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Article I Election of Officers
For City Clerk (for 3 years) |
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Holly B. Rees ✔ |
4084 |
For City Council (for 3 years) |
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Linda Bailey |
1952 |
Laurie Smith ✔ |
2405 |
For City Council (for 2 years) |
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Lydia Diamond |
643 |
Julian Keenan |
1340 |
Mike Scanlan ✔ |
2400 |
For City Council (for 1 year remaining on a 2 year term) |
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Elizabeth Fitzgerald ✔ |
3777 |
For School Director (for 3 years) |
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Chelsea Tillinghast ✔ |
3598 |
For School Director (for 2 years) |
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Elaine Cissi ✔ |
3583 |
For School Director (for 1 year remaining on a 2 year term) |
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Tim Warren ✔ |
3672 |
CITY ARTICLES
Article II Annual City Budget
Shall the City adopt the City Council's proposed budget for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 totaling Sixty Four Million Nine Hundred Sixteen Thousand Sixty Four and 64/100 Dollars ($64,916,064.64) of which, excluding previously voter-approved levies, it is estimated Twenty One Million Forty Three Thousand One Hundred Forty and 22/100 Dollars ($21,043,140.22) will be raised by local property taxes?
Yes ✔ |
2555 |
No |
2350 |
Article III City Charter Amendment
Shall the voters amend the City of South Burlington Charter to edit Section 13-301 and add Section 13-311 for the purpose of increasing the number of South Burlington School District School Board Members to seven as follows:
§13-301. Officers; general provisions
The officers of the City of South Burlington shall be those provided by law for towns, except as otherwise provided by this charter. The officers shall have all the powers and duties necessary to carry out the provisions of this charter as well as those provided by law. The offices of Fence Viewer, Weigher of Coal, and Inspector of Lumber shall be abolished.
(1) The officers of the South Burlington School District shall continue to be those provided by law for school or school districts, except as otherwise provided by this charter; provided, however, that the School Directors shall hold no other School District or City office with the exception of the Board of Civil Authority, the Board of Abatement, and as provided otherwise in this charter. When a vacancy occurs on the Board of School Directors the remaining members of the Board may fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting when the School District shall fill the vacancy.
(2) The Council by majority vote of all its members shall appoint annually the City Treasurer, whose office shall be no longer elective, and the City Attorney, Zoning Administrator, Auditor, First and Second Constable, Grand Juror, and Trustee of Public Funds.
(3) [Repealed.]
§13-311. Board of School Directors; number; terms of office; election
(a) There shall be a Board of School Directors consisting of seven members.
(b) Four members shall have terms of office of three years; three members shall have terms of office of two years.
(c) All present School Directors shall serve as Directors until the expiration of their terms and their successors have been duly elected and have qualified.
(d) On the first Tuesday in March, 2025, the voters shall elect, from among the legal voters of the city, two members for terms of three years and two members for terms of two years. On the first Tuesday in March, 2026, one member for a term of three years and one member for a term of two years shall be elected.
Thereafter, the election of school directors shall be for the length of the term of the member whose term is expiring.
(e) All Board of School Directors shall be elected at large.
Yes ✔ |
3815 |
No |
977 |
Article IV Water Storage Tank General Obligation Bond
Shall the City of South Burlington erect and install a 2.1-million-gallon water storage tank on land west of Dorset Street and issue general obligation bonds or notes in an amount not to exceed Five Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($5,750,000.00), after application of other funds and resources available for these purposes, to finance these capital improvements and to pay expenses related to the issuance of the bonds?
Yes ✔ |
3610 |
No |
1227 |
SCHOOL ARTICLES
Article II Budget
Shall the voters of the City of South Burlington School District approve the School Board to expend Seventy-One Million One Hundred Ninety-Two Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-One and 00/100 Dollars ($71,192,891.00), which is the amount the School Board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year?
Yes |
2072 |
No ✔ |
2856 |
Article III Additional Appropriation to District's Capital Reserve Fund Authorized
Shall the South Burlington School District's Board of Directors (Board) be authorized to allocate the audited surplus funds from the 2022 fiscal year in the amount of $2,266,362 to the District's Capital Reserve Fund which, in combination with funds previously allocated or allocated in the future, may be expended for future capital improvements as determined by such Board and detailed in the District's Facilities Stewardship Plan as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with the requirements of 24 V.S.A. 2804?
Yes ✔ |
3368 |
No |
1468 |
CHAMPLAIN WATER DISTRICT ARTICLE
Article I
Shall Three Million Two Hundred Thousand dollars ($3,200,000.00) of unexpended infrastructure bond proceeds authorized at the September 13, 2022, special meeting of the Champlain Water District be expended for the implementation of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition ( SCADA ) upgrade, the cost thereof estimated to be Three Million Two Hundred Thousand dollars ($3,200,000.00)?
Yes ✔ |
3553 |
No |
1255 |
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Official Presidential Primary Ballot
For President of the United States |
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Joseph R. Biden JR of Delaware ✔ |
2474 |
Mark Stewart Greenstein of Connecticut |
21 |
Jason Michael Palmer of Maryland |
17 |
Dean Phillips of Minnesota |
67 |
Cenk Uygur of California |
28 |
Marianne Williamson of Washington, DC |
72 |
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Official Presidential Primary Ballot
For President of the United States |
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Ryan L. Binkley of Texas |
7 |
Chris Christie of New Jersey |
36 |
Ron DeSantis of Florida |
22 |
Nikki Haley of South Carolina ✔ |
1370 |
Vivek Ramaswamy of Ohio |
14 |
Donald J. Trump of Florida |
516 |