Funding & Incentives

Helping Create "Green" Redevelopment

The Brownfields Initiative promotes the productive reuse of sites that are currently abandoned or not fully utilized due to contamination on the site. By providing financial assistance for cleaning up these sites, Vermont continues its commitment to environmental stewardship, community investment, and economic growth. 

Vermont Employment Growth Incentive Program 

2018 VEGI Annual Report (pdf)
2018 VEGI Annual Report Tables (xlsx)
2017 VEGI Annual Report (pdf)

Meeting agendas are posted at least seven business days prior to the meeting. Meeting minutes are posted within five business days after the meeting and are subject to Board approval at the subsequent meeting. For minutes from past years, see below.

Schedule is subject to change. Call (802)828-3230 to verify date, time, and location.

2019 Meeting Schedule (pdf)

View the interactive map below for a summary of  2018 Downtown and Village Center Tax Credit and Sales Tax Reallocation projects. 

Click blue dots to view tax credit project summaries.
Click yellow stars to view sales tax reallocation summaries.

To see a summary of 2015 through 2017 projects, select the list layer icon   in the right hand corner of the map and select the checkbox next to the past project awarded option. 

The following Vermont communities participate in the CLG program. Contact information for the Coordinators in these communities is listed below.

Accessibility Modification Resources

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Checklist Forms for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal
• New England ADA Center
• Arc & Arrow Consulting LLC
  Lisa Ryan, 101 Simplicity Acres, Middlesex, VT 05602
  (phone:  802-522-0553 email: access@arcandarrowllc.com)

For many years, annual funding has been provided to support municipal planning projects. This support, in the form of grants, has helped draft and update town plans and bylaws. A complete list of projects funded through the MPG Program between 1998 and 2018 is available here.