Bethel City Council is expected to vote on a measure that could bring high speed satellite internet to city offices later this year. The measure would allow the city manager to sign a one-year contract with Alaska Communications. The company serves as the middleman for multinational internet satellite company OneWeb, which offers 10 to 40 times the speed of Bethel’s current internet. The city’s IT manager, Bo Foley, expects the costs to be comprable. He said that the city currently spends about $17,000 per month on internet. Foley said that city employees could start testing the new internet in a demo period later this year.
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The July 13 Bethel City Council meeting will be its first meeting open to the public in nearly one year. And because Bethel City Hall is under construction, the meeting will be held in the Orutsararmiut Native Council multipurpose building at 6:30 p.m. Anyone attending in person, including council members, is required to wear a mask, regardless of vaccination status. Members of the public are also asked to keep 6 feet of distance from one another.
During the meeting, the council will vote on another extension of the city’s COVID-19 mask mandate. The mandate is up for extension every two months. Per the mandate, masks are required in Bethel for unvaccinated people in most public indoor locations. However, under federal law, masks are still required for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, at health care facilities and on public transportation, like planes and city buses. The City of Bethel has also mandated that masks be worn during its p
Starting the week of May 31, Bethel City Hall will be out of commission. A construction company will spend June, July, and August replacing the roof, and
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In their May 25 meeting, Bethel City Council is expected to be busy with an agenda ranging from considering changes to mask mandates to redistricting.
In the meeting, Bethel City Council is expected to vote on the biggest change to its mask policy yet. If the resolution passes, vaccinated individuals would be able to shed their masks in many public settings. Masks would still be required on public transportation and for public city events, and for city employees when working with members of the public face to face. However, in accordance with guidance from the CDC, the resolution would still require unvaccinated people to wear masks in most public indoor spaces.
PLEASE - MASKS ARE REQUIRED AT ALL WORKSHOPS
Managing and Using Forest Ecosystems (8 LEAP credits; 6 SAF CE credits)
This Workshop is mandatory for all LEAP Loggers who are new to LEAP or who have not yet taken this.
May 11, 2021 8:00am to 3:30pm Bethel Town Hall; 318 Main St.; Bethel, VT 05032
May 12, 2021 8:00am to 3:30pm Allard’s Office, 74 Glen Orne Drive, Brattleboro, VT
Cost: $60
Rick Dyer, VT FPR, Andrea Shortsleeve, Wildlife Biologist, VT F&W
This Workshop is mandatory for all LEAP Loggers.
June 14, 2021 8am to 3pm Long View Forest Headquarters, 48 Picz Rd, Westminster VT
June 15, 2021 8am to 3pm Essex Grange, 118 Center Rd, Essex Junction, VT