The first installment of the 2021 Brattleboro Real Estate and Personal Property Taxes will be due on August 23, 2021. Payments made after August 23, 2021 will have an additional 1% interest added to the unpaid balance.
The Town of Brattleboro utility bills are also due on August 23, 2021. Payments made after August 23, 2021 will have an additional 1% interest, as well as an 8% penalty added to the unpaid balance.
AGENDA
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Minutes – May 20, 2021
III. Recognition of Visitors
IV. Agenda Additions/Changes
The Brattleboro Selectboard approved a new rule requiring face covering indoors, subject to the approval of Dr. Levine and the Vermont Department of Health. If Levine doesn’t approve, the board strongly recommends, rather than requires, the face coverings. This is all in response to a rapid rise in regional COVID cases, more Delta variant, and a fluctuating CDC rating of viral transmission.
In a related action, the board recommended to everyone who is able, please get vaccinated.
SHOPPING ONLY DAY at Swap Shop at WSWMD on Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro on Saturday, August 21, 8:30 am to noon. We are overflowing with donated items and must make room for more! A few of the many items available are dressers, chairs, lamps, kitchenware, puzzles, outdoor furniture, DVDs, books, file cabinets-2 drawer & 4 drawer….ALL ITEMS ARE FREE
SCHEDULE & HOURS:
Shopping Days- 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month
Donation Days- 2nd & 4th Saturdays of the month
If a month contains 5 weeks, the Swap will be closed
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – Kelly Young
II. Approval of Previous Minutes – August 6, 2021
III. New Hires – Action Needed
AGENDA
1. Minutes – May 20, 2021
2. Public Participation
3. Monthly Report on Pedestrian and Bicycle Incidents
4. Monthly Report on Traffic Data Collection
5. Updates/Continued Discussion on Ongoing Matters
The Department of Public Works is happy to report that Renaud Brothers has completed the replacement of the stone culvert on Hinesburg Road that failed during the severe rainstorm on July 17. The guardrails have been installed and the roadway has been paved. Hinesburg Road is reopened to normal traffic, effective immediately.
We appreciate your cooperation, understanding and patience as these repairs were made.
Brattleboro ~ Meet and greet Police Chief Norma Hardy at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. this Wednesday, August 18 from 5-7. Drop by and get acquainted at an outdoor reception to welcome the newest member of the Town of Brattleboro team.
Everyone is invited and refreshments will be served.
Shock. Sadness. Anger. Those were some of the emotions that grabbed me as I read the account by Mindy Haskins Rogers in the August 11 issue of The Commons of Brattleboro. She told the story of alleged sexual abuse by a former Brattleboro Union High School English teacher, Zeke Hecker, and the years-long cover up of his behavior.
We hear about sexual abuse nearly every day and we have come to realize that not enough abusers are ever brought to justice. You only have to look as far as a former president to understand that the deck is stacked against the abused.
Silence is one of the best weapons that abusers have. Sadly, there are too many examples of child sexual abuse, including that of the Catholic church.
BCTV Channel 1075 schedule for the week of 8/16/21
Monday, August 16, 2021
4:05 am Middlebury Festival on the Green 2021 – Beg, Steal or Borrow
5:55 am Positively Vermont – Vermont Rail Action Network 7/11/21
6:30 am Open Exchange Vermont: Ep 1 – Bodily Autonomy and Vaccine Passports
7:00 am Brattleboro Rotary Club Speaker Series – Ep 49 – DG John Bob
7:20 am HANDS in the Dirt – Organic Pest Controls – Diseases and Animals 7/21/21
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
August 16 Caesar Salad w/Chicken
Pasta Salad w/Broccoli & Pesto
Garlic Bread
Cream Puff
A Half-century Long Brutal USA Embargo Against Tiny Cuba! 184 Nations Vote For its End & Against US & Israel
NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) –
‘U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration continued Washington’s tradition of voting against an annual United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for an end to a U.S. economic embargo on Cuba.
The resolution was adopted for the 29th time with 184 votes in favor, three abstentions and two no votes – the United States and Israel. The U.N. vote can carry political weight, but only the U.S. Congress can lift the more than 50-year-old embargo.’
No Government Besides Israel Supports US Embargo
The Brattleboro Selectboard will meet on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, at 6:15pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Brattleboro Municipal Center (320 Main Street). The public is encouraged to participate in the meeting over Zoom. The Municipal Center will be open to the public with limited seating spaced six feet apart and face coverings will be required in the meeting. The attached agenda contains information on how to access the meeting remotely, including the required “passcode.” ASL interpreters will be available for deaf and hard-of-hearing community members.
The new census is being rolled out. Both Vermont and Windham County have seen population growth, if the numbers are reliable, since 2010.
Windham County had a 3.1% change in population, from 44,513 in 2010 to 45,905 in 2020. Vermont’s population grew by 2.8%, from 625,741 in 2010 to 643,077 in 2020.
The percent of Windham County population over 18 is 82.5%, or 37,893 people.
1. Call to Order 1 min
2. Agenda Review 2 min
3. Approve minutes 3 min
4. Announcements
Taliban WAS the Government of Afghanistan for 4 Years When USA Invaded & Put in a Drug Lord Regime and For 20 Years the Taliban Continued To Govern Half of Afghanistan Outside the Cities and Coalition Military Bases
Chronology:
1978, Afghani King overthrown. Popular women liberating Socialist gov. installed in Kabul.
July,1979, Prez Carter secretly funds its overthrow by fundamentalist war lords.
Update to the Community from Brattleboro Town Manager Peter Elwell:
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) has reclassified Windham County from an area of “moderate public transmission” of COVID-19 to an area of “substantial public transmission” of the virus.
All Town of Brattleboro government facilities remain open to the public at this time, but we have reinstituted the requirement that anyone inside Town buildings must be wearing a face covering. This applies equally to employees and to visitors. It applies equally to vaccinated people and to unvaccinated people. The CDC guidance on this matter is clear: all “people [should] wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high transmission.”
Back in the BCTV studio after 8 months on Zoom!
A BUHS Career Center graduate, Skylar’s story is the best of how a life can be turned around through the power of care and support from family, teachers, and community.
1. Convene Meeting
2. Application for exemption for 54 South Main Street.
3. Review of 2021 conditionally exempt properties
4. Other Business
5. Public Comments
6. Adjourn
The weather forecast for the remainder of this week includes dangerously high heat and humidity. Town of Brattleboro urges everyone to drink plenty of water, wear light clothing, and stay out of the heat as much as possible.
People who need some cool air can visit the Senior Center at the Gibson Aiken Center (207 Main Street), Brooks Memorial Library (224 Main Street), the Central Fire Station (103 Elliot Street), or the West Brattleboro Fire Station (16 South Street).
