Issue Position: Burlington Downtown Development

Issue Position

At the end of the 2016 session, Mayor Miro Weinberger thanked the Burlington House delegation and the Chittenden Senate Delegation for giving greater flexibility to the city's borrowing power for the public infrastructure (e.g. new streets, utilities, etc.) of any new proposal for downtown mall redevelopment. It is important to note that even with these new financing options; the voters, not the legislature, must ultimately approve the final project design and any borrowing. Is in his words of thanks to legislators, the Mayor singled out Michael, "Thank you Senator Michael Sirotkin for leading this important legislative effort".

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