I’m honored to be representing the towns of Duxbury, Fayston, Moretown, Waitsfield and Warren (Washington-2 district) in the Vermont House. It’s been an incredibly productive and rewarding first term, and I’m proud of the important work we completed for Vermont communities. See highlights summarized below.
Online discussion 10/8/24, 7-8PM
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Legislative summaries
Click here to see end of session summary report for 2024
Click here to see Town Meeting report for 2024
Click here to see end of session summary report for 2023
Making it easier to do better for all Vermonters
As as a long-time community and town volunteer in Moretown, I’ve brought resources and people together to expand educational, health and safety opportunities for our residents. As a citizen planner and town energy coordinator, I’ve gained consensus-building skills and insight into the power of land use planning to protect our watershed and natural lands and to chart a course to community and climate resilience. As your representative, I will bring our local perspectives on what matters most to shape state policies that make it easier for our families, businesses and public institutions to thrive.
A quality education system we can afford
Act 183 (the yield bill) in 2024 formed a Commission on the Future of Education to achieve a higher quality, more sustainable education system. In addition to relying less on property taxes to fund our schools:
I support changes that will protect students and taxpayers alike, including:
more transparent and predictable funding
comprehensive cost-containment - efficiencies, resource sharing, healthcare cost reduction (e.g., reference-based pricing)
fairer distribution of funding among districts
See my op-ed on property taxes this year
For an excellent primer on how education funding works in Vermont, see this Vermont Public video
