Vermont is on the doorstep of taking in hundreds of millions of federal dollars.
The money will fund dozens of infrastructure projects: roads, bridges, dams, sewers, water treatment, broadband, government buildings, schools, and child care centers.
Funding will continue, providing dollars to cover the cost of home weatherization and to develop hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations throughout Vermont. The underlying federal legislation, The American Rescue Plan Act, if approved by Congress, contains a provision to create over 500,000 charging stations countrywide.
Even before the discussion/debate over the Biden Administrationâs proposed infrastructure legislation, Vermont officials and non-government organizations were publishing plans to weatherize 120,000 homes in ten years along with increasing/replacing the stateâs housing stock by 10,000 homes over a ten-year span. This does not include the hundreds of housing units the Biden Administration plans to build t