by Gene Craft | Nov 19, 2022 | Town Clerk
For the November General Election, 370 Vershire voters cast ballots for their candidates. Follow this link to the Official Return of Votes for our town. You can also find the results on the Vermont Secretary of State’s webpage.
by Gene Craft | Nov 16, 2022 | Town Center Committee
November 21, 2022 VTCC Meeting Agenda 7 pm In Person!! & Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84513547004?pwd=bjdlYXJKeVJUbkVYNWpsWjA0Q3IzZz09
Meeting ID: 845 1354 7004 Passcode: 491503
Attendees:
Minutes by:
Welcome & Minutes approval 5 mins
October 2022 VTCC Minutes Amend to add Kitchen Directions – Caro & SG
VerShare, Historical Society and Planning – Reva 10 mins
VerShare Made in Vershire Christmas Event Dec 3
Tree Lighting – Dec 4
BoS Meetings – Oct 25 & Nov 7 Nicole 5 mins
Letter to TROC, Pavilion Grant List
Bid for 3 timberframers
Thinking on Pavilion Planning
Rec Committee – Ken 10 mins
Meeting Time Changed to 5 pm on First Wed
Ice Rink Set up and Towns-giving – Nov 17 Sponsored with VTCC
Dec 10/17 Holiday w/Santa
Teens want a Dance
More adult events?
Events – Caro & Ken 5 mins
Nov 17th Towns Giving
David Feurzeig – Piano Concert Piano Tuning
Pavilion – Caro and Reva 15 mins
LOI to Byrne – Reva
*Pavilion Grant Leads Timeline
TimberFramers Bids – Caro
Timber Frame Builders:
Discussion with Patronicty – Reva
Renovations and Projects Update 10 mins
Window prep for Winter Inserts – Nick
WindowDressers – Reva
Storage for windows and Rec – Nick & Ken
Budget for 2023-4 – Reva 10 mins
Hall Floor to be done last week in Dec – Nicole
Winter/Spring 2023: Folding Table, Trees Cut
Webpage – Reva 5 mins
https://vershirevt.org/town-center-building-committee/
Mark Harvey to work on History
Other
Adjourn
Next Rec Meetings: First Wed at 5 PM: Dec 7.
Next VTCC Meetings Third Mon at 7 pm: Dec 19.
by Gene Craft | Oct 28, 2022 | Town Clerk
November’s General Election is right around the corner and every registered voter should have already received a mail-in ballot. If you haven’t received a ballot, or you need to register to vote, please come by the town office or contact the clerk by phone so he can help get you registered to vote in Vershire. There have recently been questions about mail-in balloting and, just the other day, someone asked why they had to put their name on the certificate envelope (Vermont law requires every mail-in ballot to be returned in a signed certificate envelope). “But you will know how I voted when you open up the envelope!” was the stated concern. After reassuring this particular voter that no one would ever know how they voted, I explained how this process works. Here is what I told that voter:
Every person who votes in Vermont by mail-in ballot, must return their ballot in the required, signed and dated, certificate envelope. This signed certificate envelope is verification that the person who signed the envelope is the person who is casting the ballot contained inside. The clerk uses the signature on the outside to definitively demonstrate that this person has voted, recording the fact the ballot has been returned. The signed certificate envelope is not opened at that time but placed in the vault in the town office. In fact, the returned certificate envelope, with the ballot inside, is never opened before election day. And, if the certificate envelope is NOT signed when it is returned, the voted ballot cannot be counted (if the ballot is returned and the certificate envelope not signed, the clerk will make every attempt to contact the voter so this can be corrected as soon as possible). On the day of the election, all the mail-in ballots that have been received are taken from the vault and brought to the polling place by the clerk, still in their certificate envelopes. At the polling place, members of the Board of Civil Authority will then together verify, one at a time, that each name appearing on each certificate envelope matches a name on the voter check list. The Justices of the Peace then open the envelopes, one at a time, removing the ballot and placing each in the ballot box with all the other ballots. At the end of the day, all voted ballots are co-mingled in the ballot box, all together. After the polls close, all the ballots are removed from the ballot box, unfolded then counted against the number of voter names/ballots checked off the voter check list. Once that number is reconciled, and the number of ballots verified to match the number of names checked off the check list, the ballots are sorted in batches of 25 and then the tallying of votes can begin. So, if you also were wondering, no one ever knows how any one particular person voted, nor would anyone actually want to know that. Democracy is blind and it begins and ends at the ballot box. Your vote is your voice!
Gene Craft, Town Clerk
Vershire, Vermont
by Gene Craft | Oct 28, 2022 | Selectboard
PUBLIC NOTICE
Special Meeting of the Vershire Selectboard
MEETING & NOTICE: Town of Vershire Selectboard
DATE: November 3, 2022
TIME: 5:00 PM
PLACE: Vershire Town Center Building and via ZOOM
Agenda
Special Selectboard Meeting – Discussion with Architect on Value Engineering
ALL TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Join Zoom Meeting Link:
Time: Nov 3, 2022 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86742990736?pwd=aFkzVS9mMDFSYUMwS3BaS3ZGa3dkZz09
Meeting ID: 867 4299 0736
Passcode: 888897
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by Gene Craft | Oct 24, 2022 | Selectboard
PUBLIC NOTICE
Special Meeting of the Vershire Selectboard
MEETING & NOTICE: Town of Vershire Selectboard
DATE: October 27, 2022
TIME: 7:00 PM
PLACE: Vershire Town Center Building and via ZOOM
Agenda
Special Selectboard Meeting – Discussion with Architect on Value Engineering
ALL TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Join Zoom Meeting Link:
Time: Oct 27, 2022 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86742990736?pwd=aFkzVS9mMDFSYUMwS3BaS3ZGa3dkZz09
Meeting ID: 867 4299 0736
Passcode: 888897
One tap mobile
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