Senate Committee on Government Operations

 

AGENDA

 

Room 4

January 22, 2019 - January 25, 2019

Last Updated 1/25/2019 2:50 PM

 

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

9:00 AM                   Senate Protocols and Floor Decorum

 

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

1:00 PM                   Committee  Discussion

Discuss Senators' Disclosure Forms

Taylor Dobbs, Reporter, Seven Days Newspaper

 

2:00 PM                   Vermont National Guard

Annual Sexual Assault Report

Room 10

Maj Gen Steven Cray, Adjutant General, Vermont National Guard

Captain Scott Detweiler, Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, Vermont National Guard

 

3:00 PM                   15 Minute Break

 

3:15 PM                   Government Accountability Report

Committee Training

BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Susan Zeller, Chief Performance Officer, Agency of Administration

Dru Roessle, Director of Performance Improvement, Agency of Human Services

 

4:30 PM                   Chairs' Meeting

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

15 Minutes After the Floor                   Town Clerks

Title 17 and VMCTA Priorities

Bobbi Brimblecombe, Town Clerk

Will Senning, Director, Elections and Campaign Finance, Secretary of State's Office

Curry Galloway, Treasurer/Clerk, St. Albans City, VMCTA Legislative Committee

 

2:30 PM                   Department of Public Safety

Discuss Priorities

Thomas D. Anderson, Commissioner, Department of Public Safety

Colonel Matthew Birmingham, Colonel, Department of Public Safety

 

3:15                   20 Minute Break

 

3:40 PM                   Vermont Police Academy

Discuss Alternative Training Structure; Level 2 to Level 3; Fair and Impartial Policing

Rick Gauthier, Director, VT Criminal Justice Training Council

 

Thursday, January 24, 2019

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

2:00 PM                   Governor's 2019 FY Budget Address

Joint Assembly-House Chamber

 

 

3:30 PM                   Office of the State Treasury -- Priorities

Pension and Retirement for state workers.

 

 

Beth Pearce, State Treasurer, Office of the State Treasurer

Ashlynn Doyon, Executive Assistant and Policy Analyst, Office of the State Treasurer

 

Friday, January 25, 2019

11:30 AM                   Senate Implicit Bias Training

Ethan Allen Room

 

1:00 PM                   GPI

Genuine Progress Indicator

Jon Erickson, Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, Gund GPI Project

Crea Lintilhac, Secretary/Treasurer, Lintilhac Foundation

 

2:00 PM                   Committee Discussion

Discuss Governor's budget address

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 7 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions and comments, please contact

 Gail Carrigan at 828-2272 or gcarrigan@leg.state.vt.us