As a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee of the U.S. Senate I'd like to invite you to join me for a "Listening Session" on the economic and infrastructural needs in Lamoille, Washington, and Orange Counties.

This "Listening Session" will be an opportunity for you and other community leaders to inform me and my staff as to how we can best go forward together to create good paying jobs and address the transportation and infrastructure needs of the community.

There will be a one hour panel consisting of municipal officials, regional planners, legislators, state agency officials, business leaders, labor leaders, senior citizens and representatives of the low income community. The meeting will then be open to the public for questions and comments.

This meeting will be the beginning of an ongoing dialog with my office about the economic development needs in your region.

The meeting is scheduled for:

Wednesday, November 28th from 7PM to 9PM
Pavilion Auditorium
Montpelier, VT 109 State Street

If you have questions about this meeting, please contact Jeff Munger of my staff at 1-800-339-9834. Jeff, as many of you know worked for Senator Jim Jeffords on these types of issues for many years and will be coordinating this meeting.

I hope to see you on November 28^th in Montpelier.