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Kurt Daims commented on the post, Vote for Nell Mayo and Isaac Evans-Frantz on March 3, 2026!

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:31:48 +0000

These are two thinking, forward thinking people. During selectboard discussion of a downtown liquor license other members wanted no discussion — the matter had been on the “consent agenda” — which meant […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Beyond I Have a Dream

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:13:21 +0000

BEYOND I HAVE A DREAM
People who cannot attend, start the discussion here. Tell us your favorite quote from Martin King (besides “I have a dream”) so your neighbors can discuss it Wednesday the 11th., 6:30 at the […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - A Long Winter's Eve and It's A Wonderful Life

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:47:23 +0000

Does that mean the chair is expecting a vote from the TM ? Are votes often taken this way , Chris ?

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - A Long Winter's Eve and It's A Wonderful Life

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:45:26 +0000

The citation about RTM from the charter is, “It is a guiding body for the town and a source of ideas, proposals and comments, . . .) The charter gives the board a long list of administrative tasks. Guidance is […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - A Long Winter's Eve and It's A Wonderful Life

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:26:38 +0000

Under the town charter the town manager is not a member of the selectboard.

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - A Long Winter's Eve and It's A Wonderful Life

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:22:27 +0000

That’s what I thought I heard, “4-0-1”. How long has this been going on ? There are only five select-persons.

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - FY27 Property Tax Guess 4.4%; PAYT Bag Costs Up

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:52:55 +0000

Toward a Forceful No-Kings Movement

BACKGROUND to Mr. Lucy’s Comments

The New York Sun
September 16, 2008
BCS director Kurt Daims spoke at the Massachusetts School of Law conference “War and the Law: L […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Resist / Aggressive Next Step

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:55:44 +0000

The Strongest Action against Mr. Trump began here in Brattleboro in 2008.

Now (again) it is time for ACTIVE resistance to Mr. Trump. Brattleboro Common Sense (BCS) in common cause with people protesting […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Attack From The Left

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:16:03 +0000

What I hear in Mr. Davis’ comment is only paranoia and fear-mongering. As Mr. Grotke points out, there is nothing illegal or secretive about recent actions on homelessness. (except the Town’s illegal […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Eminent Domain Creates Emergency Homeless Shelters

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:27:35 +0000

I don’t know why the board would make such a claim that is so easily disproved. See Vermont Terminal Corp. v. Highway Board (1973), or Harrington v. Vermont Agency of Transportation (2009). A taking under […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Eminent Domain Creates Emergency Homeless Shelters

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:13:49 +0000

Thank you. Join us. We’ve done much of the legal work (when we had an attorney) in that previous campaign in 2010. Now we need an attorney, and an economist. And please spread the word, preparing for. a meeting […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Eminent Domain Creates Emergency Homeless Shelters

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 23:29:40 +0000

Eminent Domain creates Homeless Shelters

While hotel owners reap abusive profits, Vermonters are suffering extreme tax hikes, and the housing crisis threatens to bankrupt the state, and homeless people are […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - Deep Budget Cuts To Everything Except Personnel, Roads, Police...etc.

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:27:37 +0000

Thanks to Mr. Davis (I apologize for fumbling his name at tonights meeting) and to Mr. Quipp for opposing the homeless ordinance. The dictation software says the board should be “chained” . That should be […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Selectboard Rejects Downtown Protections (re Homeless)

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:21:24 +0000

BCS started a low-cost semi-private community-based true emergency shelter in RVs In Brattleboro in 2022. “Community-based” is not a buzzword here. This shelter model relieves downtown of hosting many homeless and […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - Big Sticks and Ass Kicking Approved As Motel Program Winds Up

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:18:27 +0000

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Brattleboro Selectboard Agenda and Notes - September 3, 2024

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:16:50 +0000

I meant to say, “guns don’t protect officers; helmets and bullet-proof vests do that.”

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Brattleboro Selectboard Agenda and Notes - September 3, 2024

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:06:41 +0000

Item 6 Public Participation

Pierre Landry asked why the huge BFD ladder truck is being used on medical calls, limiting the amount of subsidized housing in town because a larger population will strain town […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - Brattleboro To Expand Police and Surveillance

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:29:22 +0000

We offered part of our headquarters at 16 Washington Street. We later offered to help the department with an RV for a mobile substation.

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - Brattleboro To Expand Police and Surveillance

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:00:37 +0000

The board was scorned for forgetting the studies that they instigated to delay the SAFE Policing disarmament plan and other measures approved by the safety committee . Renaming really helps forgetting.

In […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, We Watched Them Murder Many Thousands of Captive Children in Their Concentration Camp! Woe Unto Us

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:43:05 +0000

Hello, Mr. Jansen. Thanks for posting this.
What do people imagine doing about it, besides “calling for” something ? Withholding weapons can’t do much good, because Israel doesn’t need our money or our weapons. […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, "Perhaps More of A Hostage Situation" - Town of Brattleboro v Kurt Daims

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:05:09 +0000

Last February the health board (selectboard) of Brattleboro, VT, issued a health order against Kurt Daims for violations of rental health codes at an emergency homeless shelter operated by BCS on land owned by […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Officer Did Not Falsify Evidence

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:33:15 +0000

CORRECTION: The officer did not falsify evidence. To falsify evidence means to alter it after it is admitted into a court record. That’s really serious and worse than what happened. Here’s what happened.

The […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Housing Crisis Fake News ?

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:07:39 +0000

The town has waged a legal campaign against BCS for its emergency homeless shelters in RVs for a year now. Their charges are based on rumors and technicalities.

They can win only by their legal power. At our […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, $72,000 Parking Ticket

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:59:48 +0000

(And that’s not the worst of it. The judge hinted he could raise it to $170,000.)

On February 14 the Town asked VT Superior Court for a judgement of $72K against a local nonprofit for placing RVs that were used […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes: The Last UDAG

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:14:13 +0000

I would make requests to the board on two important charter amendments of BCS which underwent unapproved revisions.
First, about eviction controls. BCS sent a proposal to the board for rent control and […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - EMS and Kitten Update

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:09:36 +0000

At their meeting February 21 Ms. McLoughlin flatly denied that there was a homeless crisis. And last night there were several complaints about the selectboard’s work or lack of work on it . I’m told Bruce […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Two Short Selectboard Comments from BCS - April 4, 2023

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:19:03 +0000

We thank Mr. Potter for the update on the litigation over our emergency homeless shelter.

We had two comments tonight: first on the EHRV emergency shelter, and second, on the Fair Evictions and Rents amendment […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Daims' March 21, 2023 Recollection of Remarks With Selectboard

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:29:49 +0000

Below is my recollection of remarks at tonight’s meeting.

The preliminaries are usually unremarkable and brief. But yesterday Jessica Gelter said that she mentioned the suppression of Kurt Daims/BCS written t […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Don't Give Up on Eviction Control: What Went Wrong, What Can Go Better ?

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:57:55 +0000

What do you think ?

BCS recently sponsored a debate about abortion between religious conservatives and secular liberals. They hugged each other at the end and want to meet again. So, we at BCS have evidence […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, RAD Just Cause Amendment Implies Permanent Homeless Under-class

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:12:05 +0000

NOTICE : This doesn’t mean anyone should move out. It only means that the compassion is misplaced.
Imagine you’re homeless, living in a car for five years, and you hear about a new law that says everyone with an […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, RAD Just Cause To Create Permanent Homeless Under-class

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 13:54:33 +0000

Section B of the RAD Just Cause amendment demands for tenants the privilege of an endless lease. RAD says the endless lease is compassionate. Let’s be real here. To demand the option of an endless lease while […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Notes Feb 21, 2023 - Let Homeless Sleep in the Snow

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:08:22 +0000

I apologize to the selectboard. I wrote that the board had said the housing crisis is not an emergency. This is not true. That sentiment was heard at the hearing, but it did not come from anyone on the board. […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Notes Feb 21, 2023 - Let Homeless Sleep in the Snow

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 16:32:58 +0000

Thanks for asking, Chris. People fussed about the BCS or me (Kurt Daims) being there. The simple fact is that Brattleboro Common Sense is listed before me (Kurt Daims) on the official notice that the board sent […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Notes Feb 21, 2023 - Let Homeless Sleep in the Snow

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 01:18:30 +0000

Yes, BCS was notified of the hearing on the 21st. However, we refer to Title 18 section 127(c) which says we had a right to a hearing within five days of the order and that the issuer has to notify us of that […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Notes Feb 21, 2023 - Let Homeless Sleep in the Snow

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:02:40 +0000

Maybe the selectboard will put that on the new website banner, or in the banner over Main Street instead of “WE CELEBRATE COMPLACENCY”

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Selectboard Notes Feb 21, 2023 - Let Homeless Sleep in the Snow

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:46:33 +0000

BCS submitted its Statement to the board by email and in person on paper. The selectboard (health commission) declined to read any part of BCS’ STATEMENT at the hearing. The selectboard decided to uphold the […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - McNeills, Budgets, and Park Planning

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:30:17 +0000

The short climate eesolution was proposed by BCS and approved by Representative Town Meeting in 2018. It became known as the Cow Power resolution, because it proposed using renewable electric power through the […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - McNeills, Budgets, and Park Planning

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:45:10 +0000

This correspondence (below) gives the reader an idea of the maneuvering that can delay a new law. Brattleboro Common Sense (BCS) approached the board today not because the board has any authority in the approval […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Abortion Discussion: Should Abortion Be Legal

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:32:11 +0000

Should Abortion Be Legal

NOT the usual “debate”, but a public discussion by people around Brattleboro who believe in public discourse.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BOYS AND GIRLS OF ALL AGES, you will soon witness […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - EMS Update, Inclusion, and Interviews

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:05:57 +0000

World-wide research by the medical journal Lancet shows that children feel betrayed by adults (government) not taking action on climate crisis. Children are suffering rapidly increasing high levels of stress. […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - Cautious Board Approves No Resolution

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 01:25:46 +0000

About interfering with Prop 5 the town attorney was clear. He said the resolution”doesn’t rise to the level . . . .” That’s lawyer talk for don’t worry about it. The board is afraid to take significant […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - Cautious Board Approves No Resolution

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:52:39 +0000

I apologize to Patrick and the board. The original text uses the word “woman” only once, and I assumed that would be all the way through the document. So, I’m sorry for distracting us all from the main discussion.

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Selectboard Meeting Notes - We Need To Take Bold Action. Maybe. It Depends. Probably.

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:07:59 +0000

Elizabeth McLoughlin and Dan Quipp worry about resolutions being ineffective. But both of them voted for the ineffective energy committee letter in November 2020, even as the board said it was “unsubstantial” […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Brattleboro Selectboard Meeting Agenda and Notes - July 19, 2022

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 20:14:50 +0000

BCS spoke with selectboard member Jessica Gelter early Saturday. She will speak for the resolution, which she authored, and will support the amendment to fund reproductive health and abortion advocacy locally and […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Action On Abortion! Talk The Talk. Walk The Walk

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 20:10:01 +0000

BCS spoke with selectboard member Jessica Gelter early Saturday. She will speak for the resolution, which she authored, and will support the amendment. Having already felt resistance in town government, she asks […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Action On Abortion! Talk The Talk. Walk The Walk

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:08:03 +0000

People want to do something about Roe. Protest demonstrations and resolutions are not enough. The Brattleboro selectboard will soon consider a resolution with many whereas’s and no force, supporting the right to […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Abortion Discussion Event: Speakers Wanted

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:41:42 +0000

SPECIAL PROJECT OPENINGS: BCS will be producing a series of discussions on topical issues. For our part the purpose of the series is civil discussion itself. This event, to be held in September, will be a public […]

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Vermont Public What?

Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:15:08 +0000

I think that might be public information.

Kurt Daims commented on the post, Vermont Public What?

Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:52:16 +0000

It’s just like the packaging for shampoo and other sundries, you may have noticed. They say “lemon freshened” and non-this and low-that and extra-satinizing, and it doesn’t say WHAT.

I complained to […]

Kurt Daims wrote a new post, Slow Response to Housing Crisis

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:02:50 +0000

Brattleboro officials notice the housing crisis: 500 units are needed — NOW. But recent proposals for construction of a dozen or so units are a pathetic response.

The selectboard and committees are fixated on […]