At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, eighty Bridgewater residents gathered for a final vote on whether or not to keep the lister service intact, or to replace them with a professional assessor.
In the end, the town voted to abolish the role of lister and will be hiring a qualified assessor in the coming weeks.
The motion went to a paper ballot, where it passed with 68 votes in favor of abolishing the lister service, 11 against, and one illegible vote.
Selectboard chair Owen Astbury told the Standard, “We have 45 days to replace our lister position with a qualified assessor. I am confident we will be able to fill the position within the allotted time frame and move forward from this issue once and for all.”
For more on this, please see our May 15 edition of the Vermont Standard.
