2025 Annual Town Meeting - March 4, 2025 @ 10:00AM Sheldon Elementary School, 78 Poor Farm Rd, Sheldon, VT
The legal voters of the Town of Sheldon, Vermont, are hereby warned and notified to meet at the Sheldon Elementary School, 78 Poor Farm Road, Sheldon Springs, Vermont on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. to transact the following business:
Article 1. To elect the following Town Officers as required by law:
- A Moderator for one year;
- A Town Clerk for three years;
- A Town Treasurer for three years;
- A Selectboard member for three years (by ballot);
- A Selectboard member for two years (by ballot);
- A Selectboard member for one year remaining of a three-year term (by ballot);
- A Library Trustee for five years;
- A Library Trustee for one year remaining of a five-year term;
- A Delinquent Tax Collector for one year;
Article 2. Shall the voters authorize the Selectboard to appoint the Town Clerk as provided in 17 V.S.A. § 2651e?
Article 3. Shall the voters authorize the Selectboard to appoint the Town Treasurer as provided in 17 V.S.A. § 2651f?
Article 4. Shall the voters authorize the Selectboard to appoint the Delinquent Tax Collector as provided in 17 V.S.A. § 2651d?
Article 5. To act upon the reports of the Town Officers.
Article 6. Shall the voters authorize the Town Treasurer to collect current taxes, pursuant to 32 V.S.A. § 4791?
Article 7. Shall the voters authorize total expenditures for general and highway fund operating expenses of $1,801,627 of which $1,458,631 shall be raised by taxes?
Article 8. Shall the voters authorize an expense not to exceed $89,000 from the remaining federal funds to be used for the initial payment on a lease agreement for a new fire engine?
Article 9. Shall the voters authorize the construction of a new salt storage facility on the Town Garage property, at a total expense not to exceed $100,000, to be financed over a period not to exceed five years?
Article 10. Shall the voters authorize the Selectboard to convey the 11.4-acre parcel on which the Sheldon Elementary School is located to the Northern Mountain Valley Union United School District, as described in the Memorandum of Understanding between the Town and School District?
Article 11. To discuss any other nonbinding business.
Dated at Sheldon, Vermont this January 29, 2025 by the Town of Sheldon Selectboard:
Stephen Dodd
Seth Hungerford
Nicholas Norris
Richard Piaseczny
Gregory Stebbins
Attest: Kimberlee Dufresne, Town Clerk