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Annual Meeting
We would like to extend a special invitation to you to help create a coordinated plan for keeping forests and wildlife habitat intact, on November 12 , 2013 from 6:00 to 8:30 PM at the Compass School on US 5 in Westminster, Vermont
Our staff will be there with the Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC) to discuss existing local and regional strategies, brainstorm new ones, and hand out free copies of VNRC’s recent publication: Community Strategies for Vermont’s Forests and Wildlife: A Guide for Local Action.
This meeting is FREE and light refreshments will be provided. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Emma at 802.223.2328 x114 or [email protected]. P.S. – If Westminster is too far to drive, please consider joining us at an alternative location on Thursday, November 7th from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM at the Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Square, Brandon, VT.
Please RSVP to Emma Zavez ([email protected]).
The Public Service Department is moving forward in the work on the Total Energy Study. They are on pace to deliver a report to the Legislature in mid-December and to continue our analysis through next spring. They would like to invite you to join them on November 14 from 6:30-8:00 pm for a public meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to inform the public about our progress on the Total Energy Study and to promote feedback to guide our work. The particular focus will be the pros and cons of policy sets the Department has selected for further analysis.
The meeting will be held at the State House Room 11 (115 State Street, Montpelier). To connect via Webinar, preregister at www4.gotomeeting.com/register/276236743. Persons requiring special accommodations at the meeting may e-mail [email protected] or call (802) 828-2811, by November 8.
More information will be available soon. If you have any immediate questions, please contact Rita Seto at [email protected] or 457-3188
For more information contact Rita Seto at 802-457-3188
Meeting minutes can be found here: LEPCminutes022014_draft
A Legislative Breakfast is being held on Monday, March 10th from 7:30 AM to 9 AM at Vermont Tech’s SHAPE Student Center, sponsored by Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission. The special guests will be governor Peter Shumlin.
A hot breakfast will be served at 7:30 AM. At 8 AM, the Governor will have 15 minutes to address the attendees and discuss his agenda. There will then be time for the audience to ask questions and bring up topics of interest.
If you would like to attend, please reserve a seat by calling the White River Valley Chamber at 728-9027 or emailing Emma Schumann at [email protected] . All are welcome. The cost is $12 for Chamber members and $15 for non-members.
Thanks to the collaborative effort ten pilot homes are being built and sited in non-profit owned parks around Vermont as part of a pilot project that grew out of a nine month multi-stakeholder study and report.
Attached here, is a link to the flyer for the Open House located in Wilder, Vermont.
For more information about the project visit, website of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, to see plans, specs, photos and project information. A summary update is available at the High Meadows website as well.
Thanks to the collaborative effort ten pilot homes are being built and sited in non-profit owned parks around Vermont as part of a pilot project that grew out of a nine month multi-stakeholder study and report.
Attached here, is a link to the flyer for the Open House located in Wilder, Vermont.
For more information about the project visit, website of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, to see plans, specs, photos and project information. A summary update is available at the High Meadows website as well.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) is updating its 2006 Vermont State Rail Plan and expects the plan to be completed by the end of 2014.
An inventory of the state’s existing rail system has been completed and goals and objectives have been drafted. VTrans will seek public review of both topics at public information meetings planned for late March.
The meeting flyer can be downloaded here: VT_rail_plan-03-2104
PURPOSE – The purpose of this seminar is to provide local jurisdictions and regional entities information about the conditions that could result in ice jam and Spring flooding in their respective areas and possible proactive measures to mitigate the impact of that flooding.
AGENDA
- Introductions (DEMHS lead) – 5 min
- National Weather Service – conditions expected (best case/worst case) for both flooding and ice jams – 10 min
- Agency of Natural Resources – how rivers responds to those conditions, residual stability and debris concerns – 10 min
- Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory – where does history tell us we can expect bad things to happen with ice jams? Is this year any worse than other years? – 15 min
- Agency of Transportation – road system impact, detours – 10 min
Break
- DEMHS – 30 min
- Post incident documentation
- Protective actions – local input (What have you done before? What would you do now?)
- Additional considerations
- Questions/wrap-up