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Annual Meeting
Date: April 29, 2016
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Lyndon Public Safety Building, Lyndonville
Contact: [email protected]
Who should attend? Regional & town planners, GIS planners and municipal officials
Why? Discuss drinking water topics that are relevant to your communities:
Lessons from a Vermont town that exceeded its available water and related planning issues (including a moratorium on development)
New mapping tools for future town supplies and projected water shortages including additional data on the ANR Atlas
Aquifer recharge and protection of public and private water supplies through municipal options in planning and zoning
Does your local hazard mitigation plan include water supply contamination?
Scheduled Speakers: Rodney Pingree, Water Resources Section Chief with the DEC Drinking Water Program; Marjorie Gale, State Geologist with the Vermont Geological Survey; Liz Royer, Source Protection Specialist with the VT Rural Water Association; and Kira Jacobs with the Drinking Water Program in EPA Region 1
Please RSVP to Liz by April 8th – [email protected] or 802-660-4988 x336
Featuring Keynote Speaker, Jonathan Nez, Vice President of the Navajo Nation, and panelists Barry Lampke, Voices of the Lakes, Duan “Chili” Yazzie, Shiprock Chapter President, Tommy Rock, Rock Environmental Consulting, and Janene Yazzie, Sixth World Solutions. Black Hawk Singers will open and close with Abenaki Drumming & Singing.
Department of Public Safety – Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium are offering a special training, Rail Car Incident Response.
The free course will be held at the Blue Mountain Union School in Wells River, VT on April 30, 2016 from 8:00AM – 5:00PM. Further information on the course can be found on the RDPC website https://www.ruraltraining.org/training/schedule/2016-04-30-awr147-wellsriver-vt-001/.
Target Audience:
Emergency responders, especially fire and law enforcement, as well as emergency managers and freight/rail industry representatives who want to gain a basic working knowledge are encouraged to attend. Hazardous materials technicians may attend but content is designed at the awareness level
Course Description:
Rail Car Incident Response is an eight-hour, awareness-level training program developed to educate rural emergency responders on freight rail car incidents involving hazardous materials.
https://www.ruraltraining.org/media/course-material/AWR_147_Insert_Card_1.pdf
To register please complete the attached registration form, email to [email protected] and cc [email protected].
9th Annual Energy Committee Roundtable May 3 Save the Date! Volunteers from our region’s 38 energy committees will gather again this year at the Montshire Museum on the evening of May 3 to swap stories and gear up for another year of local energy action. Interested in joining or forming an energy committee in your town? Learn more and register.
https://vitalcommunities.org/energy/9th-annual-roundtable-may-3/
THINK SPRING – Trees, Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Berries Saturday
May 7, 2016
9am-11am
VT Technical College- Red Schoolhouse Randolph Center, VT Order your plants by April 8
https://onrcd.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ff907eec1b7ede0ea0e7e1987&id=4474c3ed5b&e=778914bb7b
Dear Local Officials,
The TRORC region is short thousands of homes that are affordable. Many of TRORC’s towns could benefit from more homes, as this would lead to more community members – employees, employers, customers, students, volunteers – as well as allowing current community members to move in to more appropriate housing for them. Zoning regulations can inadvertently get in the way of producing such homes. Come discuss ways in which regulations can be changed to encourage more housing in your town with TRORC Senior Planner Kevin Geiger. Some of the topics that will be discussed are reduced lot sizes, mixed uses, waivers as incentives, and more. There will be two meetings over the next few weeks with one in Norwich and the other in Bethel a week later with more details to come. Please let me know if you plan on attending either one of the meetings.
See details below for Meeting:
Norwich Area Meeting
Date: June 1, 2016
Where: Tracy Hall: Norwich, VT
When: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Bethel Area Meeting
Date: June 8, 2016
Where: Bethel Town Hall 318 Main St.
When: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
The Barnard Town Energy Committee is hosting an information session on heat pumps and solar energy on Tue., May 10 at 6:30 PM at the Danforth Library in Barnard
NOTE: Time change. New meeting time is 4:00 – 5:30 pm
For a copy of the agenda, please click here: Executive Committee Agenda 5.11.16
The next TAC meeting is Thursday May 12, 2016 9:30AM at the Brookfield First Congregational Church (Exit 4 Randolph, take VT66 E past VTC, take left onto Ridge Rd until you hit VT65 and see the white church on the corner). Attached are meeting agenda and minutes from last meeting. We’ll be electing Chair and Vice Chair and a quick check on Bylaws in case anyone has something to bring up.