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VOLUME 47, NO. 8
SB council candidates’ talk issues
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South Burlington residents on March 7 will vote to elect two new representatives to the city council. Five candidates are running to fill two seats — one vacated by state Sen. Thomas Chittenden and another by Matt Cota. Tyler Barnes, Lydia Diamond and Paul Engels are all vying for Cota’s two-year seat, while James Leas and Andrew Chalnick are battling for Chittenden’s three-year seat. The candidates responded to a list of questions sent to them by The Other Paper in the run up to the election. Those answers can be read below. Please list three immediate priorities you have and, if elected, how you would implement those. PHOTO BY AL FREY
Tyler Barnes: Affordability. South Burlington has always been known as an inviting, accessible community that celebrates socio-economic diversity. As councilor, I would support policies that keep us affordable and accessible for current residents and future generations of prospective residents alike. Housing is the variable that has the greatest influence on whether we remain affordable. If we want to make it easier for current and future residents to live here, we need to increase our housing stock. It is network’s orthopedics and rehabilitation important that we do so in a way that capicenter and its cardiology center. The hospi- talizes on the utilities infrastructure we’ve tal requested permission from the Green already built, that ensures that we preserve Mountain Care Board in July 2021 to begin the character of our city’s existing neighborplanning a surgery center and, in August hoods, and that doesn’t unintentionally create 2022, submitted a site plan application for socioeconomic division within our commua facility to the South Burlington Develop- nities. I feel that the best way to do this is to promote the development of new homes ment Review Board. Earlier this month, they submitted a throughout the city, rather than restricting certificate of need to the Green Mountain them to certain traffic corridors. Creating a business-friendly climate. Increasing the Care Board for the Tilley Drive facility. The new surgery center would include number of businesses in South Burlington eight operating rooms, 12 prep rooms, 36 will further help reduce the tax-burden of
The South Burlington Boys hockey team celebrates their claim on the CSB cup, a trophy awarded during an annual contest between the Wolves and their neighboring rivals the CVU Redhawks.
Surgical center seeks state approval
UVM Medical Center facility would be on the Tilley Drive Campus COREY MCDONALD STAFF WRITER
The University of Vermont Medical Center has asked the state for approval to build a new surgery facility at its current Tilley Drive complex in South Burlington. The new, $130 million facility would increase the hospital network’s surgical capacity, allowing them to shift surgeries from its Fanny Allen operating rooms and to “help meet the need for surgical services for an aging and growing population in the hospital’s service area,” the network said in a press release.
By 2030, the total population in the hospital’s service area — Vermont and northern New York — will grow by 4 to 8 percent, and the 65-year-old-plus population will grow by 30 to 60 percent, according to the release. “We already see that our patients face access challenges, and a growing and aging population only exacerbates those challenges,” said Stephen Leffler, the president and chief executive officer of the UVM Medical Center. “We will need more capacity to meet the health care needs of the people we serve.” Tilley Drive is already host to the
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