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The Burlington Public Works Commission represents the citizens of Burlington in determining and demanding appropriate departmental performance.

For more information contact Chapin Spencer at (802) 863-9094.

Normal meeting date is the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

4th race in the Labor Day weekend Green Mountain Stage Race. Recorded and produced by community producer, James Gero.

Panel participants will include Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, Senator Patrick Leahy, U.S. Housing Secretary Julian Castro, and other representatives of the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development, the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, the Vermont Housing Finance Agency, the Vermont State Housing Authority, Housing Vermont, the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition, and the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness.  Moderated by Brenda Torpy of the Champlain Housing Trust.

Hosts Ron Wanamaker and Liisa Reimann talk with Curator Glenn Eames about historic bicycles at the Sheldon Museum.

More information on Preservation Burlington. 

Liisa Reimann Rivera - Originally from England, Liisa has lived in Burlington since 2006. She earned her Master's in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont and is a principal with Blue Brick Preservation. Liisa lives in a 1954 ranch house, whose historic wooden windows she thinks are of a genius design seldom seen since, in Burlington's New North End. Liisa's passions include historic industrial buildings, firehouses and little-known builder-architects of the vernacular landscape.

Ron Wanamaker - Ron has been a member of the Board since 2007 and has served as Vice President and President. A passionate preservationist, he continues to serve on the Education Committee for Preservation Burlington and is also a member of Burlington’s Design Advisory Board. A contractor since 1988, he has lived and worked in Burlington since 1998 and managed Wanamaker Restoration as well as Champlain Valley Millworks.