The Brattleboro Selectboard will be taking another look at the FY26 budget at the first regular meeting of 2025. They made some cuts to services at their last meeting and will review the impact of their decisions thus far. Will they do more?
The board will hold a second reading of changes to the ordinance governing the Downtown Improvement District. If everyone likes it, it will be approved as well. You can bring up other items not on the agenda during public participation.
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The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 6:15pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Brattleboro Municipal Center (230 Main Street, Room 212) and over Zoom. The attached agenda contains information on how to access the meeting remotely, including the required “passcode.” ASL interpreters will be available for deaf and hard-of-hearing community members. The backup materials for this meeting will be available on the town Website Brattleboro.gov/Selectboard by the end of today.
Jessica Sticklor (she/her/hers)
Executive Assistant
Town of Brattleboro
230 Main Street, Suite 208
Brattleboro, VT 05301
(802) 251 – 8115
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BRATTLEBORO SELECTBOARD
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2025
SELECTBOARD MEETING ROOM + ZOOM
REGULAR MEETING – 6:15 PM
The physical location for this meeting will be the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center
at 230 Main Street.
Selectboard Meeting materials can be found on the Town’s website, Brattleboro.gov/Selectboard.
If you join the meeting from your computer, tablet, or smartphone, please use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86067892659
The “Meeting ID” for this meeting is:
860 6789 2659
Passcode: 12261753
You also can call in using your telephone
by dialing any of these toll-free numbers in the United States:
833-548-0282
877-853-5247
888-788-0099
833-548-0276
(*6 Mute/Unmute – *9 Raise Hand)
The meeting also will be carried live on BCTV:
On Cable TV: Channel 1079
Streaming Online: https://www.brattleborotv.org/channel-1079-livestream
Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/brattleborotv
AGENDA
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
(please note that all times are approximate)
1. CONVENE REGULAR MEETING (6:15 PM)
2. APPROVE MINUTES –December 17, 2024
3. CHAIR’S REMARKS
4. MANAGER’S COMMENTS
5. SELECTBOARD COMMENTS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS
6. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION (6:25 PM)
7. CONSENT AGENDA (6:30 PM)
A. Ratify 2024 Holiday Season Free Parking
8. OLD BUSINESS (6:35 PM)
A. Chapter 15 (Downtown Improvement District) Ordinance Change – Second Reading (6:35 PM)
B. FY26 Budget Development (6:50 PM)
9. NEW BUSINESS (8:00 PM)
A. Committee Appointments (8:00 PM)
10. CORRESPONDENCE/FYI
A. Warrants
11. MEETINGS
See Town Calendar
12. ADJOURNMENT (8:10 PM)
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MEMORANDUM
To: Selectboard
From: John Potter, Town Manager
Re: Administrative Report
Date: January 3, 2025
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The following will summarize the proposed motions for the Selectboard meeting on Tuesday,
January 7, 2025. The Board will convene the regular meeting at 6:15pm in the Selectboard
Meeting Room and on Zoom. All times listed below are approximate, and interested parties should
monitor the meeting if they do not want to miss an agenda item.
Join the meeting from a computer, tablet, or smartphone, using this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86067892659
The “Meeting ID” for this meeting is:
860 6789 2659
Passcode: 12261753
You also can call in using your telephone
by dialing any of these toll-free numbers in the United States:
833-548-0282
877-853-5247
888-788-0099
833-548-0276
(use *6 to Mute/Unmute, *9 to raise Hand)
The meeting also will be carried live on BCTV:
On Cable TV: Channel 1079
Streaming Online: https://www.brattleborotv.org/channel-1079-livestream
Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/brattleborotv
7. CONSENT AGENDA (6:30 PM)
A. Ratify 2024 Holiday Season Free Parking
In a memorandum dated December 27, 2024 Town Manager John Potter discusses the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance’s request to suspend parking fees for the last two weekends in December of 2024. By approving the Consent Agenda, the Board will ratify the staff decision to accept the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance’s request to suspend parking fees for the last two weekends in December of 2024.
ACCEPT THE CONSENT AGENDA, AS PRESENTED.
8. OLD BUSINESS
A. Chapter 15 (Downtown Improvement District) Ordinance Change – Second Reading (6:35 PM)
In a memorandum dated December 17, 2024 Planning Director Sue Fillion discusses the proposed changes to the Brattleboro Code of Ordinances Chapter 15, Municipal Act to Establish and Regulate the Downtown Improvement Act. This is a second reading. The Board is asked to consider the proposed changes and to possibly adopt them.
POTENTIAL MOTION: TO ADOPT THE CHANGES TO THE BRATTLEBORO CODE OF
ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 15 MUNICIPAL ACT TO ESTABLISH AND REGULATE THE
DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT ACT.
B. FY 26 Budget Development (6:50 PM)
In a memorandum dated January 3, 2025 Town Manager John Potter discusses various FY26 Budget developments including the impact of reductions and revenue increases that were discussed at the December 17, 2024 Selectboard Meeting.
POTENTIAL MOTION: NO MOTION REQUIRED FOR THIS ITEM.
9. NEW BUSINESS (6:35 PM)
A. Committee Appointments (8:00 PM)
In a memorandum dated January 3, 2025 Town Manager John Potter discusses the committee appointment process and informs the Board that we had three applications for uncontested and available seats on the ADA Committee, the Conservation Commission, and the Energy Committee. The Board is asked to consider the applications for possible appointment to those committees.
POTENTIAL MOTION: TBA
