Community Media Public Benefit Bill: H.575 and S.181: Vermont House Committee on Government Operations - Review of VAN FY25 Request

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Review of VAN FY25 Request at the House Committee on Government Operations.

The committee is including support for VAN’s one-time funding request of $1m in their budget memo. Great job with your outreach to this Committee! Details on their discussion this week is below:

On Friday, the committee had a brief discussion on their budget memo. Chair McCarthy described VAN’s current funding issue - he said the committee will qualify their support that one-time money is needed but a permanent fix to PEG’s revenue source is also required (the draft does not have that, there is an incomplete sentence at the end of the paragraph where it was intended to go). RepresentativeBob Hooper asked if there was information about whether the revenue source will be stabilized, Chair McCarthy said there are some “interlocking tax policies” and the committee has had some updates but that House Ways & Means had not made any decisions yet. The Chair said we support VAN but we don’t have a fix for the revenue source.

House Government Operations Draft Memo: 
https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/WorkGroups/House%20Government%20Operations/FY%202025%20Budget/W~Michael%20McCarthy~FY%202025%20DRAFT%20HGO%20and%20MA%20Budget%20Memo~2-23-2024.pdf