A pair of surveys will soon be returning to Damariscotta.

The Damariscotta board of selectmen will host its first meeting of the month at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6, where, among other things, the board will hear and discuss presentations on a pair of surveys.

One of the selectmen's discussion items will be the 2014-15 bicycling and pedestrian survey by the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission.

The surveys were opened in 2014 and closed in January 2015 and asked both student and adult respondents questions related to walking and biking in the Twin Villages. After the surveys were completed, the results were sent to a committee to study the results.

Once that information was gathered, it was sent to the Maine Department of Transportation, with the purpose of securing potential grants for projects. Lincoln County planner Robert Faunce, who will speak to the board on Wednesday, said earlier in the year that because so many towns request money for improvement projects, the survey could potentially help the Twin Villages secure MDOT money. The LCRPC has done similar projects in Wiscasset, Bristol, Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor.

The committee will likely offer a suggestion for future biking and pedestrian projects in both Newcastle and Damariscotta.

Town staff will also ask the board for approval to move forward with a grant application to apply for a Coastal Communities Grant. The town had previously won the Coastal Communities Grant and used the money to contract Milone and MacBroom to survey and recommend a flood resiliency study. If awarded a new grant, the money would be put towards further studies and design work. Eventually, the town could potentially send that information to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to apply for a Letter Of Map Amendments, which would move the village out of the 1 percent flood zone.

Moving out of the high-risk flood area would effect downtown insurance rates; when the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission remapped Lincoln County, Damariscotta was cited as an area of high-flood susceptibility. If awarded, Damariscotta would have to match 25 percent of the grant.

Following the meeting, there be a town meeting to approve the proposed secondary school budget for 2015-16.

The proposed secondary school budget is expected to increase substantially in 2015-16; the added cost of special education, along with some increase in regulars education, would add almost $295,000 to the budget, according to a March budget presentation for the board of selectmen.

The school board is requesting $939,000 for regular instruction and $653,000 for special education, resulting in a final budget number of $1.6 million for secondary school.

The meetings are open to the public and held at the town offices at 21 School Street.