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Home program; an address confidentiality program to protect victims of rape, abuse and stalking from being tracked down through the state's public records. She consolidated the state
Archives with the state records department, and oversaw the construction of a new State Archive and Record Center facility. Markowitz was perhaps best known for her efforts to advance civic engagement of Vermonters. She developed civic educational materials and programs for Vermont's school children, and she published a monthly Newsletter and a dozen handbooks for Vermont's local officials, answering their questions about municipal law and practice. Markowitz also established the Vermont Public Service Award program to recognize local officials who served for 20 years or more.
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quality to forest health and recycling rates. When Deb arrived, the organization was shell-shocked from years of budget cutting and rotating secretaries. Within a year, it had entered a sustained period of innovative environmental policy improvement. Over the next six years, Deb and her commissioners and staff secured protection for shorelines; universal recycling requirements; a Lake
Champlain cleanup plan, and greater attention to forest fragmentation."
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