They are all extremely necessary throughout all of Chittenden County.

We have become a bedroom community for people working outside the area. We have no real industry here. Short of a court house, post office, a small grocery store, a bank, a couple schools, a library and a few farms left a couple bed & breakfasts that is it. There is no real revenue coming from within yet taxes continue to rise.

My community has a long way to go. Very divided, bedroom community. I'd like to see more engagement here across ideological and political and class divides. I wish our town had more of a center and had more viable businesses. I wish there was work for me nearby.

Our community has approximately twice the state average for free and reduced lunches - in a self study more than twice the state average of 8th graders ours stated they use alcohol - the social services provided in our community run up $100,000s of thousands of dollars of expenses every year and for what - the systems aren't working and they need to be repaired.

<Montpelier does a great job keeping its downtown vibrant. Luckily it's geography prevents a lot of sprawl, but it could do a better job encouraging the use of 3rd floors as housing. Hopefully the voters will continue to approve school budgets to keep and improve the quality of its schools. A preshool would be great too!

If we could create better means for communicating across Franklin and Grand Isle counties, we could accomplish so much more- the economy, the environment, health, education, youth and age- these should not be worked on as though they were separate issues

School Choice, real choice for everyone, for any school. To include free college to our citizens. Mass transportation around the towns we live in, from small busses to trains. County wide government supporting county wide highways and roads.

Our Route 105 is loaded with commuters going somewhere else to work. How many are going just to St. Albans, Georgia, or Swanton I don't know. It would be nice if more industry could come to northeast Franklin County to use some of the labor force. A 2-hour ride on each end of the work day doesn't seem very enjoyable to me.

It is irrelevent to talk about us - Vermont should be rebuilt on its history of individual self-sufficiency. We talk a lot but most Vermonters will wait for someone else to do something and the obstacles in place for the "doers" are not worth the effort to overcome.