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Rumble Strip

Town Meeting

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Where we make our own damn decisions. Civilly, and in person.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hub and Spokes. Audio Collective.

0:07.1

This is Rumble Strip, chapter one.

0:09.3

Vernon, Vermont Town Meeting What to do about trash.

0:13.0

Please state your name.

0:14.0

Jeff Kosis.

0:15.0

Some of us in this town already have a dumpster

0:19.0

so we don't have to walk out with those puny bags.

0:21.0

They don't hold anything. They're darn expensive and I don't feel like having to pay twice because in Frankman you go to a triple T truck and they tell you the recycling

0:31.1

just seems to go away. We don't need to pay twice for my rubbish. So thank you.

0:35.2

Chair, we recognize Mr. Gilligan.

0:38.2

Patrick Gilligan. I believe the Pay As You Throw Program is a great benefit to the town of Vernon.

0:43.8

Norm Mallard, my grandfather, I work at Triple T. He gave the town of Vernon a very good

0:48.4

rate to do this and I hope we all vote yes on this.

0:53.4

Further discussion on the motion.

0:56.6

The gentleman walking up to the microphone.

0:58.4

I've heard a lot of people mention about how cheap pay as you throw is and I am sure for our older

1:05.7

families in town it may be but as a father of a family of three kids and a wife

1:11.6

once you have a handful of diapries in those bags, they

1:16.0

break as you go down the driveway. This is a recording from town meeting in

1:20.0

Vernon, Vermont, about trash removal and what the residents want to do about it, and

1:24.8

it's not over.

1:25.9

It goes on for another 20 minutes or so.

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