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The Vermont Democratic Party website kindly led me to this article grading Vermont in terms of management.It’s a short concise thing to read.
Here are two quote I chopped from it .It is probably things most people know but good to see it all spelled out …The grade ? B-
Vermont maintains its buildings, roads and bridges as well as any state, but even the infrastructure management is tainted by an inability to plan. Most years, agency budget requests are simply rolled into a capital-plan master list. This year, the manager who usually compiles the list was temporarily reassigned to a different department and no master list was compiled at all. The dearth of talent at the top means that planning in one area requires a game of musical chairs in another.
The rub is that Vermont’s poor planning puts kinks in the things it does well –