About VCUDA
VCUDA serves to unite the interests of Vermont’s growing municipal internet networks, devising ways to share resources and foster CUD collaboration on critical policy, finance, legal, legislative, and business issues.
Shared services
VCUDA helps organize CUDs to share their resources, scaling up the purchasing of goods and services to reduce overall costs across the state.
Collective Representation
The Association represents the interests and policy positions of the CUDs to the Vermont Community Broadband Board, the General Assembly, and various agencies and nonprofits around the state and country.
Governance
The VCUDA Board is made up of representatives from each CUD. Key issues are discussed and voted upon at bi-weekly meetings, open to the public. Meeting links can be found here.
Executive functions are carried out by a group of officers, elected to annual terms.
VCUDA is an unincorporated association acting as an instrumentality of its member municipalities, which are in turn organized in accordance with the provisions of 30 V.S.A. Chapter 82. Full Association bylaws can be found in our Public Records.
VCUDA Officers:
Chair: Ellie de Villiers, Maple Broadband
Vice Chair: Lisa Birmingham, Lamoille Fibernet
Treasurer: F.X. Flinn, ECFiber
Secretary: Christa Shute, NEKCV
Voting Representatives:
ECFiber: F.X. Flinn
DVFiber: Ann Manwaring
Lamoille FiberNet: Lisa Birmingham
Maple Broadband: Steve Huffaker
Northwest Fiberworx: Zachary Burdick
NEKCV: Christa Shute
Otter Creek CUD: Larry Courcelle
Southern VT CUD: Terrence Dorsey