Town of Arlington · Bennington County, Vermont
The town's business, kept in the open.
Every board, every agenda posted in advance, every minute and meeting recording — searchable in one place. Pay a bill, pull a permit, or ask a question and get a plain answer from the Town's own records.
Try: “when are property taxes due” · “select board minutes” · “zoning permit”
The Open-Meeting Board
What's posted right now
Arlington is run by volunteer boards that meet in public. Under Vermont's Open Meeting Law — and Act 51 (2025) — agendas go up in advance and minutes are posted with the meeting recording. Here's the latest, straight from the record.
Latest agendas posted in advance
Latest minutes & recordings
The front desk
What do you need to do today?
Find a service by what you need — not by which office handles it.
Pay taxes & water
Property tax and water bills, paid online.
Go → ZONApply for a zoning permit
Start a zoning or sign permit application.
Go → RECRequest a public record
Vermont Public Records Act request to the Town Clerk.
Go → GOVFind my board or official
Every board, commission, and elected official.
Go → MTGRead meeting agendas & minutes
Every board's agendas, minutes, and recordings.
Go → CLKGet a marriage or vital record
Marriage licenses, birth and death records.
Go →Ask Arlington
A plain answer, from the Town's own records
Type a question the way you'd ask a neighbor. Ask Arlington answers from official Town pages, documents, and meeting records — and shows you exactly where the answer came from.
Your government
8 boards. One honest record.
Arlington — chartered in 1761 and the first capital of the Vermont Republic in 1777 — is governed by its Select Board and a set of elected and appointed boards and commissions. Every one has a public page with its members, meeting schedule, and full record.
- Select Board, Planning Commission, Zoning Board of Adjustment
- Energy Committee, Water & Wastewater, Listers, Trustees
- Contact information for every official and department
Arlington Town Hall · 3828 VT Route 7A
The Battenkill, through the center of town
The printed record, reborn
The Town Report — every year, online
Vermont towns keep their story in the annual Town Report. Arlington's archive runs from 2012 to 2025 — budgets, board reports, vital records — alongside ordinances, the Town Plan, and the Grand List, all searchable.