At the January 28 Senate Finance Committee meeting, Sen. Martine Laroque Gulick (D-Chittenden Central) pushed back against the idea that Vermont’s property taxes are too high.
“I would love to do a deeper dive when we say the Vermonters can’t afford their property taxes. I’d like to learn more about that,” Gulick, a Burlington resident and career educator, told her fellow committee members. “I have very high property taxes. I don’t like to pay property taxes, but I can afford them. And I know that many owners are income-sensitized. So, I would like to dig into that premise a little bit more because we throw it around a lot.”
Gulick, a member of the Senate Finance Committee and vice-chair of the Health & Welfare Committee, is also on the School District Redistricting Task Force State Aid for School Construction Working Group.
According to her bio on the legislative website, Gulick is a high school teacher who taught French and English and served as Library Director in Vermont and overseas. She has been a member of the Burlington School Board since 2018.
As a member of the School District Redistricting Task Force, she was part of the effort to move away from Act 73’s mandated redistricting and towards sharing services among existing districts.
