Waterbury

Top issues

The five most-discussed unresolved issues, ranked by recorded discussion time (a measure of importance and contention), then by how many meetings they came up in.

Issues on upcoming agendas

Issues linked from the meetings scheduled in the next 10 days.

Recent updates

Issues with new information found in the last 7 days, newest first.

Upcoming meetings

Recent meetings

One page per meeting, summarizing every record we have of it (agenda, minutes, video and transcript).

Issues with near term decisions

Long running topics

No actions pending

Completed

Sources

Where the data comes from

• Town website: https://www.waterburyvt.com/ (Town of Waterbury; municipal offices at 28 North Main St, open Monday to Friday 8:30 to 4:30)
• Meeting calendar: https://www.waterburyvt.com/calendars/municipal. Each meeting has its own page at /meeting/<name> holding the agenda, minutes (marked Draft until approved) and packet files. The town has no separate agenda portal.
• Board pages with rosters and regular schedules: https://www.waterburyvt.com/boards/selectboard, /boards/commission (Planning Commission), /boards/drb, /boards/utility (Edward Farrar Utility District), /boards/bca, and others
• Meeting video: the ORCA Media YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@orcamedia/videos. Titles follow "Waterbury Municipal Meeting - Month D, YYYY - Board". ORCA covers the Select Board, Development Review Board, Edward Farrar Utility District and Planning Commission hearings.
• ORCA Media series page: https://www.orcamedia.net/series/waterbury-municipal-meeting (the town links its recordings here)
• Newsletter: Municipal Dispatch, https://www.waterburyvt.com/community/municipal-dispatch
• Collected 2026-11-02 (added at Dewey's request).

Governing body

• Select Board (5 members; regular meetings 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 6:30 PM, Steele Community Room and Zoom): Martha Staskus (Chair), Don Schneider (Vice-Chair), Sandy Sabin (Secretary), Roger Clapp and Evan Karl Hoffman
• Municipal Manager Graci Zeiger; Treasurer Bill Shepeluk; Zoning Administrator Cheryl Casey
• Planning Commission (2nd and 4th Monday, 6 PM), Chair Dana Allen; Development Review Board (1st and 3rd Wednesday as needed, 6:30 PM), Chair David Frothingham III; Board of Civil Authority, Chair Liz Schlegel Stevens
• Edward Farrar Utility District (2nd Wednesday, 4:30 PM), a separate municipality that continues the water and sewer function of the former Village of Waterbury; Chair Skip Flanders
• Other boards: Cemetery Commission (1st Wednesday, 4 PM), Conservation Commission (2nd Tuesday, 6 PM), Housing Task Force (3rd Thursday, 6 PM), Natural Disaster Preparedness Committee (3rd Monday, 5 PM), Recreation Committee (4th Tuesday, 6:30 PM), Town Meeting Study Committee (4th Wednesday, 7 PM), Library Commissioners (2nd Monday, 5 PM, agendas on the library's own site), Tree Board and Listers

Data quality notes

• The Village of Waterbury dissolved into the Town in 2018, so there are no Village Trustees. The school board is the Harwood Unified Union School District, a separate body that has not been covered here.
• The ORCA Media website blocks automated access, so video is taken from its YouTube channel. The Select Board meetings of 2026-10-06 (Zoom recordings only, passcode protected) and 2026-10-22, and the Planning Commission meetings of 2026-10-13 and 2026-10-26, were not on the channel as of 2026-11-02. Boards other than those four do not appear to be recorded or uploaded.
• The Edward Farrar Utility District minutes of 2026-10-14 and 2026-10-21 are scanned images with no text layer and have not been read.
• The agendas or minutes of the Conservation Commission (2026-10-13), Housing Task Force (2026-10-15), Recreation Committee (2026-10-27), Cemetery Commission (2026-10-07) and Town Meeting Study Committee (2026-10-28) have not been read. The Select Board agenda of 2026-10-06 was not read separately (the minutes cover it). No agenda or minutes were posted for the Natural Disaster Preparedness Committee on 2026-10-19, so it has no page.
• The Select Board minutes of 2026-10-22 are a draft. The titles of staff members Wes Pollock (who takes Select Board minutes) and Bill Woodruff were not stated on the pages read, so they have no People pages.
• The town calendar has some typos: early-morning times for the Development Review Board of 2026-10-07 and the Planning Commission of 2026-10-13; the Planning Commission agenda calls 2026-10-13 a Monday; the Housing Task Force page address says 10-22 for the 2026-10-15 meeting; the Select Board page address for 2026-11-17 says 11-19.
• Meeting pages begin with 2026-09-01. September meetings have a video only. Earlier uploads exist back to April 2026 and have not been built.
• No agendas are posted for any meeting after 2026-11-04.