Miro Weinberger has served the City of Burlington as Mayor since March 2012, and during his three terms in office has focused on enhancing quality of life for residents, stewarding the City’s financial health, addressing the City’s housing shortage, and implementing 21st Century policing strategies. Highlights of his Administration include: Taking steps to restore the City’s financial health, which have resulted in four credit rating increases and savings of more than $15 million for Burlington taxpayers and ratepayers; Implementing a generational reinvestment in Burlington’s roads, sidewalks, water resources, waterfront, and other infrastructure; Leading a regional effort of collaboration and innovation to combat the opioid epidemic; Championing the fight against climate change, including by working with the Burlington Electric Department to become the first City in the country to generate 100 percent of its energy from renewable sources and developing a plan to become a Net Zero Energy City by 2030; and more.

Mayor Weinberger was born in Brattleboro and raised in Hartland, Vermont, where he graduated from Woodstock Union High School. He attended college at Yale University and earned a master’s degree in Public Policy & Urban Planning from the Harvard Kennedy School. After starting his career working for Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in Washington, DC, Miro returned home to Vermont in 2002 and co-founded the Hartland Group, a real estate development and consulting company that has won smart growth and green building awards. Miro and his wife, Stacy Sherwat Weinberger, are the proud parents of two daughters, Li Lin Bess Weinberger and Ada Champlain Weinberger.