Okay, good afternoon, welcome back to Senate Education. It's Wednesday, May 5th, 3.32 in the afternoon.  As senators may recall, Senate judiciary asked that we look at a section, I believe a section 10 of this, or it doesn't matter, section of this bill having to do with sexual violence prevention council. And so we've asked the drafter, Ms. Childs to come in and kick this off, Ms. Childs, how are you? Great, thanks for having me in. So a committee I don't visit very often. Well, we have two senators here that you probably don't know, Senators Taranzini and Senator Chittenden. I suspect perhaps you've crossed paths with the rest of us, but two new additions. And it's great to have you here with us. And so you know that Senator Sears reached out to us and initially they were thinking they might pull this section. He asked our committee to look at it and see if it makes sense to reintroduce this section. So any background you might give us would be great as well as taking us through it. And I believe Jeannie has posted it for senators to... I think she has. And are you a committee that likes the attorneys to share the screen so you can see the language or do you prefer to look at it separately? We actually have it right on our iPad. So works best for us, thank you. Okay, great. So as you mentioned, this was, there's language with establishing an intercollegiate sexual violence prevention council. And it was in the bill as passed by the house and Senate judiciary removed that section and a couple of related sections that had a seven year sunset out and a small appropriation for staffing that council. And they removed that. So the bill that they voted out on Friday that is now in Senate appropriations does not have the intercollegiate council in it. But I did walk through the bill yesterday with Senate appropriations and they're gonna hold it waiting for you to give your recommendation to judiciary and judiciary to speak with appropriations because of that small appropriation in there. And then they wouldn't wanna weigh in on that with the addition, if there's an addition of the council. So these sections relate to a prior task force which was the, and I'm gonna pull it up on my screen just so I don't forget the correct name. It was the Vermont campus sexual harm task force. And that task force was created in 2019 by the legislature and passed an act 77 which was our miscellaneous judiciary procedure spell. And it created this task force on campus sexual harm to examine issues relating to responses to sexual harm, dating and intimate partner violence and stalking on campuses of post-secondary educational institutions in Vermont. And then it required that task force to report to the general assembly in spring of last year, which they did. And the very first recommendation of the task force was to create a statewide council of network professionals who are focused on both prevention and response to sexual harm on college campuses and as well to focus on how to best support both survivors and other students who have been impacted by sexual harm. And so what you have in H183 as it came over from the house was establishing this council. And again, the idea that it wasn't like the task force to be a short essentially study committee but something that would be permanent going forward. There is a seven year sunset on that because it was reviewed by house government operations and they put in a seven year sunset really on any new governmental bodies like that or councils or boards or things like that. So that we don't have these ones that kind of start and then kind of fall to the wayside and are still on the books. And so there's kind of a fresh look at least every seven years. And there was also an appropriation, a small appropriation in the proposal for funding the staffing of the council. There are no legislative members on this council as opposed to the task force did have a couple of legislative members. I'll walk through the legislation in just a moment with you about it. But the appropriation is to allow the network against domestic and sexual violence to be doing the staffing of the four annual meetings a year. So if I look to the language of the bill, if everybody has that is you'll see that. So it's establishing a new section 2187 in title 16, creating the council for the purpose of a response to campus sexual harm, including across institutions of higher learning in Vermont. There are a large number of folks on the council. It's first it's a title nine coordinator and a campus-based prevention educator coordinator from an institution of higher learning appointed by the chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges. There are similarly to those same two positions to be also appointed by the president of the University of Vermont. And then similarly those same two positions appointed by the president of the association of Vermont independent colleges. So there'll be three title nine coordinators and three campus-based prevention education coordinators appointed there. There's also to the two community-based sexual violence advocates appointed by the network to law enforcement or public safety representatives who have experience specific to responding and investigating campus sexual violence. And those members would be appointed by the commissioner of public safety. There's to be two college students, at least one of whom has lived experience as a sexual violence survivor and one who represents a campus-based racial justice organization. And those two student appointments would be by the Center for Crime Victim Services. There's also a person with expertise in sexual violence responses within the LGBTQ community. And that appointment would be made by the Center for Crime Victim Services as well.  These are nurses who are trained specifically to work with survivors of sexual violence to be there when somebody reports to an ER that they have been sexually assaulted and they have specific training in that around the emotional needs, but also how to do the examination of that survivor because as you can imagine, when they do that, they're actually collecting evidence that is important if there's going to be criminal charges. And so it's very important that that evidence be collected in a certain way and that there's a chain of custody with regard to that evidence. There's also to be a prosecutor who has experienced prosecuting sexual violence cases and that prosecutor could be from either one of the state's attorney's offices or it could be from the office of the attorney general. And yet that appointment is made by the AG. There's to be an attorney with experience in sexual violence that's appointed by the defender general. And so those are the folks who are all on the council. The duties of the council are interdisciplinary planning and information sharing to support sexual violence prevention programs on every college campus in Vermont. There's to be an annual review of trends and aggregate data collected by institutions of higher learning regarding sexual violence on campus and development and distribution of best practices and recommendations on violence prevention, sexual health education and strategies for mitigating sexual violence and tertiary violence on college campuses. As I mentioned, the network's going to be doing the staffing of this that was just, they volunteered because there wasn't kind of an obvious entity to staff it. And so the network seemed them because of their background and experience in this particular issue seemed the best choice. There is a report that is due on or before December of 2022 and then annually thereafter and there to submit a written report to the general assembly with a summary of their activities and any recommendations for legislative action. They're supposed to have their first meeting no later than September 15th of this year. And there is, as I mentioned, a small appropriation. I think when we were looking at those members in house appropriations it is likely that the vast majority of those people who would be participating on council would be being paid by their day jobs to be attending those meetings four times a year and that it's likely that it's really only the two student representatives who would be putting in for the per diems and expenses. And so that's how it was calculated out for those. So the section on appropriations has $11,990 being appropriated to the center to provide a grant for staffing the council. And that's just how we had to do it because the network is not a state entity where as the center is a state entity and so you're appropriating the money to the center and then they will issue a grant to the network to do the staffing. And then there's a separate $1,000 and $1,010 that's appropriated for the per diems and expenses. And then also, as I mentioned, there's the repeal in seven years, which is just intended as a kind of a regular kind of taking a look to make sure that you want to continue on with the council. And that's all, that's all I've got, any questions? Questions or comments at this point? We do have a series of witnesses, but this is very helpful. Senator Perslick. Just a quick question on the appropriations. Is it something that would have to be done every year because this is only a one year appropriation but it will be around for seven years. So it's just every year the legislature would have to address that issue. Likely, unless there was a grant or they could use some federal funds for it or something like that, but it's likely that it would be an annual appropriation and this one is just for FY22. I have another question, but if you'd rather do that way. No, please go ahead. This was all in house, which issue, right? Yes, it was the bill was in house judiciary with government operations took this and specifically reviewed this section and they took testimony on it and they made recommendations to judiciary and judiciary incorporated those suggestions into the judiciary amendment. And then on the Senate side, it came out of Senate judiciary. And do you know, Michelle, that because I've read the task force report last night and there's like 15 recommendations or more in there. If you take some of the recommendations, there's only like nine main one, some of them have sub recommendations. Did they like go through all those recommendations and then choose these kind of three tasks for this? Cause I thought there were some other really important recommendations in that report, but aren't mentioned at all. And this, I don't know if they kind of went through all those and decided, well, you just focus on these three for this for now or I just wondered if you could tell me anything about the process in relation to the recommendations from the task force report. To the judiciary committees did not go into the task force report in depth. The establishment of the council was part of the bill as introduced. I believe the three main sponsors were representative Copenhagen's representative grad and representative Colburn and they had been meeting with folks prior to the start of the session on developing this bill. And I think getting input from the community around what are the important things if they were going to proceed on a sexual violence bill, what are the key issues out there that would be helpful? And I think the recommendation was to establish the council, but there was they weren't hearing necessarily, we want you to do X, Y or Z also this year with regard to the specific issue. I think the primary goal was that they wanted to make sure that all the folks who are working on these issues are getting together at least a few times a year and collaborating and sharing their experiences so that they can learn from one another's work. Right, and as you said, the first recommendation was create council and representative Colburn was on the task force. So it's good to hear that she was involved in this. All right, thank you. Interliance. You know, I think I'll wait until we've had testimony. I've got a long list of things here. So I think it'll be helpful to hear what folks have to say. But maybe Michelle, in terms of any definition of sexual violence, was that, was that a discussion? Okay. No, I think, you know, they didn't want to be too prescriptive around that and it can encompass a lot of, you know, things. And so I think they're just leaving that up to the council. Okay, so there would be a distinction between sexual harassment and sexual violence or would they, would the council, was there a discussion about allowing for the council to go into the issues of sexual harassment? I mean, that expands it greatly and moves it toward perhaps staff and faculty in a way that may be slightly different. I don't know. You know, they did not really discuss that, but I'll go back and look at the language. I don't know necessarily that it was intended to be narrow in terms of violence, but looking, you know, I recognize that the language that was used for the task force was sexual harm and could, you know, tweak the language a little bit there if you wanted it to be a little more inclusive. What I will say, and I think is something that you guys know from sitting on committees summer study committees and creating these summer study committees, there's nobody really policing, well, you guys reported to us on this and we didn't ask you to report to us on that or things like that. So I think generally it's to try to get the, the specifics out there about what you want, but on this issue, if you want it to include a variety of issues, maybe you would want to tweak the language and, you know, obviously the Title IX coordinators are not just looking at sexual violence, they're looking at discrimination based on sex and they're looking at harassment and other issues there. So maybe that's appropriate and maybe some of the witnesses from the schools might comment on that about whether or not there should be a different term used. Thank you. Yes, I know, cause it can grow like gangbusters really. Right, yeah, maybe it should be narrow because then. I don't know. I want to hear what everyone has to say. So, but thank you. Sure. Michelle, you may have already covered this and I apologize if I missed it, but can you speak a little bit to why again, Senate judiciary decided to remove this? You might not feel comfortable doing so, but just having been part of the conversations. Yeah, I don't want to obviously speak for anyone. I understand. So, Senator Baruth was the Senate appointee to the task force and his viewpoint in Senate judiciary was that if the folks who are designated to be on the council wanted to get together and do something like this anyway, they could do that on their own and they wouldn't need the general assembly necessarily to establish this council to do that. But I would say you might want to speak directly with him or other members. Okay. Of that. I don't want to get their purpose without incorrect. Any other questions for Ms. Child before we start to hear from our witnesses? Thanks a million Michelle for walking us through this. You know, I have a feeling since we've been asked to take this up, you know, we'll continue to have you on committee a little bit. I know your schedule is also tight and so as much time as you can give us will be much appreciated, but for now that was a great walkthrough and very helpful. Sure, thanks. I am probably going to bounce back and forth between with another committee, but if I do leave and you guys have some questions for me or something I can circle back around, let me know and just have Jeannie email me. And in general, I think the question would be if we have language suggestions, changes that we make, is this something that you'll go back and listen or do you want us to take notes and then provide you with that?  Okay, that sounds great. You can just tell me that way. I can ask you questions to make it really clear that I know direction. And I do know that Ms. Koenig has submitted some, like a tweak there and I do have that language. I didn't in what I presented to you because it hasn't been adopted by anybody, but I do have that language because I know that y'all will discuss that. Great, thank you. Sure. Ms. Koenig, you're not up yet, but have you emailed that language to Jeannie? No, I sent a copy of it to you, but I'm happy to send it to Jeannie. Send it to Jeannie and then Jeannie, would you please put it up on our website? That'd be great. Thank you. Okay, Ms. Robinson, thanks for joining us. Appreciate you being here. You've been involved, I believe, with this bill all the way through the process. So looking forward to hearing what you have to say as it relates to this language. Good afternoon, thank you so much for having me. For the record, Sara Robinson, I'm the deputy director at the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. I don't believe I've had the pleasure to be with this committee yet, this session. So it's wonderful to be with you all. And thank you so much for taking up this section of H183, you're correct. This is, it really is a broad and comprehensive bill to address sexual violence in our communities and on campus and in various settings. And so we're very grateful that the Senate Education Committee is looking at this particular section. But I thought I would start by just providing a short amount of framing around the issue that this section of the bill and the bill in general seeks to address, knowing that it's not the complete focus of your work probably in the day to day. So from our perspective, the Vermont Network really serves as a statewide voice on issues related to domestic and sexual violence.  We represent 15 independent nonprofit organizations that provide direct services to victims of domestic and sexual violence across the state. And together, those organizations serve every square mile of Vermont. And last year they answered about 17,000 hotline calls from individuals calling for assistance related to domestic and sexual violence. Would you repeat that number, please? Sure, our member organizations answered 17,000 hotline calls last year in the state of Vermont.  And we know that sexual violence is in fact a significant issue certainly in our country and here in Vermont.  And although national prevalence studies certainly indicate that women carry the greatest burden of sexual violence over their lifetimes, men are very much also impacted by sexual violence. And as with other forms of violence, some communities are disproportionately impacted by sexual violence. And that includes black, indigenous and other people of color and transgender and non-gender conforming individuals. And here in Vermont, unfortunately we are not exempt from those trends and the overall impact of sexual violence. So I thought it would be interesting for this committee to know that the most recent Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicated that one in 10 female students in Vermont report being physically forced to have intercourse when they did not want to. And students of color in Vermont are more likely than white students to have been forced to have sexual intercourse. Likewise, LGBTQ students are more than three times as likely to be forced to have sexual intercourse compared to their heterosexual or cisgender peers. So the section of the bill that you are addressing today really seeks to look at campus responses to sexual violence. And we certainly, at least this week don't need to go much further than news outlets to understand that this is not an isolated issue, that this is an issue that is very important to students and institutions of higher learning across Vermont. And as you've noted, this was really the primary recommendation of the previous legislative task force on campus sexual harm. I, sounds like some of you have seen the report from that previous task force, but I did also submit that to Jeannie. So I know it is posted on the website. But the council will really serve to coordinate and innovate responses to sexual violence on college campuses across Vermont. And we know that nationally one in five students and just over one in five transgender students are sexually assaulted on college campuses. And that age period, age period between 18 and 24 is the age period of highest risk for women in terms of being sexually assaulted. So there are four times more likely to be sexually assaulted between the ages of 18 and 24 than they are at other times in their lifetime. And sexual violence within institutions of higher learning is complex. You know, there are issues of both state and federal law. There's overlapping criminal jurisdictions sometimes. There are very important issues related to student privacy. And certainly the extrajudicial Title IX proceedings are a completely different layer that victims of sexual violence have to navigate if they choose to report their assault. And really despite many efforts of institutions, the process of reporting a sexual assault and making a formal Title IX complaint often doesn't go well for survivors. Many don't feel like they received the support and justice that they're seeking through that process. There was a recent report that was released actually just about a month ago from a national organization called No Year 9 referring to Title IX. And it found that 39% of survivors who reported sexual violence to their schools experienced a substantial disruption in their education. So over a quarter of those survivors ended up taking a leap of absence, 20% transferred schools and nearly 10% dropped out of their educational experience completely. And so campuses really have varying resources and approaches to addressing sexual violence. And that's one of the things that we were really hopeful that this council would be able to address, both the support services and the resources that are available for students at public and private colleges and universities, at small and large colleges and universities, at residential versus commuter schools really vary based on the institutional resources that are available and those that are dedicated to these efforts. Now just note that, we certainly don't view that these problems can be solved by institutions of higher learning alone. They really require an interdisciplinary approach with stakeholders from law enforcement, from advocacy at the table. And those are the kinds of complex issues that the council would seek to address. I would just make a note on the length of the council that was established by the house. As the bill was introduced, there actually wasn't a sunset and that was something that the house added, which I think was an excellent addition. And I would just note that the previous task force on campus sexual harm in 2019 only existed for about nine months. And met six times in that nine months. And I think one of the big lessons learned was that the reforms that are needed, the institutional and community-based reforms that are needed, take time. And that ensuring that there's adequate time and resources to addressing this particular issue ought to be a priority for certainly all of us that work on these issues day to day and that this was going to be an effective mechanism for getting there. And with that, I'm happy to take any questions on the composition or the duties of the council or anything else. Ms. Robinson, I may just kick this off. So you're supporting this language as written? So we supported the conversations as those evolved in the house. We are very much expecting that the Senate would take its own fresh look at the language. We didn't have an opportunity to have robust conversations about that in Senate judiciary. So we supported the language that came out of the house, but very open to additional suggestions that senators may have about ways to improve the language. So again, just to clarify, the language that we have before us, which left the house, you are supportive of. Correct. Okay, thank you. Senator Lyons. Just a couple of questions. You obviously mentioned support services that are so critical for people in recovery. But is there also opportunity here to talk about some primary prevention, some work that's done. And I think in particular about students who call us within a group environment with a support person to educate their peers and others about what sexual violence is and to initiate prevention activities. And so much of what we're seeing here is how to react to sexual violence when it happens. And we're trying to, you know, obviously we need to do that, but shouldn't we also, or would you think we'd like to have some other focused attention to prevention period? Senator Lyons, I think that's an excellent question. And I think that's exactly a bit of a shift that we were hoping to see in this council. The previous task force really did look almost exclusively at responses, which I think is incredibly important. But the hope was certainly that with this council, there would be a closer look at primary prevention efforts and efforts to change overall campus climate and to prevent the violence before it happens. And I think that that was the intention of the first duty listed of the council, interdisciplinary planning and information sharing to support sexual violence prevention programs on every college campus in Vermont. So that, I mean, that works. There's a significant emphasis in the membership. It feels like a significant emphasis on enforcement rather than prevention. So, or it's more on intervention and reporting. And so I'm very interested in how to turn that corner. So it is really looking at best practices for prevention, what kind of training activities on campus, ongoing for staff, faculty, students, and maybe in particular the cohorts of students that are ordinarily associated with sexual violence. So we already know a lot. So maybe there's a way to approach this from the prevention side rather than the intervention and treatment side. Yes, I appreciate that. And I would just note that actually the bill is introduced didn't really have any representation from at least the criminal legal perspective. And those were additions that were requested by the Association of States Attorneys and the Defender General to add those individuals to the council. And we were fine with that. We know that some survivors do seek legal remedies, criminal legal remedies as a result of their experience. But I completely agree with you that our hope is certainly that the council as a whole will be taking a look at primary prevention, not just responses to violence after it occurs. So then to that end, going back to something Senator Perchlich asked earlier, why not pick up the recommendations made by the previous task force that do suggest best practice and other areas related to prevention? So I won't ask any more questions. I just wrote down a whole lot of things we'll have to, maybe that people want to talk about, maybe not, but anyway, just some ideas. Sort of just picking up on that idea. You know, what are we doing or what are we not doing also in pre-K through 12th grade? I mean, we're talking about here, I think largely campus culture, but that campus culture is not just being created out of thin air. And so I think that would be my other question and something that hopefully we can also work toward addressing. I would love to have that conversation with the committee. At some point, I know that the last time the legislature really looked very comprehensively at sexual violence prevention was after Brooke Bennett died in Vermont several years back and Act One was passed around mandating sexual violence prevention in schools. And that remains a largely, actually completely unfunded mandate to provide sexual violence prevention. So I think that that would be a really worthy conversation. Senator Perchlich. Thank you, Chair. The Senator Alliance point that the title is violence prevention council, but in the first sense of the creation, it says create a coordinated response, like that we're creating a council to create a coordinated response. So just maybe it's semantics, but adding prevention in that first thing. Of the three goals, it does say prevention in that first goal, but you might wanna, we might wanna think about just adding prevention in there. But my question, when I went through all these recommendations that I thought were good, one that I think specifically you might be able to answer is one of the comments in the recommendation to create a council, it said the task force agrees that a council would be best facilitated by on-campus stakeholders. And it looks like this is not facilitated by on-campus stakeholders. And I just, I'm assuming that was a conscious decision or it was, I think as Michelle said, the network was just like, well, if nobody else is gonna do it, we're gonna do it. Can you have any response to that? Yeah, I'm happy to speak to that. So the previous task force in discussing this recommendation, there was a conversation of the task force about where this task force should essentially live and whether it should be a state agency, whether it should be higher education stakeholders that would kind of house this. And there weren't volunteers. And the network said, we're willing to do it, but we would also be very happy to step back if there was a different entity that would like to step forward. Our sincere hope, and you'll see that in the language indicates chairs will be elected or decided on from the membership. And it is our sincere hope that there would be leadership of this council that would be on campus leadership. We certainly believe that institutions of higher education need to have a leadership role in this conversation. And so if that would be worth clarifying in the language, I think that would definitely be something we would be open to. And again, we are truly, we're trying to be helpful and also happy to step back if there's another volunteer that would like to take on the coordination of this council. Okay, I appreciate that. I have a couple more questions. That's okay. The second duty is to review the aggregated data. When I looked at the recommendations, there was like three big recommendations about data, about data gathering, and that we should require institutions to collect this data and about a survey that should go out and that they should be kind of disaggregating the data to those historically disadvantaged groups. You had given some statistics for LGBTQ victims, but I didn't know if how we were, it seemed like that was the big part of the task force recommendations. And do we need to put anything in there about that we're getting the data that we need? Is that problem been solved? It's a great question. And I would also say that the version that passed the house was not, the version of the bill that was introduced, there was actually more specific language around campus climate surveys and data in the original language of the bill. And there was feedback from higher education stakeholders that, and I don't wanna speak for them, but hopefully Wendy may be able to speak to this that they did not necessarily want to be boxed into collecting data in the same way or collecting the same kind of data every year and that they already had individual mechanisms for collecting data. So we landed on this language around annual review of trends and aggregate data because institutions are already collecting some climate data in their own ways. But I can let those witnesses speak to that. Okay, well it's something maybe for the committee to think about because we're requiring a lot of data collection like on our expulsion bill about all the data that needed to be collected and having it break down by the disadvantaged groups and everything. So we're requiring that of our K through 12. So the interesting why we wouldn't require of our higher education. There's two other recommendations that I wondered if you could just complete talk about. One was, and I thought it was pertinent to the Senate because we just passed the bill that would not exempt but make people not subject to criminal prosecution that they report a crime. I think it was around specifically around trying to help people with drug overdoses and things like that. But one of the recommendations was don't prosecute student report sexual assault if they were like underage drinking or if they were in violation of the campus policy and they were afraid to come forward. That was recommended. And there's nothing about this. And then also about requiring transcript notation of suspensions and expulsions resulting from Title IX adjudications. That also seemed like a real big one that I didn't see mentioned. So those, I wondered if you could just say anything about those two recommendations. Sure, absolutely. So taking the second one first on transcript notation I think that actually probably both of those are the original thinking was that that would kind of fit in the larger bucket of duty number three which is development and distribution of best practices and recommendations. And that certainly we would absolutely concur that reducing all the barriers for individuals to be able to report harm that they experienced coming forward without fear of their own disciplinary actions is incredibly important. And I would say that that is certainly a best practice that is not as you rightly noted is being advanced not only in the criminal legal system but on campuses across the country. And on the transcript notation issue it was not a unanimous recommendation of the previous task force. There was not a unanimous agreement about that so it wasn't presented as one of the unanimous items. That being said, I think that is an issue that is worthy of continual conversation in Vermont. It's a complex issue. There are a lot of individuals that feel very passionately and strongly that that is a very effective mechanism to providing information about individuals who have caused harm on previous campuses. And I will also say from our perspective, we have historically been a little bit wary of anything that can function like a registry just because we think that they can sometimes create a false sense of security and don't exactly serve to create real safety or provide supports to survivors which is really where our focus is. And so I think that again, that's a complex issue that hopefully this council will be able to continue discussing. Thank you. Any other questions from Ms. Robinson? We're gonna be at this probably for a couple of days if you will. So if you don't mind continuing to partner with us, I don't know if you have additional comments at this point. At this point I don't. Just be interested to hear other witnesses and certainly open to any suggestions of the committee and happy to work with you all in the coming days. Thank you very much. We really appreciate that. And yes, please stay. And we may reengage you before we adjourn today. Thank you. Ms. Koenig. Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon. Great to see you. See you. For the record, I'm Wendy Koenig, Director of Federal and State Relations for the University of Vermont. And Wendy, you have a bad connection. Maybe it's my connection.  Yeah, I can see you. And you're okay. Yeah, you were just a little pause there. So that's good to know. Okay, the floor is yours. Thanks. So I did send some language to Jeannie. I don't know if you all have it, but if not, you can take a look. I'll read a little bit of it. I wanna say that I think that from the perspective of higher education, practices in prevention of sexual violence and harm are evolving all the time. I think that a council could be helpful to inform new strategies and help frame prevention in a variety of different ways. And I really liked what Sarah had to say about the fact that, you know, this is something that we can work together on to try and make this the safest place that we can for students and to continually evolve our thinking about these issues. I mean, I don't think that this is static. I think it's something that we're always working on and other campuses are working on. You know, I think that in terms of the makeup of the council, you know, we have Title IX coordinators named in the 2019 council, we did have our Title IX coordinator participating. I think that that's appropriate. I know that for the state colleges and for us, they're asking for two folks, a Title IX coordinator and a campus-based coordinator. So I think that we just wanna ensure that we have a little bit of flexibility. I think UVM is a little bit different in the fact that we are big. We probably have more staff than other institutions. I think sometimes it is hard when you're conducting adjudications on campus to have two people from your Title IX staff be at meetings every time, but we'll do our best with that. In terms of the language that I'm talking about, if you're looking at the bill, it's in section C, the duties section. And the language now says development and distribution of best practices and recommendations on violence prevention, sexual health education and strategies for mitigating sexual violence and tertiary violence on college campuses in Vermont.  So we're taking out the term best practices and asking for identification and sharing of effective practices. Our legal counsel had a little bit of a problem with the term best practices and would prefer the other language. I don't think it really changes anything substantively. It's just a little bit of a language tweak for us. Happy to, yeah, take any questions. Senator Chinden. Wendy, I also see the replacement of the word development with identification. I'm guessing that's because we don't, are we trying to not necessarily scale this back but not to reinvent the wheel or is that okay? Yeah, and the other thing is, I think one thing that we've sort of had some discussions about when talking about this in the prior council and talking about the development of this one is that we just want to be careful to not try to have one size fits all either. I mean, I think that what we need for prevention efforts on UVM's campus might be quite different from what we need for prevention efforts at Sterling College. And so I think we want to be mindful of the fact that we want to share with each other and innovate with one another. And I will be the first person to say that UVM, even though we're big, can learn a lot of things from some of our smaller counterparts in the private colleges and the state colleges. And we want to be participatory with all of our colleagues in doing those things. But I do want to be careful that the council does not try to have a one size fits all solution for every institution and to be mindful of the fact that when we are developing solutions, we do have to understand that a lot of what we are bound by on campuses with this is federal law and that we have to be mindful of that when we're making these recommendations. Senator Lyons. So knowing that the university does reproduce culture and sends it on its way into society, the issue I think also is learning respect and non-discrimination within the college community. And so with that in mind, and I know UVM is confronting this right now. I know that there's a lot going on and you're bringing people together. I think that it's good to see the response to the kids, frankly. But is there any thought, are there currently on UVM's campus, is there currently a prevention council or a group of folks who plan and provide educational opportunities for students during orientation or other times of the year for social adjustment and prevention sort of thinking about all of these various issues? Yes, that's a very good question. And the answer to that is yes. I think that you may have seen some of the materials that went out in conversations with the students this week. We do have a group that meet to talk about education and every student at UVM in their first year is required to take some training in this area. We also have a separate training program that targets young men, which is a little bit different than the regular training that goes for every student. I think that one of the things that we have talked about with students this week is enhancing those trainings and maybe having them go further throughout a student's time at UVM. So a sexual violence prevention council, we have something that functions in that way. It's not called that right now, but we do have training for every student that comes into the university, but we absolutely can do better and should do better with that. And we'll be enhancing those things as we move forward. And I'm certain that as part of this council, we'll have a lot of discussions about what other schools are doing about that and how we can do that better, what we can learn from other folks and what folks can learn from us. So it's part of identifying most effective practices. So I'm not sure that this is the council that would do an assessment or an evaluation of what each college is doing, yet I think it will be important for folks who represent institutions to be able to bring information that allows for some judgment on what has happened. So there's historical data and it can be analyzed to build more effective results. Agreed and I think Title IX coordinators being named as the representatives or the exact right people to do that. They're the folks that are doing this on the ground. Okay, so you've answered most of my questions that I had right now. I'll turn it over to somebody else. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Childs, while we have you back, Ms. Cronig made a lot of comments and made a language change and identified it as really not not that we're questioning you Ms. Cronig, but it wasn't going to change things dramatically and just want to check in with you as well that this doesn't. If it's the language from earlier and it hasn't changed, no, it's just semantics and I guess it's the same as before Michelle. Right. Yep. Great. So committee, I'm looking for a question, opposition to that language change at this point. Okay, great. So we'll make that change if you would be so kind Ms. Childs. Thank you Ms. Cronig. We'll likely, as I mentioned at the start of this we're going to probably take a couple of days on this. So we may invite you back but really appreciate you being at this point. Really appreciate you having me. Thank you so much. Great. Patty Turley, Catherine LaVecere. Ms. Turley, welcome to Senate Education. Thank you. Thank you for having me. And great to see you Ms. LaVecere. Ms. Turley, this being your first time if you wouldn't mind introducing yourself for the record prior to telling us your thoughts on this piece of the bill. Certainly. I'm Patty Turley and I'm the general counsel for the Vermont State Colleges. Relatively new to this role. So there may be some, if you have certain questions I may need to refer back with answers. But yes, Vermont State Colleges has title, sorry, let me start again. We have title nine coordinators associated with each one of our campuses as well as title nine coordinators with CCV which does not have a specific residential campus. Your, the title nine coordinators served as an immediate source of support to students and they provide information and support. Their role is really governed by the title nine law, the federal law. So due to our size, all of our VSC title nine coordinators also have other responsibilities at their respective institutions. An example of a dual role is a coordinator who also serves with ADA disability accommodations for students. So the, our title nine coordinators are quite involved with students in student facing positions. And we're very cognizant of the need to preserve their, their time to best serve our students. We have one of our, some of our employees have participated. There was the prior legislative task force that you've been discussing and one of our employees was involved in that. We've also had an employee involved in a voluntary, I'm not quite sure it's intercollegiate sexual violence group that met regularly a couple of years ago. And we've heard from those employees that the participation in these groups was quite valuable. They in turn shared the information on with the employees across our organization. And so that our system did benefit from this, from this participation.  We, our full disclosure is that we were a little hesitant of an earlier version of the bill. We were a little worried about the size of the council, not the, not so much just the size of the council, but the size of what we might be required to have all of our, our title nine coordinators attend, which would be pretty, would be pretty difficult for us. And we also wanted to understand what the time commitments would be in terms of the amount of the meetings per year. And the house version really addressed those concerns. We feel really good about the, the one coordinator and the one other educator from, from the Vermont state colleges. We, so I am not a title line coordinator.  Regretfully, I, she would be your, your better, a very good witness for you today, but she was not able to be here. What, what she has provided for me and I've also pulled our other coordinators is the kinds of resources that they have available to them now are, we, we belong to some national groups and there's some trainings through that that they attend. We also have resources that they tap into from those national groups that are just regular materials distributed to them. Our timeline coordinators are very interactive with each other. They provide peer to peer support and consultation with each other. And they do meet together as a group on, on occasion or regular occasion. We also have a, a system investigator who is the assistant general counsel here in the office. And she supports their roles as they go forward the, but the, our coordinators have made it clear that they really do appreciate the opportunity to network with others to be part of this, this type of collaboration, which is really the design of this council. So that is, we support the, the makeup of this council and the goals of it. Thank you so much. Very helpful. Very much appreciate that. Committee, questions for Ms. Troy. Ms. Lava, sir, are you, are you here? Did you want to say anything? I'm here in a support capacity. So if there's a question that's better suited for me I'm here to answer it. Thank you so much. Senator Lyons. So as we're talking about sexual violence and prevention of sexual violence, and we know that it's a, it's, it's easily to slide into so many different areas, including academic discrimination and, and so on. So as, as you're thinking about this, and as, as we're, as we are all thinking about this, how can we make this the most effective collaboration so that we get results that change campus culture? And so for me, it's all about the campus culture. And if the culture is one that supports violence it's going to happen regardless of how many educational opportunities and workshops and or, or small group events take place. And so the campus culture for me begins with faculty and staff, as you know. So how can we inculcate in this group the ability to transform?  And obviously you folks have probably thought about this a lot more than we have. But if you're title nine people have been working together and there's so much going on through orientation and other things that are happening on campus but we're still seeing the results of a dysfunctional culture. So it doesn't matter how many groups we have unless we begin to target this shift. So. Well, that's, that's an excellent point. This is, this is an enormous problem that is reflected in our campuses but that doesn't originate in our campuses. Exactly. Yeah, and so we, we're trying to, we are trying to change the culture. We're trying to improve that culture. It does start with orientation, our student, the orientation of our student includes this culture of respect that is the right way forward and for some of them that is a new, you know, that's a, that's a unfortunately a new concept. The other aspect is that it also starts from the top, right? And the culture of respect doesn't just, it's not a student problem. It's a, it's a system wide or society wide issue. And so we do have trainings for employees. We have trainings for students. That, that's where we are at this point. I agree that one group or even many groups is, if it can make a dent, I do think that's helpful because every time we make inroads to improve and lessen that, that tendency then we've, we have made progress. But I agree with you. It is, it is daunting at times. Yeah. So, I mean, so we're focused here on preventing violence and harm. And we're looking at students causing harm to other students through sexual violence. But as, as you have said, it is ubiquitous and it's horizontal as well as longitudinal. So maybe there's something we could add into this, the charge of the committee. And I'm going to have to think about it. I, I share your concern. I share your concern. Yes. Senator Persley. Thank you. I miss Charlie, would you, would this, the Vermont State colleges be opposed to language? I don't think we could actually do it at this late of the game, but maybe we would have the council work on our recommended language that would lead to statutory protections for survivors of sexual harm, but they not be punished for reporting incidents, why they might have been behaving in some illegal behavior. So, I mean, we certainly want to protect the student who would make a complaint. Our problem is that Title IX from the federal perspective is, is really a very, it's a significant legislation. It is very detailed. So what we don't want to have is a situation where however well intentioned, we then run up into a place where our, our state legislation creates some type of friction with our obligation under the federal law. But certainly the, if this council wants to, you know, can look at language that provides protections, they would have to be aware of the fact that Title IX has some very specific requirements for us. Okay, I think in the report, they listed like six or 10 other states that did it. So I guess, well, they figured it out, we could figure it out, but I'll investigate that further. We're going to return to this tomorrow afternoon, and I'm hoping that centers will have an opportunity to consult with Ms. Childs about possible language changes that you all might be interested in as we move forward. I'm hoping to get back to Senator Judiciary by Friday with a little bit more specificity around, you know, what direction we might be heading in. Additional questions for Ms. Turley or Ms. Lavacer. Okay. Can I ask, let me ask a quick question. Have you have any students who have been identified as causing sexual violence to other students? How are they sort of, how are they adjudicated and punished? Do they get, did they get thrown off of sports teams?  What, just trying to sort out what it is that has happened recently. I mean, I know a lot about, I know do know a lot about this, but I'm just wondering what is the current activity that's going on? Sure. Well, so if a student has been, has violated Title IX, which those, what you're saying would be a violation of Title IX. There's first the investigatory process and then there's a finding of responsibility and then discipline and consequences come. Those, the discipline and consequences will range depending on the severity of the conduct. But that is my understanding is that a student, we are, so we're in a pretty new title, the Title IX was updated a year ago. So we are, I don't know that we've had an adjudication that's gone to that stage under the new Title IX regulations. So, but it is my understanding that those are the types of disciplines and consequences that are available. At what stage is law enforcement engaged? So law enforcement is engaged if the complainant wants law enforcement engaged. We have to report crimes under the Clery Act, which is not just about sexual violence. It involves other crimes as well. But really that, I believe that that tends to be up to the complainant if they want the police involved. It may well be that, well, I believe that that would be the typical way. Thank you. Thank you both for being with us. As I mentioned, we will return to this conversation tomorrow afternoon. I am going to tell Senator Judiciary unless I see senators saying no, that we are going to, as soon as we're going to suggest that we return this language to the bill with changes. I don't see anybody who is opposing this at this point. So they can anticipate that over the next couple of days we will work on edits and again return this to the Senate version. Yes, Ms. Childs. I just wanted to mention that if there are certain things that you know that you might like to see language on for tomorrow if I could draft those in anticipation of that because I'm booked all afternoon in other committees on markup. So I'm sure I can pop in and whatever, but I just don't know. Absolutely. So what I'm going to ask senators to do is to reach out to you individually because I think different people are having different thoughts at this point and have senators bring that language with them tomorrow afternoon. So everybody have different amendments or? Well, I don't think you're going to hear from everybody but I think there are a couple of people that are just thinking about some suggested language changes. I don't know if we're in the stage where they even need to be drafted, but I would like people to come back with their ideas at the very least tomorrow and perhaps having run them by you in some way just to make sure that they would work. Sure. Okay. Great. The other final request committee is that you review the amendment that we are going to present tomorrow on the floor to the school construction bill. And if I don't think there's a need for us to gather at nine tomorrow, but if everyone would please get back to me by nine tomorrow if you are supportive of that amendment. And that is in your inboxes now. Senator Chinden. That is the Radon Amendment. Yes, yes. Thank you. Radon Amendment. Have a look. It's very brief and just let me know. It looks good. Okay. Okay. Tomorrow we do have, we're returning to this, we're returning to 106, which needs to be voted out on Friday and we're also jumping back in to some church and state language, returning to some church and state language that we started working on earlier this session. So that's where we're at. So thanks for a productive afternoon and Senator Turnzine, did you? No, okay. Senator Purcell, if you don't mind sticking around for just one moment so we can talk about the floor tomorrow. Thanks everybody.


I'm Ovita Glover and I am the president of Funds Incorporated, the organization that produces or presents the annual statewide Black History Parade and Festival. This is our 19th year. I'll say it again, it's our 19th year and we look forward to seeing you there. Corner of Hampton and Hardin Street and we walk on down a march down to Martin Luther King Park and that's where the festivities will be. In partnership with the City of Columbia, Parks and Recreation, City Council, ABC Bonding, PALS Incorporated, this year we're excited to have partnered with a barber shop, Mobile Barber. Mobile Cutting is what it is and they will be there to give free haircuts to anyone that has the desire to have a haircut. So we're looking forward again for you to utilize the information and the services that will be offered there. You'll be able to get free testing, HIV testing, sicker cell, blood, just have a conversation learning about veterans affairs, there will be a kid's zone. This will be our headliner is Mr. David and he is a Southern Soul Entertainer and I'm very excited this year because we have for our Grand Marshal, Senator Tamika Devine. Our walking Grand Marshals will consist of the Mayor, the City Mayor, City Council, County Council members and other local dignitarians as such. The time again is 1 p.m. The festivities will be over 5.30, 6 o'clock. Looking forward to seeing all of you there, I remember it's an educational event. Come out and learn our Black History.


Coming to you from RGIS Studios, I am Anicia Antoine and this is your midday news brief. In commemoration of St. Lucia's 40th Independence Anniversary, the government of St. Lucia hosted an unveiling ceremony of the 40th Independence Monument. The monument serves as a permanent tribute to the forefathers who steered the land to statehood. Honourable Sarah Floodbobre, Parliamentary Representative for Cass Street Central, stated that the monument should serve as a reminder to continue their legacy. Renowned sculptor Charlie Murovic depicted the spirit of the nation's independence in a monument that symbolizes the St. Lucia tradition of Kudme reflecting the independence theme all in. Murovic expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister of St. Lucia and the 40th Independence Committee for granting him this opportunity. The unveiling ceremony took place on Thursday, October 3, 2019 at the Cass Street's Waterfront. The second phase of training under the project Mainstreaming Gender Equality in St. Lucia's National Sustainable Development Plan recently concluded at the National Skills Development Centre. The project was launched earlier this year with the inception mission by consultants from Niagara College, Canada. The gender mainstreaming project seeks to ensure that gender is mainstreamed throughout the public service. Since May of 2019, public servants have been introduced to gender concepts and gender analysis with the aim of ensuring that during planning and budgeting in the public service, issues related to men and women are dealt with equally. The project is being implemented by the Government of St. Lucia through a grant from the Caribbean Development Bank. The Department of Fisheries in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO hosted a workshop for stakeholders to develop a national fisheries policy which will inform the manner in which the sub-sector initiates actions to sustain, safeguard and expand fisheries livelihoods. The workshop is an integral component of the technical cooperation project which is entitled Assistant with the Development of the National Policy on Fisheries. Its objective is to revise the national fisheries plan in order to incorporate clear policy statements on a number of thematic areas impacting the local fisheries, marine and aquaculture sector. Deputy Chief Fisheries Officer attached to the Department of Fisheries, Thomas Nelson explained concerns such as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, post-harvest issues on the ground such as sanitary and phytosanitary measures, trade and the overall impact of climate change on the industry with the forefront of their deliberations. This has been your midday news brief. Thank you for watching.


Hey, good morning, welcome to morning prayer. We are on day eight, I believe. Day 10, so close. So, so close. Day 10 of the Isaiah 62 prayer and fasting initiative, Praying for Israel. Most of you are probably aware, but during six million people who've committed to praying an hour a day for Israel, culminating on day 21, there's gonna be a hundred million people praying for Israel on the same day that has never happened in the history of the earth. And so, pretty incredible moment we get to live in. I wanna start out of Isaiah 62 and we're gonna begin today.  But I wanna pray and read that Isaiah 62 passage is so good to see it with our eyes as we pray. But Isaiah 62, one, for Zion's sake, I will not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burns. The Gentiles shall see your righteousness and all kings your glory. You shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord will name. You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.  For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride.  I have set watchmen on your wall of Jerusalem. They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord do not keep silent and give him no rest till he establishes and makes up Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Let's go before the Lord in prayer and intercession. Father, we are honored to in a small part be your watchmen on the wall. God, those even Gentiles, thousands of miles away from Jerusalem, Lord, ones who are willing to step in and feel your heart and your burden for Israel in our weak simple little way, Lord, we come before you right now from Kalamazoo, Michigan, Lord, and we bless the people of Israel, Lord. We bless the city of Jerusalem, Lord. We bless this plot of land that you've had in your heart since before the foundations of the world. Lord, this city that you picked out for your glory to rest and dwell. Lord, this mountain that you picked out for the new Jerusalem to come down and for you to reign forever on the earth. And Lord, from this house we bless Jerusalem and Israel. And God, I just ask during this time, Lord, we're praying Isaiah 62 and there's six million intercessors globally praying for 21 days and 100 million praying on the final day. God, I ask that you would set watchmen on the wall. Lord, I ask that you would apprehend intercessors, Lord, that would get your heart and your burden, Lord, that they would see the apple of your eye, Lord, that they would carry your heart in prayer and in intercession. God, I just ask that you would set your watchmen on the wall, Lord, raise up intercessors for Israel, Lord. Raise up those who would stand guard and watch and pray for your people in Israel. So God, we just ask across the globe during this prayer initiative, Lord, set watchmen on the wall for Israel. Set your watchmen on the wall over Israel. If you're to the drowning, I was lost till you found me. You broke the chains of your steadfast love in the generation. Your steadfast love endures forever.  We long to see your kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. We long to see a break into this moment in time and we long to see your throne descend and be established in Jerusalem when you come again and the increase of your government will know no end. Well, that's the day we're looking at and that's the day we're contending to see right now on earth as it is in heaven. Lord, we want to see your kingdom come and be established. Jesus, we think of your words in Matthew 24. So you will not see me again until you say, bless to see who comes in the name of the Lord. You peered over the balcony of Jerusalem. Felt the sting of the rejection of the city, the blindness that had to happen so that the fullness of the Gentiles could come in. You said, you will not see me again until you say, bless to see who comes in the name of the Lord. And so Lord, that's as Gentiles who have been grafted in wild olive branches that have been grafted into the roots or that have been grafted into Israel who pertains the adoption, who pertains the covenants, Lord, who pertains the glory, who pertains the promises, Lord, as wild olive branches have been grafted in. Lord, we commit to stand on the wall until Jerusalem says, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Until they look upon the one they pierced and they mourned. Until your feet stand on the Mount of Olives, it splits in two. And the weakest of them fight like David and the strongest fight like God. And they look upon the one they pierced and they say, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Lord, we stand before you and contend just like your kingdom is now and not yet, Lord, we contend for the fullness of Israel now. Even though we know the fullness won't happen until that day, Lord, we contend for it to break in now and to save souls right now. So as we move into intercession, Lord, we come before you and we lift up Jews in the land of Israel and we ask for salvation out of Ephesians one, 17 through 19, we ask that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him. The eyes of your understanding would be enlightened. You may know the hope of his calling. What are the riches of the glorious inheritance of the saints and the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe? So Lord, we lift up Jews in the land of Israel and Lord, we pray the same prayer that Paul, a Jew prayed 2000 years ago for the church in Ephesus. Lord, even as a Jew contended for Gentiles, Lord, we flip the script and as Gentiles, Lord, we contend back for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, Lord. We remember that Paul, a Jew who had all the pedigree, all the knowledge in the world, all the, he knew the scriptures front to back. Lord, he knew the promises and yet his eyes were blinded but in a moment the spirit of wisdom and revelation met him on the road to Damascus. Lord, you came as a blinding light and revealed yourself to Saul. And Lord, we ask in that same way, would you show up, Lord? Even in this 21 days, supernaturally, God, would you send your blinding light from heaven that reveals Jesus, Lord? I specifically pray for the Orthodox Jews who are studying Torah, who are pouring through the scriptures and they see the one who was promised but they don't see him. They see Messiah but they're blinded and they don't see Jesus. So Lord, we just ask, even as they pour through the prophets, they pour through the Psalms, Lord, they pour through the Pentateuch and all of the law and the prophets that speak of you, Jesus, Lord, in a moment you can open their eyes. In a moment you can show yourself. In a moment they can see you in Isaiah 53. They can see the suffering servant, the one who went to the cross like a lamb to the slaughter. In a moment they can see Jesus, the Jewish man who walked. Emmanuel, God with us who walked the very land of Israel and who died and was resurrected and is now raised to life and glorified. Oh, Lord, they miss you as the suffering servant, Lord. I ask that you would reveal the glorified Jesus. The Jesus that showed up to John, the island of Patmos and he fell on his face like a dead man. Eyes like a flame of fire, hair like wool, feet like burnished bronze, Lord, that Jesus glorified, exalted and lifted high. God, we contend for salvation of the people of Israel. We ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation, the knowledge of Jesus, Lord. I ask that you would overcome just centuries, even millennial hurt, Lord, that's come from, from those who've borne the name Jesus, Gentiles who have persecuted the people of Israel, Lord, and created a deeper hardness and bitterness in their heart. God, we just ask that that would dissipate and that would fall away, Lord, and that even in this time, Lord, you would raise up Gentiles who would be a friend to Israel, Lord, that they would see the kindness of Jesus even through the love of the Gentiles. So, Lord, we ask for the people of Israel, Lord, out of Ephesians 1.17, Lord, give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus. To continuing to pray for Israel. Pastor Caleb started us here. We're gonna end here in a rapid fire. So just be preparing to line up here. But in verse 10, it says, go through, go through the gates. Clear the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway. Remove the stones. Lift up a standard over the peoples. The primary way we do that, that we clear away for the people to see Jesus, to know Jesus is through the place of prayer. Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, say to the daughter of Zion, lo, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him and his recompense before him. And they will call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord, and you will be called sought out, a city not forsaken. So, Lord, we just come now and we pepper the throne room with our prayers of agreement. Even as the world is aiming the prayer cannons on Israel and Jerusalem, God, we stand in agreement with you today and we say, Lord, release the revelation of Jesus. We declare over Israel, lo, your salvation comes. Today is the day of salvation. So we're just gonna go ahead and line up here, maybe 10, 20 people. We're gonna do 15 second prayers, this short little prayer burst of agreement in the throne room. Father, we agree that it is your desire that Israel would be saved, that you have not forgotten them, that you have set them apart to be a city on a hill that all of the nations will be blessed through them and the kings of the earth will come and bow to King Jesus, the king of the Jews. God, I just pray that you would release boldness in the messianic believers, God, and in the Christians in Israel, Lord, that just as you are mobilizing an army of intercessors, you would also mobilize an army of evangelists to send your gospel forth. Jesus, we just ask for dreams and visions that you would come in the night, God, and that you would reveal yourself to your people, God, that you would, just as you revealed yourself to your disciples as you walked down the road, God, that you would reveal yourself in scriptures to the Jewish people. Pray for laborers, for Israel, for you to begin to open the hearts of people that are interceding in fasting, Lord, that they would receive visions of a people that they have not known, a people that they have not met, that they would book one-way tickets, long-term laborers, Father, that would go without an end, that would go without a cause, that are not seeking fruit, that are not seeking notoriety, Father, but are seeking the kingdom of Israel to be known and fully known to a Messiah that died for them, by them, and with them. In Jesus' name. Jesus, we plead your blood over Jerusalem. Lord, would you surround them in faithfulness as the mountains surround the city? We ask for protection over them from missiles and rockets. Lord, we plead your blood over them. Would you protect them physically and spiritually in Jesus' name? Nor by power, but by my Holy Spirit. God, we just ask you to, the Holy Spirit to awaken the Jews that are seeking, that are searching for answers for truth. We know that they're hungry, we know that they're desperate.   This is of the depth of the riches of the wisdom, the knowledge of God, how unsearchable are His judgments, how inscrutable are His ways for His known the mind of the Lord and who has been His counselor. Lord, I ask for the mystery of your heart. God, for the nation of Israel to be revealed. God, the plan that you had at the beginning. God, the mystery of creating a people, Lord, birthing a Messiah, birthing a church and redeeming a people back to yourself. Father, I ask in these days, in these days that the plan that's been hidden in the heart of God will be revealed on the earth. Lord, I ask for even a new prophetic messenger. God, new prophetic messengers to declare with new language to the nation of Israel the love and the kindness of God, in Jesus' name. I pray, Isaiah 40, 11, He will tend this flock like a shepherdy. He will gather the lambs in His arms. He will carry them in His bosom and gently lead those that are with you on. God, we ask, Lord, that you would fulfill this promise in your heart, that this is your flock, your sheep, your the good shepherd. And would you gather the lambs? Would you leave the 99 for the one? And would you speak to your chosen people and you would gather them and you would gently lead them in the name of Jesus? Lord, we thank you for the nation of Israel. We pray today from the north to the south, east to the west in that nation that your word would move quickly. Your promises will come to pass in Jesus' name. Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews that seek the Tanakh, they seek other rabbis. Lord, that they would seek the true rabbi, that their hearts were to be open and they can see you, Jesus, in Jesus' name. Father, I ask that they would no longer know you as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, but that they would know you as their God. That you would no longer be a God of their ancestors who has done things for their people in the past. The God that you'd be, that they would know you as the God who has done something for them now. That they would understand the things that you're doing for them now. God, just open their eyes. They have all this knowledge, but open the eyes of their heart in Jesus' name. Nine, starting in verse 17. It says, So in days departed and entered the house and laying hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight. So God, I just pray like the Saul to Paul conversion, that something like scales would fall from the eyes of the Israelites, that they will see you, that they will be known and that they will reveal, that you will reveal your glory to them and that they will see you. And God, I just pray for anisees to rise up, that they're not going to fear, that they will not fear the persecution and the fear that will come, but that they will still go and pursue the nation of Israel. Jesus' name. Let's just go ahead and stand and we're just going to end with this chorus. This is our cry. We thank you, Jesus, for this sacred hour, to stand in agreement with your heart, to stand in the power of agreement with millions across the earth, God, for the things that you love, for your purposes and plans and heart for Israel. We thank you, Jesus, for this sacred privilege and honor. And Father, I ask that all that has transpired this hour, God, that you would multiply it right here at this altar in across our city and region and nation and the nations of the earth. Lord, that you would have watchmen on the walls of the cities of the earth and the towns of the earth, perpetual prayer fires burning in the day watches and night watches, the incense of worship ever declaring the worth of your son, Father. We ask you to do these things that are on your heart to do. And we bless you, Jesus, and we bless Israel in the name of the Lord. Amen. Thank you for praying with us this morning. We are on day 10 as Pastor Caleb said of a 21 day prayer fast for Israel, joining with six million, some believers across the face of the earth. If you would like more information about that, you can visit isaias62fast.com or radiant.church slash prayer room for any resources or additional information. Otherwise, we're back here today at 12 and at 6.30 tonight. Come join us. God bless you.


Hello everyone and welcome back to another video. In this video, we're going to be showing you how to add this really cool add-in, which is a date picker into your Excel. You can see the icon we have here in our ribbon, what's the date picker, and the real benefit of it allows us when we're navigating, shall we say, the cells in our worksheet, we're able to get this little pop up, what allows us to click it, and we get the date pop up, what allows us to then click the desired date of our choice and it will get populated into our column or into our desired cell for us automatically. So without further ado, we're going to jump straight into the video and show you firstly how to get the add-on and then how to get it installed into your Excel. Okay, so the first thing we need to do is download the add-in itself. So in order to do that, we just need to navigate to the website. Link for the website can be obviously being seen on our screen now, or you can find it in the description of this video, so just click that link and it will take you straight to the page. Once you get there, we need to scroll about halfway down the page and you'll see this button here for download now for Excel 2007 to 19. Just click that link and it will download a zip file, obviously to your downloads folder. We've already done this, so we'll just jump over to our downloads folder and then continue what you need to do.  All I want to do is select that file and extract its contents to our desktop. So I'm just going to browse, find my desktop, do OK, and then extract the files. And we can see it's now put there on our desktop. So we're all good to go. What we're going to do is just close these windows, go back to the desktop and then we'll open up Excel. And it's going to open up a blank workbook. Cool, let's get rid of these. We've got a few little pop-ups and updates, obviously, to do, but we'll worry about those later. So in order to get the add-in into Excel, all we need to do is just go to our file tab. We can then go down to options. And then we just need to go to our add-in section on the left here. And then at the bottom here, you've got the section of manage Excel add-ins. So if that's not on add-ins, all you need to do is just change it, but it should default to be defaultly set to add-ins. And then just select go. You're going to get another pop-up. What we're going to do here is go to browse, go to the location that you stored that file. And for us, we've got it here on our desktop. Once selected, we're just going to hit OK. And you can see it's been added there. And it's got the tick box. If you click OK. And now you can see that the date picker is there in the ribbon at the top of the screen. So if you want to put a date in there, all we need to do is select our date from the icon, from the ribbon. And you can see we can go through and select any date that we require. And let's just make that comment bigger so we can see. And we've got a perfect day captured in there for us. If we go into the cell below, because we've put a date in the row above, the add-in is automatically thinking, ah, we're most likely going to want another date because obviously we're putting a value below an existing date. So we get this little pop-up here. So we need to select that. And we can go through and select another date as required. And we can keep going down and adding whatever dates we require. So it's a really, really cool add-in. And obviously it makes it really, really sleek. And it's just really easy to use. And obviously if you've added a date and you want to change it, just go back to where we want to do. And you can then navigate to either a month in the future or month in the past. And then select, obviously, the days that you are after. The other real great use of this is let's say we have a date we want to put in here. But it's not maybe this month or this year. All we can do is go into our pop-up. And we can even go into the date. And you can see it's selected by doing the underline and hit select. And we can now navigate to any of our months throughout the year. So let's go to April. And we can do the same with years. So if we go to the year, you can then scroll through all years of what we've got available in the add-in. And obviously I've gone a bit too far now. But as an example, let's just pick out, oh, am I nearly there, let's just pick out 1991. And then you can obviously select the date from April 1991. And now we're all about to add the date in there for you as well. So it's really, really useful for doing past and future dates in all. Let's say that we don't want to have this pop-up here in the grid. All we need to do is go into our date picker icon, do the drop-down, and we can just untick this option here for show in grid. So if we untick that and navigate away, you can see now that pop-up will not be there. So every time you want to add a date, all you need to do is navigate to your date picker icon here and then select the date, and it will then populate that date into the cell you have selected. But me personally, I really like that show in grid. I just think it gives it a really good look. So we'll just tick that again so we've got it available. The other way you can populate a date in here is to right-click, and you can see you now got date picker automatically set as the top option in our pop-up here for all these options. So you can just right-click, go to date picker, and that will pop-up as well. So this is potentially a good option if you didn't want to have that in grid view, what this will pop-up what you have here at the moment. If you did want to, if for some reason this date picker option was not available in this menu here, all you need to do is go to your date picker, drop-down again, just make sure that it's ticked in the show and right-click. If this is ticked but it's not appearing, then a quick fix will probably be just untick it, so you can see there's no tick there now, and then just tick it again, and that will then hopefully, or should then, repopulate it in there. Not a common error, but I have seen a couple of times where it's ticked, so it should be there, but it's not appearing in that right-click menu, but just a quick untick and then retick will make that show up again. So one problem that you may have with using this particular add-in is saying we've been joining it, it's working in Excel very well, but we now go and close Excel, and now we don't want to save our workbook, and then we go to open Excel once more and go into a blank workbook. You can see that it's actually still there, so we've actually not had the problem I was trying to demonstrate, but the problem that you can sometimes face is if I go to my documents and I did this to my desktop, often what will happen is when you go to reopen Excel, it might no longer show that add-in in your ribbon, and the particular reason or problem that can cause that is if you go into the pop-up we've got here now, and under the general tab we go to the bottom here, you can see that under security this file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer. So if the add-in is not appearing when you go back into Excel, then what you want to do is come into this pop-up or go into the properties and then go to the general tab and just make sure you unblock, because often what it will do is Excel will be blocking it when it's being added back into Excel. Me, for my example here, it was still in Excel, but I'm still going to just do this unblock here. The reason for that is because if there's any updates I download or install in Excel, I just want to make sure that it's not going to get then missed off in the future, but by unblocking it, it should not cause that to be a problem in the future. So I just apply that and do okay, and then we should now be completely set to start using our date picker going forwards. So once again, we want to put a date in there, we can just select it from here and then within once Excel is recognized that we've got dates in here, then it will obviously allow us to then do the picker from the grid. And the other little tip I just left out is if you go to the date picker and you do it, we can do it from this icon here, you can see at the bottom it has a current time and or current date and time as well and you can see the seconds there as well. And you can see the little prompt we've got there is insert today's date, hint, right click to insert date and time. So we could either left click this to insert our date or if we actually wanted the actual date and time as it is at the moment of time, if you just right click that, you can see that it's put the date and the time in for us as well. So again, another really useful feature if you're wanting to capture the exact date and time as that doing that. So we hope you enjoyed that video and that's giving you a really, well an insight really into adding your first add-on maybe to Excel but also giving you an add-on that's particularly useful and is one that actually should probably be part of Excel because it just seems right to have this available. We've often had the request from clients that they want to have a date selector like this because it's easier for people to populate and put dates in and obviously it just makes it easier for people to not be messing around with any formatting when coming to do those dates. So it's very, very useful for that and it's just a great all-round add-in addition to your Excel platform. So if you did enjoy the video, please do give the video a like. It's greatly appreciated by us and it obviously does help the channel out tremendously. If you haven't already as well, do subscribe to the channel and make sure you hit that bell notification button so you're notified of all of our future videos. We have a lot of videos coming out really soon. So again, by hitting that bell notification button, you'll be notified of them as they come out onto our channel. We've also got a couple of links in the description to this video for our social media. So they're great platforms again for getting contact with us and also being notified of any new videos that are coming out and also interact with the community that's growing of people who are passionate about Excel and obviously have any questions or answers they want and can provide. 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And Daniel's son who watches the vlog has one. Come here, buddy. Oh, yeah Do you love I love I got some bugs going I want to say I'm sorry for my irritability this morning Everyone for all the spouses out there of long-distance runners. He gets serious. Yeah when your body hurts My big toe my hey my toenail on my big toes about to fall off my knee my left knee is still tight I'm dealing with that My neck is still recovering and I just want to say true love is the best I woke up just kind of in a bad mood. It's like everything everywhere everything everywhere was hurting and So I'm sorry For the bad mood and and I am putting So also you might have to learn this as a sorry As a long-distance runner that you have to prioritize your energy and your sleep So true love went through all this work To get these High schoolers to come help us out with putting our carports To bed for winter meaning like put everything out of the carport the table the furniture And wrap it up and I was like Getting on true love about it. So no all I gotta say all the Spouses out there of long-distance runners We love you and we appreciate your support So I love you. I'm sorry. I'm so sweaty. I just got and when I when I woke up for my long run today was 22 miles 22 miles Is windy? And I'm not just windy like I'm afraid the roots. It's like gusting. What and I it's like my toe my body hurts It's windy 22 miles Ah So thank you, hon. I love you come here Sorry Bugs and all It's hard to do it all it's hard to do it all that's true love right there kissing your spouse After a long-distance run We're longer and in the middle of the run true love gives me a little call to check in and I'm like true love Could you get the tea ready? It's ready. Could you get the uh, let's pour it for him Oh, we got a new tea thing. Uh-huh Uh, a new electric kettle Boogie woogie woogie woogie woogie and here we go So She also got the epsom salt bath ready. So thank you true love So true love I'm sorry Boom, that's good. Okay. Okay off to recovery I also get a little irritable when my shoe boxes start blowing away Oh man, so I have knots from the running shoe giveaway about a week ago I still haven't shipped out the shoes that is my goal This weekend is to get all the shoes wrapped up and sent out the door. So Anyway, it's just we don't have enough room in our house to Store all of these shoe boxes inside. So they got to live out here in the carport Time to get organized. Oh, man So I know I have a running shoe problem, but I may also have a running shoe box problem I just don't like throwing away running shoe boxes. I don't know about you I gotta get these out of my life though. Oh, man I never thought I would get a storage unit, but I'm wondering if in 2020 It might be time. Oh my goodness Just to uh absorb all the generosity from all of you out there Some more shoes arrived. Let's go open them up for the next giveaway. Oh, let's get out of this wind Oh the help has arrived So I don't know if I made it clear, but when I was talking inside with true love The carport is where we hang out in the summertime But in the wintertime it's cold and true love cannot pull her car up under the carport So her windows are frosted over every morning. So now Because I'm running high volume and yes, I'll just say today's run 22 miles because I'm running high volume I'm really trying to be diligent about where I place my physical exertion And it sounds like a little task But there's a lot of furniture out there and frankly it's kind of a two-man job So we decided to hire some high schoolers. They just arrived. They're getting it done. And I'm just ever it's like, okay If you've been watching the channel a long time, you know that I love Landscaping I love taking care of my yard. I used to film mowing my yard on this channel all the time Like I love it But I actually had to I had to hire a lawn care company I think it was a year and a half ago two two summers now Where I have not mowed my own yard because I just simply was too tired as I push in the lawn mower running 100 miles a week It just wasn't combining. It wasn't working. So I said true love like my legs are dying I got to be rested and today's run So I put on the nike zoom fly 3 for 22 miles and my big toe that I'm losing the toe on losing the toenail Hopefully I'm not losing the toe losing the toenail on it hurts so so bad I could tell immediately that the toe box is just a little too narrow with a hurt Big toe. So I went and opted for the sketchers three if you haven't seen my top three road running shoes of 2019 You might want to go check it out. Here's a hint right here in my hand. All right. Here we go Getting organized. Let's open up these boxes. Actually, let me rearrange the camera real quick Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention the pace. So today 22 miles in the sketchers max road four 730 a mile. So there it is in kilometers. I intentionally told myself like it's a long run I just got a chill out. It's been a long week. So I was really pleased with 730 a mile It felt really good. It just felt perfect for today and considering it was really windy out as well Holy smokes. Okay. Oh, here we go. So these are shoes for the next running shoe giveaway one two and three Oh, yeah, are these can know the triumphs all the soccany triumph iso Size nine size nine. There we go. Oh, I have not sure. I've never worn the triumph. I've heard good things That is amazing. Oh, those look so good. Oh, so cool. And these are arriving from Rochester, New York shout out to Bruce. All right, here we go Oh, there's a note. He says women's soccany for shoe giveaway. I like the way you set the giveaway up Bruce. Oh, thank you, Bruce. Okay. Let's see another. Did he say another soccany? Oh, yeah Are these triumphs as well? Hold on a second. These are freedoms. Okay, the soccany freedom That is awesome to soccany's back to back. So these are lady shoes for the next giveaway. Awesome. They look so good I like that colorway as well. Oh, amazing. And let's see the size is Size nine as well, but in women's size so perfect I'm going to put these on the rack for the next giveaway in case you're new to the channel I do running shoe giveaways here in the channel, but to make it clear I always say it, but I always got to reinforce it. It's the honor system So the running shoe giveaways are for people In need people that just don't have a little bit of a tight budget They just can't go out there and buy new shoes all the time And so it's to help people who might be running in shoes that have 500 700 a thousand miles in their shoes and the midsole is just like dead And we don't want those those feet and those legs to get injured Which happens when your shoes are dead and the midsole is dead So that is the goal of the running shoe giveaways to help people in need Thank you for sending those both from the east coast, Connecticut and new york. Okay I'm off to a christmas program. I'll be back in a little bit to continue organizing here in the studio Oh, it's just grateful grateful There we go. All right, I'm back. Oh beautiful music the boys singing their hearts out Although if they are hoping to have a musical career They better not be expecting to get the talent from me because I've got no musical talent. It's all in the running space It's all in the running space. So that was fun. Okay Here's the deal. I'm going to open a box a box arrived while I was gone From run territory company, but real quick just to make sure I'm a little tired and I need the weekend I want to make sure I'm driving this point home about time on feet Again, if your volume is increasing if your intensity is increasing You might just need to talk with your spouse or with your family or whatever the case may be like You might need to reduce the number of hours you spend on your feet Doing chores around the house. Like I'm just being very honest with you. It's it can be Over your body can break down if you're not putting enough rest into the legs Even here in the studio.  Here's the carport pulling the car in they moved all of the furniture to the backyard It's wrapped up in tarps for the winter and winter eyes. So again, it's like Oh, you just have to pick your battle sometime when it comes to Is it worth me spending three four five hours moving all that furniture to the backyard? Or is it worth paying a couple high school kids to do it for you? That's what i'm getting at. Okay. Here we go box Well, here we go. Where is it all of there we go looking for the knife. I'm out of bang, but boom This is arriving from portland, oregon. Have you all heard of run territory company? Hold on Let's see here. Did I get it? Yes, I did. So run territory company out of portland, oregon Their t-shirts are so comfortable. I don't know what the blend is that they're using But um, I run in them, but they're also like lifestyle Type t-shirt like you could wear them out to hang out with your friends like they're really really comfortable So I really enjoy them. So here we go. Oh stickers. There it is. Uh, and they're their whole kind of Branding is all about like running out in the wild going out and seeking adventure I just love it runners of the wild says the t-shirt or says the stick or see I told you I was tired Here we go. Oh, look at that color. Ah Bronco colors, you know, I love my broncos. There's blue and orange says territory run cut. That is nice Oh, they're their products are just high quality very high quality. Oh my goodness boom beanie Beanie time. I might have to throw that on. Oh some socks.  Let's oh my goodness. I like that a lot right there Butter my bread and oh Nelly whole nelly some pants. There we go Territory run company northwest alpine it says and oh my goodness. We've got more T-shirts t-shirts t-shirts. Oh a purple t-shirt. Okay. Here's the deal though everybody And this one is oh, this one's a long sleeve. Oh, I like that. What do you guys think territory run company? Portland, Oregon. So here's the deal. I feel very fortunate to have built This youtube channel and that companies Recognize that the channel is Trying to connect with people and then we've got a family here and that we love each other and that Products show up like this stuff like this is amazing But at the same time I want to spread it. Okay, so here's the deal Um purple t-shirt is going out to someone at the next running shoe giveaway. Okay, so I'm going to give this one away and Probably. Oh my goodness. This is so we'll do this one to a lady because it's purple and we'll do this black one To a gentleman. It's got a bow. That's hard to give away because it's got a buffalo on it So it says run wild run free. Oh, I like that a lot My brother would like that one a lot. So anyway, because I just feel um I don't want it to be about me. I want to get the shoes out there get the products out there So anyway, we will give away two of these t-shirts At the next running shoe giveaway probably some stickers as well. Okay Heading inside to foam roll take care of the body I'll get you the question of the day with true love in the car because we're headed to a party. All right, come on people I love you You have to borrow michael in a second Borrow michael in a second Shout out to Daniel and his son who watched the vlog This crazy coincidence happened where I was wearing this new fleece from true love And michael has one And daniel's son who watches the vlog has one come here, buddy Oh, yeah There it is Butta my bread. He's like, what's that light all about? Here we go. We had to be matching right Right, hun. Yeah Softest fleece ever says true love and shout out again. Love the hat feeling so good territory territory. There he is Love that hat. Oh, I know it's like it leaves. I know it's amazing. It's amazing amazing High five. Yeah high five Yeah, got it. Yeah Got it. Oh careful. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. Have michael's got one And set's got his yeah Oh, that feels amazing There it is. We'll get the full dress in a second. Okay, everyone We are we clean up. We clean up, right? You look very handsome. We are off to a crit You know how we're homebodies, but we're venturing out. We are our one time for the year We leave the house And we're tired from running. We like our books. Yeah, we love our books Uh question of the day For all the runners out there remember connecting back to this morning. Oh, yeah Apology How have your friends family team members? Significant others. Significant others supported you through your training through the injuries through the The aches and pains the tiredness. You know being tired from the high volume. So that's a good question. That's the question of the day Thanks for hitting up down in the comments and we're off. Oh my goodness. Can you believe it? I know We're ready. We're ready. Oh, let's get the full dress full dress with a baby bump. There it is There it is. There's the baby bump. Oh, yeah a little twirl. Oh one last thing I am. Oh, yeah, wearing my sliders to the cocktail party because my big toe is uh Just kind of throbbing a little bit in regular shoes. So yes, thankfully our friends Already on the bottom. That's right. All right. We're tossing it back everyone to the q&a from yesterday on the right And then on the left, we'll toss it back to my favorite road running shoes of 2019 All right, here we go. See beauty work hard and love each other. We'll see you tomorrow. Boom See