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March Town Meeting
South Burlington seeks $15 million in TIF financing COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
With a deadline looming, South Burlington will ask voters on town meeting day to approve more than $15 million in tax increment financing district debt which officials say will allow them to build out several public infrastructure projects by 2026. The tax increment financing, or TIF, district is an area
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encompassing City Center, an area rezoned in the 1980s to spur private investment that has since become a hub for new residential and commercial development in the city, including the new city hall, library and senior center. First created by the city and state in 2012, the TIF district allows the municipality to keep most of the property tax revenue See TIF FINANCING on page 14
Gone to the Lions
South Burlington residents form club to service local needs LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
With more than 48,000 clubs around the world, the Lions Club — the largest service organization in the world — is making its way to Shelburne and South Burlington thanks to the efforts of a few neighboring residents. Specializing in hunger relief, helping the environment, diabetes awareness, pediatric cancer, vision — including screening tens of thousands of Vermont school children for vision impairments
— and other local needs, the Lions Club already held a prominent place in the Green Mountains, but hadn’t put down roots in the Shelburne area just yet. Mark Hanna moved to Shelburne last summer after nearly 29 years in Whitingham where he was an active member of the Deerfield Valley Lions Club, participating as president for a couple of those years. “I was really disappointed that there’s no Lions Club (in ShelSee LIONS CLUB on page 15
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Lee Armani represents South Burlington in a non-binary category and wins the 55-meter sprint during the state track-and-field championships at University of Vermont Feb. 4