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Senate committee highlights housing and municipal technical assistance as top budget priorities
Summary
Members of the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs prioritized housing-related investments — including municipal technical assistance grants and Brownfields funding — and asked the Joint Fiscal Office for a side-by-side budget comparison before final decisions.
The Committee on Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs spent a substantial portion of its meeting identifying funding priorities for post-crossover work, with members repeatedly elevating housing-related items and municipal technical assistance grants as top concerns.
The committee chair opened the budget-priorities segment by saying the committee needed to “begin this conversation of setting our priorities” and described a set of “orphans” — program requests that had not yet been heard in the committee’s timeline. The chair said the list should include municipal technical assistance grants, Advance Vermont, the Serve, Learn, Earn Act, the First Degree Promise Act, Freedom and Unity, HVAC workforce funding, and Associated General Contractors items that had not been discussed in the committee.
Committee members and witnesses argued municipal technical assistance fills a…
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