Politics & Government

The Essex Junction Trustees is the governing, legislative body for the Municipality of the Village of Essex Junction. The five member board is elected at large within the Village. The board includes the position of Village President. The position of president and vice president are decided (appointed) through a vote of the board itself.  This was a function of a charter update at the 2010 annual meeting. The three year terms of the Trustees are staggered to provide continuity. The Trustees usually meet twice per month on Tuesday evenings in the meeting room at the Village municipal office building at Five Corners The public is invited to attend all meetings, and may address the board or ask questions during a special “public to be heard” section at the beginning of each meeting. Agenda items for this meeting include: 

Host Mayor Miro Weinberger speaks with City Council President Joan Shannon and John Ewing, Chair of Partnership for Burlington's Future, on the Burlington Ballot Items. More information at: http://www.facebook.com/PartnershipForBurlingtonsFuture

Part of Burlington College's Institute for Civic Engagement speaker series.  Saul Landau is journalist, filmmaker, and Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona. Author of 14 books and director of over 50 films, Landau is a senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Landau co-authored A Bush and Botox World with Gore Vidal. He received an Emmy and the George F. Polk Award for investigative journalism for his film produced with filmmaker Haskell Wexler, Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang; the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges) about the murder of Orlando Letelier and their colleague Ronnie Karpen-Moffitt. Recipient of the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights, Sal Landau is known for incisive, hard hitting documentaries which challenge dominant narratives and history book history. His latest film Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up, "chronicles half a century of hostile US-Cuba relations" by highlighting "decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed then ignored by the very government that launched a war against terrorism."

The South Burlington City Council is made up of 5 citizens who live in the City of South Burlington, elected at-large by the voters of the City. These five councilors sit with 2-3 year terms expiring in an annual rotation. The City Council meets regularly on the 1st & 3rd Mondays of each month to conduct business of the City and carry out the provisions of the City Charter. Special or emergency meetings can be called in the event that an urgent need arises for City Council authorization. City Council meetings are normally held at City Hall in the conference room and begin at 6pm. Check the City's website for updated information.  www.sburl.com