Meet DVFiber representatives and get your questions answered!

Celebrate with us!
September 14
11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Halifax Community Hall
20 Brook Road, West Halifax

DVFiber’s high-speed Internet service has arrived in Halifax. Installations are in progress and will continue into 2025.

DVFiber installations are free IF there is an established path for the fiber-optic cable to run between the nearest utility pole and your home. But some homes don’t have the necessary path. If this path must be underground, the cost to create or restore one can be more than some households can afford.

The Halifax Connectivity Program can help you to get ready for the installation and lower your cost for any preparations that may be needed.

Click here for a flyer to learn more.

See the flyers below, and then we’ll see you there!

Halifax Celebration 2024 Flyer

Cock-a-Doodle-Poo Flyer

Special Town Meeting Warning and Sample Ballot 2024-08-13

I anticipate a few questions, so here’s an attempt to answer them:

• There is no “meeting” per se with any floor votes because everything must be voted on by an “Australian ballot” which means a paper ballot. See the sample in the link above.
• The meeting (or actually the voting) location is the Halifax Elementary School LIBRARY this time.
• We will have an Informational Meeting with in person and remote options. Date and location is being finalized.
• This is being held at the same time as the State Primary election.
• Contact the Town Clerk about the voting process–getting registered, getting an absentee ballot, or the like.

Write-in campaigns for the open seats are a great way to get involved in our town’s service to our fellow citizens, and there’s at least one underway. Reach out with questions to the Town Clerk or Selectboard members.

NOTICE OF VACANCY

June 27, 2024

In accordance with 24 V.S.A. § 961(a), the Selectboard of the Town of Halifax hereby gives notice of a vacancy created by resignation in the office of Selectboard effective June 27, 2024. The Selectboard, pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 963, made an appointment to fill this vacancy at its meeting on June 27, 2024. The person appointed will serve until a town election is had.*

CITIZENS’ RIGHT TO PETITION FOR VOTE: Titles 17 V.S.A. § 2643 and 24 V.S.A. § 963 grant citizens the right to petition for a vote to replace the Selectboard’s appointee at a special town meeting. If a special town meeting is called, the newly elected town officer will remain in office for the balance of the unexpired term. If a special town meeting is not called, the Selectboard’s appointee will remain in office until the next annual town meeting. To exercise this right, citizens must present a petition calling for an election for this office signed by five percent of the legal voters of the Town to the Town Clerk prior to the next annual Town Meeting.

*The Selectboard also voted to include an election to fill this vacancy during a Special Town Meeting on August 13, 2024. Paperwork to get your name on the ballot is due by July 8, 2024. Forms will be available through the Town Clerk and are posted below. Curious about serving the town on the Selectboard? Ask any member!

Please note that our 3 AUDITOR positions which remained unfilled after the March election are also on the ballot. These terms will be staggered. Consider lending a hand to your community, even if for the 1 year remaining on a term to try it out.

Nominations Due Notice 2024-07-08 for August Special Town Meeting

Selectboard Candidate Petition and Consent forms due 2024-07-08

Auditor openings candidate petition and consent forms due 2024-07-08 (6 pages; 2 pages each position)

Download the job description here, and apply by emailing your resume to halifaxsecretary@gmail.com. Come be part of our local government team!

Halifax Aging Listening Flyer