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Burlington Electric Department,
the municipally owned electric utility for the City of Burlington, Vermont, serves about 16,000 residential customers and more than 3,600 commercial customers. As a city department, BED shares the values of the residents who have voted for energy efficiency programs, who have supported a clean power mix and who have expressed a desire to move forward into the 21st century in a manner that is sustainable and will provide future generations the chance to enjoy Burlington and its beautiful resources as the current generation does.
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Church Street Marketplace
is nestled in heart of downtown Burlington, Vermont. With nearly 100 retail shops, restaurants and street vendors, the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington is a popular destination. Visitors include it on their list of places to go, making the Marketplace the fifth most popular tourist attraction in the Vermont.
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Burlington could have a city-run telecommunications system by mid-summer
Burlington could have a city-run telecommunications system by mid-summer, according to plans the City Council is supposed to hear next week. The proposed project is a scaled-back version of a system once intended to make the city a competitor with providers such as Verizon and Adelphia. A fiber-optic network would run through downtown Burlington serving the city's municipal offices under the revised project. Burlington scrapped the original version of the plan when the city could not find enough money. The city spends about ,000 a year on telephone and Internet services. Burlington wants to build a network of high-tech, high-speed telephone and Internet access rather than pay Verizon. Laying the cable and installing needed equipment could cost between million and million, said Burlington's Chief Administrative Officer Brendan Keleher.
Burlington Electric Department is Improving Underground System.
Burlington Electric Department will begin this month installing new cables in the downtown underground electrical system, greatly improving power reliability for businesses and residents of the area, and coming closer to completely overhauling this section of the system.
The conduits on South Winooski Avenue between Main and Pearl Streets, and on Bank and Cherry Streets between St. Paul Street and Winooski Avenue were replaced last year and are now ready to receive new wiring. This upgrade will greatly reduce the number of outages and will provide greater safety for the BED distribution workers who must work in the underground system. The old underground infrastructure was installed in the 1950s and was at the end of its scheduled life. All of the work in this area should be finished by June of next year. In addition, new conduits and cables will be installed on College Street between Battery Street and Winooski Avenue within the next few years.
Burlington Enters Telecom Business
The city of Burlington has decided to enter the telecommunications business. Tuesday night, the Council voted 10 to 2 in favor of building its own telecommunications system. The .6 million system will link all municipal buildings and city schools.
Councilor Chapin Spencer, P-Ward 1, said, "We will be providing better integration. Our police department will be better able to track crime and land records at city hall. We will be in the city in control of our telecommunication destiny as telecom becomes the way we communicate. It is essential."
The city says approving the telecommunications plan is the first step toward offering phone, internet and cable services to all residents and businesses.
Burnham Library
is located about 3/4 miles east of the intersection of Routes 2A and 7 in the Village of Colchester. Colchester has enjoyed public library service for over 100 years with changes along the way –the Kings Daughters Library, the Colchester Free Library, and finally – in 1942, thanks to funds left in Mrs. Etta Burnham’s will, the Burnham Memorial Library. A large library addition was built in 1989. In May 2003, the library’s new bookmobile began year-round service throughout town. The library is a department of the Town of Colchester, and offers high-speed public internet access.
898 Main St.
Colchester, VT 05446
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City OKs fiber-optic network
The city can spend .6 million to wire Burlington with telephone and high-speed Internet service, according to a measure approved by the City Council Tuesday. Councilors said the fiber-optic network linking city offices and schools makes sense financially and technologically. The city will next request proposals from bidders interested in building the network. Two councilors voted against the measure. Tuesday's approval eases the city toward a network that had been a contentious political issue. Councilors included assurances to keep the bidding process in the public eye. Consultant Tim Nulty said the equipment needed will cost about .6 million. Start-up and operation will cost about million, he said. Nulty said the city could use a combination of fiber-optic cable, wireless connection and other services to upgrade city Internet access and enable employees to share files
Council to debate telecommunications network
Some Burlington City Councilors want more information before they vote Tuesday to spend .6 million that officials want approved for a city-owned, high-speed communications network. Brendan Keleher, the city's chief administrative officer and the proposal's architect, said the city needs to move swiftly to install the network in by summer. Doing so could save time and money, he said. The city's contract for telephone services from Verizon expires in late spring at the earliest. Burlington Electric Department, which will lay the fiber-optic cable, has time to do the work this winter or early spring. City Councilors will consider authorizing .6 million to finance the plan. Supporters say the project will speed the city's Internet access, update its telecommunications systems and link city offices. Keleher and the city's hired consultant pre- sented councilors with the new, bare-bones version of a high-speed network two weeks ago seeking a decision Tuesday.
Fletcher Free Library
is a vibrant member of the Burlington community. The library loaned more than 250,000 items in 2001. thier collection includes music CDs, books on tape, videos, a vast array of children's materials, and over 100,000 books. In the future, the Library will continue to seek out programs and services that will fulfill our patrons' pursuit of educational, cultural and life-long learning opportunities.
Over the last 3 years, we have been busy building one of Burlington’s finest public computer access centers. With donations and help from IBM of Essex Junction, the Freeman Foundation, CyberSkillsVT and Team Tech, we now have twelve public computer stations. All computers have fast access to the Internet and are fully accessible to Windows 2000 Professional, Word 2000 and Excel 2000.
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Marketplace Guidelines
contains an alphabetical listing of items relating to the Marketplace. Included is everything from how to receive permission to park on Church Street to what the various Marketplace committees are intended to do. The authority (whether it is a City Ordinance or a Marketplace Commission resolution) for each item is also included. Pages are updated each year.
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The Burlington Electric Department will ask city voters
for a near record-sized bond issue to cover a range of improvement projects. The proposal appears on the March 4th city election ballot -- and if passed, it will reduce harmful emissions and put the city on a future that relies more on renewable power sources.
The city's major generation source is the McNeil woodchip-burning power plant in the Intervale. It cost million when it was built in the 1980s. And that's close to the amount the city is seeking again -- this time .6 million for improvements that many residents will welcome for environmental and financial reasons.
City officials say the nearly million bond issue would generate even more in revenues and savings over the twenty year life of the bond. And they say it would help shield the city from volatile spot market prices by shifting to more renewables, including biomass at McNeil, and other forms like small hydro, wind and solar.
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The new 2002 federal budget includes over .5 million for Lake Champlain.
The money will support nine different programs and projects. The Lake Champlain Science Center gets the biggest cut-- over million. Other projects that will benefit include the Lake Champlain Basin Program and money for repairs to the Burlington Breakwater. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy secured the funding in six separate appropriations bills. -- end --
Utility wants refund of ,000
The Burlington Electric Department invested about ,000 in a failed city project and now the utility wants its money back.
The Electric Department spent the money investigating a city plan to wire Burlington for telephone and high-speed Internet
service. There appears to be no formal agreement for how the city would pay back the money, which could affect customers'
rates. Burlington Electric's bank account is separate from the city's.
As city councilors this week debated setting up a .6 million communications network, the issue of how Burlington could pay back the Electric Department loomed. Some councilors questioned the wisdom of taking on the .6 million project without repaying Burlington Electric.
City councilors passed the .6 million plan by a 10-2 vote Tuesday.
Winooski Memorial Library
has been a fixture at its current location (of 19 East Spring Street) in
Winooski for almost forty years. With our high-speed public internet access, entertaining and
educational children's programs, free computer classes, and extensive book collection,
we continually aim to be an important resource in our community.
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