The Boothbay selectmen unanimously adopted the town's first parking ordinance at their meeting Monday night, and then approved the placing of signs at the above-mentioned sites. The ordinance provides for enforcement of the tow-away zones and collection of towing charges for violators.

The board had a full agenda at its meeting which included discussion with members of the Port Committee on several topics.

Briefly, the board approved the re-appointment of the following past members to the Port Committee for staggered terms according to the new harbor ordinance:

For three years - Larry Knapp and Nick McPhee;

For two years - Gene Pisano, Win Russell and Paulding Phelps;

For one year - new member Bob Kidd, replacing Earle Barlow who resigned from the committee.

All votes were 4-1, with selectman Bobbie Knapp abstaining for personal reasons.

A vote taken to re-appoint Scott Adams for three years failed, with only Ross Edwards and Dick Hodgdon in favor, Henry Rowe opposed, and Mrs. Knapp and Arthur Reed abstaining. To pass, a motion has to be approved by a majority of the five-member board, or at least three.

The vote on Adams' appointment came after a lengthy discussion, including criticism from Sheldon Burnham as well as praise from committee chairman McPhee.

Selectman Bobbie Knapp, whose husband Martin is dealing with the town and port committee in applying for ten moorings in Little River, said she was ``trying to stay uninvolved'' in the matter, but brought up discussion of a letter Adams had sent to the Knapps' lawyer which she said ``stepped over the line'' and was ``not in the best interests of the town.''

In a related matter, the board later approved, again 4-1 with Knapp abstaining, a procedure recommended by the port committee for a public hearing to be held on Martin Knapp's mooring application which has to date been denied by the harbor master.

Mooring Moratorium Proposed

The board also voted 4-1 to put a question to the voters at a special town meeting seeking to put a ``freeze'' on granting anymore commercial rental and service moorings in the town. Instead of the two-year freeze the port committee recommended, however, selectmen and Town Manager Carlo Pilgrim felt a six-month or one-year period more appropriate, with authorization for officials to extend it another six months if needed.

Such a moratorium would give the port committee time to draw up guidelines to control the growth of commercial marine development.

The board approved 4-1, with Knapp abstaining, the recommendation of harbor master Tommie Sassard for a designated channel in Little River, 75 feet wide, according to a chart he displayed to the board. He said the channel would not displace moorings as he had kept moorings out of the deep channel area.

BRAS Building Plans

The board okayed the Boothbay Region Ambulance Service's temporary use of an access way through the parking lot at the Town Office for clearing and site work on the planned new ambulance facility.

BRAS will eventually build a private road into its property off of Corey Lane which it will use for its main access way.

Glenn Tilton said clearing work would begin soon.

In their final action of the evening, after a brief executive session, selectmen voted to table appointing Scott Giles as the shellfish warden for the regional shellfish conservation program.

Giles, who was at the meeting, had already been hired by the administering town of Newcastle and had the endorsement of a fellow clammer who spoke in his favor, but apparently selectmen heard in private from local clammers opposed to his appointment. They asked Giles to furnish them with a resume and said they would take it up at the next meeting.