A list of all State of Vermont component units. A governmental component unit is a legally separate organization for which the elected officials of the primary government are financially accountable. In addition, component units can be other organizations for which the nature and significance of their relationship with a primary government are such that exclusion would cause the reporting entity’s financial statements to be misleading due to close relations and financial integration with the primary government.

The Federal Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF) was established under section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA).The fund provides substantial funding to local governments. The U.S. Department of Treasury established two separate methods for local governments to request funding, depending on the type of local government.

Local governments that are NOT metropolitan cities or counties – called non-entitlement units of local government (NEUs) – requested funds through the State of Vermont. Allocations of funds to NEUs are based on the proportion of the population in the NEU as a share of the total population of all NEUs in the state.

County governments generally requested funds directly from the the U.S. Department of the Treasury through their submission portal. However, in Vermont's case, county governments are not considered unit of general local government and so amounts were instead requested from the State by the local governments within each county which included both non-entitlement units of local government (NEUs) and metropolitan cities. As noted in the Guidance on Counties that are Not Units of General Local Government, NEUs and metropolitan cities located in Non-UGLG counties that receive funds under Section 603(b)(3)(B)(ii) of the Act must have already accepted the award terms for payments made under Section 603(b)(2) (for NEUs) or section 603(b)(1) (for metropolitan cities). The State received a specific allocation of funds from the Treasury and calculated allocations based on population.

For both sources of funding, local governments received payments in two tranches, with 50% provided beginning in May/June 2021 and the balance delivered approximately 12 months later.

As a recipient of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State Fiscal Recovery Funds (SFR) the State of Vermont is required to submit quarterly Project and Expenditure Reports to the United States Treasury. Quarterly reports cover three calendar months and include various data elements including project, subaward and expenditure information. Treasury’s Portal for compliance reporting is organized by modules, each of which is a project component: project entry, subrecipient entry, subaward entry, and expenditure entry.

The ARPA - State Fiscal Recovery Quarterly Project Overview dataset provides a high level overview of each project being funded and matches what was submitted to the U.S. Treasury using the Project module. Data is collected quarterly from at least 26 different entities.

According to the U. S. Treasury, a project is defined as "a grouping of closely related activities that together are intended to achieve a specific goal or are directed toward a common purpose." Within this broad definition, recipients have flexibility to define their projects in a way that provides the greatest clarity on the work which will be performed. In Vermont's case, many of the projects listed can be considered true projects that take place in a particular location but there are also a few that may be considered more programmatic in nature.

For each project, recipients are asked to select an appropriate Expenditure Category based on the scope of the project (as described in Appendix 1 of the Reporting Guidance). The 83 Expenditure Categories provide a flexible method to categorize projects. Each Expenditure Category could include many different programs and activities.

This data is not intended to be legal advice nor is it designed or intended to be relied upon as authoritative financial, investment, or professional advice. No entity affiliated with, employed by, or constituting part of the state of Vermont warrants, endorses, assures the accuracy of, or accepts liability for the content of any information on this site.

The employee engagement survey is distributed to all classified and exempt employees in the Executive Branch annually. Survey participation is voluntary, and the scores only reflect those who participated in the process. An “Employee Engagement Score” is calculated as an index of overall employee engagement. The index is the average of seven components of employee engagement, each based on a subset of questions in the employee engagement survey: Growth – personal growth and development, Balance – work-life, Supervisor – support, recognition and feedback, Communication – value employee voices, ideas, opinions, Peers – positive relationships in the workplace, Alignment – understanding the link between one’s job and the organization’s mission, Satisfaction – work and employer.
The score is the average of the seven components of engagement listed above. For 2022 the average employee engagement score was 3.84 out of a possible 5.0. Scores increased 3.6% from 2014 to 2017. There was a slight drop from 2017 to 2021. The 2022 survey shows overall engagement score going up slightly to be just shy of the highest score (2017; 3.85) we've seen since the survey began.
Please see the online resource for more detailed information on the employee engagement survey and how the engagement score was calculated.
https://humanresources.vermont.gov/document/employee-engagement-survey-results-2022

This layer contains a Vermont-only subset of county level 2020 Decennial Census redistricting data as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau for all states plus DC and Puerto Rico. The attributes come from the 2020 Public Law 94-171 (P.L. 94-171) tables.