BLUE HILL – Voters will gather next week to decide the fate of two proposed waterfront projects.

A public hearing will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, at the town hall to review the proposal for a small park planned for the former Stavola property on Water Street near the fire station. The special town meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

Voters will be asked to approve the proposed park project and to accept a $10,000 state grant for the project, according to Selectman Jim Schatz.

The narrow piece of property was a gift to the town and included two buildings. The smaller building was converted into a home for the local chamber of commerce. The other building sat vacant for several years and eventually was torn down.

The plan for the park, which was designed by landscape artist Dorothy Warman in conjunction with the Blue Hill Garden Club and has spearheaded the park effort, includes a lawn, gravel walkway leading to a scenic overlook, benches and plantings.

Planners have informally called the proposed park “Waterside,” but voters at the special town meeting also will be asked to name the park.

In other action, voters will be asked to accept an $85,000 state grant that will be used to replace the town wharf in South Blue Hill. The town is developing plans to replace the 30-year-old, 15-by-80-foot dock. The rock-filled crib pier was built in 1970, and the wood cribbing has begun to rot, resulting in some settling and cracks on the deck area of the wharf.

Commercial fishermen and recreational boaters heavily use the wharf throughout the summer.

Initial estimates placed the cost of replacement at $300,000, but the current estimates put the cost closer to $100,000 to $125,000. The state grant, from the Department of Transportation’s Small Harbor Improvement Program, is a matching grant requiring a 50 percent match from the town. Voters will also be asked to appropriate the town share of $85,000 from the undesignated funds account.

The combined funds will be sufficient to cover the construction costs, Schatz said this week.

Work on the project is expected to be done in the off-season, late fall 2004 or spring 2005.

Voters also will be asked to authorize the selectmen to borrow up to $100,000 for the expansion of the Blue Hill-Surry Transfer Station.