Manchester Center
What does Vermont mean to you?:
Green mountains, fresh air, opportunity, community, helping others to help themselves.
What common values do Vermonters share?:
Hard work, enviromentally friendly, concern for thier fellow man and passion that all are done right.
What challenges and opportunities do we see for our communities and state?:
The state needs to find a fair, way to tax and pay for education, reaching into one towns pocket so other towns get a free ride is unfair. permitting process less of a chore! helping hand up and not a hand out. Affordable housing should be a hand up to home ownership not a hand out or hand down to a life long of renting.
What should our priorities be as we work together to prepare Vermont for the future?:
repeal act 60 and 68! use a borad based tax like maryland. affordable housing that allows people to buy a home not rent. small bsuiness incubator sites that allow small businesses to own not rent. clean wind energy and tax incentives for homeowners and businesses to install solar and wind power.
How do your thoughts about Vermont's values, future challenges and priority issues apply to YOUR community?:
My community has good zoning laws that help to provide a clean, stable environment for business, but the state permitting process makes starting any kind os business an extra challenge here and in all communities in VT
My name is Andy Tarantino and I own www.asafeplace.com
