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Vermont Business Magazine November 1 marks the first day Vermonters can sign up for or change their health and dental plans for 2023. Thanks to a new law that extends financial help through 2025, Vermonters can get lower-cost health plans that cover preventive care like mental health services and annual check-ups. Vermonters can save money on the amount they pay for plans, called premiums, if they qualify and sign up on the health insurance marketplace. Tens of thousands of Vermonters already use this financial help, called subsidies or federal tax credits, to buy insurance through Vermont Health Connect.

Vermont Business Magazine Today, HUD New England Regional Administrator Juana Matias joined Mayor Weinberger at the site of Elmwood Emergency Shelter Community to discuss Burlington’s success in reaching their 2022 House America goals and talk about the city’s future goals to address homelessness and increase affordable housing supply. House America is a national partnership in which HUD and USICH invited mayors, county leaders, Tribal nation leaders, and governors to use the historic investments provided through the American Rescue Plan to address the crisis of homelessness through a Housing First approach by immediately re-housing and building additional housing for people experiencing homelessness.

Vermont Business Magazine White + Burke Real Estate Advisors, a leading Vermont-based commercial real estate firm, will host the 8th Annual Vermont Development Conference on November 17, 2022 at the Hilton Burlington Lake Champlain in Burlington. The Conference is the first and only statewide event to connect all of the allied groups of professionals in the development industry in order to discuss economic trends, permitting, growth and designing for the future. With the changing landscape of land use regulations, design standards and financial markets, it is critical for this community to collaborate and update its collective knowledge on these issues.

Vermont Business Magazine The Fund at Hula, a venture capital firm that invests in seed and early-stage technology start-ups, has partnered with Vermont Community Foundation (VCF) to create a new fund, VCF at Hula. This collaboration couples two entities who share a commitment to advance economic and community development in the state. Investment returns from VCF at Hula go back into the specific charitable funds that participate, increasing their future grantmaking capacity to drive greater community impact. The Vermont Community Foundation manages and invests donor advised and other funds for more than 900 Vermonters and Vermont organizations, primarily for the purpose of charitable giving. The new VCF at Hula fund was established to provide Community Foundation fundholders with an opportunity to invest charitable assets in growth-stage, Vermont-based companies.

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s Killington Resort, the largest ski and snowboard resort in Eastern North America and a POWDR company, is ready for winter with a jam-packed event series kicking off with Alex Hackel’s Hike & Hang 2.0 on November 12 and concluding with the VT Green Up Day on May 6.

Vermont Business Magazine Barre Area Development Inc.'s Board of Directors has hired a new Executive Director, Aimée Green. Green brings over 25 years of combined, hands-on experience spearheading complex business operations in economic development, finance, programmatic initiatives and policy in the highly regulated industries of municipals, energy, and the health care sector in Vermont, and in Maine.

by John McClaughry Next Tuesday Vermonters will go to the polls to choose 30 senators and 150 Representatives, and of course six statewide officeholders (omitting the two Congressional races.) I have long been a firm believer that effective democracy requires an informed electorate advising candidates as to what’s important to them and what should be done or not done about it. I am frankly disappointed by the seeming (to me) unwillingness of today’s candidates, of the two major parties, to engage with their voters on the really important issues facing our state.

Vermont Business Magazine Ivette Guttmann, MD, is a sports medicine specialist and a former professional athlete with hopes of serving as a physician at the Olympic Games. She’s also the next guest on Medical Matters Weekly. The show airs on Facebook Live at noon on Wednesday, October 26. Dr. Guttmann practices sports medicine and non-surgical orthopedic care with SVMC Orthopedics, part of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) and Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) in Bennington. She earned her medical degree at Universidad Autonoma de Centro America in Costa Rica and completed the pediatrics residency training program at San Juan City Hospital in Puerto Rico in 2012.

Vermont Business Magazine AmeriVet Veterinary Partners has acquired 14 new veterinary practices from Northeast Veterinary Partners in a buyout on October 11, 2022, bringing the total number of clinics in AmeriVet's network to 186. This is the first time in AmeriVet history that the company has purchased another veterinary consolidator. The newly-added clinics are spread across several states, including New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, California, and Maine. They now have locations in Bristol, Hinesburg, Morrisville and St Johnsbury.

Vermont Business Magazine On Friday, Mayor Miro Weinberger called a special meeting of the Burlington City Council to authorize the execution of the proposed Second Amended and Restated Development Agreement (ARDA 2.0) for Tuesday November 1. In advance of the meeting, the Mayor has submitted a memorandum to the City Council available here, along with a memorandum from the project attorney available here and below. The ARDA 2.0 is also available

Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) will match town Local Fiscal Recovery ARPA fund contributions dedicated to broadband in an expanded town match program as part of the VCBB’s Act 71 Broadband Construction Grant Program. To be matched, the funds must be pledged to the Communications Union District (CUD) serving the town or to an eligible provider committing to build out to all underserved locations in a community if the town is not a member of a CUD. The goal of the program is to accelerate the build-out of 100/100 Mbps broadband while decreasing its cost and providing affordable service for town residents.