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Senate amends S.199 to ease CUD mergers, narrows confidentiality carve-outs
Summary
Senate adopted Finance Committee changes to S.199 to let communications union districts (CUDs) merge and bond more easily, added treasurer oversight guardrails and clarified which business records may be confidential; the chamber also accepted an amendment to retain standard open-meeting rules and ordered the bill for third reading.
Senators on the floor on a legislative day amended S.199, a bill that updates governance and merger procedures for Vermont communications union districts (CUDs), and ordered the measure to third reading.
Senator Brock, reporting for the Senate Finance Committee, said S.199 would allow two or more CUDs to merge without requiring a majority vote in each municipality within a merging district and would give districts additional flexibility on fiscal-year definitions and treasurer duties. "The purpose of that creation was to provide a mechanism to expand broadband throughout Vermont," Brock said, describing the bill as "relatively simple and straightforward." He also described an amendment to set guardrails on a treasurer's…
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