Tracking Vermont ARRA stimulus funding isn’t easy. The Vermont Recovery Czar refused to put up ARRA road signs and the Vermont State and National Recovery websites are not easy to navigate. The Vermont State webpage, far from transparent, is a jumble of PDFs and old and new press releases. Judge for yourself here: Recovery Vermont.

The National Recovery webpage is a little better, but anyone wondering how their county or the entire state has faired can find it at ProPublica website. The website has an easy to use by state Stimulus Tracker chart, which has been recently updated.   The Vermont per capita winner was Washington County home of the state capital, Montpelier. This is slightly deceiving as it is noted that

“There still may be overrepresentation of money going to counties where state capitals are because of funding going to state agencies but where the data did not designate that it was to be used statewide.”

So given that, Washington County weighs in at a heavy $5,143 per capita with total county funding at $302,543,048.  

Caledonia County home of the conservative up–by-your- bootstraps Caledonian Record newspaper received the second  largest per capita share of Federal gov’mint tax money.Caledonia took home a substantial $1,236.00 per capita, with a total county funding amount of $37,675,844. Taking into account possible overrepresentation in Washington County’s numbers Caledonia might well be first. Grand Isle, Vermont’s smallest county, comes in last with just $97.00 per capita for their 7,729 residents. Vermont’s overall statewide funding per capita was $270.00 above the nationwide average of $237.00 per capita.    

Also listed are Statewide and non-County specific project grants; state budget hole pluggers.  Most of these amounts are all in or above the six figure range save for a noticeably small grant (or typo) to the Agency of Human Services listed for $2.00. [!]  

VT State  Agency of Human Services  $2.00 Grant Medical Assistance Program (Medicaid) Medicicaid Entitlement  for Vermont – FY 2009 Quarter Department of   Health and Human Services 6/26/2009