STAFF From the David Snedeker, Tina Gonyaw, Frank Maloney, Executive Director Administrative Assistant Planner Executive Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] One of NVDA’s greatest strengths is our Judy Butson, Lorna Higgs, Tracy McIntyre, Business Manager Project Manager GIS Specialist 2018 Annual Report agility in forming strategic partnerships with [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] local, state, and federal entities to bring about Karen Geraghty, Economic Alison Low AICP CFM, Irene Nagle AICP, lasting impacts. This year, these collaborative Development Specialist Senior Planner Senior Planner [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] efforts were at work in several community Bruce Melendy, and economic development initiatives. Emergency Management Specialist [email protected] NVDA staff continued to work on projects that Doug Morton, came to fruition through our participation in Senior Transportation Planner the Vermont Council on Rural Development’s [email protected] Community Visits. In recent years we have taken part in visits to St. Johnsbury Back row, left to right: Tracy McIntyre, Alison Low, Dave and Craftsbury (2015); Hardwick (2016); and Burke, Lyndon, and Brighton (2017). Snedeker, Irene Nagle, Doug Morton. Front row: Karen Geraghty, In 2018 it was Newport’s turn to convene and mobilize. The Community Visit Lorna Higgs, Frank Maloney, Tina process always results in motivated groups of citizens working to implement Gonyaw, Bruce Melendy, Judy Butson. priority projects with strong local support. Current endeavors include the Photo: Tina Mitchell-Stowell / Yellow Barn Business Accelerator in Hardwick; rail trail master planning in St. Captured Moments Photography Johnsbury; road, trail, and wastewater projects in Burke; and now, business TOWN APPOINTED MEMBERS OF CALEDONIA COUNTY development and an expansion of community events in Newport. Danville: Kenneth Linsley Ryegate: Claudette Sortino Groton: Peter Lyon Sheffield: Keith Ballek This year NVDA adopted a comprehensive amendment to the NVDA Regional Hardwick: Jim Lovinsky St. Johnsbury: Jim Brown, Larry Donna Plan for the Northeast Kingdom, which includes an enhanced energy section Kirby: Rebecca Hill-Larsen, James Sawhill Sutton: Paul Brouha that gives us greater standing in the Public Utility Commission’s Section 248 Lyndon: Walden: Jonathan Augeri permitting process. Our updated plan was certified by the Public Service Newark: Kim Fried, Mark Whitworth Waterford: Brent Beck, Fred Saar Department, so NVDA can now review and certify local enhanced energy plans. Peacham: Jennifer Surat

In a statewide effort to minimize the impacts of our transportation infrastructure TOWN APPOINTED MEMBERS OF ESSEX COUNTY on water quality, NVDA staff worked with every Northeast Kingdom community to Brighton: Joel Cope Guildhall: Gary Brown Canaan: Gregory Noyes Lunenburg: Amos Colby remediate potential impacts on road segments connected to water bodies. Runoff Concord: Cynthia Stuart Maidstone: Bruce Hobaugh and water quality remains a key concern statewide, and NVDA is collaborating East Haven: Kirwin Flanders Norton: Patricia Whitney with state agencies, municipalities, and local and regional non-profit organizations Granby: Reginald Bunnell Unified Towns & Gores: Peter Rodin to meet new permit requirements under Act 64 (the Water Quality Act). TOWN APPOINTED MEMBERS OF ORLEANS COUNTY Developing a skilled and ready workforce is a critical issue locally and statewide. Albany: S. Christopher Jacobs, Edward O’Leary Holland: Andrew Bouchard In FY2018, NVDA committed to partner in the statewide VT Talent Pipeline Barton: Robert Croteau, William Davies Irasburg: Ron Holland, Michael Sanville Management (VTPM) initiative. This important effort convenes businesses Brownington: Bill Davis, Laurence Thompson Lowell: Calvin Allen Charleston: Teri Gray Morgan: Robert Guyer from different industry sectors to identify their industry-specific issues and Coventry: Jeanne Desrochers, Newport City: Paul Monette, Laura Dolgin develop employer-led workforce solutions. The industries that convened during Craftsbury: Farley Brown Newport Town: Real Lanoue FY2018 were construction, health care, and advanced manufacturing. Derby: Beula-Jean Shattuck, Grant Spates Troy: Robert Langlands, Mark Sanville Glover: Hope Colburn Westfield: Scott Dunn Changes at all levels of government continue to place new demands on Greensboro: Michael Metcalf Westmore: Louisa Dotoli the limited resources of our municipalities. They rely on our services and technical support more than ever. The map on the following page change AT LARGE MEMBERS represents the diversity and extent of our services, all of which support our Conrad Doyon, John Morley, Tom Robinson underlying mission to the Northeast Kingdom. I continue to be amazed by LEGISLATORS how much our relatively small staff can accomplish in Vermont’s largest Northeastern Vermont SENATORS BY DISTRICT: Development Association region, which encompasses one-fifth of the state’s land mass. Caledonia: Joe Benning Esq., Jane Kichel; Essex-Orleans: John Rodgers, Robert Starr Jr. REPRESENTATIVES BY DISTRICT: 36 Eastern Avenue, Suite 1 As always, NVDA looks forward to exploring new partnerships Caledonia-1: Marcia Martel; Caledonia-2: Joseph “Chip” Troiano; PO Box 630 and opportunities for collaboration in the coming year. Caledonia-3: , ; Caledonia-4: Martha Feltus, Richard Lawrence; St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 Caledonia-Washington: Catherine “Kitty” Beattie Toll; Essex-Caledonia: Constance Quimby; Northeastern Vermont Please call 802 748-5181 David Snedeker Essex-Caledonia-Orleans: Paul Lefebvre; Orange-Caledonia: Charles “Chip” Conquest; Development Association or email [email protected] Orleans-1: Lynn Batchelor, Brian Smith; Orleans-2: Michael Marcotte, ; Orleans-Caledonia: , Sam Young; Orleans-Lamoille: Mark Higley NVDA is an equal opportunity employer, lender, and provider. www.nvda.net Northeastern Vermont Development Our broad array of services supports our mission to the 55 municipalities and scores of businesses in Association (NVDA) is a unique entity in Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties: “Improving the Vermont where regional economic development quality of life in the Northeast Kingdom through planning, promoting economic development, and preserving the and planning are combined for great effect. region’s natural environment.”

ORLEANS NEWPORT CITY WARNERS GRANT WARREN GORE AVERY’S GORE FY2018 Highlights Unaudited Financials for COUNTY Downtowns and Village Centers: Our work to Fiscal Year 2018* CANAAN revitalize the region’s downtowns and villages NVDA’s revenues came from numerous sources, including a share of the state’s property NORTON continues. Our staff provides ongoing technical JAY NEWPORT DERBY HOLLAND transfer funds; private, state, and federal grants; and annual appropriations from each TROY support to downtown efforts in Newport and TOWN of our 50+ member communities. We also received rental income from the Charles E. AVERILL St. Johnsbury. This year, we helped Wheelock, Carter Business Resource Center, the Gallery Building, and other income from contracted East Hardwick, and Albany earn Village Center services, such as grant administration and municipal plan and bylaw development. MORGAN Designation; and assisted with a boundary LEMINGTON COVENTRY WESTFIELD adjustment in Lyndonville’s village center and No revolving loans were made in FY2018. LEWIS redesignation of Newport City’s downtown, making CHARLESTON tax credits available for important reinvestment

BROWNINGTON projects in these municipalities. Seventeen villages IRASBURG PROGRAMS BRIGHTON BLOOMFIELD and two downtowns in the Northeast Kingdom are LOWELL now participating in the designation programs! REGIONAL ECONOMIC TRANSPORTATION TOTALS PLANNING DEVELOPMENT BARTON BRUNSWICK WESTMORE Local Energy Plans: In FY2018, we assisted

ALBANY the municipalities of Brighton, Morgan, and FERDINAND REVENUES $659,758 $ 320,648 $ 485,528 $ 1,465,934 ESSEX Westmore to develop their own enhanced energy NEWARK plans, bringing the total number of communities COUNTY EXPENDITURES $ 636,661 $ 320,648 $ 428,561 $ 1,385,870 GLOVER assisted to nine. When adopted (and certified SUTTON by NVDA), these plans will give each community CRAFTSBURY EAST HAVEN BALANCE $ 23,097 $ — $ 56,967 $ 80,064 SHEFFIELD a stronger voice in the sometimes-challenging MAIDSTONE review process for renewable energy projects. BURKE GREENSBORO GRANBY River Basin Planning: Staff collaborated with multiple stakeholders in some of our regional WHEELOCK watersheds to develop strategic plans to REVENUE SOURCES LYNDON VICTORY protect or restore specific waters and identify GUILDHALL OTHER FEDERAL STANNARD HARDWICK appropriate funding and resources to complete $161,844 $428,975

KIRBY the work. In FY18, work on the Memphremagog Basin Plan was completed, while work on ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS WALDEN LUNENBURG $49,309 CALEDONIA the Passumpsic Basin Plan was initiated. RENTAL ST. JOHNSBURY $212,672 STATE Emergency Planning: Staff assisted with $613,134 COUNTY DANVILLE CONCORD the development of hazard mitigation plans PLANNIN STATUS that can minimize local out-of-pocket costs in Current Plan federal disasters. In FY2018, Barton, Canaan, WATERFORD * Audited financials will be available in December 2018. Expired Plan Greensboro, Kirby, Holland, and Hardwick each adopted Local Hazard Mitigation No Plan PEACHAM Plans. This brings the total number of towns STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCES FOR FY2018 BARNET with current plans in our region to 19. Economic Development Administration — US Department of Commerce ONIN BYLA STATUS Northern Border Regional Commission Adopted VT Quebec Enterprise Initiative: NVDA USDA Rural Development — U.S. Department of Agriculture TYPES O PROECTS continued our participation in the VQEI effort. Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development Grant Writing/Management Flood Only Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development GROTON Our involvement in FY2018 included responding RYEGATE Mapping to businesses interested in VT as a business Vermont Agency of Natural Resources — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Vermont Agency of Transportation — U.S. Department of Transportation Emergency Planning Designated Downtown location and connecting them to resources that Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services could be available. We also completed a survey Planning oning Assistance Designated Village Center Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Industry Support of employers to identify workforce and training Vermont Department of Public Safety — U.S. Department of Homeland Security needs, which has now provided us an opportunity Vermont Department of Public Safety Brownfield County Boundary to assist many of the existing companies in our Vermont Department of Public Service Bridge Culvert Inventory Town Boundary region with training funds on a cost-sharing basis. Vermont Small Business Development Center — U.S. Small Business Administration