It's Town Meeting Again

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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It's town meeting day here in Vermont. In most of New England, town citizens become legislators for one day a year. They get together in school gyms and town halls and vote in person, and in public. This centuries long practice of towns doing the slow and hard work of disagreeing and arguing and compromising on how to govern themselves—this has a profound impact on a place, and what it means to be from a place. Sometimes it’s contentious. Sometimes it’s boring. But it’s always the most interesting and authentic and civilized social event of the year. Always.

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0:00.0	This is Erica. I'm going to run an older show today because it's town meeting day here in Vermont
0:08.0	and looks about right out there. It's really gray. I would say there's probably 20 inches of snow on the
0:15.4	ground right now here cumulatively snowing a little bit it's's pretty grim. Perfect weather for town meeting.
0:25.0	So happy town meeting day, everybody, wherever you are, and welcome to the show.
0:32.0	This is Rumble Strip, Chapter 1. you are you are and welcome to the show.
0:33.4	This is Rumble Strip, Chapter 1, Vernon, Vermont Town Meeting What To Do About Trash.
0:39.3	Please state your name.
0:40.7	Jeff Kosis.
0:42.3	Some of us in this town already have a dumpster so we don't have to walk out with those puny bags.
0:48.0	They don't hold anything. They're darn expensive and I don't feel like having to pay twice because in frankly go to a triple T truck and they tell you the recycling
0:57.3	just seems to go away. We don't need to pay twice for my rubbish so thank you
1:02.1	Chair we recognize Mr. Gilligan.
1:05.0	Patrick Gilligan, I believe the Pay-As-You-Thru program is a great benefit to the
1:09.0	town of Ernie.
1:10.0	Norm Mallard is my grandfather.
1:11.4	I work at Triple T.
1:12.9	He gave the town of urn a very good rate to do this,
1:16.2	and I hope we all vote yes on this.
1:20.6	Further discussion on the motion, the gentleman walking up to the microphone
1:24.5	I'm Andrew Gant I've heard a lot of people mention about how cheap pay as you throw is and
1:29.2	I'm sure sure for our older families in town it may be but as a father of a family of three
1:36.8	kids and a wife once you have a handful of diaper some of those, they break as you go down the driveway.
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