102nd
ANNUAL REPORT
Fiscal Year
July
1, 1993
to June
30, 1994
CITY OF
City
.Department Telephone _
Numbers
Main number and number for the following:
Assessor
Building/Zoning Inspector
City Attorney
City Grand Juror
City Treasurer
Data Processing
Emergency
Management
Health Officer
Mayor
Community
Development
Tax Collector
For
Information On
Accidents
Building
Permits
&
Inspections
City
Council
Certificates (Death, Births, etc.)
Dog Complai'nts
Elections,
Voting, Etc.
Fire Prevention
Fuel Assistance
Health
Services
Laws
and Ordinances
Licenses
and Registrations
Park
Facilities
Property
Assessments
&
Exemptions
Purchasing
Recreation
Classes
,
etc.
Rescue Service
Sewer Repairs
Stolen
Property
Streets
&
Sidewalks
Taxes
Traffic Tickets
Trash
Burning
Water
Bills
Water Meter Repairs
Zoning
773-1800
City Clerk
Fire Department
EMERGENCY
Police
Department
EMERGENCY
Public Works
Recreation
Ask
for
Police
-Building
Inspector
City
Clerk
·
City
Clerk
Police
City Clerk
Fire Department
Emergency
Management
Health Officer
City Attorney
City
Clerk
City Clerk
Recreation
Assessor
City
Clerk
Recreation
Fire
Department
Public Works
Police
Public Works
City Treasurer
City Treasurer
'
Fire Department
Public
Works
Public Works
Zoning Administrator
EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS
FIRE
&
RESCUE:
773~1811
POLICE:
911
REGIONAL AMBULANCE:
773-1700
or
911
773-1801
773-1812
911
773-1816
911
773
-1813
773-1822
This Annual Report of
the City of Rutland
is Dedicated to
John W. Cioffredi
S
u
p
e
ri
n
t
e
nd
e
nt
o
f
R
u
tl
a
n
d
Re
cr
e
a
tion
&
P
a
rks Dep
a
rtment
1
96
0
-
1
99
4
Under the leadership of John Cioffredi
,
the downtown Halloween window
paint-ing of 1960 has evolved into an annual
Halloween parade which receives national
recognition
.
Playground activities of the 60s have
been replaced by mini
-
parks, nature trails
,
increased tennis courts, lighted basketball
courts and softball fields
,
concerts in
Center St
.
Alley and Main Street Park
.
An Olympic size pool at White Memorial Park has replaced the outdated above
-ground pool on North Main Street
.
Programs available after school
,
on Saturda
y
s and in the evenings offer a wide
range of crafts and activities for youth as well as adults.
Thank you
,
John
,
for enhancing Rutland's quality of life through thirty
-
four years
of dedicated service.
102nd
ANNUAL REPORT
Fiscal Year
July
1, 1993
to June
30,
1994
CITY OF
Table of Contents
City
Department
Telephone
Numbers
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Inside Front Cover
Health
Officer
30
Milk Inspector
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Dedication
to John
Cioffredi .
11Mayor's Message
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1
Board President's Report
3
Board
of Aldermen . .
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4
Cit
y
Assessor
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Police Department
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32
Public
Works
Department
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34
Recreation
&
Parks Department
39
Officials
,
Boards
&
Commission
s
6
Dates
to
Remember
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9
Deceased
&
Retired Employe
es. .
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44
Report
of
Rutland City School Department
Mayors of the City of
Rutland
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10
Voter
Information
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11
School Commissioners
&
Comm
i
ttees
45
Superintendent's
Rep
or
t
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47
City Treasurer
Fiscal
Year 1995
Budget
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12
Reports
of
Officials
and
City Departments
City Treasurer.
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13
Building
Inspector
/
Zoning Administrator.
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14
Zoning Board
of Adjustment
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15
Office
of
Community Development.
16
City
Attorney .
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18
Grand
Juror
/
Assistant
City Attorney
19
City Clerk .
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20
Emergency
Management
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22
Fire Department
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23
Purchasing Agent
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28
Marble Valley
Regional
Transit
District.
49
Rutland Free Librar
y
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50
Rutland Area
Visiting
Nurses
Assoc.
52
Rutland Redevelopment Authority
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53
Regional Ambulance Service
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54
Cemetery Commissioner
's
Report
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55
Counc
i
l
on Aging
,
RSVP
,
One to
One
&
lnterage
Programs.
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56
Rutland Historical Societ
y .
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58
Emplo
y
ees
of the
City
of
Rutland
earning over
$300
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59
Teachers
and
School Department
Employees
Earnings
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Delinquent Tax List
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66
Planning Commission.
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29
Many
of the photos in
t
his
R
eport were
taken by
C
pl.
Linda
E
lrick of the
P
olice
D
epartment
.
Fr
o
nt
cove
r
complimen
t
s of
Pr
ice
C
hoppe
r.
Table of Contents
City Departments Telephone
Numbers ...
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... Inside Front Cover
Dedication to Peter N
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Louras ... ii
Mayor's Message .
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Board President's Report ..
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... 3
Board of Aldermen
...
4
Officials, Boards
&
Commissions ..
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. 6
Dates to Remember
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10
Mayors of the City of Rutland
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... 11
Voter Information
... 12
City Treasurer
Fiscal Year 2001
Budget ..
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13
Reports of Officials and
City Departments
City Treasurer
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... 14
Building Inspector
I
Zoning Administrator ..
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15
Z
oning Board of Adjustment
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16
Legal Department ..
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City Clerk ... 20
Fire Department ..
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22
Fire Alarm Boxes .
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Planning Commission
...
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... 26
Rutland Regional Planning
Commission ...
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City Assessor ...
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29
Police Department ...
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Public Works Department ... 38
Recreation and Parks
Department
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Health Officer ...
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... 56
Report of Rutland City School
Department
School Superintendent's
Report
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... 57
Commissioners & Committees
.
.. 68
Rutland Public Schools Budget .. 69
Rutland Free Library ... 71
Rutland Redevelopment
Authority ...
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Rutland Partnership ...
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Rutland Economic Development
Corp ...
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77
Rutland County Solid
Waste District ...
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Rutland Region Transportation
Council ...
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Cemetery Commissioner's
Report ...
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... 81
Rutland Historical Society ...
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. 84
Rutland Regional Ambulance .
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86
Agencies Approved for Partial
Funding by Voters ...
. 87
Employees of the City of Rutland
earning over $300 ...
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88
Teachers and School Department
Employees Earnings ...
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. 92
Delinquent Tax List ... 99
Delinquent Taxes Collected
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3
Serial Bonds
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... Inside Back Cover
Cover
Photo-The Paramount Theater
Re-printed
with Permission of Rutland
Herald
Mayor's Message
Jeff Wennberg, Mayor
To the Honorable Board of Aldermen
and
the Citizens
of Rutland
Fiscal
1994
represented
a
turning point
in
the
history
of
the City
of
Rutland. It
was
thi
s
year
that bricks and mortar proof
of
our
ambitious
redevelopment program
finally
arrived.
Throughout the year
,
construction
progressed
at the new Price Chopper Super Store and State
Office Building downtown
,
the new High
School
on Woodstock
Avenue and th
e
new
Water Filtration Plant next to the
city
reservoir.
The
long-delayed Zamias Shopping Mall in
Rutland Town began construction
in
May
,
and
the long-awaited
reconstruction
of
Woodstock
Avenue began in June.
June also marked the
opening
of the State
Office Building on Merchants Row
.
Formerly the
Woolworth and Hulett
(
Benn-Burry
)
buildings
,
these historic
structures
have undergone a mir
-aculous transformation.
For
decades
,
nearly all
of
the
140
,
000 square feet
of
space in these
buildings has remained vacant. But thank
s
to the
efforts of
the Governor
,
our
legislative
delega-tion and developers Robert Miller and John
A.
Russell
,
Jr.
,
it
is today the
"
home
"
for
hundreds
of state
employees
and the Social Security
Ad-ministration. By the
end of
the
year,
it is hoped
that the first floor retail
space
will be leased
and
open for
business.
With the Zamias Mall nearing its
ground
breaking
,
the
concern
for the future
of
down-town
'
s
retail district took on new urgency.
Rutland remained true to its plan
,
the
"
On The
Right Track
"
report
,
presented
in October
o
f
1989. The key to downtown's renewed
pros-perity lies not in competition with the mall
,
but
in
a planned redirection
of
downtown
'
s focus
.
But all the attention
given
the State Office
Building and the Central
Vermont
Corporate
Headquarters has led
some
to believe that
retail
is being abandoned. This
was
proven
wrong
when
Vermont's largest supermarket-the
58
,
000
squa
re foot
,
$7 million Price
Chopper-opened
its doors for the first time on Ma
y
25th.
Skeptics had claimed that the Rutland
market
do anything for the rest of downtown. The
skep-tics have been proven
wrong.
The
store
draws
a
stead
y
25,000 shoppers
a week
and has broken
most prior
records
for
the Price Chopper Super
Center
openings.
The
downtown
Plaza location
has proven to be ideal, and has
imp
roved
the
store
'
s
competitive advantage
over outlying
competition.
And
sharp
downtown retailers
soon
began capitalizing
on
this new traffic.
At the close of the year
,
progress
on
the
nine-screen
,
1300-seat movie complex had assured a
construction
start this
year.
Once
open
,
this
"
multiplex
"
cinema
will
breathe new life into
downtown
'
s
nightlife
,
which will
in turn be a
boon
for central
business district
nightclubs
and
restaurants.
With
the opening
of
the State Office Building
the
concern for short-
and long-term
parking
became acute.
The
wisdom of
the proposed
Multi Modal
Tra
nsit
Center
grew
more and
more
obvious
throu
ghout
the year
,
as the
Mar-ble
Valley
Regional Transit District moved
ahead
with
their plans.
In early May
,
and with surprisingly
little
fan-fare, site
work began on the long-delayed Zamias
Mall
just south of the City
in
Rutland Town.
This project had been supported by the City
ever
since we reached an agreement
with
the
developers for
compensation
to the taxpayers
reverse
the
decline of the
Rutland
region as the
retail
center of southern Vermont.
Construction moved furiously ahead on the
new
High School
as contractors
,
suppliers and
school officials sought to meet
the September
first opening date. Everyone
involved
in this
project deserves
high
praise for keeping
the
project on time and on budget. In spite of costly
permitting delays and
a tight
schedule
,
it was put
together with a standard of quality rare for such
buildings
,
and was designed and built to serve
many generations of
Rutlanders.
While the new
high
school
is
a source of pride
for
Rutlanders
,
the schedule
,
personnel and
cur-riculum changes which have accompanied it
prom-ise
to
move the quality of
instruction
dramati-cally forward as well. Ultimately
,
a
building
is
just a building. Whether
,
what
,
and how well
our children
learn
depends upon what happens
within
that
building
,
not the building itself.
Rutland
'
s educational
leadership
has wisely u
s
ed
this new high school as a catalyst for instructional
reform that will surely place ours among the most
effective schools in the state
,
if not the
nation.
The improvements
to
Woodstock A venue were
tied to
the
opening of the school
through
the
Act
250
permit. The
State
Agency o
f
Trans-portation
"
pulled out the stops
"
to
insure that
this overdue upgrade of a main artery would be
completed on time. For a relatively small
invest
-ment of about $84
,
000
,
the
City
is receiving $1.4
million in Woodstock Avenue improvements.
Had
we not made an issue of it
,
however
,
all
of
these
costs would
have
been bourn by Rutland
'
s
property taxpayers
(
$2.30
per household
!),
while
towns get 100% of their state highway
maintenance paid by the state. Because we refused
to pay this
unfair
cost
,
we forced the
s
tate to
accept their
responsibility.
The winter of
1993
-
1994
was the worst in a
decade. The unrelenting sub-zero temp
e
ratures
wreaked havoc with water lines and streets
,
and
pressed the
Department
of
Public
Works
to
the
limit.
First
,
the
good news. Despite one of the
snowiest winters in many years
,
the streets w
e
re
kept clear. Crews and equipment were pushed
to the limit
,
but when spring thankfully arrived
the
streets snow removal effort proved
to
be
up
to the challenge.
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