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Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   This Saturday at Representative Town Meeting (RTM), town reps in Brattleboro will have a chance to take a simple step to make our town government more inclusive and accessible. Will we take that opportunity? The Brattleboro Select Board is a powerful body that makes important decisions that impact everyone who lives, works, uses resources, and travels in Brattleboro; however, the job itself is accessible only to a minority of the population. Select Board members make either $3,000 or $5,000/year for a sizable amount of work that seems to only be increasing. This makes it challenging and near impossible for anyone with a low paying or minimum wage job, or with a lot of student debt, or with a lot of dependents they are responsible for — such as children or elders — to join the Select Board. This is a clear and easily corrected example of how poor and working class people are excluded from Brattleboro’s local polit

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