You are live. Good morning. This is the Friday, the 5th, the February meeting of the House Appropriations Committee. This morning is part of general government. We have Ms. Susanna Davis and Susanna, would you, so that I don't make a mistake. What is the correct name of your office, please? Yeah, one of the yes, I'm Susanna Davis, Executive Director of Racial Equity for the State. There we go. Thank you. My chair and certainly myself want to extend to you thanks for your extremely difficult work and the great work that you are doing in preparation for this presentation this morning regarding your budget. But before we do, we have a new tradition. We try to go around the table and get it right. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. So typically Mary would say, Peter, you take first, so I will. Good morning, Ms. Davis, Peter Fagan, Rotland City. And then I come. Good morning, Susanna. I'm made of Townsend, South Burlington. And then there's Tristan Tolino of Brattleboro under normal circumstances. Okay, and that's Tristan and Marty Feltas from Lyndon. Good morning. Good morning, Dave. I'm Dave Yacoboni. I represent Elmore, Morristown, Woodbury and Worcester. Good morning, Susanna. Jim Harrison from Chittenden, Killington, Menden and Bridgewater. Hi, Susanna. I'm Robin Shai from Middlebury, welcome. I represent Bob Helm from Fairhaven, Castleton, Westhaven and Hoverton. And Kimberly Jessup, Middlesex and Eastmont Failure. Good morning. And then to my right would normally be, she is not here, our chair representative Hooper from Montpelier. So good morning and welcome. I haven't looked, I have not done my pre job yet and actually looked to find the documents. I presume that Theresa has got them on our website so that we can easily find them. And so that others can easily find them. So please begin. All right, thank you. So I'm gonna speak very briefly actually and very informally because this is a very simple line item. The governor's proposed budget includes an item for $250,000 to expand the work of the racial equity office. Of course, when we talk about the racial equity office we're just talking about me. So this would be a proposal to add money to the office so that we could hire staff and therefore be able to make ourselves unstoppable on equity work as a state. Of course I say that in jest but truth be told it's been a tremendous honor and a tremendous privilege for Vermont to have trusted me with this role in the last year and a half and it's been challenging but enjoyable work but perhaps more than anything it's necessary work and that's not something that I say alone out of a desire for job security. I say that because it's been said so many times and demonstrated so many times around the state. It was clear that there was a huge appetite for equity work even before I got here but after I got here six months later the pandemic hit and then a few months after that we watched another American murdered on camera by the government again and that ignited something nationally and across Vermont that created an absolute ground swell isn't even a strong enough word of desire and interest and motivation to pursue equity in corners that we had not even anticipated. So that really created an influx of interest and desire to move the needle tangibly on equity and I was very privileged to be involved in a lot of those efforts. They involved everything from small communities forming local coalitions to not-for-profit organizations seeking to do their work more equitably to for-profit corporations realizing hey we've got a racism problem and we need some training to state agencies saying how can we do more how can we double down on the good work we've been doing to federal partners and everything in between. So it's been excellent and some of the highlights of the work that we have done that I'm very proud of and I know this committee knows one in particular intimately that's the Economic Stimulus Equity Fund which was the fund that we created to provide a stimulus payment for people who had been excluded from CARES Act payments due to their or someone else's immigration status. I was very proud that the state enacted that fund and we're currently in the implementation phase. I think in the first week or two we had more than 1300 applicants and payments are already starting to go out. So that's been really critical. Another thing that I had been very proud of was that on the executive side we started using EIAs that's Equity Impact Assessment. This is effectively a very detailed questionnaire that's now required to accompany every budget and policy proposal that comes of the executive agencies. This equity impact assessment tool makes sure that the proposal has considered things like whether we've discussed or planned the proposal with the community. And if so, were those community members from diverse backgrounds? It asks the proposal in question is gonna have a disparate impact on any religious group, ethnic group, gender or sexual minority, et cetera. It asks questions like is it gonna have a regional impact? If it does, does that region have a disproportionately high number of people of color or people in marginalized groups, et cetera? So the EIA process is a little bit new to the state. I think this is the first full calendar year, the first full fiscal year that we're actually using it. But so far, it's been handled with great success. I'm very proud of all of the agencies who have been doing them very thoroughly and very softly. And this is something that helps everybody because it helps to ensure that our proposals are well thought out, that we mitigate unintended consequences and that we maximize the benefits and equitably distribute benefits and burdens of all of our policy and budget acts. So that's another thing that we're very proud of. Some of the other things include something that I've been working on that's kind of dear to my heart. It's not off the ground yet. But I think for this year, one of the focuses that I would like to have is to have more municipal and local involvement on equity. And the reason for that is that I find so often that people from a town in Vermont will contact me and say, hey, we're looking to do a thing on equity and can you help us? And I'll say, sure, but are you aware that this town, this town and this other town have also been doing that? And they'll say, no, we didn't know that. And being able to connect towns who think they're going it alone is so valuable. And so one project that due to limited staffing, we hadn't been able to move just yet, but that I'm really excited to do is to create kind of a pilot program that would allow for that kind of deep engagement, and now it's just between us and individual towns, but between towns and cities. So I've realized that I'm rambling a little bit. I'm gonna get back to the point here and let you know what are some of the things that additional staff could help us do. I'm only gonna mention three main things, but I can assure you it's gonna be monumentally impactful. One of the big things is laws of physics. Before the pandemic, if there was a one o'clock in Burlington and a three o'clock in Bennington, I couldn't be at ghost. I had to choose. These days, we do virtual meetings, and so I find myself bouncing around from one to the other, which has been tremendously useful, but still it is very often the case that I'm trying to do the math on how many minutes can I spend in this meeting before I have to jump to the next one that overlaps and then also go to this one that I'm required to attend by law. I regularly interact with 17 committees. I formally sit on nine of them and I serve as liaison between two of them. And so additional staff, of course, is gonna help this office have a presence in all those places, not just those that we're required to be in by law, but also those that would really benefit from having an equity lens there. Another way that this would be useful is we'll have dedicated staff who can perform data analysis. Right now, of course, I rely on a lot of assistance from sister agencies and they've been very generous with their staff and with their time in helping with things like deep dives into data. But of course, we, and this is not just the executive also through the legislature, we've expanded the instances in which we wanna collect race data and as we should, but that also means that we need more eyes and more hands handling those data. So having additional staff who can really be dedicated and focus on the equity aspects of our data is gonna be really important. And then of course, another aspect of it is outreach and training. So as you all know, the enabling statute that created my position requires that I develop and conduct trainings for all state agencies. And that's perhaps my favorite part of the job because I like to talk. So, you know, I get paid to do that. But I think one assumption that folks make is that, you know, you go, you do the rounds and you do one training per agency and then that's it. And trained, nobody's racist. We're all done here. And truth be told, we just have scores and scores of data that show that human learning happens best when it's in smaller chunks, when it's repeated, when it's practiced and when it's consistent. And when it comes to equity, I could be here a lifetime and there would never be enough time to say everything there is to say, right? You can't cram 400 years plus of policy and social events into a couple of two-hour sessions, right? So not only do we do trainings for state agencies that are very sector-specific and tailored to their needs, but I've also done trainings for town councils and I think right after this meeting, I'm going and doing something for the RDCs and for committees and pretty much anyone who asked me, right? So having additional staff who can help with that education and outreach means that we'll be able again to have more opportunities to train and retrain to offer advanced level and intermediate level training and to really be able to do not only more sessions, but to have multiple people doing these sessions. I have a particular presentation style. It works for me, but at the end of the day, I need people to hear it. And sometimes you hear it from me and sometimes you might hear it better from somebody else. So having not just diversity in the content of what you're teaching, but also diversity in who the trainers are can sometimes be a critical difference. So for those and so many more reasons, that's what we're looking at when it comes to additional staff at the office. Thank you for listening to all of that. Well, thank you. You've really put a lot on the table. We've got a couple of questions. This is Representative Harrison's budget. So even though his hand up went first, but his hand was up first, I'm gonna call on Representative Shy first and we'll go to Representative Harrison afterwards. So Representative Shy. Thank you. I didn't know I got to cut in line there. Sorry, Jim. Thanks, Suzanna. I know you are doing Yeoman's work here. It's pretty amazing what one person has been able to accomplish. And I think it's great that there's a recommendation to expand the work. I'm intrigued by one of the things you said around supporting the more municipal and local involvement. And I know my town in Middlebury has been working to address this. I don't know if they've been in touch with you or not, but at any rate they are trying to do some work around racism in Middlebury. And I'm just wondering if there's an opportunity to collaborate or work with the Vermont League of Cities and Towns as a way to get to all 251 of them, whether that's happening or not. Yes, the short answer is yes, absolutely. We've actually already had several conversations with the LCT about this. The LCT has already created an equity committee and has demonstrated that they're also really committed to doing this work. And so it really is a matter of just finding a natural way to make a partnership and to amplify the work that we're already doing. Yeah, great, great. Thanks. Representative Harrison. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess I was waiting here thinking that you'll ask me over again. So I saw Representative Feltas just as you, just as I was calling on you. So I thought on that. I'm sure you did. Susanna, thank you for joining us today. We did a kind of an overview of the agency of administration budget earlier. And I think there is widespread support. I have two questions. One directly related to the budget and the process here. And the other more of a general question and choice of words and what does it mean? On the budget question, I think there was a bill introduced this week that would add two new positions to your department. And then we have separately the budget request to add two new positions. Any comment as to whether the legislation's necessary to have a freestanding bill or whether we just put two new positions in the budget?  Unfortunately, I don't because I haven't looked closely enough at the new legislation yet to identify the differences or the overlap. So if I may, I would like to study that more and then get back to the committee with a good answer. Yeah. It may even be a short form bill. So there may not be a lot of details to, or whether it's just people wanted the statement of support out there. I don't know. And I'm not going to try to speculate, I guess. But one of the things you said at the beginning and I'm curious as to why you frame it this way or try to better understand. And I think you said something similar in our anti-bias training a few weeks ago in that horrific event in Minnesota. You said the government murdered George Floyd. And it was an awful, awful situation. But we're all part of the government here. And I know we're not Minnesota, but if an incident happens, did we do that? I mean, I'm trying to better understand the choice of words here. Yeah. So again, I know that's more of a policy issue. I'm just trying to better understand for myself and for others perhaps. Absolutely. Thank you for the question. So yes, I almost always refer to it as a person being murdered on camera by the government because I think that we only think of things in those terms when we're looking at other countries. I think Americans are very willing to accept the thought of government overreach, corruption and brutality when we're looking at other nations. But we tend to euphemize things when they happen here. We use exculpatory language. Like we say officer involved shooting, or we say the weapon was discharged and the suspect was struck. And this is a way that we not only cloud the actual event, but we also absolve ourselves of responsibility in that way. And one of the biggest things that I try to impart to people is that equity work is everyone's work. And I don't just mean everyone in state government. And I don't just mean everyone in local government and federal government. I mean every single body, because at the end of the day government is only a collection of people, right? So every individual really does have a hand in it. And so in the same way when we have government actors who commit overreach or corruption or brutality or other no-no's, it really is very much a collective responsibility to do something about it. And so I do frame it in that way. I recognize that it is very charged, but when we look at the number of civilian death in the United States and we see the disparity and we think about all of the children and mothers and loved ones who will never see those people again, I don't know any other way to frame it. And I don't know any other way to get people attention than to call it what it is in those gruesome terms because it's a gruesome thing. And so that's why I say it that way. And I appreciate the question and I hope that I hope I've answered it. Well, thank you. I guess I would choose different words, but I appreciate your perspective. Thank you. Representative Feltas, you're still muted. Find it sooner or later. Technology is wonderful, especially when it works. Okay, all right, there we go, sorry. Yes, thank you very much, Ms. Davis, for being here. I was intrigued by your comment regarding the equity impact assessment that each agency needed to complete as part of their budget preparation, it sounds as if that's the case. Could we get a copy of that form that they fill out? I would be very curious about that, not the filled out form, but just the form that they are asked to fill out. I would be curious about the questions that are on there and how they are being probed to examine their own activities to learn about themselves and to also screen their budget requirements. I think that would be a very interesting document to see if we could have a copy of that. You sure can, Representative, absolutely. We actually did a webinar when we first rolled them out that was open to all SOV staff so that folks could get a walkthrough of each section of the form, ask their questions, express any concerns, et cetera. And that webinar was recorded and it's available for SOV staff to revisit at any time. We also had a slide deck that I think folks sound useful. And I believe that there are a number of legislators who sit on the social equity caucus who have been working on creating a similar tool. And I've also shared it with them. So if that tool is introduced to you in the coming weeks or months, then it will also at least have been informed, I think, by what we have in the executive agencies. But yes, absolutely. I can floor that alone. Representative Chesa. Thank you. Thank you, Representative Fulton. Thank you. Hi, Suzanna. So I listened with interest about how you do trainings because I have been to good trainings and bad trainings and makes all the difference how they're specialized. And so when I'm thinking about the two new positions, I heard all of the attendance for all the boards and then the data and then the training. And I'm wondering because you seek to personalize the training, which I think is critical too, have you thought about those two positions in terms of how you would break out those three, what I'm seeing is the three buckets of responsibility? For example, if I had to do trainings with a whole bunch of different age groups and schools, which I've had to do, I sometimes might have different trainers. And so I'm wondering about consultants. So you have a roster of individuals across the state when we get all back in person who can do that sort of work. And then you would perhaps take those positions and focus them more on the other buckets, on the data or on the equity lands across government. I'm just wondering more about those internal dedication of resources, how you're thinking about them. Yeah, thank you for the question. While that's not fully, fully set yet, the vision that I've had to this point is that one staff person would be focused more on policy and data. That person would do things like help agencies come into or remain in compliance with either state or federal or other policy. That person would be a data specialist and would be able to be qualified to review, analyze and present data and other related tasks. And then the other staff person would be more education and outreach oriented. That is gonna be useful now, but it will especially be useful if and when we go back to in-person convenings around the state, being able to have a physical presence in different regions of the state. So I do see one person as being more geared toward presentation and education and training than the other. Although I think one thing we all kind of get in Vermont is that everyone, you gotta be a team player and you may have to step in and do something once in a while because we're small teams. So that being said, I do very much see myself participating still in all of those activities, particularly in the training, but of course it allows for different levels. For example, I might cover more intermediate and advanced level trainings and I might have that staff person cover the more basic trainings that tend to be more commonly requested, et cetera. To your point about having a roster of additional people who can do trainings, I'm a big fan of train the trainer when we've identified good potential trainers. Because you can teach anyone material, but teaching pedagogy sometimes is really unique to the person. So we are, for example, working on an RFP to have an outside consultants come in and help us redesign our new hire training on implicit bias. And I'm sure there are gonna be other opportunities for more train the trainer models or to have additional people doing these. But for now, I think with respect to trainings that come out of this office specifically, I would envision one staff member and me both handling that load. And then one staff member doing more policy and data and also me having that load. And then at some point, someone's gonna check the email. And attend all the meetings, right. And then if I could pivot just Peter to another question is the uptake for the equity stimulus payments. Do you expect we'll get there in terms of that full dollar amount that was allocated or have you not had enough time? It sounds like that's just starting to get underway so it might be difficult to predict. But I'll be curious if there might be funds left over because that raises the question then should they be redirected towards some of the other needs that you're seeing versus SWEP that whole discussion how funds are kept or not within a particular department or office. Yeah, thank you. It's difficult to predict, I think at this stage the $5 million that had been allocated represented the highest end of our estimates of who would qualify in the state. So we already started off with a strong possibility that there might be surplus unused funds from that pool. I think that we've already reached more than a fifth of the number of people we thought could be, we've reached more than a fifth of that total possible number of people. And I think applications are open through March 31st. So we've anticipated that there would likely be kind of a first wave of people and then a second wave of people who were watching and waiting to make sure that this wasn't a trap by the state because trust has to be built with communities and that takes time. So I do anticipate that as this first round of checks goes out that we will likely experience a second wave of people who were waiting to see whether this was legit. That said, are we gonna reach the full 4,000 estimate? I think it's probably unlikely. I think it's probably unlikely, but a conversation that was had very briefly last time around that I think is worth consideration is whether in the interest of parity, whether the state wants to consider repurposing those unused funds toward a second round since Congress did also authorize a second round of stimulus. That's again, that's something for you all to determine in your judgment, but I could see that being a proposed use for any unused funds here. Great, thank you. So, Cezanne, I'd like to ask a question. You started down the path towards answering it. In any relationship that is tempted to be built, gotta start with, you know, to build trust, somebody has to extend a hand. Somebody's gotta be the first to make a move and that's kind of also the way that I looked at these equity payments is that we're reaching out to folks that frankly, they feed us, period. It's just, it's that simple, you know? And we need to build trust and it's okay to be the first to say, we're here and we wanna be your partner, we wanna be, we want you to be our neighbor and we want you to be a part of our lives, it's okay. So how do you feel that's going? You know, with the folks that have stepped forward and applied for this, are we just beginning to maybe make a difference? It's possible and I think that a huge part of this has been working with community organizations who already are on the ground who have deep contact with the populations we're looking at. These are folks who are vouching for the state and putting their own reputations on the line with those communities saying you can trust this program. And so we've relied very heavily on their historical trust building with the community. So I think that said, it's helping, I think it's helping us to strengthen our relationships with those groups and in turn, that will also help us to strengthen our relationship with the actual individuals in the community because this is one out of many steps that we need to take to demonstrate that we're not here to be enforcers of DC's ever-changing policies. You're part of our community, you're part of our economy, you're part of our state and we're gonna treat you as such. And I think that we are making headway but it's gonna be a long time I think before, before we can measure that. Good, well, thank you for that. Kimberly, is your hand just still up from before? Oh, it was, but actually I do have another thought if there's room. It also seems like a lot of times change comes at the top and it comes with recruiting and it comes with where recruitment is being done and who's not being included in the potential pool of applicants. We just see that all across the country, look at the composition of boards, look at the composition of high-level cabinet seats, we can go on and on. And I'm wondering if that's at all been a discussion about in the administration about how recruitment is done and how we might see diversity in the upper echelons of Vermont state government. Yes, so thank you for the question. Recruitment is huge and I would probably venture to say that retention is even more important in Vermont because what we're finding is that we're able to attract and we're able to garner interest from people from historically marginalized groups, but it's that we're not keeping folks. And for example, the latest, the fiscal 20 workforce report was released a couple of weeks ago, which did show some disappointing numbers in terms of turnover rate between SOV staff of dominant groups and SOV staff of color. It showed that we are hiring far fewer applicants of color than the applicants we're receiving. It shows that we're paying them less on average for their work. It shows that they tend to be concentrated in sort of the same cluster of job titles. They are, we are almost completely absent from high-level supervisory managerial positions. And as you mentioned, executive leadership could probably stand to be more ethnically diverse. I will say there's a lot of gender diversity but in other forms of diversity, but we could stand to do a lot more in that vein. And that's just state government, right? That doesn't even get at local or organizations or companies. So the short answer is yes to everything that you said. It's hugely important. We are having conversations about that. We have been, and I also wanna point out that I think yesterday, the racial equity task force report was publicly posted and in it contain, in it are several recommendations about how we can get more inclusion and more diversity in boards, commissions, state employees and on the bench as well. Great, yeah, because I just know that I sit on judicial nominating board and we've done training there and there's Judge College and there's, it's anyway, it's a big issue and I'm glad you're there and I appreciate the work you do. Thank you, Representative. Well, Susanna, I don't see any more questions popping up. I will say this, a journey starts with the first step and we did the right thing by hiring the right person for the right job and just listening to everything that you try to do every day, I would think you probably wish you could clone yourself 100 times over and figure out how you could make all of these things and just the mental agility that you have to have to go from one meeting and one concept, although it's in an overarching concept of racial equity, to another meeting and another concept is just, is amazing. So thank you for your work. We will get there and you can help lead us there. So I do appreciate it. Have a great day. Thank you all. Thank you very much. So committee, what I'd like to do is just, just talk a little bit, we're due on the floor at 930, but I'd just like to talk a little bit about what to expect coming up and this is off the cuff. So if Maria could also pop up because our new members have never gone through what we do when we do markup and just how quickly it can fly and what Maria would need to be able, Maria is obviously our liaison to the office that puts the bill together. So it, how she manages to keep up with us and honest to God, I don't know, but she does. And so we will be starting. Teresa, have you got any estimate? Are we looking maybe last week of February at markup? Yes. Okay. We'll be done with testimony the week of the 15th. There we go. So, and even the tail end of the week of the 15th, if there are, if we have slots of time when we don't have anything planned, we may start markup at that point in time. And what we do is we just start right at the top of the B section, you know, the number section and we start down through. So if, and it's okay, if you're not ready yet, just say I'm not ready, please skip and we'll move past it. If you are ready and you go through it and there are additional questions, that's okay. You know, we'll figure it out, we'll stand by and we'll work it from there. And then also make sure that you bring language into the play when there is language because we can't close language or Mary may opt to just, let's just go through the numbers first and then we'll do the language later separately. Maria, can you add to this conversation, please? Well, no, I think that's good what you just said. It's also, you know, you go through the budget first time and a lot of questions get flagged. And so then, you know, there's an opportunity to follow up and get the answers for the committee members. And of course I can help with that. I am happy to track down whatever information you need or else to create a document that will take whatever the issue is and try to break it down in a way that is easily communicated to the committee and also floor members. So yeah, I mean, my observation is that sometimes it can feel stressful for members. I mean, I'm not a member so really I don't know but my observation is it can feel stressful. We wanna try to make it as easy and comfortable as possible. So if you have questions that you want me to help you with just let me know so that when it comes your time to present the budget, you have some information that you can provide to the committee. And I do wanna say yes, it always feels stressful because you think you've gotta be spot on 100% accurate the very first time you do it, you don't. Right. There will almost always be an additional question. What we're trying to avoid is the I wonder questions. I wonder what, you know, how this program is working. So we're not, if it's relevant to making a decision on the funds that are going into the appropriation that is a great question. If it's relevant to you trying to find out how some program is going, that's a better question to be taken offline. We just, we may not, we might have the time, but usually we don't. Kimberly, I'm gonna put you on the spot and ask you since you are relatively new to the closing process, just your thoughts here. Yeah, I appreciate. I think one thing we've done a great job this time around is an amazing orientation those two weeks. One helpful thing is to perhaps go back over those notes so that the jargon and the acronyms are refreshed a bit. We have Zoom to review, which is really great. Like yesterday, you saw the DCF budget has quite a lot of moving parts. One of the ways that I might try to make sure my notes are accurate is to re-listen to that. And then the web report is really important and I think fitting together all of the pieces, the bill language, which is what we'll go through, but realize that it's backed up by the other parts and having realizing how they fit together is important. And I guess I would just echo, I have a budget that tends to be one of the last ones to close as you heard yesterday. There's any number of issues from how do we get, 2,000 people housed soon to whatever else. So some of them, but I have also sections of the budget which are pretty straightforward without changes. So as soon as you have parts that you think are straightforward, you can try to knock those off. And then that gives you a little bit more time to focus on all the moving more complicated parts and gives you a sense of how to accomplish something even if the mountain is still very high in front of you. That's a good point, that's a good point. So if there are any questions right now, as far as what's going on, let's put them on the table and see if we can get them answered or just answer them here, I see you Dave. And we'll just begin to work our way through. It's not just a content questions, but process questions as well. Dave. And thank you, Peter. It may seem unorthodox or awkward, but it's okay if you said, Dave, I know you have, I'm using this as an example, you have the mental health budget or a diva budget or whatever, I want to move that we reduce it by X because I feel strongly I wanna do something in a different area. And that's fair game, we have the conversation. It might be appropriate to give me a heads up before you entered it in full committee play, but that doesn't happen often, but it could and no ill will, it's part of the process. Good point, good point. And Dave and I, and not to that point, but also Dave and I have collaborated on some other things and we've discussed some aspects, nursing scholarships come to mind that we've worked on and then we wanted to lose one or the other of us presented in committee. So, Jim and then Marty. Yeah, do we start with at some point trying to figure out what the bottom line is and then, I mean, that tells you a lot. I mean, if we accept the same bottom line that the administration is, then it might be moving some things back and forth, but if we start with a bottom line that for whatever reason is lower or higher, that makes a difference too. So I'm just, do we accept that the administration's target bottom line or do we start with our own? Well, I'm gonna ask Maria to jump in here, but I'm gonna briefly say that what we will do, we don't start with that, we actually start by walking through the numbers and at some point not time while we are doing that, JFO will come in with a, this is where we are. It typically, and Maria, I'll let you, I shouldn't be saying this because you're gonna say it better, but there's updates. And so on those two words, I'll let Maria take it. Okay, so what you're referring to is what we call the box document. So like the box that we work within. And so we're putting that together now. It takes a while to sort of unravel everything that's in the budget. And so we have a revenue section and then we have an expenditure section. So in the revenues, there's cases where, if you do this tax credit, this is how much it's gonna cost. If you don't do it, this is how much money, you freeze up for other things. We go through different scenarios like that. And then the committee is able to take a look at that and get a general idea of what we're really talking about as far as decisions that need to be made by the committee. And we're all the administration and our office, and you, I'm sorry, we all work with the same revenue forecast. The difference is just how we construe it, the decisions that are made on how to use that money. So yes, that's what we call the box document. And I talked to Steve Klein about it yesterday. And we're just in the beginning stages of putting that together because there's been a lot of focus on the budget adjustment and now we're pivoting to the budget. So you will see that. And one of the things, yeah, one of the things I'm gonna add to that discussion and I said that revenue is moving because we heard yesterday that FEMA is gonna backfill to 100% the expenditures that were made on the, I think it was the GA side. And I did some quick math and we're talking well more than 10, probably more than $15 million. So of CRF funds that have come back to us. So we could actually, once again, free up some of our normal funds by doing the swap with CRF again. So there are some things here that are making our job and JFO's job to be able to tell us what's available, a head scratcher and I'll leave it at that. Marty and then Robin. Well, just in addition to, I think what perhaps Jim was maybe referring to as well is if there are any decisions made in the Ways and Means Committee regarding new taxes or new fees that would have an impact perhaps on a 22 revenue or it might be pushed off to a later year. But nevertheless, we would need to watch what Ways and Means is doing if indeed it's likely to impact a 22 revenue, which would then we need to have more money to spend or decide to not spend it and do something else with a ticket and reserves or wherever. That's one thing, but the other question I had is, well, number one, when do we expect responses back from committees regarding what we've asked them to review? And then I see as part of this budget, at least the way it's presented right now is just the governor's $200 million of one-time funds. Many budgets are fairly standard, but I would see that there could be certainly discussion regarding that 200 million priorities. Is it better to spend money in VORAC or is it better to spend money on IT or is it better to spend money on all the other things that are there? So I would envision there would be discussion certainly based upon number one, what the committee say, but just within our group in terms of how we see priorities of those items and which ones we think might be the better long-term strategic investments for us.  I would, Marty, I think you've understated it. Actually, that would be the discussion in our group, I think so you're absolutely correct. Robin and then Dave, and then I think we need to go to the floor. Okay, I'm not exactly sure where to begin. This all feels kind of theoretical because I haven't lived through it and I've had individual conversations with current and former members about how they organize themselves. I don't know exactly what we're marking up, are we actually going to get a bill? I have a stylus on my finger, but I'm thinking I'm gonna do better with paper because I guess so frustrated with the others. And so would it be helpful if I got a PDF of the current web report for the FY22 that I could then write all over? I like writing all over things. I'm not sure what I need to be as informed and effective as I can. I can't see printing out every single budget, all of that. So I'm just trying to get a handle on my own box. I do not myself print out the ups and downs sheets. I do print out the budget document itself. I do print out the web report and I've already printed out the language. The question that I have for Maria is that with the FEMA things changing, we're gonna leave that web report until we make massive changes to it. Is that a good statement, Maria? So what we're doing right now in our office is taking all the governor's budget numbers. They come to us in a spreadsheet and we're inputting them in the web report. And I think that's been done. We just need to check it over. So we will have soon a web report that just has the governor's numbers. And then we populate it with your numbers after you've made that decision, but you can use that one for Markup. And we can talk about how to get you a hard copy because I agree, I mean, I'm pretty old school in that respect too. I just like writing notes on everything. And so that's for the numbers section. And then you have the language section that the governor gave you. Yeah, you're all set on that. I'm not worried about that. I printed that out. I love the numbers. And I just need to know when, and I have a print shop here too, so I could do that if it's not, unless it's hundreds of pages and it'll be better. No, it's not. It's not. So what I would need to know then, it would be helpful for me, Maria, is if you could just tell me when I can go get it printed. Okay, so let me circle back and find out what the status is of it. I know it was being put together this week and so it should be very soon, but... Okay, and then somebody can turn it into a PDF because I can't, I don't think I know how to do that from the... It seems like a whole lot of different pages. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Okay. Okay, thank you. Dave, and then we'll go to the floor. I think this is as much more Maria as the rest of us, but I believe we heard testimony saying that all of the governors received a letter either from CMS or the federal government speaking about the next F-map, so-called F-map bump and how the great likelihood it was coming. There are two more quarters out there. Surely you could count the next quarter that's not in the budget. Based on a letter like that, I would think. So I wouldn't overlook that. I'm not trying to invoke the thought of a waterfall. I don't wanna be admonished again. I'm only kidding. I, but it'd be better to at least put that on a spreadsheet, I would think, because it sounds imminent that we're gonna hear some of this. Thank you. You know, that's a really great point, Dave. I think that it would be helpful, at least helpful to me if we had in one of our boxes or the spreadsheet, whatever that says, proposed legislation and the results of that and the funds that should funnel to Vermont that are appropriatable. Is that a word? I don't know. And that way we will have that. And then the only question would be, does that need to be recognized by an e-board or not, by the e-board or not? And if it does, then we're not gonna be using it. But if it doesn't, then we can discuss it. So good. Okay, well good. Marnie, did you have a final or did you just not put your hand down? Okay, good. All right, so we are back at 11 o'clock. If the floor runs long, Teresa, I presume you and Mary will be getting together and figuring it out and going from there. We have a Department of Financial Regulation. Michael P. Chack is always great and- They're in at 10.15, according to my schedule. If you update that, I switched them last night just to give the floor a little more time. All right, thank you. So we are back at 11, and the floor runs early, grab a cup of coffee.


A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Melafia has passed on at the age of 64. Melafia was said to have died at midnight after a brief illness. The former deputy governor, who was the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2019 election, was a known government critic and had advocated for public sector and exchange rate reforms. Melafia was born on December 24, 1956, in the Sangha local government area of Cardona State. He later graduated top of his class at Amadoubello University, Zarya, in 1978, with a B.S.C. Honours Social Sciences degree, Politics, Economics and Sociology. He also had an M.C. from the same institution. He subsequently won a French government scholarship to France, where he earned a certificate in French language and civilisation from the University of Clermont-Verand in 1985.


Hi there lovers! I don't know what I want to cover on this video! I'm recording this video on September the 2nd. And this is a year to date since I cut off ties with my ex, who was a part of my life for a very long time. And the conclusion to our relationship was so dramatic. It was laughable. Like it was so like running around, hiding keys, typing to other women. It was such a clusterfuck, tacky, a culmination of every single reality show that I experienced on one year to this date. And I haven't seen that person since. And whoa! Am I in a different place? Mentally, physically, literally, all the above. So this video I guess is kind of a celebration of that? It's not the point of the, I don't want to talk about dude. I'm just saying that this is a year that a lot has changed for me. And we have to talk obviously about the partnership series that I did, the guide to series that took over Wednesday and then partly Sunday as well too.  I needed that. You already knew that. I don't have to say this to you. Without that opportunity, without that partnership that I hope leads on to greater things and I hope to have it more here on the channel. But for every person who was like, I get it. These aren't my favorite. I like them, but you know, I get what you're doing here. Thank you. You know, thank you for being the voice of reason during that time and seeing what it had to be. And I loved it. I friggin loved it. It was a once in a lifetime experience. I took it for everything that it was worth. I have a story actually. This is one of the situations when I really realized what I was made of and I think we'll all have those at some point in our lifetime. I was going to shoot in New York for this series and basically my flight situation got all kinds of fuzzed up mobile. I'm afraid to swear now cause like that YouTube policy thing. Anyways, I was like, I got there on time but my first plane, they had a dent in it so they like didn't, they de-plane us but didn't cancel the flight. And then like it was hard to get another flight.  Then they're like, no, no, no, wait, your original flight's leaving now so get on that flight. So I got back on my original flight. Then that flight got messed up too and so I ended up missing all these flights. I was in transit for like 24 hours trying to get to New York and essentially I came down to it where I wasn't going to get there for my call time which is 8 in the morning. I would not get there until like 2 p.m. the earliest which is six hours after I'm supposed to be there for a one day shoot. Kind of a problem. So I wrote my producer who was, surely knows I'm obsessed with her. She was an amazing person. I wrote my producer and I was like, do you guys want me to come still? I'm at the airport, I'll stay. But if you guys know it's not going to make any sense then I won't come. And she was like, Shannon, come. And I was like, okay. So I slept on the floor of the airport because I didn't want to obviously go home, fall asleep, not make it back in time. I want to make sure I cut on top of my bags or if another flight came up I was able to leave. And then I got to New York and even though I knew I was getting hair and makeup when I arrived on set I'm like, these people have been waiting now for six hours. This is a full crew here. I'm not going to show up not looking like I deserve this opportunity. So in that car I snapped in my hair extensions. I put on my makeup. Like I dressed, I changed my clothes.  And that made me really appreciate as a woman of color you take nothing for granted. You really don't and I've seen a lot of people in big opportunities allow their attitude to override the possibilities or the potential. You can't do that as a person of color because I'm always aware that I'm replaceable. I'm always aware that I probably wasn't the first pick and as a matter of fact in this particular opportunity I am super aware I wasn't the first pick because the first time they sent me the script they had another YouTuber's name on it which means to say that person turned this deal down which is why I got it. That's okay with me. I'm excited about it regardless but I'm not and I talked about this with the Beyoncé thing with Lemonade how I didn't think Lemonade was about cheating I thought Lemonade was about the woman of colors experience of never being picked first no matter how hard you try or how hard you hustle or how much energy you put into it you'll never be the first choice that of your man or of a job sometimes of your own family sometimes of yourself we don't even choose ourselves first we're taught to live in a world where we always think we're a sober second thought that was the first time I kind of looked at that like it was a positive thing like I'm proud of myself for being that all the way to the finish line I went to the VMAs as you guys know what an incredible experience because I didn't go with an ego I mean I knew what it was I'm not a celebrity I'm not a star so I wasn't like star treatment everyone make way I'm just like I'm just here I got to see my baby Winnie Harlow be a star I got to see Beyoncé and it's just an amazing experience that I just got the absolute most out of but never ever take for granted the fact that you have to probably be if you're watching this channel according to my demographics more than likely you're going to have to be the person who still gives above and beyond even though you weren't first pick even though you're kind of jaded on the inside and you know what it is and you want to be bitter you cannot afford to do that so that experience has been amazing and it's been a summer of a lot of sex to walk a whole lot of sex talk and it's gotten me to opportunities I did some stuff for Esquire which should be coming out soon where I talked about how to take a dick pic and I talked about how to approach a woman at a club I also talked about what was kind of freaky oh sex toys around the house and so as much as I love talking about sex and I honestly guys like I shock myself sometimes with how much I know I'm like why do you even know in that but I'm ready to kind of take a little bit of a shift what I've really been focusing on of late is relationships trying to really find what my space is in the realm of sex love relationships you know Lacey Green for example who's another famous YouTuber her focus is really activism and I love that it's dope that's not really mine so I'm like I thought mine was female sexual empowerment but there's so many dope men who come on this channel or who I learn from or who I consider mentors and teachers in this space and so I don't really want to limit it in that way and I thought it was individual sexual empowerment but like through what you know how are we becoming empowered and then it hit me I'm like I want to be the person who demystifies this whole thing for you and in doing so I've been reading a lot of robotic books about love I read The Art of Seduction that was a recommendation from my partner and then I've also now reading guys this book I'm obsessed with it it's called the science behind happily ever after and my partner again he hears me listening to it because I'm listening to it through audio book and he's like can you listen to this robotic drone just dissect love in the most unfeeling just raw just disgusting bionic way and I'm like I love it it's all statistics probabilities what kind of personality traits would work why certain ones don't work how do you choose the right partners and I'm receiving this information thinking about all the people I counsel and all the people who email me and I'm like it's like I want you guys to know you know I consider my love life the least stressful part of who I am it is an amazing asset even when it's bad or I'm having going through issues because of the fact that I'm a fan of sex relationships I'm a fan of like the experience I'm like oh my there's a conflict like how will I resolve this and how is this person feeling let me break down certain things like I had a really interesting breakthrough my partner came with me to New York and on the last day we were both tired we went to the VMA so we've been partying we've been working in the morning I've been like really like you know trying to give my best which takes a lot of energy as well too let's check out I'm trying to get out the hotel and I start like panicking like not panicking panicking but I'm like he's not moving fast enough why isn't he doing this and I get this urge to start nagging I get this deep urge to start being like pick that up move your shoes get that bag stand up straight go get your deal doing on and then I'm like what is that and why do I feel that and why is my mom creeping in and I remember that I'd read in a book somewhere that a woman's job is to be the head of the household to be the point the leader of the little community that you create of your family and so in situations of duress like if a bear is coming to eat you she's the one who organizes the family together you know the male or the masculine might be the one to protect but the female is the one people look to for the direction of what to do next so when women nag what we're really trying to do is organize people into safety or organize things for the best case scenario it comes out in a shitty way I mean because you don't really need to do that we're not in a life or death scenario we're not going to get eaten by a bear but at the same time you have to know why you feel the need to do certain behaviors what's the point of this story does it not concern you guys I could just sit here turn on a camera and talk no one else is responding to me but I'm just going like a motor mouth the whole point of this conversation I have zero idea it is the fact I do have an idea that what I want to provide you guys with is the information and tools necessary to approach your love life with the same insight and foresight that you do with your career or with anything else that you're able to make smart decisions that are not based on biology I was having this conversation today with Tiffany I'll shout you out because it's a million Tiffany's but I was working with this girl named Tiffany and I was saying like your body does not give a fuck about your happiness your body does not care your mind your being your soul does not care about you achieving your goals or being your best self like what its primary goals are is procreation and survival which is why a lot of us make relationship choices not out of a place of security but a place of insecurity so I want us to be able to analyze that together and I want us to be a hotel all about to say those are the changes that I want to see in my channel in my personal life I do want to talk about this I honestly I said this on top of the video unless I am going to edit that part out that I'll say for the first time right now I've never been so happy in my whole life and I really haven't like I love my friends and I love my family I got a green card I'm living in my dream place which I'm so close to show you guys a tour to give you guys a tour once I get these two art pieces that are, ah, this is my first time really investing in art as an adult, like really investing and I worked with this painter who I've loved for a long time and he's creating these two really special custom pieces that what I have though is I'll show you guys my place but until then, it's just us in the green chair, baby. So yeah, I've just been happy and a large part of that happiness has been meeting somebody a while ago. I met this person almost two years ago now really, really briefly and there was just something about them. You know when you see something like, I just, there's something about you and I just want, I saw him at a club, I was introduced to him through a friend because we went to go see a friend and he, the guy who is my partner now was the one who threw the party and there was, so we just met him for a second and he walked away and I kept thinking I'm like, I want him to dance with me. I really want this guy to dance with me, he never did. But it just kept in the back of my mind and so of course I did the average stalker thing and added him to Instagram and then for a year, just kind of like checked in on him every once in a while. It wasn't like ever like a big thing and he wrote me while I was still really heavily involved in my ex or maybe like in a period of time where we were trying to mend things just to say like, I appreciate your work, I really respect what you're doing. I just wrote thank you and that deaded the conversation and sure enough after September the second last year I gave myself a month off and then after that month I'm like I want to listen to Beyonce wear sports bras and just hanging out with dudes like that's what I want to do right now. I don't want any kind of thing attached to it. I don't want any pressure. I just want to be around people who I think is attractive or interesting in an environment that I feel safe and celebrated in and that's what my spirit needs right now. I don't need ice cream, I just need a hot dude and Beyonce.  And he did and sure enough what I didn't expect to turn into anything substantial over time, without pressure, without intention has just naturally evolved into a really awesome reciprocal, soul-changing, positive relationship. He's just friendly and kind.  So I'm proud of the things that he's doing.   You don't even know how ridiculously far off from this person's character and how unlike they are, the usual choices I would make in a partner you are. And what I talked about in my previous video, the different loves I've had, which I'm excited to talk about a video soon I have coming out, that's going to talk about my sex life.  So what I talked about in that video was the soulmate versus life partner qualities. And so what's unique about my partner right now is I didn't have that same, ugh, towards him. It was just like, okay. Like it was, there was a draw and there was an intrigue, but I've been so conscious every step of the way. I could never tell you I fell in love with him. I grew, I walked in love with him. And I kind of battled that. I'm like, is that, you know, what does that mean if I didn't have that initial same strong desperation I've had for other past partners? And it honestly has been transformative in so many ways. Just to be around somebody who makes your life better and easier and happier and always finds a new way to adjust and bring new into your life. So that's what I wanted to say.  Now I know what I was trying to say. What I'm trying to say is the difference between a soulmate and a life partner is that a soulmate has a singular purpose for you and you're super drawn to them and you have all this energy because they have this work to do with you. But once that purpose is over, most soulmates don't know how to reinvent themselves or it's just done for both of you guys. But a life partner constantly finds new ways to intrigue you, to interest you, to help you grow. And even though it's only been a very short spin of time with this person, I've watched them evolve and more constantly. Because you guys know me, I'm a robot. So I'm constantly looking for reasons or ways to end a relationship in a peaceful way. Like this might be done, like over the time that I've been single, there's been a lot of dudes, y'all have seen this channel, it's kind of sort of not really, maybe, well you know who I'm talking about, who have just been there for like play things or just like a moment or just to make out with and then I've grew past them because I just knew that, okay I kind of wanted that experience, I got that, I'm finished with that, I'm gonna move on. But what this dude, because I didn't intend, I didn't walk into a situation with him, like he's gonna be my man. I was doing the same exercise. I've always been looking for reasons or places to be like all the situation's done or is done. And the second that I would do that, he would evolve into something greater that I was like well hang on a second, what about that guy? And continuously does that and surprises and amazes me every single day. And I'm like that's definitely the qualities I can see you know a life partner having. So that's been good. It's been good guys. I got money, got a little honey, I've got you guys, we are learning new things, we're shipping another direction, I don't have anything to complain about. Yes, my life can be hard at times you know, I did not with the big campaign job that I was doing, there was this big melee situation with my money. So I thought I was gonna get paid two months ago. And I didn't. So when you think you're getting money, you start spending. So I had maxed out all my credit cards and there was a time that I was like it's really scrambling to like make ends meet. And then of course my whole immigration situation was a cluster F because my car was on my old visa. So I had to like renew that. That was stressful. I had to renew my health insurance, get a new driver's license. Like a lot of clerical annoying stuff along the way. But everything that I've done because of the fact that I don't exist in uncertainty and love or in my career has just been like, I just bring it on. Whatever minor inconvenience that has to be traded off for the mass amount of joy and purpose I have in my life right now, cool. I'm just good. I'm just so good. And doing these kind of exercises are important because you have to remind yourself of that. And what message do I want to bring to you guys? I want to let you know. I finished the video and then it stopped recording. Okay, whatever. What message do I want to bring to you guys? I want to let you know that you need to start being in process. And I say that to say, because a lot of us have an idea of who we want to be or what we want to accomplish. But because I feel so far from where we are right now, the beginning is too daunting for us. And the process is going to give you the rewards that you're seeking at the end way sooner than you expect. If you are for someone, for example, who wants to lose weight and you think to yourself, I want to lose 100 pounds. The process, even the thought of 100 pounds is overwhelming to you because then you think it'll be 100 pounds until I'm happy with how I look. Not true. Once you lose 10 pounds, people will start to respond to you differently. You'll start to feel different about yourself. You'll change clothes by different sizes. You will feel the effects of that 100 pounds, 10 or 15 pounds in those good feelings, those endomorphins that will come much sooner. So being in process is not an overwhelming daunting experience. It is a joy.  I'm a testament to that. I am a processed, slow, cooked human being. I was giving this example the other day to somebody who is very dear to me, who is in town right now, whom I'm having a very healing opportunity to really connect with once again. But we were sitting on top of this really amazing view and we were looking over the city of Los Angeles and he was like, man, can you believe how far you've come? Can you believe all that you accomplished?  Are you overwhelmed? And I'm like, no, I'm not. Because getting to this view as an example, I've had to walk up it.  Because it was just like this big extreme from the ground to Mount Everest. Me though, I've had to walk up the mountain and so I've seen bits and pieces of this view every step of the way. I've had struggles that distracted me. I've had breakthroughs that allowed me to really appreciate different parts of the view. And so by the time I get to the top and see something massive and beautiful, I've already seen little bits of that so many times up the way that it's not this big life changing experience. It's more like, cool.  You've watched me fail. You've watched me figure it out.  Even if I haven't grown into the space that I dream of, you can see the progress really, really, really evidently. Almost like watching a baby learn to walk. And I want to encourage you guys to give yourself that same permission to be in process and for it to take a long time or a short time, but for you to find joy in just doing. I have this thing that I talk about with all of my clients, which is a self-centered check to check that your center of self is good, which you're always in progress. You want to identify three things in your life. The things that you love about yourself, like go off, gush about those toenails, gush about your pubic hairs, whatever you love about yourself, gush about it, the things that you hate about yourself.       And the goal is to look at that list of things that you hate and shift it up into something that you love because you worked on it, for example, and we have a muffin top. And so you hated that, and you worked out, it's a six pack, now you love it. Or you have a muffin top and you hated that. But like Jonah Hill, for example, you got involved in acting and that became a part of your character and why people hired you and it amounted to millions of dollars and massive amounts of success and friggin' yacht rides with Leo de Caprio. Now you don't hate it anymore. Maybe you don't love it still but you accept that as a part of who you are and it makes you a better person. So you wanna isolate that list of things that you hate. And let me tell you something.   There are too many people out here who are so disillusioned and delusional who are going through life, never asking themselves how do I really feel? They're so in a cycle or in a system, like they're drones at this point, little robots going from work to the gym, to home, to their little microwave dinners, and back to sleep to watch their Netflix and they totally unplugged from how they really feel and what they really want out of life because that's too painful for them. That person I'm not interested in. Anybody who can sit up and say, I have a problem, I don't feel good or I have a weakness, you are at a place of empowerment because now you can do something about it.  So don't feel like your insecurities are a crippling place. It is actually a positive attribute to be able to identify what you don't like about yourself and that's the hardest person to judge is our own individual selves. So give yourself the space, be in process constantly, you will see the results faster than you think and use me as an example, you know, you guys have seen a lot, a lot of mistakes on this part and you know it's not over. I still have a lot to go and there'll be back tracks. My channel for example, boomed in views and now I was slid back a little bit and I gotta keep on the horse and continue to look for that boom once again and the process is gonna be fun because I will reinvent myself because I intend on being your life partner, not your soulmate. I don't want you guys to come to me for one thing or the answer to one question and feel like oh, we got what we want from her, we done. I want us to develop a long-term relationship where I always find new ways to educate you or inspire you and I kinda realized that with the dorm attainment video that I did and how many of those questions you guys got right, which made me super proud. I'm like my subscriber base is really smart but also made me feel like damn, you're regurgitating a lot of the same information to people and after a while that gets boring and so I gotta find a way to step up for you guys to be something new and exciting and to make our relationship fruitful on both ends. So let me know in the comment section below actually. If there's something that you need out of me, what I need from you guys is your attention and your time, that's it.  I mean, do. That's what I wanted for you guys is your time and attention and that means a lot to me. But in order to get that, you have to feel like you're getting what you need as well too. So let me know what you need more of or what you need less of or how we can work together and keep in mind, of course, what I need to survive as a human and I'll keep in mind what you need to grow because that's what I'm supposed to be doing. I mean, that's the whole point of this thing so you might as well get something out of it. I hope this is still recording or else I'm about to smash this camera. I won't because I don't have the money to replace it but you know what I'm saying? It sounds cool.  What, what is that, a condom?  But you went out shopping for dicks? You are gross. What is it?  Do you have a disease? You trying to give me a disease?  Mother, I'm warning me about women like you. It's a lot. No, I did, I did, I did.


Hey, what's going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards. We are ripping one box of 2022 PNN national treasures collegiate football for Matthew. I so good luck here Iggy. Let's do it, brother So you got in here for you man. These are these have been so fire These have been like non-stop just crazy stuff coming out of it Pulled a shroud redemption to five Just pulled a leek Willis one out of two Nike swoosh RPA today. Like just nuts, dude Absolutely craziness We've got nice way to start it 69 out of 99 Tom Brady on the base. Very nice there. That'll that'll do that'll play We've got a Kyle Hamilton on the true RPA 70 out of 99 a raven Pretty cool one here. We've got that is 61 out of 75 Travis E. T. M. Junior For Clemson now a Jaguar Travis E. T. M. Junior Got a 94 out of 99 that is gonna be mr. Chris Godwin on the rookie Another rookie bit of silhouette signatures non rookie on that one. He's of course a vet Next up we've got 21 out of 25 that is Trevor Lawrence For the good ol Jaguar's and Clemson Tigers as well We've got 57 out of 75 that is Zeke Elliott Michael Thomas Joey Bosa on the Duel or the triple of Buckeye Got nice one here. How about 83 out of 99? That is Drake London on the true RPA There you go on card nice full sig on that Very nice. Congrats Matthew. Slap Iggy. I should say And pretty cool one here, too We've got how about a Phil Jerkovic three out of five on the emerald Treasured moments auto obviously he is still at Boston College, but he's a fantastic quarterback there So nice one there can't really find Phil Jerkovic autos out there. So very nice That'll do it for your break there Iggy Congrats on the hits man. We'll get them right out to you. Appreciate it, buddy


The Delta State Petroleum Products Monitoring Committee has advised citizens to patronize only petrol stations which sell at reasonably lower prices. Chairman of the Task Force and State Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Prince Iman Angaduba, gave the charge at a news conference in Asaba. The commissioner said that buying from those selling at considerable prices would force others selling at arbitrarily high prices to bring lower their prices. Correspondent Akweme Joro Friday reports that Angaduba said government was concerned about scarcity of fuel and other issues affecting livelihood of the people across the state. The price to crumble would be availability of petrol, the apology of NNPC and the promise of NNPC that they will bring in more petrol. I'm sure that the price will come down. I want to also create the endogenous of our citizens, Delta in particular, to continue to be patient and that patients which they are exercising should be, should metamorphosed into patronizing petrol stations that are selling at the very lowest rate. That way it will drive the others to come down. We're still on, we're still very, very, very, very mindful of the hardship we're going through but we're sure that in no distance time the price will come down. So you get notified about fresh news updates.


This study examined the adaptation of agriculturalists in coastal Bangladesh to degrading environmental conditions due to climate change. It found that most farmers had adopted some form of adaptation strategy, such as irrigation, crop diversification and crop insurance. Factors such as age, education, family size, farm size, family income, and involvement in cooperatives were all significant predictors of adaptation. Additionally, the study identified several constraints to adaptation, including lack of available water, shortage of cultivable land, and unpredictable weather. This information provides valuable insight into how best to target interventions to help build resilience to changing climate and its effects. This article was authored by Muhammad Nasiruddin, Wolfgang Bokelman, and Jason Scott Ensminger.