Selectboard

The Selectboard is at the center of Vermont's local government.  The board has general supervision and control over the affairs of the town.  The Selectboard performs three functions: legislative (enacts local ordinances, regulations and policies), administrative (prepares and presents the budget, oversees all town expenditures, personnel and controls town buildings and property) and quasi-judicial (determines rights in such areas as laying out, discontinuing and reclassifying highways, hearing appeals as the local board of health, local liquor control commission and tax abatements/appeals).

The Selectboard meets on the 2nd. and 4th. Tuesday of each month at 4:30 pm unless otherwise posted.   Meetings are now by hybrid format; in person with safety protocols. Zoom link will be posted on each meeting agenda.  Zoom meeting videos can be found on the top section of the Meeting Minutes Page.  Meetings are held in the Town Clerk's Office. 

If you would like to ask the Selectboard to consider a request that may require some action of the board, please contact Nancy Robinson, Board Clerk at 802-672-3334 x1 and ask to have that topic placed on the agenda.  Agenda's must be posted at least 48 hours prior to a meeting, deadline to get an item onto the Selectboard agenda is Thursday afternoon prior to the Tuesday meeting.  To assure public knowledge and the possibility of public input, the Board's practice is to take votes or action only on items that have been specific agenda items.

Board Members:

• Owen Astbury, Chair  (elected 2024-2027)
  716 North Bridgewater Road, Bridgewater, VT 05034
  802-369-0116   
• Steve Tarleton  (elected 2023-2026)
  594 Blanchard Road, Bridgewater, VT 05034
  802-281-2760   
• Norman (Nope) Martin  (elected 2025-2028)
  638 Baker Hill Road, Bridgewater Crns, VT 05035
  802-672-3562

 

Please see "Rules of Procedure for the Town of Bridgewater" Section F for Public Participation under the Forms, Ordinances and Policy tab.