Community

Mercy Connections: Mercy Connections 04/05/2016

Mercy Connections, a Chittenden County (Vermont) nonprofit offers a safe and welcoming place where all are invited to learn, grow, and make positive changes. Mercy Connections’ classes and programs help people identify and achieve their own goals within a community support.

The Vermont Community Leadership Training builds the skills, knowledge, and confidence that enables participants to become effective advocates/agents of positive change. Through their participation in the eleven week program, individuals gain confidence and find their voice to engage in community issues affecting themselves and their families.

In this program leadership training participants share the work they have done in this group: Crystal Berenberg, Marie Rosine Poaty, Stephen Marshall, Mark Karas, and Lauren Charette.

City of Burlington Named a White House TechHire City 03/09/2016

BTV Ignite Executive Director Michael Schirling and Mayor Miro Weinberger announce the City of Burlington has been named a White House TechHire community, part of a multisector White House initiative to link area employers with Burlingtonians, growing the local tech workforce and empowering community members with the skills they would need for wellpaying jobs in innovation and technology.

The City of Burlington and BTV Ignite will partner with local educational institutions and employers to train and employ 75 tech workers in 2016 and 400 tech workers through 2020. Key employers, workforce intermediaries, and training partners include the Vermont HITEC Institute for American Apprenticeship at Burlington College, Champlain College, the University of Vermont (UVM), Vermont Technical College, Community College of Vermont, the UVM Medical Center, the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Vermont Technology Alliance.

Burlington Mayor Weinberger, BTV Ignite and the Ignite Partners, VT HITEC, and a variety of employers and technical educators and trainers discuss this exciting designation and initiative.

CCS Bridging Program: Green Knights 11/09/2015

Emily Anderson, coordinator of the CCS Bridging Program introduces us to Megan, Patrick and Thomas of the Green Knights and community projects they created with Dan Higgins as part of 'connecting to the community.' We also hear from the secretary and president of the Bridging Advocates Group - a part of the Green Mountain Self Advocates.

Burlington’s Tech Future – from Education to the Economy 10/29/2015

Brown Bag Lunch and Roundtable Discussion with Mayor Miro Weinberger, William Wallace, Executive Director of U.S. Ignite, Ken Hayes, President and CEO, the Enterprise Center, Chattanooga, TN, Lev Gonick, CEO of OneCommunity, Cleveland Ohio, and more share perspectives on the future of emerging technologies and the technology ecosystem in Burlington as well as exciting projects undertaken in other U.S. Ignite communities.

South Burlington Comprehensive Plan Public Hearing 10/20/2015

The Planning Commission hosts this formal public hearing after holding 3 public input sessins on the 2016 Comprehensive Plan Draft. The hearing will starts with a brief overview of the Plan and is then opened to the community for feedback!

The Planning Commission typically meets on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month in the City Hall Conference Room, 575 Dorset Street, South Burlington. Meetings begin at 7:00 pm. If you wish to receive an e-mail of each Planning Commission agenda, please email the department at planning@sburl.com and include "Email List: Planning Commission Agendas" in the subject line.