South Burlington voters approve 3 major funding requests, pick among 10 candidates on Town Meeting Day
With a turnout of 21%, it was business as usual in South Burlington, according to City Manager Jessie Baker.
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With a turnout of 21%, it was business as usual in South Burlington, according to City Manager Jessie Baker.
In addition to voting on the school and city budgets, residents will decide whether to bond for up to $14.5 million for school capital improvements, $15 million in tax increment financing to continue developing the City Center and $33 million to make upgrades to a wastewater treatment facility.
Join Danaka Katovich (CODEPINK), James Leas (Save Our Skies VT), Paul Maillet (Retired colonel and former Green party candidate), and moderator Tamara Lorincz (VOW, WILPF) on February 9 at 7:30PM ET for a virtual panel and Q&A on Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Fighter Jet and Canada’s decision to buy them.
South Burlington’s March city council election is beginning to take shape, as five candidates have filed petitions to run for the city’s two open seats.
For most of his life, James Leas has been proverbially shaking his fist at the sky.