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Annual Meeting
Please click here for a meeting agenda: executive-committee-agenda-11-9-16
Thursday, 11/10/16, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Join us to learn how to create a series of maps from one QGIS project, each map’s extent being a portion of the whole map. This webinar will take participants through the steps to create an “Atlas” defined by one of the data layers included in the project.
Please register at:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5580855319061232899
TRORC will conduct an information and training session to discuss Act 174, An Act Relating to Improving the Siting of Energy Projects. TRORC will review the voluntary enhanced energy planning standards and recommendations for regional and municipal plans. Please visit the VT Department of Public Service website to reference the standards: https://publicservice.vermont.gov/content/act-174-recommendations-and-determination-standards
On Thursday, November 10, the Woodstock Emergency Operations Committee and members of the Woodstock Irene team invite you to an evening of how to be prepared for the next weather event. “Why, What and Where” will remind people of why storms like Irene will be only more frequent, what we can do to be prepared, what to do when storms hit and where to go. Climatoligist Cath Geiger will give an explanation of the sceince behind the more frequent storms. Speakers from the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission and the Community Emergency Response Team will give us the steps that we can take now to help us during a disaster. Representatives from the American Red Cross and Vermont Alert will be available to explain their services. Members of the Woodstock Irene Team will remind is how important it is to be prepared as a community, building on lessons that we learned during Irene.
For more information, call Phil Swanson at 457-3456.
Location: Billings Farm and Museum Theater
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Woodstock Town Hall
The Clean Water Advisory Committee will be having its first meeting to discuss an array of water quality related topics in the TRORC region. First meeting topics will include reclassification of specific surface waters in the Ottauquechee River Basin and White River Basin, the Final Required Agricultural Practices proposed rule, drought status in our region and steps we can take, and the relicensing status of dams on the Connecticut River. See agenda below.
Woodstock Town Hall
Effective stormwater management is a challenging, yet increasingly
important, component of municipal water systems. Municipalities can
realize long-term savings and achieve social benefits with an
integrated water management approach. This forum will highlight
tools, financing options, and local examples to address stormwater
compliance costs and help municipalities become more financially
and environmentally resilient.
Forum topics will cover integrated stormwater management for
municipalities including:
Maximizing the economic and social value of municipal water
resources, and minimizing the costs of stormwater control;
Creative financing strategies that leverage a variety of funding
sources to augment municipal stormwater budgets;
Practical steps to accurately estimate short- and long-term
municipal stormwater needs.
Who Will Benefit from Attending? Municipal administrators,
planners, public works officials, community leaders, technical
assistance providers, and regional funders.
Registration is Free!
A block of hotel rooms has been reserved at the Holiday
Inn Express in Durham, NH for this event. The deadline
for booking is Nov. 1.
Free lodging is available for the first 20 community/utility
registrants in need of assistance.
Meals provided:
Day 1: Breakfast, Lunch, and Refreshments
Day 2: Breakfast and Refreshments
Our address is:
New England Environmental Finance Center • University
of Southern Maine • Edmund S. Muskie School of Public
Service
34 Bedford Street, PO Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104
[email protected]
PUBLIC MEETING
Open Forum: 6:00-6:30PM
Public Meeting 6:30PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Hartford Town Hall- Room
171 Bridge Street,
White River Junction, VT 05001
Public meeting is for the purpose of receiving information and comments about the Vermont Agency of Transportation’s Quechee Gorge Bridge Suicide Prevention Study.
These documents will be available for your review at the Hartford Town Office (171 Bridge Street, White River Junction) and Vermont Agency of Transportation District 4 Office (221 Beswick Drive, White River Junction) and online https://vtrans.vermont.gov/planning/projects-programs starting 10/9/16.
The information received will be considered as the Agency prepares draft Quechee Gorge Bridge Suicide Prevention Study and final Legislative Report.
If you cannot attend the hearing and wish to make your feelings known, please forward your comments by December 16, 2016 directly to:
Jackie Cassino, Planning Coordinator
Vermont Agency of Transportation
1 National Life Drive, Davis Building, 5th Floor
Montpelier, Vermont 05633-5001
If you have questions regarding the meeting or the subjects that will be discussed, please call the Agency at 802-272-2368.