The Selectboard Show was on Tuesday night with a special extended edition.
It was their first consent agenda, with a review of SeVEDS current projects, a talk about renters and landlords, an Energy Committee proposal to align with state emissions goals, and a review of FY22 capital projects and equipment.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu November 16 to November 20
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
Nov. 16 American Chop Suey
Yellow Squash
Spinach
Peaches
With your management and leadership, the program will continue and be even better” The Brattleboro Senior Meals Board
From 1997 to 2020 that what Chris McAvoy has done just that. Brattleboro Senior Meals from 1997 to 2004 the program was under Senior Solutions. In 2004 Senior Solutions decided that they would no longer fund the meals program at this site.
Chris with the help of a group of seniors, headed by Greg Propster, decided to become their own entity and for a non-profit, 501c3. With this accomplished Chris was able move the program with her management and leadership skills.
MINUTES
September 4 Meeting Minutes
I. Call to Order – Michelle called the meeting to order at 12:30
II. Minute Approval – Robin moved, Jaime seconded All approved
III. Recognition of Visitors – none
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 11/16/20
Monday, November 16, 2020
5:00 am Brattleboro Drive-Thru Halloween – Brattleboro Drive-Thru Halloween 2020
6:20 am Stuck in Vermont – Camping at Grand Isle State Park During a Pandemic
6:30 am Indigenous Peoples Day – Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration Part 1 – 2020
7:25 am Putney Craft Tour – Putney Craft Tour 2020 – Julia Brandis
7:26 am Putney Craft Tour – Putney Craft Tour 2020 – Judy Hawkins
Due to COVID restrictions, this meal is now TO-GO’s ONLY.
Starting Monday Nov. 9th, the VFW will start taking reservations for our Saturday, November 21st $12 turkey meal. The meal will be served from 4pm-7pm, and it is TO-GO’s ONLY. For $12, you will get turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, roll, stuffing, cranberry sauce and blueberry or raspberry pie for dessert. Please call in to let us know how many meals you will require, choice of pie, and the approximate time you will be arriving for pick up. Public may order, not just members. You MUST call in your orders by Friday night Nov. 20th. 802-257-0438
WHAT IS NEW TODAY
• Governor Scott’s updated executive order earlier today includes the following:
“All businesses, not-for-profit entities, and municipal entities in the State shall reinstitute, to the maximum extent possible, … telecommuting or work from home procedures… [A]ll meetings should be held by telephone or electronically to avoid in person meetings whenever possible.”
In furtherance of this directive, Town of Brattleboro administrative offices will transition next week back to the almost entirely remote operations that we put in place during the Stay Home Stay Safe period last March and April. Starting Monday, November 16, some Town offices will be unoccupied. By Friday, November 20, most Town offices will be unoccupied most of the time. As was true last spring, some employees will come to the offices on some days just to perform tasks that cannot be performed from remote locations. We found last spring that we could adequately meet the public’s needs while performing the vast majority of our work online, via email, and by phone.
Governor Scott issued new COVID-19 executive orders today for Vermonters. The big news is that everyone must limit attendance at all gatherings to members of their immediate household. This includes staying at home for Thanksgiving, with a tiny loophole for family members living alone.
Effective Saturday November 14, 2020 at 10pm it is ordered that multiple household social gatherings be suspended, restaurant hours and seating limits be tightened, and bars and clubs be closed to in-person service.
It is furthered ordered that restaurants and public accommodations keep contact logs, that the public comply with contact tracing efforts, and that recreational sports programs be suspended.
There’s more: all college students returning home in or out of state must quarantine at home, and all businesses shall reinstitute or reemphasize telecommuting and work from home.
The full text of the executive order is below.
The Brattleboro Selectboard will attempt their first “consent agenda” at their next regular meeting. It is an effort to move things along at a slightly quicker pace than before by grouping items that are simple and require no discussion.
Bigger issues for Tuesday’s meeting include an update to inform the board that Community Development Block Grants cannot be used for direct aid to tenants, SeVEDS will give their annual update and appeal for funding, the Energy Committee will offer up their revised goals, and the FY22 budget exploration gets underway with a discussion of revenues, capital projects, and capital equipment needs. You can bring up other items not on the agenda during public participation.
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Human Services Review Committee will meet on Monday, November 16, 2020, at 1:00pm using Zoom (with no physical location due to the ongoing social distancing requirements of COVID-19). The attached agenda contains information about how to access the meeting remotely, including the required “passcode.”
The Brattleboro Community Safety Review Committee will meet on Monday, November 16, 2020, at 6:00pm using Zoom (with no physical location due to the ongoing social distancing requirements of COVID-19). The attached agenda contains information about how to access the meeting remotely, including the required “passcode.”
The Brattleboro Parking Department would like to advise everyone that the winter parking ban will go into effect, starting Sunday, November 15, 2020. Overnight parking is forbidden on all streets in the town of Brattleboro. Vehicles parked for longer than one (1) hour between 11:00pm and 07:00am may be ticketed and towed at the owners expense.
THIS BAN IS IN EFFECT EVEN IF THERE IS NO SNOW ON TOWN STREETS.
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – David Schoales, Board Chair
II. RECOGNITION OF VISITORS
• Early Education / PreK Providers – Presentation
III. CONSENT AGENDA
A fall tradition, a home-made pie sale–this time with COVID-safe precautions–will be held on Saturday morning, November 21 from 9-noon in the Guilford Community Church parking lot, just in time to save some preparations before Thanksgiving.
According to organizers, church volunteers will bake apple, raspberry, pecan, pumpkin and specialty pies. Customers will remain in their car and a church volunteer, dressed in COVID-safe mask and gloves, will both come to car windows to take orders and deliver pies and collect payment of cash, check or credit card. To speed your purchase, you may reserve your pie(s) and pay ahead with a credit card by calling Patty Meyers anytime at 802-257-0994.
It would have been comforting to have Trump out of our minds in the last few months of his reign of chaos, but egomaniacs such as he do not move on graciously. We will continue to be enveloped with the shroud of madness until January 20 and that is a disgrace for America.
It eases the pain of the last four years for many of us that Biden and Harris were elected by a five million vote margin. We can look forward to January 21, 2021 when this country will no longer be governed by tweets and when division and rancor will no longer be the tone from the White House.
But we also have to recognize the fact that over 72 million people voted for Trump. That means that this country remains deeply divided and it means that Biden will not be able to easily heal the wounds of the past four years simply by trying to be a nice guy who says he wants to be the President for all Americans.
Starting Monday Nov. 9th, the Brattleboro VFW at 40 Black Mountain Road will start taking reservations for our Saturday, November 21st $12 turkey meal. The meal will be served from 4pm-7pm. For $12, you will get turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, roll, stuffing, cranberry sauce and blueberry or raspberry pie with whipped cream for dessert. There will be other menu items available that night (burgers, fries, onion rings, wings and sandwiches). Please call in to let us know how many meals you will require, names of people, (for contact tracing) and the approximate time you will be arriving for dine in or pick up. To-go’s welcome from 4pm-7pm. Public is welcome.
AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Site Visit – 73 South Main Street
*There is no on-site or street parking in the immediate vicinity of the property. Public parking is available in the downtown. On street parking may be available further up South Main Street.
3. Recess
4. Re-convene meeting use Zoom – 1:00 P.M.
The Brattleboro Selectboard held a special meeting and public hearing to discuss the taking of lands at 28 Vernon Street for the upcoming Hinsdale Bridge project. The board held off on making any form decisions to give the property owners even more time to respond.
The second installment of the 2020 Brattleboro Real Estate and Personal Property Taxes will be due on November 16, 2020. Payments made after November 16, 2020 will have an additional 1% interest added to the unpaid balance.
The Town of Brattleboro utility bills are also due on November 16, 2020. Payments made after November 16, 2020 will have an additional 1% interest, as well as an 8% penalty, added to the unpaid balance.
Facilitated Brattleboro committee offering multiple ways to share experiences with community safety and policing
Brattleboro, VT, For Immediate Release- The Brattleboro Community Safety Review facilitators and committee are working on collecting as much information about community safety and policing as possible from area residents this month. While listening is open to anyone in or around Brattleboro, the project is working hard to make sure the voices of the people with the most experience of danger & harm, police contact, and safety related interventions are at the center. The project scope includes a systems review of the Brattleboro Police Department, which includes listening sessions with officers and statistical and policy reviews, along with looking at mental health and psychiatric interventions, Department of Children and Families interventions, and other community responses to violence, danger, or harm. The project names anti-racism and anti-oppression as fundamental, and all information shared with the facilitators one on one or digitally will be thoroughly de-identified to protect the safety of people who want to share their experiences. People who work in community safety and support systems are also welcomed to share their perspectives, and are also offered de-identification and confidentiality so they may share freely about the successes and failures of existing structures of community safety and visions for a safer Brattleboro.
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – Emily Murphy Kaur, Committee Chair
II. Approval of Minutes from October 14, 2020
III. Discuss Title IX Revamp
IV. Remote Learning Share-Out
