Let's start to think outside of our usual frameworks and expand our potential. We will get things done.  

Planning & Ideas

Infrastructure: Economic Development

• Working on economic concerns, rising costs and spending considerations 

  • New zoning, village models of development and new construction

  • Improve existing buildings

  • Tear down the buildings that are destroyed, not up to code and ease permitting restrictions and the bureaucratic load

  • Rebuild homes destroyed by climate change with resilience relevant for the potential for repeated exposure or damage for the existing locale

• Reinterpret and review state and local scope of defensive, risk management planning to include infrastructural redesign and local landscape evaluation

• Understanding of economic viability of regions in Vermont, general capacities and stable income requirements for the marketplaces of these regions in relation to higher quality of life and standards of living

• Balanced salaries of essential work force

• Maintain functional systems

• Housing for all

• Permanent elimination of poverty - Aspirational but very relevant. A simple message that focuses on a variety of issues

• Streamlined jobs that fit needs of our communities and local economies

  • Retraining workforce and providing opportunities for apprenticeships, job training and economic growth

• Invest in future manufacturing, trade, retail and growing social and civil service jobs

• Increase quality of production, services and goods and expand marketplace to cover more locales

• Prioritize and Invest in People over Automated Hiring Tools - Adjust hiring practices and the interview process across all sectors of work so that non-traditional candidates aren't screened out of the hiring process. Being willing to teach and grow the buisness by training in-house. Develop a strong workplace culture and the dignity to gain mastery over time.  

Financial: 

• Fiscal Responsibility

• Pragmatic decision-making

• Focus on a balanced budget

• ""Quality over Quantity" approach to fiscal discipline and overall priorities

Potential Ideas for The Future: 

• Pairing comparable markets to public funding with different fiscal growth trajectories to balance budgets

  • • •  (Example: Smaller fiscal growth trajectories 7 years and larger growth trajectories - 49 years) 

Economics: Local, National & International Relations - Business

• Trade competence

• Development of a unified system with trading partners around specific goods. Seeking stronger pricing negotiations. 

• Secure supply chains

• Develop and encourage apprenticeship options for schooling & work opportunities 

• Talking with labor and businesses about providing college education or inhouse education to new hires rather than relying on students to take on loans and debts at universities to provide and address needs and gaps in services

• Bigger adjustments to tax rates for excessive wealth accumulation; wealth generated over $200,000,000 and closing tax loopholes

• Tax adjustments

• Streamline company requirements; general permitting requirements, application processes and bureaucratic overload. Simplify working conditions while maintaining the highest level of safety, competence and standards 

• Make it in Vermont - evaluating potential for innovation, continuing investments in invention hubs and strategic investments in business development

  • What else can we produce in Vermont?

  • Build an strong base for new markets

• 3D printing products, supplies and other essential goods. 

  • Large and small scale industrial and commercial products (examples can include housing supplies, retail & medical products, etc...)

  • Looking into the potential to use non-petroleum-based products in the service of creating safer products for sale and reuse. 

• Strengthening agreements, trade and commerce with more local, national and international partnerships.

Potential Ideas for The Future: 

• 3D printing/recycling in transfer stations

• Developing highly durable, safe, long lasting products. Creating a reputation for having the highest standards of craftsmanship and impeccable design. Reducing waste by having products that last 200-500 years or more. 

Infrastructure: Energy

• Invest in research and development - expanding grant programs & development of strong scientific achievement-oriented projects and research

• Invest in clean energy - continue to incentivize safe, responsible businessness geared a scales appropriate to our local economies

Potential Ideas for The Future: 

• • • Flat rebate for climate improvements and energy efficiency programs, products, and infrastructure

• Invest in fusion technology - SMR's: Small Modular Reactors (strategic application and safe implementation. Approved by local vote)

• Investment and Innovation - partner with Vermont based universities, businesses, local public providers, private individuals and entrepreneurs to spur innovation

• Create highspeed railways or hyperloops with basic hubs in the West, North, South, East, and specific corridors that connects Vermont's trading hubs

  • • • Create highspeed corridors along highways and underground for safety

• Electrify or diversity energy sources (hydrogen, wind, solar and new energy options) 

  • • • Use and develop new material science products in areas such a new battery storage capabilities

      • Combine battery storage & consumption use within our existing infrastructure. Build capacity before adding more electricity demands on the grid

      • Developing Solid State batteries technology in Vermont

Education:

• Cut to cost of childcare & education

• Maintaining strong, simple consistent education institutions where a "new system" isn't being implemented every few years that burdens educators and upends the quality of education being provided to students 

• Balance and prioritize children and the needs of school districts and staff while balancing overall budgets and the impact on local communities

• Online education resources that are open source, easily available and accessible and research and evidence based. 

  • A fact based, object unified education online resource to teach and educate based on age range and developmental abilities using existing products and institutional knowledge. 

  • Working beyond pay wall restricted gate keeping systems to develop a clear and concise library for educating students from pre-school though master's level trade work or master's level college degree programs.

• Apprenticeship options for schooling & work opportunities 

• Lower cost higher education for social service jobs 

Medical:

• Cut to cost of medical care while balancing the financial needs of the institutions providing the care

• Balance and prioritize high-quality health care outcomes 

• Online resources with fact based, medical education for public use to help teach and educate the public

• Apprenticeship options for schooling & work opportunities. 

  • Connecting with healthcare facilities to address needs and gaps in services

  • Lower cost higher education for social service jobs 

• Seeking practical solutions 

• Evaluation of pricing structures of products in the medical field. 

  • How many of these can we produce in Vermont or source from lower cost supplies near us including Canada or other states?

  • Looking at costs and pricing margins in relation to insurance, medical products and infrastructure in the medical field

Justice & Community Service: 

Create Vermont state-run Humanitarian Special Operations Corps that includes economic, social services, engineering, architectural, psychological, financial and ecological divisions within existing agencies in partnership alongside private businesses and other entities. Deployable when needed to create quick, lasting problem-solving during times of high need. 

• Public education within public institutions: 

  • Public driven opportunities to address social issues: Crime reduction, Mental Wellness, Stress Reduction, Fiscal Management, Medical Needs, etc...

  • Using existing online applications - streamline them into a small, more manageable place to access needed services

• Create a simple ethics driven civil service curriculum designed for schools and local communities - (non-denominational, non-ideological and non-religious)

• Promote policies for development and innovation regarding justice & eliminating recidivism. 

  • Possible options could include a justice system driven by incentivizing repairing the harm done. 

    • Offering offenders the chance to work to pay off the infraction caused by the harm done. Offer more freedoms and greater inclusion back into the community as the privileges are earned. 

    • Providing different types of work valued at different pay ranges that pay off the infraction while incentivizing reintegration. 

    • Pair the repair with some forms of support groups and education within the justice system 

Nature, Ecology & Policy:

• Heed Scientific consensus and conventional wisdom. Create policies that are in alignment with data and research

• Continue balancing and prioritizing policy for Land-use, Farming, Development, Wild spaces, Wilderness Corridors and Recreational Land use

• Continue partnerships with universities, public and the private sector to conserve and protect fragile ecosystems 

• Build out more Food Forrest & Edible Landscapes for increased biodiversity

• Removing poisons from our waterways, land & air 

  • Focusing on product use policy and prioritizing Vermont made

• Prepare Vermont for Ecological changes as a result of weather, pests, ecological and environmental changes

Potential Ideas for The Future: 

• Instituting a cycle of land rest. 

  • Ever 7th year, public lands can rest where they don't need to be mowed, cultivated or landscaped for one year to help regenerate the land. Educate Vermonters about the potential benefits if and when landowners want to opt into this type of ecological land use idea.

• Invest in Smart Energy Grid systems. Begin and continue implementing additional non-toxic building products & designs 

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