At the end of July, I was appointed Bradford, Vermont’s Interim Town Health Officer (THO), after the resignation of our previous officer. This is a new role for me, so I reached out to VLCT for information on what THO do. Here’s what I found out ...
There have been a lot of questions lately about who gets to speak (and otherwise participate) in SelectBoard meetings. Here’s what I know: The Selectboard is governed by Vermont’s Open Meeting Law (The specific statute - 1 V.S.A. § 312) VLCT offers FAQs about the Open Meeting Law. These might be locked behind their login screen, so here is a PDF of that page VLCT offers Model Rules of Procedure for SelectBoards without their own bylaws In conversation with VLCT, they note that the spirit of the law is to err on the side of allowing more participation than less, within “reasonable” limits.