Because it is summer, and hot, and we’re all tired, this week’s selectboard meeting notes will be provided to you in traditional 5-7-5 haiku form. Same news, just barely any details! Your overview:
Brattleboro board
Hot summer night in August
Nickels and dimes ya
Preliminaries
Covered bridge covered
with scrub brush blocking beauty
Cut it! says DeGray
Old folks can lifeguard
to keep open pool until
summer ends – DeGray.
Panhandling must
be on the agenda soon!
Is severe problem.
Drug lords and cartels
could come here. Nick says legal
drugs could prevent it.
Downtown Parking
The new parking plan
will come at a greater cost
than current parking.
There are few Vermont
towns that regulate parking.
“A limited club.”
We must increase rates
to cover the extra fees
and maintenance cost.
No ADA spots
available on Main Street.
It’s a big problem!
Prevention Coalition
Holloway looks out
for liquor compliance checks
and updates the board.
Planning and zoning
are areas of interest
of the preventers.
Yes! Very concerned
about what kids think of pot.
“They think it heals you.”
CBD is sold
across from Boys & Girls Club.
The proximity.
Capital Equipment
Public Works buys stuff:
Trucks, trailer, excavator
and a sidewalk plow.
Uber/Lyft Licensing
Brattleboro, soon
a taxi is a taxi.
Level playing field!
AirBnB, though,
is a much bigger concern.
The need to inspect!
Fire Inspections
Brattleboro will
soon follow State rental code.
It’s more efficient.
Heating Oil
Discount Oil of Keene
Two point two eight nine per gallon
More than expected.
Why the same amount
as last year if we’ve done the
energy upgrades?
Tell us to get off
fossil fuels, says Elwell. We’ll
do cost estimate.
Committee Appointments
With Rod Francis gone
Sue Fillion appointed
to take over work.
In Conclusion
I took notes throughout
If you have any questions
I will take requests.
Nice report format!
This is great. Do you think I should write all of my newspaper articles in haiku? I’m sure Jeff and Randy won’t mind. haha.
Thanks for the much-needed chuckle.
-WML
I can, and might....
I might keep doing it this way. Not easy. Still had to watch and take notes.
I hope I didn’t throw off all the reporters who use our reporting to guide their reporting… : )
Amazed that no one has any questions, and haiku suffices for news. Interesting test of readers.
Short-Attention-Span Theater
Maybe iBrattleboro readers are Twitter-trained! You did go over the 140/280 limit, I think.
Yeah, where are the questions? Perhaps those with questions are watching the video on BCTV.
A certain reporter still finds your guide helpful, by the way. 🙂
"They think it heals you"
I found it disturbing that the prevention coalition wants to take on marijuana education but is clearly uninformed on the subject:
– They were worried about the proximity to the Boys & Girls Club of a store selling legal medicine (CBD).
– They had enough time and resources to go talk to the store about it, but didn’t have funding to educate the kids about CBD(?)
– They were worried that kids knew that marijuana could be used recreationally and as medicine – which is true. Smart kids!
Canada is going through a massive effort to reduce alcohol use by making marijuana widely available in as many forms as possible. Brattleboro appears to be preparing to re-film Reefer Madness for new audiences.