News and information sections, from near to far
In observance of the Yom Kippur holiday the 10-04-22 public Selectboard Meeting is cancelled. The public meeting has been rescheduled and the Board will meet at 6:15pm on 10-11-22. That meeting will be warned next Friday. However, the Selectboard will be meeting next week on 10-04-22 to meet in executive session only. That meeting will be warned later today.
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Monday, October 3, 2022 at 9:30am in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. The Board will convene at 9:30am and is expected to immediately enter into executive session to discuss the appointment or employment or evaluation of a public officer or employee. The Board will reconvene after the executive session and immediately adjourn. No action will be taken.
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 5:15pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. The Board will convene at 5:15pm and is expected to immediately enter into executive session to discuss the appointment or employment or evaluation of a public officer or employee. The Board will reconvene after the executive session and immediately adjourn. No action will be taken.
Agenda items:
Approve Minutes
Public Participation
Rikki – Amanita Coltivation
Jill- Tree Options for the Common
Shade Tree Ordinance
On Tuesday, October 4, Nichols Tree Care will be removing trees from Guilford Street in the area between Maple Street and the Small Fry Field. The work will begin at 10:00 am. There will be periods of alternating one-lane traffic while this work takes place. Motorist should plan for delays and are encouraged to seek alternate routes.
Theory Wellness (“Theory” or “the Company”) has announced plans to enter the Vermont recreational cannabis market with a retail location in Brattleboro. The announcement comes on the eve of recreational cannabis sales, expected to begin as early as October 1st. Vermont will soon become the 3rd East Coast state to offer recreational cannabis sales.
The Development Review Board meeting of October 19, 2022 is canceled as there are no applications.
A bit of business news here. MuseArts, Inc., our web design company, has now been in business over 25 years. Lise and I started doing professional web design in September of 1997.
How daring was that? There was no Google, nor RSS, Craigslist, Mozilla, YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter when we started.
One of the first things we decided was that we’d do work for other people, but also for ourselves. This would allow us to have some things we owned and controlled, have some fun, but also gave us a way to experiment with things that people weren’t necessarily paying us to do.
Time once again to make note of the little things you have noticed around town, not quite worthy of a full story but very qualified for a mention of interest.
What have you noticed?
RT 30 paving materials seem to be being accumulated near the Humane Society.
New High Street Mural – seems to be coming together…
New roadwork for behind the Estey buildings…
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 12:00pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. The Board will convene at 12:00pm and is expected to immediately enter into executive session to discuss the appointment or employment or evaluation of a public officer or employee. The Board will reconvene after the executive session and immediately adjourn. No action will be taken.
he following dates have been scheduled for Brattleboro’s curbside Fall Leaf Collection.
All locations will be picked up each Friday:
Leaf Pick Up Date
ALL RESIDENTS Friday, October 21, 2022
ALL RESIDENTS Friday, November 4, 2022
A. Call to Order (5:15)
B. Approve Minutes of August 30 (5:15 – 5:25)
C. New Business (5:25 – 5:45)
1. Discussion: Advice Requested for Conversion of Mowed Area into Meadow (5:25 – 5:45)
6:00 Call to Order
6:00 – 6:05 Announcements
6:05 – 6:10 Minutes of September 7, 2022
Discussion of Edits, Motion to Approve
6:10 – 7:20 Bylaw Modernization Grant – Planned Unit Development
The Brattleboro Art committee will meet on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 5:00pm at the Brooks Memorial Library Community Room.
Ana Saavedra, financial advisor at Edward Jones Investments, recently assumed the role of President of the Youth Services Board of Directors, taking the reins from Cathy Coonan whose two-year term ended in July. Saavedra has been on the agency’s Board of Directors for the past 15 years in a number of leadership positions.
During her tenure on the Youth Services board, Saavedra has held the position of Vice President and has served on the Executive and Gala committees. She has chaired the Development, Endowment and Planned Giving committees for a decade or more.
The Brattleboro Fire Department is currently developing an EMS study and is seeking community input as part of that process. The Department has launched a brief online survey soliciting input and opinions from the Brattleboro community. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 31.
The Town of Brattleboro is looking for citizens to serve on the following committees and boards:
ADA Committee
Agricultural Advisory Committee – voting and ex officio non-voting members
Arts Committee
Citizen Police Communications Committee (CPCC)
Conservation Commission
Design Review Board (Alternate)
Some people welcome the cold weather because they enjoy winter sports. Finding some joy in winter is a good thing but there is no joy in thinking about how much it will cost to heat our homes. The average price of a gallon fuel in Vermont as of September is: $5.53 for kerosene, $4.63 for #2 fuel oil and $3.03 for propane. That will strain the pocketbook of most of us and there will too many people who will be on the verge of freezing to death when they have to decide how to pay for rent, medicine and heat in an economy that has not been kind to those who are trying to simply survive and get by.
Nineteen years ago Daryl Pillsbury and I started the Windham County Heat Fund because we thought the price of heating fuel was going to put too many of our vulnerable friends and neighbors in harm’s way during the heating season. We figured we could abandon our project in a few years after the price of fuel dropped.
The Brattleboro Selectboard continued to celebrate their EMS decisions, and voted to make a third ambulance and 24-7 AEMT position permanent.
The board also discussed diversity and inclusion, especially as it relates to Republicans, and contemplated the best way to interview and appoint committee members.
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Friday, September 23, 2022 at 8:15am in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. The Board will convene at 8:15am and is expected to immediately enter into executive session to discuss the appointment or employment or evaluation of a public officer or employee. The Board will reconvene after the executive session and immediately adjourn. No action will be taken.
The Brattleboro Selectboard will approve a $50,000 annual increase in fees to Golden Cross at their next regular meeting. This will cover a 3rd ambulance and a second full time AEMT provider.
The board will also discuss a “Declaration of Inclusion,” authorize sewer repairs, continue with committee appointments. You can, additionally, bring up other items not on the agenda during public participation.
