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BRATTLEBORO â Select Board candidate Rikki Risatti plans to âprioritize agendas for enabling direct democratic practices, expanding decolonization, economic decentralization, and water testing and filtration accessibility to counter democide, conscription and imperialism.â
âMy experiences have prepared me to respect the responsibilities of being a serious catalyst of adaptation and transformation within insane aspects of culture,â Risatti said. âI feel confident that change is inevitable, I am ready to confront challenges, and I havenât seen the different candidates braving innovative directions nor communication skills for effective intersectional cofacilitation yet.â
Risatti, who uses they/them pronouns, is running for two seats on the board in the March 2 election â a three-year term and a one-year term. They face incumbent Ian Goodnow for the longer term and incumbent Daniel Quip
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BRATTLEBORO â With Select Board members unable to reach consensus or enough support for a majority vote during a sometimes tense meeting, town staff will be gathering more information about how to approach investing in Cow Power.
Brattleboro Energy Committee Chairman Oscar Heller described the Green Mountain Power program as one in which âanyone can buy into, even just regular users, and it essentially pays local farmers to set up systems that allow them to convert methane on their farms into electricity using various digestors and stuff that I donât fully understand.â
BRATTLEBORO Wanting to have new parking spaces on Depot Street ready prior to Amtrak’s train station upgrades, the town hired engineers to start preparing the project now.
BRATTLEBORO â Eight candidates have come forward for three Select Board seats opening up in March.
Board member Ian Goodnow is finishing his first one-year term and seeking a three-year term. Rikki Risatti, who ran in last yearâs election, also is on the March 2 ballot for the three-year seat.
âIt has been a challenging but fulfilling year on the board,â Goodnow said. âI am humbled having had the opportunity to meet and work with so many dedicated individuals who are striving to make Brattleboro the best place it can. I love the town and I love the work of the board, and I want to do it for the next three years. And I hope that Brattleboro wants me to do that work, too.â
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BRATTLEBORO â The Select Board voted 3-2 to level fund police training for the fiscal year 2022 budget, as recommended by a recent report about improving community safety, rather than going with a 48 percent increase as proposed by the interim police chief.
Commissioned by the town and released Jan. 1, the 224-page report says needs should be assessed before investing further in training and community members with lived experience should be consulted. At the board meeting held remotely Tuesday, which at one point had 88 participants, interim Police Chief Mark Carignan said he wanted extra funds for training on diversity, equity, inclusion and de-escalation, but also to hire local subject matter experts to advise in making the sessions more effective.