Your VT general assembly
2023-03-06
Dear friend,
Your Vermont General Assembly convenes in January and stays in session until we pass the state budget sometime in May.
The week of Town Meeting in March is the one week from January to May that we take off.
Around the state, Senators and Representatives are attending local Town Meetings to report back from Montpelier and to tune into what's going on in our districts.
Your Windham-6 Representative will be at all three in-person Town Meetings in our district tomorrow:
Whitingham Annual Town Meeting, at the Twin Valley Middle/High School at 4299 VT Route 100 in Whitingham. More info on Whitingham website.
Halifax Annual Town Meeting, at the Halifax Elementary School at 246 Branch Rd, West Halifax. More info on Halifax website.
Wilmington Annual Town Meeting Town Meeting, at the Old School Community Center in Wilmington. More information on the Wilmington website.
All three towns will also have polls open to elect town officers.
All three start at 10 a.m. I will attend each meeting and offer a brief report followed by Q&A.
The compensation for legislators isn't a lot, but I'll say one thing:
This is the first time in my life I've had a job that gave me Town Meeting as a holiday. That's a privilege I'm grateful for, and I'm grateful and excited to be able to see my neighbors in person and hear what's on their minds.
But for many Vermonters who are working or have other stuff going on, attending our annual rite of local government is either privilege or an impossibility.
How many folks will turn out tomorrow? Some towns are phasing out in-person Town Meeting. Wilmington voters will be voting on whether to switch to Australian ballot after this year.
I encourage you to come -- tomorrow starting at 10 a.m. (latecomers welcome) at the locations above.
P.S. My other favorite past-time this week -- throwing snowballs to Oliver.
