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Current Vacancies
Vacant Seats
Do you have some time, a skill, or technical knowledge you would like to share to work toward solving complex issues and recommending policies that help to shape the kind of community in which you live? Interested residents are needed to serve vacancies for boards, committees, and commissions.
(Updated 3/17/26)
- Conservation and Trails - 3 seats with terms starting 7/1
- Economic Development Commission - 1 current vacancy with a term ending 6/30/2027; 2 seats with terms starting 7/1
- Energy Committee - 1 current vacancy with a term ending 6/30/2026; 2 seats with terms starting 7/1
- Essex Free Library Board of Trustees - 3 seats with terms starting 7/1
- Housing Commission - 1 seat with a term starting 7/1
- Planning Commission - 3 seats with terms starting 7/1
- Police Community Advisory Board - 1 seat with a term starting 7/1
- Essex Representative - Winooski Valley Park District Board of Trustees
- Essex Representative - Chittenden Solid Waste District Board of Commissioners
- Essex Representative (Alternate) - Chittenden Solid Waste District Board of Commissioners
- Essex Representative - Chittenden County Communications Union District
- Essex Representative (Alternate) - Chittenden County Communications Union District
- Essex Representative - Green Mountain Transit Commissioner
- Essex Representative (Alternate) - Green Mountain Transit Commissioner
- Essex Representative (Alternate) - Town Meeting TV Board of Trustees
- Essex Tree Warden
APPLICATION
Use our quick and easy online application below or Download and print an application (PDF)
Volunteer Application - Town of Essex
Stipend Program
The Town of Essex is a racially and socially equitable, welcoming and engaged community where all can thrive because community members and leaders hold each other accountable to ensure a safe, supportive, and just environment.
The Town of Essex recognizes that participation should be accessible to everyone and is one of the first communities in Vermont committed to providing stipends for volunteers appointed or elected to a board, commission or committee that meets with a routine schedule. Volunteers appointed to boards, committees or commissions may receive a $50 per meeting stipend to assist with indirect expenses such as childcare assistance, food, or transportation.
You must be officially appointed or elected by the Town of Essex to be eligible. Please contact your staff representative or committee chair for more information on how to enroll. You may also send inquiries to Kate Larose, Administrative Assistant at klarose@essex.org or 878-1341.
Reappointments
In the interest of furthering efforts for public engagement and inclusivity, and to encourage community members with diverse backgrounds, experience, opinions, and ideas, the Selectboard advertises seats that have expiring terms. All applicants for upcoming expiring seats will be interviewed by the Selectboard.
Advertising seats, rather than automatically reappointing, provides a higher level of transparency and accountability, with the hope to invite more members of the community to participate in local government.
Volunteers who have expiring terms are encouraged to reapply for another term. Volunteers who offer their time to serve on advisory boards and committees are invaluable to supporting activities and decisions for the entire town.