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To request an application, call 476-8645 or stop by the on-site
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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
Norwich University Earns Statewide Architecture Award for LIFT,
a Pair of Tiny Homes for Vulnerable Populations Sited In Barre
Governor Phil Scott Announces Flood Resilient Community Grants
Governor Phil Scott announced the award of $2.6 million
to towns, state agencies, and non-profits in ermont to reduce
the future public safety and water quality impacts of climaterelated
flood haards.
The projects, funded under the Flood Resilient Community
Fund program, will improve the landscape, enhance community
resilience to flooding, and improve water uality in
Vermont.
Eleven projects have been awarded funding, ranging in
scope from purchasing properties in flood-prone areas to
planting trees for a culvert project. All projects are designed to
improve stream flows and water retention. All property buyouts
are done with the mutual consent of the current property
owner.
“These are investments in Vermont’s future,” said Governor
Scott. “By removing at-risk structures and taking other steps
to mitigate the impacts of flooding, we make our communities
safer and avoid repetitive repair costs to roads, bridges, and
other public infrastructure.”
The Flood Resilient Community Fund was established in
the spring of 2021. The $4,880,000 program is funded with
the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars. An additional
$2 million is available for a second round of awards in early
2022.
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Norwich University’s Design + Build Collaborative earned
an Honor Award from the Vermont chapter of the American
Institute of Architects for a project to design and build LIFT,
a pair of tiny homes for vulnerable populations sited in Barre.
Norwich’s entry, in the Small Projects category, was one of
37 entries from across the state.
Norwich’s Design + Build Collaborative partnered with
Downstreet Housing and Washington County Mental Health
Services to create safe, healthy, affordable and sustainable
homes for vulnerable Vermonters. Two new, custom-designed
energy-efficient small homes (approimately 0 suare feet)
now occupy a once-vacant downtown Barre City lot where
blighted, deteriorating housing once stood.
“The story is just really compelling, and to me, it’s just
sort of a manifestation of how I think architectural education
should work, where you have a group of students that are
looking at something that’s very mission-driven and then figuring
out how to apply architectural knowledge to help solve
a larger community and societal problem,” one AIAVT juror
said.
A different judge said: “Just thinking about what these students
accomplished, I really feel like this is worthy of pretty
high recognition.”
The first LIFT house was sited and occupied in January
2020. Grant support from the TD Charitable Foundation, the
charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient
Bank® and the Vermont Housing and Conservation
Board enabled both LIFT Houses. Former Barre Mayor Thom
Lauon and his wife, aren, donated the land.
Housing vouchers are paired with the dwellings to serve
people who have mental illness and/or are at high risk of
homelessness or are now homeless. A Washington County
Mental Health Services clinic stands less than a mile away.
Norwich architecture professors Tolya Stonorov and Danny
Sagan led a group of students in designing and building the
first home to meet Downstreet, ashington County Mental
Health Services and residents’ needs and provided the construction
documents to Downstreet for future buildings. Civil
engineering professor Mark Atwood and a group of construction
management, architecture and engineering students used
these documents to build the adjacent second home, which
was completed during the fall semester.
For this project, Downstreet provides project development
and property management, maintaining and ensuring that the
home environments meet the residents’ needs. Washington
County Mental Health Services works with colleagues and
partners to maimie wrap-around services and ensure residents
have a thriving living experience.
“I am proud of our students for receiving this honor and
grateful to the university and AIAVT for supporting and recogniing
work that addresses the underserved,” School of
Architecture + Art Associate Director and Professor Stonorov
said.
About Norwich University’s Design + Build Collaborative
(Collaborative)
As the only university in northern New England to offer
integrated professionally accredited programs in Architecture,
Business, Engineering, Construction, Cybersecurity and
Nursing, Norwich’s Design + Build Collaborative calls on
students to “act as well as conceive” and create solutions for
local, regional, and global challenges. For more than 20 years,
our students have been addressing Vermont community needs
through the construction of full-scale projects. Building on the
eight different affordable housing prototypes Norwich has developed
since 2011, the collaborative not only continues to design
and prototype regionally informed, resilient housing, but
also organies and coordinates related research and programs
between the schools comprising the College of Professional
Schools and partners with community organiations.
The collaborative was created through a $200,000 grant
from TD Charitable Foundation in February 2019. In fall
2020, TD Charitable Foundation contributed an additional
$20,000 to produce the second LIFT house.
“e want cities, towns, non-profits, and other potential applicants
to know that money is still available,” Vermont Emergency
Management Director Erica Bornemann said. “We encourage
towns to think creatively about what types of projects
could make a difference in their communities.”
Funds will be awarded to:
• Town of Berlin purchase of flood-prone structure
• Town of Brandon purchase of flood-prone structures
• Town of Rockingham – purchase of structure threatened by
landslides
• Town of andolph purchase of flood-prone structure
• Town of Johnson purchase of vacant parcel for floodplain
restoration
• Brattleboro Housing Authority floodplain restoration
• Two ivers-ttauuechee egional Commission floodplain
restoration project
• Friends of the Mad River – planning, scoping, outreach on
development of priority projects
• Town of Cabot – riparian tree plantings for culvert project
Municipalities and other potential applicants should reach
out to Vermont Emergency Management at 802-989-6793 or
stephanie.a.smith@vermont.gov. The application deadline for
round two of funding is January 31, 2022.
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ECFiber Secures $11.8 Million Of
New Funding to Accelerate Its Work
In Many of its 31 Member Towns
ECFiber announced it has placed $9 million of new municipal
revenue bonds at an average interest rate of 4.48% and
average maturity of 21 years. This brings ECFiber’s total
bond commitments to $63.3 million with about 70% of its
network constructed. Last week, the Vermont Community
Broadband Board (VCBB) approved the municipally-owned
broadband provider’s $2.8 million grant application for preconstruction
expenses. With over 6,700 customers in 23
towns, ECFiber continues to show the way forward as
Vermont’s first communications union district (CUD).
The $11.8 million in new funds will accelerate work in
original member towns, while speeding design work in newly
joined towns. Most of the $9 million from bonds will be spent
on construction in the towns of Norwich, Woodstock, and
Hartford’s villages of Wilder, White River Junction, and
Quechee during 2022. The $2.8 million grant will fund preparation
of detailed network designs for eight new towns which
joined ECFiber in 2020: Topsham, Newbury, Washington,
Corinth, Bradford, West Fairlee, Fairlee and Windsor, plus
some bordering areas where the utility poles carry services
starting from within district towns.
ECFiber is a Vermont municipality akin to a water district,
and consists of 31 member towns. Officially known as the
East Central Vermont Telecommunications District, it has no
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