Vermont Municipal Connections: Your Guide to Trusted Partners

VERMONT LEAGUE OF CITIES & TOWNS

VERMONT Your Guide MUNICIPAL CONNECTIONS to Trusted Partners Working together to make life better.

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Equal Housing Lender | Member FDIC From VLCT’s Executive Director TED BRADY

Dear VLCT Members,

Welcome to the first edition of Vermont Municipal Connections, your guide to trusted business partners. This directory of vendors includes businesses and organizations with which we have established a relationship through our Business Alliance Program (launched in 2020). The financial contribution from these program sponsors offsets additional member fees by providing essential non-dues revenue, directly supporting VLCT services that help Vermont’s municipalities thrive.

This guide lists all of VLCT’s sponsors alphabetically, and it includes descriptions of their goods and/ or services as well as their website addresses. Most importantly, you will find contact information for a knowledgeable person – who often has specific experience with how municipalities use the organization’s products and services. You don’t have to ask around, or resort to a time-consuming internet search, then settle for using a website’s generic “Contact Us” function and hope that some unnamed individual will reply. Using this guide will help you make better connections from the start.

Please join us in thanking our sponsors for their support of VLCT. Our Business Alliance Program is growing as more organizations seek to work with local governments. If you rely on any particular vendors, we hope you’ll let us know, so we can invite them to engage in this unique opportunity for getting information out to the state’s municipal audience.

We look forward to growing our array of sponsors. Doing so will not only give you more opportunities to find the right vendor to meet your municipality’s needs; it will also expand VLCT’s funding base and enhance our ability to deliver excellent programs and services back to you.

Thank you for using the all-new Vermont Municipal Connections. Feel free to let us know how it works for you and to suggest ways that we can make future editions more useful to you.

Until next time,

Ted Brady Executive Director Vermont League of Cities and Towns

Hon. Miro Weinberger Mary Ann Goulette George Putnam President Town Manager, West Rutland Selectperson, Cambridge Mayor, Burlington Julie Hance Charles Safford Peter Elwell Town Manager, Chester Town Manager, Stowe Vice President Town Manager, Brattleboro Hon. Lucas Herring Lucrecia Wonsor Mayor, Barre City Town Clerk/Treasurer, Killington Jessie Baker City Manager, Winooski Delsie Hoyt Dominic Cloud Selectboard Chair, West Fairlee Immediate Past President William Fraser City Manager, St. Albans City City Manager, Montpelier Ken Linsley Selectboard Chair, Danville VLCT BOARD VLCT Aldrich + Elliott • aeengineers.com • Wayne Elliott, President • [email protected] • (802) 879-7733 • 6 Market Place, Suite 2, Essex Junction, VT 05452 Community Bank, N.A. • cbna.com Aldrich + Elliott is a Vermont based engineering firm that specializes in water resources for Vermont • Anita Bourgeois, NE Regional Manager communities. Our services include drinking water, • [email protected] wastewater, and stormwater. projects from study • (802) 773-4627 through construction. • 275 Kennedy Dr., South Burlington, VT 05403 Community Bank N.A. is a full-service financial institution offering complete municipal, consumer, business, and financial services – all the things much bigger banks offer. But we also have the one thing they don’t – a passion for providing the highest level of customer service in CAI Technologies whatever we do. • cai-tech.com DominionTech Computer Services • Timothy Fountain, Vice President • dominiontech.com • [email protected] • Brian Curtis, President/CIO • (603) 444-6768, ext. 18 • [email protected] • 11 Pleasant St., Littleton, NH 03561 • (802) 655-0880 CAI Technologies, originally named Cartographic • 186 Allen Brook Ln, Williston, VT 05495 Associates, Inc., was founded in 1985 as a municipal mapping company. Since that time, and to meet For over 20 years, DominionTech has been client’s growing needs, CAI Technologies has become providing IT services & support to local Vermont a leader in GIS solutions, while still providing a wide municipalities and organizations. Our support spectrum of mapping services. plans and services have been specially curated with the needs of Vermont towns and Champlin Associates, Inc. municipalities. Reach out today! • champlinassociates.com Ecopixel • Dave Crawford, Owner • ecopixel.com • [email protected] • Paul Hansen, Website Developer & Designer • (802) 879-7136 • [email protected] • 6 Pinecrest Dr., Essex Junction, VT 05452 • (802) 878-0380 We provide pumps, controls, SCADA, and contract • PO Box 393, Essex Junction, VT 05453 operations for water and wastewater facilities across Vermont. We specialize in sizing and supplying sewer We create and sustain websites that are mobile- pump stations, water supply & booster stations, water friendly, ADA accessible, easy to navigate, filtration, and instruments associated with those affordable, and visually appealing. Easily post installations. Our team works with engineers and owners minutes, update calendars, and add news, forms, to find the right pumps and controls to meet your needs and alerts. Includes Vermont-based training, and budget. We have certified water operators up to support, ongoing maintenance, and secure class 4b and wastewater certifications to grade 2, and website hosting. We’re here to help! we service clients across Vermont in both sectors. YOU ARE AT THE CORE OF EVERYTHING WE DO.

Propelled by the VLCT mission, our insurance programs are steadfast in helping your municipality thrive VLCT members created the Unemployment Trust and PACIF more than 30 years ago. Your municipality’s needs and long-term interests are central to what we do every day and how we develop from year to year. We respond to your current concerns – and we also anticipate your future challenges by setting up coverage & resources to help your municipality navigate the trying times ahead. The comprehensive coverage you need is right here, along with the service, consultation, and programs that you rely on to respond to losses, stay ahead of risk, and offer desirable employee benefits.

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Mission Data shows that only about 18% of municipal managers/administrators are women despite To educate, mentor, encourage, being over half of the population. Women also and support women in the have great ideas and care about communities, local government and can be excellent leaders and team profession. members. Additionally, studies show that issues important to women get more attention Membership when women are in leadership positions.

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