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2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee
Town Garage Facility Improvements Committee
Old LaPerle Farm Property Committee
Resilient Roads Committee
Funding Request Study Committee
Village Committee
Town Forest Committee
Revolving Loan Advisory Committee
Charter Committee
2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee
Treasurer Candidate Recommendation Committee

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Emergency Planning Committee

The East Montpelier Selectboard created the Emergency Planning Committee in May, 2023. The committee’s formation was to create a community-based response to help neighbors in the event of an emergency.

2023 Emergency Planning Committee agendas:
June 4, 2023 Emergency Planning Committee Agenda

2023 Emergency Planning Committee minutes:

Documents of Interest:

Committee Members:

Rachael Grossman
Renee Kievit-Kylar
Patty Giavara
Lydia Faesy

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2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee

The East Montpelier Selectboard created the Town Treasurer Selection Committee in December 2021 in accordance with the town charter to conduct the search for a replacement for our retiring town treasurer, Don Welch. After completion of the search, the committee recommended both Gina Jenkins and Michele Pallas. The Selectboard hired Ms. Pallas to be the town’s new treasurer and hired Ms. Jenkins to be our new town administrator. The committee’s mission is complete.

2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee agendas:

January 18, 2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee Agenda
February 1, 2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee Agenda
March 11, 2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee Agenda
March 18, 2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee Agenda
March 21, 2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee Agenda

2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee minutes:

January 18, 2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee Minutes
February 1, 2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee Minutes
March 11, 2022 Town Treasurer Selection Committee Minutes
March 18, 2022 Draft Treasurer Selection Committee Minutes
March 21, 2022 Draft Treasurer Selection Committee Meeting

Documents of Interest:

2018 East Montpelier Charter
2022 Town Treasurer Job Notice
Current EM Treasurer Job Description

Committee Members:

Seth Gardner, Chair
Amy Willis
Kim Watson
Rosie Laquerre, Secretary
Norman Hill, Vice-chair
Rachael Grossman
Jane Burroughs

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Town Garage Facility Improvements Committee

The East Montpelier Selectboard created the Town Garage Facility Improvements Committee in 2018 to develop a plan to update/modernize the town garage property complex at 325 Templeton Road.

Town Garage Facility Improvements Committee agendas:

September 30, 2019 Town Garage Facility Improvements Committee Agenda

Town Garage Facility Improvements Committee minutes:

September 30, 2019 Town Garage Facility Improvements Committee Draft Minutes

Committee Members:

Gene Troia
Guthrie Perry
Seth Gardner
Gina Jenkins

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Old LaPerle Farm Property Committee

The East Montpelier Selectboard created the Old LaPerle Farm Property Committee in 2016 to develop options for use of the town-owned 48-acre parcel located at 3035 US Rte. 2, essentially at the corner of US Rte. 2 and VT Rte. 14. The town has now sold the bulk of the land (all but the 3-acre farmhouse site next to the park ‘n ride) and the committee is currently in a holding pattern.

The committee is one of a number working on issues in and around East Montpelier Village. You can view a wide variety of documents on Village activities here:

East Montpelier Village

Old LaPerle Farm Property Committee agendas:

Committee minutes:

Documents of interest:

Old LaPerle Farm Map
2016 Stone Environmental Report on Additional LaPerle Farm Wastewater Capacity
Vissering October 8, 2018 LaPerle Farmhouse Site Redevelopment Preliminary Site Plans

Committee Members:

Seth Gardner, Chair
Ginny Callan
Bob Morey
Andy Shapiro
Zach Sullivan

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Resilient Roads Committee (formerly the Rural Road Vegetation Assessments Project Advisory Committee)

The committee’s materials have been moved to a separate webpage on this site:
Roadside Vegetation Management

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Funding Request Study Committee

The Funding Request Study Committee is a long-standing committee appointed by the Selectboard to review requests for funding support from local non-profit organizations. The Committee then issues a report recommending appropriations to the Selectboard, which then uses the recommendations to craft the funding request article for the Town Meeting Warning.

FY2024 EM Funding Request Application

FY2024 Social Organization Submissions (posted as received):

FY2024 Funding Request Worksheet – Final

FY2024 American Red Cross
FY2024 Big Heavy World
FY2024 Capstone Community Action
FY2024 Central VT Adult Basic Education
FY2024 Central VT Council on Aging
FY2024 Central VT Disaster Animal Response Team
FY2024 Central VT Habitat for Humanity
FY2024 Central VT Memorial Civic Center
FY2024 Circle
FY2024 Community Harvest of Central VT
FY2024 Downstreet
FY2024 East Montpelier Community Connections
FY2024 Family Center of Washington County
FY2024 Friends of the Winooski River
FY2024 Girls Boyz First Mentoring
FY2024 Good Beginnings of Central VT
FY2024 Good Samaritan Haven
FY2024 Green Mountain Transit
FY2024 Green Up Vermont
FY2024 HomeShare Vermont
FY2024 Mosaic
FY2024 North Branch Nature Center
FY2024 Onion River Food Shelf
FY2024 OUR House of Central VT
FY2024 People’s Health & Wellness Clinic
FY2024 Prevent Child Abuse Vermont
FY2024 T. W. Wood Gallery
FY2024 Vermont CARES
FY2024 Vermont Family Network
FY2024 VT Center for Independent Living
FY2024 Washington County Diversion Program
FY2024 Washington County Mental Health Services
FY2024 Washington County Youth Service Bureau
FY2024 Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District

The Committee generally meets as needed toward the end of each year. The Committee’s most recent agendas may be viewed here:

Funding Committee Agenda November 1, 2022
Funding Committee Agenda November 10, 2021
Funding Committee Agenda October 27, 2021
Funding Committee Agenda November 10, 2020
Funding Committee Agenda November 13, 2019
Funding Committee Agenda November 14, 2018
Funding Committee Agenda November 14, 2017
Funding Committee Agenda November 9, 2016
Funding Committee Agenda November 11, 2015
Funding Committee Agenda November 13, 2014

The Committee’s minutes:

Committee Reports:

FY2023 Funding Request Report
FY2022 Funding Request Report
FY2021 Funding Request Report
FY2020 Funding Request Report
FY2019 Funding Request Report
FY2018 Funding Request Report
FY2017 Funding Request Report
FY2016 Funding Request Report
FY2015 Funding Request Report
FY2014 Funding Request Report
FY2013 Funding Request Report

Committee Members:

Paul Erlbaum
Ginny Callan
Sarah Kinter
Alison Underhill
Kimberly Meeks

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Village Committee

The East Montpelier Village Committee, a decade-old informal committee working to improve East Montpelier Village, was given official standing as a town committee by the Selectboard in June 2013. The Village Committee recently helped secure a 5-year renewal of the state Village Center Designation for the central area of East Montpelier Village. The committee is currently working on the Rtes. 2 &14 corridor sidewalk and shoulder improvements project for which the town received a $490,000 VTrans Bicycle & Pedestrian Program grant.

The committee is one of a number working on issues in and around East Montpelier Village. You can view a wide variety of documents on Village activities here:

East Montpelier Village

The Village Committee’s most recent agendas may be viewed here:

VC Agenda December 12, 2013
VC Agenda January 8, 2014
VC Agenda January 15, 2014
VC Agenda January 16, 2014
VC Agenda February 5, 2014
VC Agenda May 7, 2014

Documents of interest:

2011 MPG EM Village Final Report

Committee Members:

Michelle McFadden, Chair
Jean Vissering
Alice Smith
Bob Morey
Open Position (If interested in open position, please contact Town Administrator, Gina Jenkins)

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Town Forest Committee

The Town Forest Committee oversees the maintenance of the Town Forest and other town-owned forests. It also assists the town with roadside cutting issues and provides guidance to the schools on tree maintenance.

The Committee meets as needed. The Committee’s most recent agendas may be viewed here:

February 9, 2016 Forest Committee Agenda

The Committee’s minutes:

Committee Members:

Paul Cate, Chair
Mark Lane
Colin Blackwell

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Revolving Loan Advisory Committee

The most current iteration of the Revolving Loan Advisory Committee was created by the Selectboard in June 2012 to advise the Selectboard on the use of the proceeds from the repayment of the Vermont Community Development Program’s loan to the Vermont Housing Authority (owner of the Sandy Pines Mobile Home Park). Uses of the proceeds are governed by federal and state guidelines with an aim to “principally benefit low and moderate income persons” and are limited to economic development, housing creation and/or improvement, some public facilities, and some types of public assistance.

On June 3, 2019 the East Montpelier Selectboard dissolved the committee in favor of a new model for dealing with the Revolving Loan Fund: the Selectboard will directly handle the issues and utilize the services of an appointed adviser. Rebecca Schrader has been appointed as the adviser.

EM Revolving Loan Fund Policies & Procedures

The Committee met as needed. The most recent agendas are available here:

RLAC Agenda November 20, 2013
RLAC Agenda January 11, 2017
RLAC Agenda April 9, 2018
RLAC Agenda May 17, 2018
RLAC Agenda June 1, 2018
RLAC Agenda June 5, 2018
RLAC Agenda July 5, 2018
RLAC Agenda August 2, 2018
RLAC Agenda August 20, 2018
RLAC Agenda September 11, 2018
RLAC Agenda September 25, 2018
RLAC Agenda November 28, 2018
RLAC Agenda December 11, 2018
RLAC Agenda December 13, 2018

The Committee’s minutes:

Draft RLAC Minutes April 9, 2018
RLAC Minutes May 17, 2018
Draft RLAC Minutes June 1, 2018
RLAC Minutes June 5, 2018
RLAC Minutes July 5, 2018
RLAC Minutes August 2, 2018
Draft RLAC Minutes September 25, 2018
Draft RLAC Minutes November 28, 2018

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Charter Committee

The Charter Committee was originally created by the Selectboard in April 2013 to investigate the feasibility of a governance charter for East Montpelier, potentially develop a draft charter, and report back to the Selectboard by December 1, 2013. The end result of the committee’s 2013 work was the March 2014 adoption by the town and subsequent approval by the VT Legislature of the East Montpelier Charter. It is contained in the Vermont Statutes in Title 24A, Chapter 114E.

Municipal Charter as Enacted

The charter was passed by the VT Legislature and signed by Governor Shumlin on May 2, 2014

Municipal Charter as Voted at 2014 Town Meeting

On August 1, 2016 the Selectboard formally recalled the committee to investigate three items: the appointment of a town clerk; the appointment of a collector of delinquent taxes; and, the inclusion in the charter of a property tax procedure, which currently is included as an article on the Town Meeting Warning.

The Committee’s documents (minutes, agendas, outreach) can be viewed here:

East Montpelier Charter Committee Documents

Committee Members:

Edie Miller, Chair
Richard Brock, Vice-chair
Ed Deegan
Michael Duane
Carl Etnier, Secretary
Karen Gramer
Norman Hill
Rick Mastelli
Jack Pauly
Julie Potter
Kim Watson

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2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee

At 2017 Town Meeting the Town of East Montpelier passed amendments to the Town Charter that, among other things, shifted the town clerk position from elected to appointed. When the Vermont State Legislature approved the charter, a provision was added that allowed the town’s elected clerk (CJ Flynn) to serve until June 30, 2017. As of July 1, 2017 the Selectboard appointed CJ to serve as interim town clerk until September 1, 2017. The Selectboard is actively seeking applicants for the town clerk position.

On May 22, 2017 the East Montpelier Selectboard created the first Town Clerk Selection Committee. The charge to the committee is to follow the Town Charter requirements and recommend candidate(s) for the clerk’s position to take over the clerk’s duties. Our current clerk, Rosie Laquerre, was recommended by the committee and subsequently hired by the Selectboard. The committee’s mission is complete.

Documents of Interest:

2017 Town Clerk Job Notice
EM Personnel Policy
Act M-12 (2017 EM Charter as enacted) Act Summary
Act M-12, 2017 EM Charter as enacted
2017 Town Clerk Job Description

Town Clerk Selection Committee’s agendas:

June 12, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Agenda
June 19, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Agenda
June 21, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Agenda
July 31, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Agenda
August 1, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Agenda
August 3, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Agenda

Town Clerk Selection Committee’s minutes:

June 12, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Draft Minutes
June 19, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Draft Minutes
June 21, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Draft Minutes
July 31, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Draft Minutes
August 1, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Draft Minutes
August 3, 2017 Town Clerk Selection Committee Draft Minutes

Committee Members:

Amy Willis
Denise Brown
Rob Chickering
Bruce Johnson
Emily Goyette
Karen Saudek

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Treasurer Candidate Recommendation Committee

At 2014 Town Meeting the Town of East Montpelier passed a Town Charter that, among other things, shifts the town treasurer position from elected to appointed. When the Vermont State Legislature approved the charter, a provision was added that allowed the town’s elected treasurer (Don Welch) to serve out the remainder of his term, through 2015 Town Meeting (March 3, 2015). At that time the Selectboard will need to appoint someone to take over the treasurer duties.

The charter states:

(b)(1) Prior to appointing a Town Treasurer and no more than 45 days after the Treasurer position is vacated, the Selectboard shall appoint a committee to review and recommend to the Selectboard qualified candidates for the position of Treasurer.
(b)(2) The committee shall be composed of two residents, a certified public accountant, and the following town officers: two members of the Selectboard, an auditor, and the Town Clerk. All except the certified public accountant shall be residents of the Town of East Montpelier.

East Montpelier Town Charter

On October 20, 2014 the East Montpelier Selectboard created the first Treasurer Candidate Recommendation Committee. The charge to the committee is to follow the Town Charter requirements and recommend a candidate for the treasurer’s position to take over the treasurer duties after 2015 Town Meeting. The committee recommended, and the Selectboard hired, Don Welch to be the town’s first appointed treasurer. The committee’s mission is complete.

The committee’s agendas:

November 13, 2014 TCR Committee Agenda
November 18, 2014 TCR Committee Agenda

The committee’s minutes:

November 13, 2014 TCR Committee Minutes
November 18, 2014 TCR Committee Draft Minutes

Committee Members:

Seth Gardner, Chair
Carl Etnier
Terri Conti
Dave Grundy
Jane Burroughs
Fred Satink
Ed Deegan

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