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Committee asks for more testimony on Vermont Community Index used in infrastructure-fund scoring
Summary
Members debated whether to keep a requirement in S.127 that the Vermont Community Index (maintained by the Department of Finance and Management) be used as an application criterion for the Infrastructure Sustainability Fund; committee opted to take more testimony to clarify which index is referenced and how it would be applied.
The House Committee on Housing paused on language in S.127 that would include “the ranking of the community on the Vermont Department of Finance and Management, Vermont Community Index” as part of scoring for the Vermont Infrastructure Sustainability Fund.
Members recalled prior objections to algorithmic ranking approaches in other programs and said the index had produced unexpected results previously.…
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