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Annual Meeting
For additional information on this event, please view the following agenda: Road Foreman Meeting Agenda, December 2014.
Associated Industries of Vermont will host a special seminar focusing on key environmental and regulatory issues, with presentations and Q&A with private and public sector experts. For information on planned topics, an updated agenda, and access to both a printable and an online registration form, please visit the AIVT website, www.aivt.org.
For additional information on the location of the first public meeting, please view the following PDF: VTrans Public Meeting 1.
The Upper Valley Adaptation Workgroup and its partners invite you to a workshop to learn about business continuity. Our region’s economic resiliency will depend on how prepared each business will be for increasingly frequent natural disasters.
- Learn about the fundamentals of business continuity planning and economic resiliency
- Lean from local and national experts who will introduce practical steps to preparing for any disruptive event
- Gain information on local resources to help take the next steps toward becoming a resilient business
The GUVTU Regular Chapter Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 5th in the downstairs meeting room at The Norwich Inn in Norwich, VT. Ray Obar, an accomplished tier of salmon flies, will be presenting this month on a bit of history, common materials and patterns, and also providing a tying demo. If you have a request to see a specific pattern tied, please contact Ray directly and he will try to fit it into the program: [email protected]. Doors will open at 6 pm and Ray will begin at 6:30. Food and drink will be available for purchase (there will be a Norwich Inn server available to us).
The Vermont Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security will be hosting a series of ice jam / springtime flooding summits across the state.
At these meetings, which will be open to all and geared towards local public officials, the following partners will give presentations:
o U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) regarding Ice Jams;
o National Weather Service regarding seasonal conditions and ice jam and flooding prospects;
o Vermont Agency of Transportation;
o Vermont Agency of Natural Resources regarding a new on-line reporting system for Emergency Protective Measures and technical assistance availability;
o Vermont Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (DEMHS) regarding the State Watch Officer Program, DisasterLan, Local Emergency Operations Plans, etc.
For details or to confirm in the event of inclement weather, contact DEMHS at (800) 347-0488.
In a time of tighter budgets, finding efficiencies just makes good sense, and cents. Come hear, and share, the various options your community has for creating inter-municipal agreements. This could be as complex as a new entity that covers several towns, to two towns just sharing a loader. For more information, contact Kevin Geiger at [email protected] or by calling (802) 457-3188.