’s earlier plan, the LCP Maine Inc. chemical plant emergency evacuation plans, and the Penobscot County emergency preparedness plan.

The group, People’s Alliance of Maine, has focused recently on the need for an emegency plan for the town, due in part to the chemical plant located in the community, said Guerrette, and this plan should address many of the group’s concerns.