To Separate or Not to Separate: The Essex Question

01/13/2024

04/21/2022

04/20/2022

It's Official! Essex Junction will become a city on July 1st, 2022!

04/15/2022

Article: The Trustees brainstormed ideas for a July 1st Celebration, among other topics discussed on the night after the Village Annual Meeting vote.

03/29/2022

𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬

This afternoon the Senate Government Operations Committee passed the Village Separation Charter H.491 (5-0-0) after hearing testimony only from supporters of the bill.

Both Village House Reps (8-2), Lori Houghton and Karen Dolan, were present.

Committee members remarked on emails from Town residents expressing disapointment in not being able to vote on the Separation. Legislative Council Tucker Anderson noted that no land outside existing municipal boundaries was being annexed. He cited the 100-year-old precedent of Winooski's Separation from Colchester without a Town vote.

The bill next heads to the full Senate for a vote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RMidwQkffc

03/15/2022

The Separation Charter — to allow the Village to become its own City — was passed by the Vermont House in February. It next moves to the Senate Government Operations Committee for consideration, after which the full Senate may vote on it.

02/04/2022

Having passed the House Government Operations Committee, the Separation bill has now moved to Ways and Means:

02/01/2022

Andy Watts will be at the Gov. Ops. Committee today at 2:30
Watch it live here:

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01/27/2022

Tomorrow afternoon the House Government Operations Committee will meet to discuss H.491, the Separation Charter for Essex Junction. If passed by the HGOC, it would head next to the Senate GOC.

01/25/2022

Village President Andrew Brown will be testifying before House Gov Ops TODAY at 3 pm. Selectboard Vice Chair Pat Murray will testify for the Town as Chair Andy Watts is unavailable due to a family health situation.
Watch the livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FzPp4uSUR4

01/19/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK2vzRdokaQ

01/18/2022

Separation is on the Agenda at Gov Ops for tomorrow 1/19/22 1PM:

Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are livestreamed at https://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/streaming/house-government-operations.