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Committee backs funding request for Vermont regional planning commissions
Summary
The Government Operations & Military Affairs committee heard presentations from regional planning commission leaders on staffing, revenue sources and funding challenges and voted to recommend favorable funding for the RPCs' state grant allocation amid recent FEMA-related reductions and competing demands on property transfer tax revenues.
The House Government Operations & Military Affairs committee on Thursday recommended favorable funding for Vermont’s regional planning commissions after hearing officials describe how the commissions are funded, how funds are distributed and how recent federal and state changes have tightened budgets.
Charlie Baker, executive director of the Ginnie County Regional Planning Commission, told the committee that RPCs were created by statute in 1968 to provide towns with technical planning support and noted, “We have no ability to tax or anything like that.” He said roughly 95 percent of RPC revenue comes from state and federal grants and about 5 percent from voluntary town dues.
Devin Erie, executive director of the Rutland Regional Planning Commission and chair of VAPTA, described how RPC budgets vary across regions and explained the distribution formula…
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