Research snapshot · Development · 31 August 2026

Property tax and fees keeps a steady drumbeat in Vermont

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 25 dated municipal records flagged as property tax and fees in Vermont, spanning 13 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in St. Albans Town, 12 July 2023. Since then 13 Vermont towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Essex Junction on 23 March 2026.

The last 90 days put 1 meeting on the record, level with the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Significant Activity Reports, City Manager&#39s Weekly Report and Colchester Newsletters.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202553
Dec 2025 to Feb 202633
Mar 2026 to May 202611
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)11

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Sep 2025 to Nov 2025, with 5 meetings.

The towns on the record13, earliest first

Every Vermont town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
St. Albans Townearliest 2023-07-12 · 2 meetings · latest 2023-11-06 · the minutes Agendas - Minutes — 11.6.23 Mtg
Hartfordearliest 2023-10-31 · 4 meetings · latest 2025-06-24 · a report Significant Activity Report - June 24, 2025
Colchesterearliest 2024-09-09 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-07-27 · the document For the Week of July 27, 2026
South Burlingtonearliest 2025-01-05 · 2 meetings · latest 2025-03-04 · the document 03032025 60
Montpelierearliest 2025-01-31 · 5 meetings · latest 2025-10-22 · the minutes October 22 2025
Derbyearliest 2025-03-06 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-03-06 · the minutes Minutes 2-18-25
Springfieldearliest 2025-07-07 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-07-07 · the minutes 7-7-25 Draft Minutes Special Selectboard meeting
Fair Havenearliest 2025-08-27 · 2 meetings · latest 2025-10-09 · the document 10-14-25
Bristolearliest 2025-11-07 · 2 meetings · latest 2025-11-10 · the agenda Agenda
Westminsterearliest 2025-12-03 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-12-03 · the document 2025_Education _Tax_Rate_Letter
Miltonearliest 2026-01-28 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-01-28 · the minutes Minutes — Economic Development Commission
Burlingtonearliest 2026-02-11 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-02-11 · the minutes Ward 1 NPA Meeting 2026-02-11 — Ward 1 NPA Minutes 2/11/2026
Essex Junctionearliest 2026-03-23 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-03-23 · the minutes March 23, 2026 Info Hearing DRAFT Minutes

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

27 July 2026 · Colchester Colchester Newsletters

the document, on the town's own site For the Week of July 27, 2026

23 March 2026 · Essex Junction Unknown

the minutes, on the town's own site March 23, 2026 Info Hearing DRAFT Minutes

11 February 2026 · Burlington Ward 1 NPA

the minutes, on the town's own site Ward 1 NPA Meeting 2026-02-11 — Ward 1 NPA Minutes 2/11/2026

28 January 2026 · Milton Economic Development Commission

the minutes, on the town's own site Minutes — Economic Development Commission

Companies on this record67 companies, 19 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
ORCA MEDIAMontpelier
Vision Government SolutionsColchester, Hartford
VLCTHartford, Springfield
ComcastMontpelier
Special Needs Support CenterHartford
Black Rock Investments LLCHartford
Capitol Community ChurchMontpelier
CCRPCBurlington
Center for Cartoon StudiesHartford
CentrisysHartford
Champlin AssociatesHartford
Child Care Task ForceMontpelier
contracted appraiserHartford
COTSEssex Junction
DuBois & KingMontpelier
EPICHartford
Fairley Buzzed LLCFair Haven
Fall Mountain Wines LLCFair Haven
GlobalFoundriesEssex Junction
Good Beginnings of the Upper ValleyHartford
Green Mountain Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)Hartford
Green Mountain Transit (GMT)Montpelier
GuidehouseMontpelier
Haskell Free Library & Opera HouseDerby
HCRSHartford
Health Care and Rehabilitation Services (HCRS)Hartford
Healthcare & Rehab ServicesHartford
InCahootsColchester
Junction Arts & Media (JAM)Hartford
King Arthur Baking CompanyHartford

And 37 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 87 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Property tax and fees across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Property tax and fees, Vermont

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Vermont

every topic this state carries

Area

Development

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

13

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

12 July 2023

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

1 against 1 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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