Housing Strategy Information:
The Select Board has formed the Plainfield Housing Advisory Committee from interested community members who came forward to apply. The Plainfield Housing Advisory Committee webpage is here: www.plainfieldvt.gov/housing-advisory-committee
Prior meetings of The Housing Strategy group:
The November 20th Meeting Minutes can be found here.
January 2026 update: Plainfield Housing Advisory Committee has formed: more information here: https://www.plainfieldvt.gov/housing-advisory-committee.html
Resilience Hub Information:
If you are interested in being a part of this effort, please fill out the Plainfield Resilience Hub Community Collaborator survey. To learn more contact project managers Olivia Turner and Rae Carter at PlainfieldResilienceHub@gmail.com.
Update for the Create a Resilience Hub (3/2026):
PURPOSE STATEMENT: The Plainfield Resilience Hub is working to strengthen both emergency and long term resilience in Plainfield through town-wide collaboration to increase resource availability and accessibility for those most impacted by increasing climate and political threats.
WHERE WE ARE: We are currently developing an operational foundation to build relationships and coalition among town buildings, spaces, activities, and efforts. In Plainfield, a Resilience Hub is not one singular location, rather an emerging cross-collaboration among town and community partners to reduce duplication, improve operational functionality, generate funding viability, strengthen communication, and build possibility to meet increasing community needs, beyond what any one space or effort can do alone.
CURRENT PRIORITIES & OUTCOMES:
Establish operational foundation and functionality
Community Resilience Organizations (CROS) serves as current fiscal sponsor.
Plainfield Area Community Trust (PACT) is building capacity to become a fiscal sponsor for future community projects.
Grant writing is underway to secure funding for Resilience Hub operations, projects, and efforts.
Accepted in VT Community Foundation Community Safety Net Cohort.
Plainfield residents Rae Carter and Olivia Turner serve as current co-project managers and are building a network of town and community partners.
Prepare a Plainfield Resilience Hub Community Needs & Resources Assessment
Currently conducting a town resource assessment through meetings and conversations to correlate with needs identified in Plainfield Forward process (2025) and grassroots community engagement work facilitated by EmpowR Transformation following the flood (2024-2025).
This assessment will be available to the town and will identify gaps which will inform project areas for the Resilience Hub to focus on.
Improve communication systems and access to information
Once we establish our town and community partner network, complete the Community Needs & Resources Assessment, and have secured operational and project management funding, we will have the information and resources needed to focus attention on coordinated communication efforts.
Food Access & Community Building
Merge Plainfield Farmers Market and Community Meal into a consistent, sustainable, and robust connected offering starting in Spring ‘26; add skillshares and programming, improve viability, increase participation.
Build upon this collaboration to expand food access to the community with infrastructure, storage, and distribution coordination among town partners.
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