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This Saturday at Representative Town Meeting (RTM), town reps in Brattleboro will have a chance to take a simple step to make our town government more inclusive and accessible. Will we take that opportunity?
The Brattleboro Select Board is a powerful body that makes important decisions that impact everyone who lives, works, uses resources, and travels in Brattleboro; however, the job itself is accessible only to a minority of the population. Select Board members make either $3,000 or $5,000/year for a sizable amount of work that seems to only be increasing.
This makes it challenging and near impossible for anyone with a low paying or minimum wage job, or with a lot of student debt, or with a lot of dependents they are responsible for â such as children or elders â to join the Select Board. This is a clear and easily corrected example of how poor and working class people are excluded from Brattleboroâs local polit
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Westminster Farms, in Westminster, Vt., produces electricity from the methane of its cows and sells it to Green Mountain Power.
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Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Westminster Farms, in Westminster, Vt., produces electricity from the methane of its cows and sells it to Green Mountain Power.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Shawn Goodell, from Westminster Farms, in Westminster, Vt., checks the energy output from the two motors that produce electricity from the methane of its cows on Thursday, March 4, 2021.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Westminster Farms, in Westminster, Vt., produces electricity from the methane of its cows and sells it to Green Mountain Power.