Burlington Pleads for State Help on Crisis | Montpelier News

Montpelier News Today | 2 Min New | The Daily News Now! · Aug 26, 2026 · 2m

Burlington’s city council has formally asked the governor for urgent state-level help to tackle a worsening crisis of homelessness and drug use downtown, laying out ten specific requests—from emergency shelters to mental health beds and coordinated law enforcement—to address what they call a decades-long problem made worse by cuts to critical services. Mayor Mulvaney-Stanak warns these issues can’t be solved locally alone, but the governor responded with skepticism, noting his administration’s prior support and urging Burlington to examine its own policies—echoing past tensions over state…