Tag Archives: Cambridge

CET Recommendations – Assigned Questions

Posted on November 30, 2017 by George Putnam

This is the second post in a series of four posts about the report of the Community Engagement Team (CET) to the selectboard on November 20. A list of the posts in this series is at the bottom of this post. … Continue reading →

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Community Engagement Team Report

Posted on November 30, 2017 by George Putnam

The Community Engagement Team (CET) in my town of Cambridge, Vermont, presented its report to the selectboard at the board’s regular meeting on November 20. Click here to read the CET’s report. In this post, I review the CET’s mission … Continue reading →

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What is a quorum?

Posted on November 27, 2017 by George Putnam

What is a quorum? That is a basic question for government boards, commissions and committees. There should be a simple answer to this question, but a recent experience proved otherwise. A few days ago we had a meeting of the … Continue reading →

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Local Governance in the News

Posted on October 2, 2017 by George Putnam

The Community Engagement Team (CET) in my town of Cambridge was featured on the front page of the local newspaper the News & Citizen on 9/28/17: Cambridge looks to boost turnout for town meeting CET Chair Tyler Machia was quoted … Continue reading →

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Questions about domain names

Posted on August 23, 2017 by George Putnam

In my earlier post titled Town website addresses, I wrote about three top-level Internet domains: .com, .org, and .gov. That corresponds to the three sectors of public life that I think about: for-profit, not-for-profit, and government. There is another paradigm … Continue reading →

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Town website addresses

Posted on August 6, 2017 by George Putnam

As discussed here and here, I sometimes think about public life in terms of three sectors: Government For-profit Not-for-profit These three sectors align nicely with Internet top-level domains: Government = .gov For-profit = .com Not-for-profit = .org I live in … Continue reading →

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Quilt square by Anne Standish

Posted on June 3, 2017 by George Putnam

Anne Standish of Cambridge has contributed a beautiful quilt square on behalf of the town to the Vermont League of Cities and Towns for their Local Government Quilt Project: VLCT launched its Local Government Quilt Project in 2005 to celebrate … Continue reading →

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Classifying Public Life: Discussion and Examples

Posted on May 18, 2017 by George Putnam

In the previous post I discussed how I sometimes think about public life in terms of three sectors: Government For-profit Not-for-profit And sometimes in terms of two sectors: Government Society (= for-profit + not-for-profit) In this post I further discuss … Continue reading →

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Jeffersonville Commuter Bus

Posted on May 16, 2017 by George Putnam

The Jeffersonville Commuter bus will continue to operate through June 30, 2018 without any reduction in service. Click here for the bus schedule – see Route 36. Green Mountain Transit (GMT) is the regional transit authority that operates the bus. … Continue reading →

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The Villages Project

Posted on May 13, 2017 by George Putnam

The Villages Project is an initiative to provide services to the elderly in their homes in order to allow them to age in place, without moving to an elder care facility. The concept originated with a group of citizens in … Continue reading →

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