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Members of the House Appropriations Committee gave legislative staff the go-ahead to produce an up-to-date bill that incorporates the decisions made over the last few weeks. The panel is expected to review and formally sign off on it Monday.
At issue is about $71 million in one-time housing money and $9.2 million earmarked for organic dairy farmers, neither of which were included in Gov. Phil Scott’s proposal.
The midyear administrative budget adjustment that absorbs the first weeks of every Vermont legislative session usually involves requests to transfer money between already existing programs. And normally a hospital will take several years to launch a...
The Scott administration requested fast-tracked funding for a new inpatient adolescent psychiatry unit at the Bennington hospital, a project still in the planning stage.
The rural infrastructure assistance program would provide $3 million for towns to get help applying for federal aid.