By Guy Page
The Scott administration has reported to the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Committee receipt of a $2,543,564 federal grant to the Agency of Natural Resources for climate mitigation.
As reported in yesterday’s Vermont Daily Chronicle, establishing a state climate agenda was essential to receive $32 million in the federal jobs and infrastructure stimulus “Build Back Better” law. It is unclear whether this federal funding is connected to ‘Build Back Better.’
As reported in today’s House Calendar, the $2.5 million grant from the U.S. EPA is “phase one of a two-phase funding opportunity aimed to support Vermont with climate change mitigation planning efforts. A comprehensive climate action plan will be developed, to overlap with and be synonymous to the required update to Vermont’s Climate Action Plan in 2025.”
Additional federal funding will provide $456,436 for a single staff position through June, 2027. “This position will serve as administrative lead developing the updated Climate Action Plan with the Vermont Climate Council and perform added work required by the EPA grant.”
The Joint Fiscal Committee reviews fiscal issues and is charged with approval of grants, as well as oversight and management of the Legislative Fiscal Staff who work for the Joint Fiscal Office.
All of Joint Fiscal’s members are legislative leaders: Senate Appropriations Chair Jane Kitchel, House Ways & Means (tax) Chair Emilie Kornheiser, Senate Pro Tem Philip Baruth, House Appropriations Clerk James Harrison, Senate Finance Chair Ann Cummings, House Appropriations Chair Diane Lanpher, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Sears, House Appropriations Vice-Chair Robin Scheu, Senate Appropriations Clerk Richard Westman, and House Human Services Chair Theresa Wood.
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federal money/// bonding/// grants/// well fare state/// shut down these money games and vermont is dead///
I love it when money from the Federal government is described as “free”. No, I did not see that in this article, but the fact is it is still taxpayer money being doled out by politicians with agendas which are not necessarily the issues that taxpayers see as the most important .
The Green New Deal – economic outcomes that are literally indistinguishable from ABJECT FAILURE.
Why don’t they give us our 2 million dollars back for the illegal drug needle happy land, and use that 2.5m for a climate friendly illegal drug needle happy land?
Instead of giving money to the federal government and then asking for it back, why dont we just keep it?
You could say the same thing about state government, but the answer, though they seldom come right out and say it, is always because we are smarter than you, and therefore we can spend your money more wisely than you. More of the “unspoken” might be that they can create jobs for those that couldn’t get, or know how to make an honest living working a real job, you know like VPIRG, VNRC, the S5 Clean Heat Standard Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and other “consultants” .
Dang, at about $150k a year, can I apply for that single staff position?!
More tax & spend on a bigtime 3-card monty game (scheme)!
More fleecing of the taxpayers on a bogus agenda. 40 years ago they said the next ice age was coming and when that lies money dried up surprise global warming was introduced.