We’re four weeks out from town meeting week, and incredibly five weeks in, after what was a longer-than-normal legislative January due to a strange quirk in Vermont’s constitutional calendar. This means the Town Meeting Day recess is only four weeks away, so committees are in the deliberative phase of legislation, making a week such as this feel as if nothing happened. We’ll keep it very brief with some quicker updates, each taking about a minute to read.  

In this week’s Update:

• Affordability concerns omnipresent: may or may not be on the March 5th ballot
• Building Bridges or Battlegrounds? Housing policy about development for some, environment for others
• Public safety everywhere, but no consensus yet
• Privacy bill affects everyone 
• Renewable Energy Standard advances past committee 
• The Laundry List