March 1, 2010 Danville Town Meeting

As you drive through Danville Vermont and see what’s left of the grass start to pop through the melting snow, you begin to wonder what is in store for you on this amazing day in March at the annual town meeting.

When you arrive at the Danville school and walk past the tables selling donuts, coffee and Girl Scout cookies, it quickly becomes apparent that the town of Danville is full of friendly people who stop their conversation to turn to you and say hello.

People keep trickling into the school’s gymnasium at ten after ten, and just when you think the meeting won’t start anytime soon, the Boy Scouts of Danville enter with flags and the Pledge of Allegiance is recited.

The meeting started out well. They were nominating people for the town moderator, lister, selectman, auditor, grand jurors, tax collectors. There was at least one person nominated for each position, so it was nice to hear that they all got the positions that they wanted.

Things did start to heat up however, when the appropriation for the Pope Memorial library came up. The library was asking for $25,000 so that they can meet their operational expenses. “Why should we have to pay so much when the state of the economy is in such horrible position?” seemed to be the main question about this appropriation sum. One Danville man, a teacher proposed, that instead of twenty-five thousand, the library only get $24,00. Another Danville resident stood up for himself and talked about how in the next two years, he might be forced to sell his land because of the price of property taxes. His farm was in his family for over 150 years, and as he said this, he got choked up and apologized.

The library got all but a thousand dollars that it had asked for, making the total $24,000.

In addition to the library getting money, the Caledonia Home Health Care and Hospice service was appropriated the sum of $2,600, Umbrella inc, which helps women and children who are victims of abuse were appropriated $1,200 and the Northeast Kingdom Youth Services were appropriated $750.00.

It was a rough two hours before the lunch break, but a lot got accomplished, and there are several very happy Social service providers that will be able to make a difference in the community because of the appropriations made.

Town Warning, Right from the 2009 Annual Report

Page One of the Danville Town Warning

Page Two of the Danville Town Warning

Page Three of the Danville Town Warning

Town Meeting 2010 Preview

The Danville town meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 2,2010 at 10:00 am at the Danville School. Voters will elect a Moderator, a Lister (for a three year term), a Selectman (for a three year term), two Selectmen (for a term of one year each, and Auditor (three year term, Town Grand Jurors, a Tax Collector, a Town Agent and any other Town Officers.
They will also discuss which organizations they should or should not donate money to. Organizations mentioned are the Pope Memorial Library, the Caledonia Home Health Care and Hospice service, Umbrella Inc., Catamount and many other deserving organizations. For a full list, please view the town warning I will add soon.

Vermont Secretary of State

I'm going to link to this website because it is very informational. It's all about the Vermont elections. There are pages on candidate parties, campaign finance, voters and a PDF's of election calendars and and procedures.

Go to http://vermont-elections.org/elections1/candidates.html