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The city signed up 2,527 new voters in the six weeks from September 1, 2008, the highest number for that time frame in over nine years. [6] In 2021, voters adopted a charter amendment to elect the council by ranked-choice voting . [ 7 ]
Burlington VT mayor reappoints 19 city leaders, leaves four positions vacant. Gannett. Sydney P. Hakes, Burlington Free Press. ... ahead of various City Council meetings the week of June 3. All ...
The Democrats won a majority on the city council in the 2023 elections; previously, the Progressive Party held a plurality of seats on the council. [ 4 ] This was the first Burlington mayoral election to use ranked-choice voting since the 2009 mayoral election .
Despite losing the mayoral election the Vermont Progressive Party retained control of the city council with six out of twelve seats and saw multiple ballot initiatives endorsed by them win. [ 17 ] During the campaign Weinberger raised $126,147 from 461 people, Tracy raised $63,336 from 547 people, and Dieng raised $10,920 from 115 people.
School budgets voted down. Milton Town School District residents voted no to a $37,172,203 budget, with 1,744 voting against and 1,121 voting for it.
On Oct. 23, after hours of heated debate, the Burlington City Council approved a 25-year lease extension with the Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG) at the Patrick Leahy Burlington International ...
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
She has been at meetings where some clerks would question whether voters can really understand what the articles they're voting on mean without a thorough, in-person discussion at town meeting.