If everything happens that the Wiscasset Waterfront Committee agreed to send on to selectmen March 31, this summer will bring ice cream to the recreational pier, hot dogs on the Main Street Pier from a man making a career change, and Verizon products from a new vendor who suggested he might be able to land the town a pier expansion.

The expansion wasn’t part of IM Wireless CEO Manny Arora’s proposal, but he raised the idea as he and the committee discussed where to put the trailer that will sell Verizon products. The business will bring five to six jobs to Wiscasset, and after this summer all the staff will be offered permanent jobs in Thomaston, Arora said.

The business also has Belfast and Rockland locations, Arora told the committee.

In the meeting and an interview afterward, he said the business chose to come to the Wiscasset waterfront because it’s pretty and it’s just off Route 1, a source of travelers who need phone chargers and other products, he said.

“We also want to support the community,” he said, offering to be an event sponsor and, at one point, floating the pier expansion idea. Members expressed surprise and made no commitments, but Chairman Susan Robson told him it was something to think about.

Members agreed to recommend the business for a spot on the Main Street Pier, but they also encouraged him to see if he could instead locate on the other side of Main Street, on Railroad Avenue where Maine Eastern Railroad has had a ticket office. Maine Department of Transportation switched railroad contractors this year, to one with no immediate plans for passenger service.

Committee members were unsure if the state or the town owns the spot but member Frank Sprague predicted Arora’s business would be happy there, if it could get it.

“That’s front and center,” Sprague, longtime owner of Sprague’s Lobster on the Main Street Pier, told him. Town Planner Ben Averill could look into it, members said. Averill went home sick before the meeting, they said.

Selectmen still needed to approve IM Wireless’ Main Street Pier application and the other requests the committee fielded.

Harbor Master Preston Dunning was enthused about QT’s Ice Cream Parlor’s plans to move from a privately leased spot behind Red’s Eats to the recreational pier, directly in front of his office.

“I can get ice cream,” he said.

Quentin Brooks of Bath runs the business with wife Tammy Brooks. The move south will mean lower rent and greater visibility from a number of points near the Sheepscot River, he said.

Robert Conlin wants to sell hot dogs out of a painted, wooden cart on a trailer on the Main Street Pier. Sprague asked if customers would be able to reach the hot dogs, due to the cart’s elevation. Conlin expects the setup with the trailer to work.

He recently closed his Route One, Wiscasset business of about five years, Maine Coast Stove & Chimney. “Change of occupation,” he said of the cart plans. Asked why he chose hot dogs, Conlin said, “I like hot dogs.” The committee passed along to selectmen Conlin’s request to put out a sandwich board for signage and a menu. It could be considered as a request for accessory furniture, Robson said.

The committee voted to recommend selectmen waive hundreds of dollars in rental fees for Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce, because the chamber’s information center promotes local businesses.

“It’s a public service, so why should they pay,” member Margo Rafter Strong said.

“Because everybody else does. It’s the nature of the pier,” fellow member Dick Forrest said.

Even when the chamber just had a box of pamphlets at the Main Street Pier last year, while work was under way on the center, it was a people magnet, so the center’s presence may get more visitors to the pier, to the benefit of other vendors, committee members said in supporting the measure.

Also March 31, Forrest asked if fellow members would be interested in trying to get the New York City Yacht Club to come to town.

The club had a lobster bake for 250 in Belfast last year and likely won’t be back in Maine until 2017, Forrest said. The club has a lot of boats and a lot of people, he said.

“It doesn’t hurt to ask. We’ve got nothing to lose,” Strong said.

“It definitely wouldn’t hurt,” Dunning said. The panel planned to contact the club.

Panel members voiced optimism for the coming season. They said business on the waterfront is always weather-dependent, but that this is the first year they could recall when the Main Street Pier has had a full lineup of vendors.

“It’s great,” Sprague said.

The panel meets next at 7 p.m. April 28, at the municipal building. The committee couldn’t get into the meeting room Thursday night so it met inside the fire station, over a vast wooden table that panel members said had a pool table in it.