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When a state such as Texas rejects $10 million in federal aid intended to help its uninsured residents purchase health care under the Affordable Care Act, that's good news for the likes of Vermont, which needs - and will use - the money.
That's according to State Rep. Mike Mrowicki, D-Putney, visiting the Selectboard Sept. 25 to apprise officials of a range of developments in Montpelier affecting residents here in his home town.
Of the Vermont Health Connect exchange, which launched Oct. 1 to help Vermonters buy insurance on the open market, Mrowicki said he was looking forward to it. He also said he has heard concerns from many constituents, especially elders who want to know what health care reform means for their Medicare benefits.
“We want to reassure people: if you're on Medicare, nothing changes for you. What's going to change is for people who don't have insurance now, whether working for themselves or for small businesses, they'll be able to get their insurance through the health exchange, which is healthconnect.vermont.gov,” he said.
Town Manager Cynthia Stoddard and the trustees of Putney Public Library are investigating the town taking over the library's bookkeeping and establishing the library as a town enterprise. “They would become a municipal library. For all intents and purposes they are: We own the building; they fall under our...
The Town of Putney is going to pay 90 percent of its eligible workers' health insurance costs under the platinum tier of Blue Cross/Blue Shield as offered through the state's new health insurance marketplace, effective Dec. 1. At their regular meeting Sept. 25, Selectboard members debated funding levels available...
The Selectboard on Sept. 25 said it is preparing to schedule hearings and a vote on endorsing and financing a long-proposed 11-unit affordable housing project here now that the project has the blessing of the town's Affordable Housing Committee. The project, centered on a $2.1 million investment from Windham & Windsor Housing Trust, is touted as likely to breathe new life into 113-year-old lodgings at 27 Old Depot Rd., and to provide low- or fixed-income income tenants with safe, clean...
The Selectboard and Conservation Commission may soon be turning to residents for input on which “ancient” public roads, if any, the town should reclaim from history. At the board's Sept. 23 meeting, Chair Richard Clark said time was running out for Guilford under State Act 178 of 2006 to account for and preserve these corridors as Class 4 town highways or legal trails. Under state law, all town highways and trails must appear on town highway maps by July 1,
The Windham Solid Waste Management District is gearing up to vote on an increase of town assessments in December. According to WSWMD Executive Director Robert Spencer, speaking at the Sept. 5 Selectboard meeting, Newfane should expect its assessment to increase “substantially” from last year's figure of $20,700. “It changes each year. We try to run the District as a business with the marketing of recycling materials that we collect, process, bale, and sell,” Spencer said. But, he suggested, times are...
Voters in Brookline, Jamaica, Newfane, Townshend, and Windham will still get to decide whether to establish a single, unified school district for all their students, but state officials sent the committee developing the proposal back to the drawing board on an article informing how the district is established. A special vote in those towns on a “Windham Central Education District” has been warned for an Australian ballot Tuesday, Oct. 8. If approved as written, the district would replace seven school...
The Selectboard voted last week to award a contract for a town photovoltaic system to Integrated Solar of Brattleboro. The company has proposed to deliver 150 kilowatts of below-market-rate electricity for town and school use, and could shave $4,000 or so off Putney's energy bill. Integrated's investors, Green Lantern Capital - which says on its website that it provides comprehensive project financing solutions and development consulting services to project owners, developers, vendors, and service companies in the distributed energy and...
