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Long‑term recovery groups ask Legislature to fund LTRGs, create data system and codify handoff in H.397
Summary
Leaders of long‑term recovery groups told the Senate Committee on Government Operations on April 23 that H.397 should require a statewide needs assessment, provide sustained operating grants for LTRGs, adopt a single disaster data system and codify recovery handoffs between response and local recovery groups.
Montpelier — Leaders of Vermont long‑term recovery groups (LTRGs) urged the Senate Committee on Government Operations on April 23 to amend H.397 so the state fills persistent gaps in individual and household recovery after floods.
Paige Hartsell, director of Curve Kingdom United Resilience and Recovery Effort, and Sarah Anshaw (coordinator for the Long Term Recovery Group in Lamoille County) told the committee that LTRGs are the primary on‑the‑ground organizers for household recovery and that the state should fund and formally integrate them into the recovery framework. “Without LTRGs, over 6,000 of our neighbors and fellow Vermonters would still be stuck in their recovery journeys,” Hartsell said.
The witnesses made five principal recommendations for H.397: require a statewide needs assessment of the individual/household recovery system to inform a formal individual assistance recovery policy; provide sustained…
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