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Millicent Cooley represents District 9 as a member of Brattleboro’s Representative Town Meeting, where she also chairs the body’s Finance Committee. She is author of the petition to place open Town Meeting as a voting option on the March 3 election ballot.
BRATTLEBORO-When I moved to Brattleboro in 2018, I had only ever known ballot voting. In most places that I lived, I did not know the name of my mayor. My impression is that most people in those communities were uninvolved in their local governance and elections.
Millicent Cooley chairs the Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee, on whose behalf she sent this analysis. Other members of the committee include Ernie Coughlin, David Levenbach, John Lightfoot, Nell Mayo, and Trish Twining. See the committee’s work at brattleboro.gov/finance-committee. BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee offers some...
BRATTLEBORO-I watched BCTV's Democratic Candidate Forum, featuring five candidates for the Vermont House of Representatives, then later I had an opportunity to question David Gartenstein, a candidate for District 9, where I live) about his experience and answers at the forum. Together, both helped me to understand why I...
