VERMONT LEAGUE OF CITIES & TOWNS VERMONT Your Guide MUNICIPAL CONNECTIONS to Trusted Partners Working together to make life better. As you may have noticed by our name, we’re a community bank. We care about our community. That means we’re dedicated to providing banking products and services that benefit the communities we live in and serve. We offer a range of tailored services and products to the towns, cities, schools and government organizations that are the backbone of our communities. Our local branches work with our municipal banking experts to deliver customized solutions for local governments of all kinds. Whether you represent a county, city, town, village, special district or public school, we’re here to help [email protected] | 802-773-4627 | cbna.com 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. PROPERTY AND CASUALTY VLCT EMPLOYMENT NOW AVAILABLE FROM VLCT INTERMUNICIPAL FUND (PACIF) RESOURCE AND BENEFITS • Dental Insurance at group • Covers property damage, vehicle TRUST (VERB) rates, administered by VLCT accidents, injured employees, general • Provides Unemployment staff. liability, public officials’ liability, Insurance for Vermont • Vision Insurance at group employment practices liability, law municipalities. rates, administered by VLCT enforcement liability, and cyber liability. • Serves as liaison to the staff. • In-house staff handle all Underwriting, Vermont Department of • Life Insurance and Disability Claims, and Loss Control activities. Labor. Insurance at group rates, • Robust array of loss control programs • In-house Underwriting administered by Hickok & that are tailored to municipal needs staff are accessible, Boardman HR Intelligence. and situations. knowledgeable, and friendly. • Health Insurance Advisory • Deep discounts on prices for attending • An experienced attorney Services provided by Hickok VLCT’s Municipal Assistance Center provides unemployment & Boardman HR Intelligence. (MAC) workshops. hearings support. Invest EAP • investeap.org • Bobby Arnell, Account Manager • [email protected] • (802) 951-4032 Green Lantern Solar • 110 Cherry St., Suite 2-1, Burlington, VT 05401 • greenlanternsolar.com The Invest EAP Centers for Wellbeing is a non-profit • Luke Shullenberger, President program of Vermont State government that offers • [email protected] comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • (802) 244-1658 services to employers and their employees. The EAP • PO Box 658, Waterbury, VT 05676 provides short-term counseling, resources and referral, management consultation, and wellness programming. Green Lantern Solar is a vertically integrated regional renewable energy development company with a particular emphasis on turn- key commercial solar solutions for municipal, education, healthcare, and government entities. Green Lantern works with landowners to revitalize and re-develop low-value sites such as brownfields, landfills, quarries/pits/ Mascoma Savings Bank extraction sites, and other challenging real estate. The company provides a full suite of • mascomabank.com services: development, financing, construction • Sheila Jacobs, VP Business & Municipal Services and operations, and maintenance and asset • [email protected] management. Full service, no hassle commercial • (802) 295-5456 solar solutions for towns, schools, businesses, • PO Box 4399, White River Junction, VT 05001 and more. $0 up-front cost,