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Annual Meeting
Michal Kravčík , a distinguished hydrologist and climate expert from Slovakia, and recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, has an urgent message for America as well as the rest of the globe: All of us, not just the “experts,” must take action by soaking up the rain in soil and plants, which release cooling cloud-forming vapor to fall again as rain, to restore critical land-based water cycles. Otherwise we will experience worsening drought, heat waves and other climate woes, including floods and severe storms. Dr. Kravčík is a seasoned world lecturer who will touring North America in March and April 2017, presenting natural, inexpensive solutions for restoring more livable landscapes and weather patterns. For anyone, lay or professional, concerned about water supplies, land use, or climate, this will be time well spent.
For more information please visit Voices of Water for Climate, a project of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate at https://bio4climate.org/vow/ or contact tour coordinator Jan Lambert at [email protected] or 603-477-9947.
March 7, 2017 8-3:30 ,at the Sheraton Hotel, 870 Williston Road, Burlington VT.
The course, Procurement Under FEMA Awards: Requirements for Recipients and Sub recipients When Procuring Services and Supplies with Funding under Stafford Act Grant Programs, is designed for State, Local, and Tribal emergency management personnel, and private non-profit entities who procure services that may be reimbursable under the FEMA program. https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/96773
March 8, 10 am – noon at 171 Bridge St, Hartford VT. Room 2
Please RSVP to [mailto:[email protected]]
Please also feel free to distribute this to anyone who could benefit from the course.
Agenda
1. Introductions.
2. Approval of January 12 Minutes.
3. Project Prioritization / Pre-Candidate Bridges / District Leveling (Rita)
4. Sharon Park and Ride Scoping Report – Wayne Davis, VTrans Park and Ride Manager
TAC needs to select a preferred alternative to VTrans for input
5. 2017 Better Roads Funding (Rita)
a) Grant window: January 23 to March 17, 2017
b) Applications planned?
6. Other business
• VTrans I-89 Exit 3 Royalton Park and Ride Informational Meeting
• 2017 field season – traffic counts, culvert + road erosion inventories
Future meeting topics? Next meeting on Thursday May 11, 2017. Location TBD
Meeting agenda for Wednesday March 15, 2017 VTrans District 4 Garage
9:30am – 11:00am
1) Introductions (9:30am)
2) Gravel Gradation – Todd Eaton, VLR Circuit Rider (1.5 hrs)
Todd will go into discussion of gravel gradation, sieving and material components.
3) Field season (culverts, road erosion, traffic speed studies) – Rita (10 mins)
4) Meeting Adjourn
Please RSVP to Rita ([email protected] or call 457-3188)
Location:
VTrans District 4 Garage – 221 Beswick Drive, WRJ, VT Phone: (802) 295-8888
Directions:
From Exit 11 of I-91 (WRJ), go north on US5, right onto Sykes Mountain Ave, right onto Beswick Drive (McDonald’s corner).
A special meeting of the TRORC Executive Committee has been called for a site visit to a potential new office location for TRORC. No action will be taken.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation has selected a new park and ride facility site at Exit 3 on I-89 in Royalton.
They are holding a public meeting to obtain public input on the conceptual design. Please attend and provide your input.
If you are unable to attend and have comments/questions, please contact Wayne Davis, VTrans Park and Ride Manager at 802-828-5608 or at [email protected].
Meeting agenda for Tuesday March 21, 2017 VTrans District 4 Garage
9:30am – 11:00am
1) Introductions (9:30am)
2) Gravel Gradation – Todd Eaton, VLR Circuit Rider (1.5 hrs)
Todd will go into discussion of gravel gradation, sieving and material components.
3) Field season (culverts, road erosion, traffic speed studies) – Rita (10 mins)
4) Meeting Adjourn
Please RSVP to Rita ([email protected] or call 457-3188)
Location:
VTrans District 4 Garage – 221 Beswick Drive, WRJ, VT Phone: (802) 295-8888
Directions:
From Exit 11 of I-91 (WRJ), go north on US5, right onto Sykes Mountain Ave, right onto Beswick Drive (McDonald’s corner).
Each program opens with great light food fare from Black Krim Tavern and offers an opportunity to post – and promote – organizing actions that people are committed to act on; an opportunity to launch new ideas, recruit participants and/or inspire deeper engagement… anything that strengthens local capacity and stronger, interconnected communities.
- March 22: The film, “The Economics of Happiness” and dialogue with filmmaker Steven Gorelick (the film offers an overview of why the current global economic model is failing the vast majority of humanity… and then offers positive, dynamic localization actions seen on six continents)
- March 29: “Know Your Farmer — Feed Your Farmer” – a celebration of our local food system and farmers (for one night we turn the tables and the eaters feed the farmers; also many great stories from farmers we know and live music)
- April 12: “Local Dollars, Local Sense” talk with Gwen Hallsmith of Vermonters for a New Economy (actions that we can take at local and state level, including a state bank commission and much more about localizing money exchange and investment)
- April 19: “Slow Democracy” with presenter Susan Clark (author of Slow Democracy; what is the scale at which democracies work well… and how to keep them vibrant)
- May 10: “Learning from Our Local Past” with Camden Walters and Euclid Farnham (what can we learn from our past that can help us relocalize our communities)
- May 24: To be Announced
Organized by BALE (Building A Local Economy) in partnership with Local Futures, Vermonters for a New Economy, Sustainable Woodstock, Rural Vermont, Alliance for Vermont Communities, Peace & Justice Committee of Bethany Church, and Feast & Field Market.
Supported by the New England Grassroots Environment Fund, Larsen Family Fund, Sustainable Future Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation and Catamount Solar Community Grants.
For a copy of the agenda, please click here: TRORC Board Meeting Agenda 3-22-17