Town Meeting Reimagined Update - May 1, 2025

Town Meeting Reimagined Planning Moves to the process of 2026 Budget and Town Business

The Town Meeting Reimagined Taskforce submitted its final summary report to the Selectboard summarizing the committee’s reflections on the 2025 budget process and recommendations for going forward with future budgets and other town business. Read the full report here.

The Selectboard has endorsed the taskforce’s recommendation to continue its work to prepare for the FY2026 town budget, building from what we learned from the three-part budget process of 2024-2025: (1) October budget Kick-off meeting, (2) January budget discussion & action meeting, and (3) March vote.

Our report outlines the areas we plan to focus on in the coming year, for example: better use of the fall Kick-off, improved sound, vote-counting, and integration of online and in-person participation at the winter budget discussion, and consideration of space and technology improvement throughout.

The taskforce welcomes new members who’d like to contribute to the planning, communications, and managing the process for the coming year. Over the past year the taskforce typically met monthly, usually by Zoom, but occasionally in person, especially as we began to work together. We have not yet scheduled our next meeting.

Anyone interested in joining the taskforce is welcome to email either David Barrington (David.Barrington@uvm.edu) or Gaye Symington (gsym@together.net).