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Bennington Town Manager's 1970 Report to Selectmen and Citizens
Town Manager presents 1970 proceedings of Bennington town departments. Highlights include permanent zoning, unification of town and village, planning commission work on subdivisions and budgets, housing ordinance and codes, active housing authority pursuing elderly and low income housing, park development funded by federal and state grants, establishment of a Home Health Agency with a $10,000 state seed grant, surveys for sewage expansion and conversion to secondary treatment, hiring accounting consultants for uniform municipal accounting, plan for regular annual audits by end of 1971, ongoing unified community reorganization, emphasis on environmental planning with regional commissions, and thanks to town staff and residents for cooperation.