In this discussion, we will discuss the discussion question of discuss how to record a partner's investment and the effect on the accounting equation. So we're talking here about the investment from a partner to the partnership, often how a partnership will start. We're going to have partners coming together. We're going to have those partners typically putting in some type of investment into the partnership in order to start the business going, put those capital investments in so that they can make purchases needed to get the business going. How do we record those initial investments? Typically, it should be if it's the most simple type of investment, which would be cash, then the owner would be putting cash from the checking account, their personal checking account to the businesses or partnership checking account. And then the partnership account then would be going up with a debit. So the cash account for the partnership would go up with a debit. So we would debit the cash account and then we would credit the capital account for the partner's investment, crediting capital for whichever partner. And the effect on the accounting equation then would be an increase to the asset, of course, because cash is now increased into the business. And the other side is really reflecting who that cash is owed to. So it's kind of like if we got a loan and you can think of it pretty similar to us getting a loan. If we got a loan from a bank, it would be a liability account, the credit to bank loan or something like that, liability. Here, the credit's going to go to the capital account, meaning that the money that was put in there is basically owed back to the owner. So you might think, well, what's the point then of doing that if we just, you know, they put cash in there and now it's owed back to the owner? Well, of course, the partnership is then going to buy stuff with the cash. And it'll still owe the money back to the owner. If it takes that money and buys equipment with it, then technically, you know, the equipment, the value of it is still kind of owed to the owner. The owner, of course, is looking not to take out the initial investment, but to generate revenue with this investment and then be drawing out money in the future based on the revenue in the future. Now, that's going to be the most simple type of initial investment. We could have some more complex initial investments. So if the partner was to put in something like equipment, that could be an initial investment as well rather than just cash. And if they put something like equipment on the books, then it would be a debit to the partnership of not cash but equipment, another type of asset. And then the credit would go once again to the capital account. The difference with equipment is, you know, the question is with equipment is always, well, what should we put the equipment on the books for? Because it's not really kind of a sale that happens at that point in time. And equipment is something that depreciates. So it's kind of a question of what's the actual value of it. And we're basically going to have the negotiated value for the equipment. So it'll go on the books for what the partners agree upon to have the negotiated value. And that's kind of like a market sale type of transaction that's happening because one partner is putting the equipment on the books and kind of negotiating with the other partners what the value of that equipment is, which is important to the partners because it'll be reflected in the partner who is putting the equipment into the company's capital account. And so the capital account will be bigger or smaller relative to the equipment investment. And therefore there's some type of negotiation and the other partners have an incentive to maybe value the equipment a little bit less to have relative capital accounts that are larger in their capital account. So there is kind of a bit of a negotiation process, even though there's not a market sale per se that happens when the equipment goes on the books. What it doesn't go on the books for is just going to be the book value that it was on the books of the partner investing. It may, but that won't be the default. It's going to go on there kind of like a new purchase as if we purchased used equipment. And so we're not typically going to have a debit to equipment and a credit to accumulated depreciation, but just put it on the books as equipment at that point in time, typically. So that's the other kind of investment. Now it isn't possible as well for the investment to be in the form of liabilities included. So for example, if an owner put a building into the business and had a related mortgage on it, a loan on it, then they could put both the building and the loan in the business. The building would be a debit increase in the assets of the business. The loan attached to it would typically be a credit that would go to the business reflecting that it would be a liability owed to some third party. And then the difference then would be increasing the capital account. Now that gets a little bit tricky when we start talking about loans because the partner that put the invest the loan on the books had 100% of the loans responsibility for paying back that loan before putting it on the books. And now that loan is kind of, they still have some responsibility, but it's going to be spread out between the other partners in some way as well. So all partners now taking responsibility in some way for the paying back of that loan amount. So and then the difference would be to the capital account. So in that case, assets would go up, liabilities would go up, and then the equity would go up for the difference between the two. Note that none of these versions have anything to do with the income statement because no time has passed, no revenue has been generated. We have received cash or some other type of asset, but not through work, not through doing revenue, but just through the capital investments. So no net income effect with the capital investments.


Thanks, Nelly. My name is James Pepper, Chair of the Vermont Cannabis Control Board. Today is Wednesday, November 29th, 2023. It's 1 o'clock 1 p.m. and I call this evening order. Just a quick recap. We, last week held the third meeting of the Act 65 working group, actually it was the week before I think, which has been tasked with improving the medical program. The primary focus of this meeting was testing and labeling medical products. We spoke with Dr. Ari Kirschenbaum about how cannabinoids and terpenes interact with the endocannabinoid system. We spoke with a number of existing adult use retailers and medical dispensary owners about what they would like to see legislatively in order to better serve their patients. You can watch this meeting and all of the other Act 65 meetings on our YouTube channel, just type BTCCB in the search bar. It'll pop up on YouTube. The fourth and final meeting will take place on December 7th from 8 a.m. through 10 a.m. The links to join are available on the events calendar page of our website. The focus of this last meeting will be how the use of cannabis and cannabis products communicated to patients and patient providers. We're also going to review the patient survey that we did, some of the responses to that. And then also take a look at the actual draft recommendations that will be included in our report back to the legislature. We really encourage anyone who's interested in the medical program to attend, if possible. If you can't make that time, you can always share your thoughts about the medical program by emailing ccb.medmed at vermont.gov. And other than that, just need to approve the minutes from our last meeting, which is on October 25th, 2023. So moved. Seconded. All in favor? Aye. Okay. Looks like we have a lot on the agenda today. Bryn, I think I'll turn things off for you to discuss prequalification. Okay. So I just have a few slides to look at as we talk about prequalification. What it is, what it means. So here we go. The prequalification process. This is a new process that the licensing team has developed that is really drawing on everything that they and we have all learned in this last year and a half of going through the licensing process, the application process issuing licenses to the new businesses. And this new process is drawing on what we've learned and really providing sort of wraparound support and services and technical assistance to new applicants for cannabis establishment license. So this process significantly does not apply for renewals. It doesn't apply for an existing licensee that is applying for another additional different type of license. It only applies for new applicants that are applying for a new license. And it takes this approach that we've learned over the last year and a half. And it really institutes a full throated support system for ushering a new business through the application process. So I'm going to talk a little start out by listing a few of the objectives of this prequalification process. It's going to create a collaborative space for new applicants and a whole host of CCB staff to work together on the application process. The purpose is really to assist these new applicants in understanding not only the full scope of requirements that we that apply to obtaining their license, but also to maintaining their license. How do you remain compliant in the cannabis industry? It helps applicants understand the viability of their business plan. We help them evaluate that. It also allows us to assess early on in the process what the priority status of the applicant is to make sure that they are both appropriately prioritized through the licensing process, but also to connect them early on to connect social equity applicants early on with both technical support that's provided through the agency of the ACCD and also connect them with the funding that's available through that agency. Another objective is to provide preliminary state approval for applicants that are qualified for it and then lastly to offer one-on-one support with CCB staff to ensure that their application or full application for a license is complete within the appropriate timeframe once they have achieved prequalification. Those are the objectives and now I'll go into a little bit more about what it will achieve. Some of the benefits to prequalifying, like I said on the previous slide we've got it offers preliminary state approval of a business so that is done by both evaluating the viability of their business plan and also that sort of preliminary state approval can help the applicant in attracting financing if they need financing for their business. It also provides one-on-one regulatory support from CCB staff and that includes licensing staff in completing their full license application. It includes compliance staff to help them understand what the rules are, what they will need to do to maintain their compliance once they do have their license, also connects them with advertising staff to provide overview and information about what the advertising requirements look like and also product registration staff to help them understand what is required for product registration so people can get early on in the process they can get sort of a more complete picture of what regulation in the cannabis industry looks like. Also licensing staff is going to provide a room knot for these applicants so they understand both the prequalification process and the full application process right at the outset. So before a person is halfway through the process and they realize they still got halfway to go they're going to know right from the outset how long it's going to take and what will be asked of them during the process. Can I ask a question about the evaluation of viability of the business? What is, can you talk a little bit more about what that means? When I assume that we're not going to evaluate whether or not it's like a good idea and whether or not it will be a successful idea but whether or not it would make it through the application process is that the that's right whether or not it will make it through the application process also I think we can provide some sort of an understanding of what it costs to operate in the campus industry and and based on the business plan sometimes we can provide some sort of a picture of whether or not it could be successful on any industry based on whether the business plan looks like. A little bit more description about the technical support that we are providing and this slide sort of gives sort of a picture of what of what the licensing team was thinking about as they were proposing this new process. The idea here is really that the licensing team is learning a lot about what is required to best support applicants and they have come up with an understanding that there are lots of different learning styles out there and people are some people are best suited to have written materials some people are best suited to come into the office and have one-on-one sort of in-person support some people do best of videos so there's sort of a comprehensive set of documented materials that the licensing team has developed in order to support people through the process. So having these access to these materials in combination with meeting one-on-one with staff is going to help applicants be better prepared for the complexities of the cannabis market. All of these materials will be linked from the website and staff are also going to distribute them in their meetings so people not have to people who might not be as skilled at navigating the website will be sort of handed these materials right right after that in their introductory meeting. We've also translated some introductory materials into 11 different languages and applicants will also learn early on that they may receive translation services both through the materials and also during meetings if they ask for it and then that list down there is a list of some of the materials that the licensing team has put together as part of this process and then a little overview of what this pre-qualification process will look like. So once a new applicant submits their pre-qualification application staff are going to schedule either a teams meeting, a virtual meeting or an in-person meeting to review the application with the applicant and at the same time the background check process will begin so very early on we will start that process because that usually tends to be what takes the longest. Staff is going to assign priority status during that initial meeting and then social equity applicants will get contact information for the technical assistance provider from ACC. Staff will also this is also the point where we will conduct a social equity interview and assess the application and license fees that would apply for that applicant. Staff are going to also review the timeline for outdoor expulsivation applicants that are to ensure that a timely submission of their full application is achievable for that applicant so that they can meet the deadline for planting that season. Let's talk more about that on the next slide. And then the bullets at the bottom are the area the topic areas that staff are going to cover in that meeting and they will also receive a follow-up email so every applicant has an opportunity to hear and also see in an email sort of what with the full application process looks like. So any requirements for the either containing the application that are specific to a license type and tier are reviewed. What the licensee can actually do with the license that they're applying for is also reviewed and this is hopefully going to have the effect of limiting the situations where a person applies for a business applies for one type of license and that sort of happens because they need to apply for a different type that sort of situation will hopefully be weighted by that. Full background check technology requirements insurance and banking requirements the requirements from the division of fire safety municipal compliance what that looks like and and encouraging applicants to connect with their municipalities early on. Any location and site requirements timelines or the timelines look like for submitting their full application and then an overview of product registration advertising and inventory tracking requirements and then contact information. Staff okay. Is the pre-qualification submission form similar to our early iteration where you don't need to necessarily you don't need to necessarily know where your business is going to be located. I mean a lot of people do but you just need to essentially have a plan and name an address. That's correct and a background check yes name for your background check so it's very similar to the original pre-qualification application. Yep yeah I'll set a principle so that we can conduct your background checks. Okay so this is the proposed timeline for pre-qualification for the and this timeline is limited to the outdoor and mix cultivation applicants and the idea here is that as we're going to see in a few minutes in the executive director report the timeline for initial licensure for cultivation applicants covers around 90 days and that's been pretty consistent for the last year. So there are special timing considerations for outdoor and mixed cultivation licensees to ensure that we are issuing those licenses and time for the growing season. So in order to ensure that our team can really hold these applicants through the pre-qualification and application process in time for stirring planting we need to enforce some timelines. So this schedule will allow our outdoor and mix cultivators to become licensed prior to the time that they need to plant. So we are not in a situation that we were in in year one where where we weren't doing that. So the this proposed timeline would look like this December 1st is the date that the pre-qualification window opens for all initial applicants and a pre-qualification certificate is typically going to be able to be issued by staff within a month. So there are no recently it's called bank offenses at any of the principals or controllers in the business. March 1st the application window for outdoor and mixed cultivation licenses would close. So everybody who had submitted their application prior to March 1st would be in the door and they would need to achieve technical and administrative completeness by April 1st and that way they could be on the docket for the May board meeting by May 8th which is sort of so they have to have their site does it prior to May 8th and be on the docket for the May board meeting and then at the end of May is when that would be the board meeting where all of the applications for outdoor and mixed would need to be approved and then in early June would be the issue of deadlines sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for people to finalize things in order to get issued and then any incomplete applications would be dismissed. So again this timeline would be true only for new outdoor and mixed cultivation applications. And when you say new does that mean people who have not hit the submit button at all like they they're not anywhere in the application process they haven't started enough like what does new actually mean people who haven't started an application at all or is it people who are somewhere in a process it means people who have not submitted an application okay. For that license site like if I was a cultivator and I just said I want to become a retailer as well do I have to go through pretty cool no no great. So that is is sorry and we would have to vote on this on the proposal to close March 1st. This is the proposal so yes as as you know when you close application windows in the past you voted on that. So it would be something that you guys would like to discuss at this meeting and maybe vote on it your next meeting. I really like this plan I think if we had all the time in the world to set up a qualification that first time around we probably would have done something just like this or somebody would have done something just like this it's great. Yeah well no I was just going to say that I feel like it might feel like this is a big hurdle at the outset but it just you know it puts people on a life path afterwards. Yeah I mean everybody especially our new licensee at this point in the game are coming into it with various starting points and specific levels of expertise. I'm sure some folks are good at growing maybe not as familiar with running a business and vice versa you know I think this could help work through our process but also what they need to do from a B2B perspective and and reaching out to you know people up and down the supply chain and not expect that somebody's going to come and pick up something on their doorstep that they grew even if it's really awesome you still got to forward some of those relationships. Will the fees be the same? These will be the same. And that pre-qualification fee applies here also to the person. So I think that the way that we are proposing to do this immediately is that the application fee is the only fee that will apply for the full application. Great great and do we want to discuss while we're because it's so close to tie to it I don't think we should vote today so we haven't noticed the vote but the this notion of closing the window for new outdoor and next year cultivation and again the rationale we did this this year was in effect this year the rationale again pretty mentioned just now is we all want to get into a position where someone submits application for an outdoor cultivation for the first time on July 1st it takes us 90 days to process it we're issuing a license in November and it's almost worthless so no it just puts us in a bad position it puts applicants in a bad position so what we did last year we closed it between I think November 30th and June 1st I believe. Yeah and that was not enough time we learned this year so that's why we're proposing to move it early right. So we're all kind of in agreement we should probably do that again. Yes I do like if that's something we're going to do every year I think we should be relatively consistent going forward like if we choose March then it should just kind of always be February March April not changing it significantly every year. Okay well why don't we postpone the vote on anything in that initial next meeting and if you hold on to comment on that feel free. Are we ready for? Yes. All right so here's your November executive director report it will start with a summary of our public engagement so in the last month we had some significant public engagement or actually a licensee engagement with our first series of licensee education seminars so we for the for all of our cultivators we held our first seminar as required by rule and those were held in early November we also held a training on the amended rules one, two and four general counsel held that training and that was reported and posted on our website and I think we'll be in this report which will also be posted to the website and coming up in the next month we have as the chair mentioned in his opening remarks we have the last medical program study committee meeting on December 7th and we have another education session which will be held on December 13th and that will be an opportunity to look even closer at the precolocation process likely it will be some of what I went over just now but we'll have some more information there too and there will be an opportunity for folks to ask questions so that'll be 10 o'clock in the morning on the 13th um so as I mentioned that education and enforcement series um our our first our first seminars held on November 7th and November 9th um all told we had about 60% of all of our principals and controllers of cultivation instances attend these meetings um compliance is currently doing the scoring we did hold um um we had sort of quiz during the training so that we could assess people's um attendance both their attendance and also sort of their learning during the training um so the compliance team is going through uh the responses and scoring them and we're also reviewing the listed principals and and controllers and identifying who did not take the training so that we can appropriately follow up with those folks so more to come on that I'll move into the adult use program data now so we're going to start with we've got a few slides that um we're revisiting our sort of internal metrics on how long it's taking us to um process applications um and we're looking specifically in these first couple of slides in this first slide at least um what our average days are from submission to approval for cultivation applications um so cultivators obviously the bulk of our licensees um and our as you can see we broke it out by standard and social equity here so in November of this year our average time with those applications in total is 91 days very similar to what it was in January 90 days um and in January it was um we had about actually yes our renewal applications sorry um all renewal applications for standard applicants are taking us about 66 days to process for cultivation licensees um and then you can see the comparison of social equity so um we're about 59 days on average for social equity applicants to process their cultivation applications um very similar to where we were at in January of 60 days and um for about 20 days fewer for the renewal applications for social equity cultivation licensees so holding pretty steady there um and this is interesting we did have a break down um here of days to approval um the number of days that we the ccb staff had the application versus the number of days that the applicant had the application and um and i'll show you the slide the next slide i'll show you the um the way this looks several months ago in April um so it looks now like our applicants are becoming much more responsive um to their when the ball is in their court and it's taking um our staff a little bit longer to process these applications but you can see in April um average days to approval very similar but um the majority of the time the the majority of that time days to approval was with the applicant as opposed to with ccb so the good news is that our applicants are becoming much more um responsive that's great so i'm going to move into the numbers now um here are our issued cultivation licenses by type and tier um we've got our numbers here's our manufacturer licenses by tier these are all issued licenses our tier three manufacturing numbers are creeping up there and then our other license types so we are at 72 retailers at this point um and then i think the next are applications and process so here's our numbers that are incoming um you can see there is one indoor tier four that is in the queue and 13 retailers and here is our number of cultivation renewals by type and tier so these numbers are sort of growing month by month um as we process our cultivation renewals this is total not just this month but that's right all cultivation renewals that's why these numbers are growing and some of it if you're looking carefully at these numbers some of the renewal numbers are look a little different from the initial issued license numbers um because people are changing tier um so the for example like tier four mixed i think there were none originally but maybe it's tier three but anyway some of the numbers are a little different it's not people changing changing tier are most people going up in tier of cultivation or are there some folks who are dropping down most people are increasing size some are dropping most people are and we're happy to get some information on that at the next meeting so that would be helpful sorry i'm jumping around here um here's our other renewals by type and tier so we're starting to issue renewals for retailers and manufacturers so these numbers obviously will also grow over time here's the here's what we've got in the in process for needs quite a few applicants are in in the process of the meeting so i'm going to move on to our retail locations this is our area as a density table we've changed the way the team has changed the way they're reporting this information a little bit so now we are including an area of density is considered anywhere with two or more locations either licensed or in the queue or combined so we're it's going to be it's a little bit longer of a list it's on two pages now um so gives you sort of a deeper picture of where we're seeing some areas of density so still the majority um have two and obviously there's some some significant outliers with Burlington and we're just going to more still has the second most okay here's our map doesn't look all too different from month to month um still seeing quite a bit of geographic diversity unless you zoom in and then you see some um dead zones here's our Burlington now being more more dense than that one right there okay i'm going to move on to our um some data about our licensees that are not renewing now um so i presented i think some initial information about this at the last meeting um this number has grown a little bit eight it's increased by eight since the last meeting of licensees that have confirmed with us that they are not renewing their license so they are relinquishing their license we're up to 29 and here i'm break i break it down by their priority status so you can see the majority are standard licensees um 65 percent of them are standard licensees 25 percent are economic empowerment and 10 percent are social equity and to give you an idea of how that compares to um our full group of licensees um we've got in total 63 percent of our licensees are standard priority status 21 percent are economic empowerment and 16 percent are social equity so the number of um you know the numbers are our sort of initial number is pretty small but um so far the numbers of licensees that are not renewing are fewer social equity and economic empowerment than who we have licensed um this is our data regarding the rationale for relinquishing the license so our compliance agents are conducting exit interviews um with the licensees that are relinquishing um and this is our compilation of the reasons that they list for relinquishing their license um and this hasn't changed much since the last time i presented it to you except for the two new reasons have been added and that's profitability and lack of time um but again they are primarily uh personal reasons for relinquishing the license and to try and dig into that a little bit more um we ask what are the what were the factors that contributed to the decision to relinquish um and again right we're either early early numbers so um we don't have a lot to work with but what we do have here indicates that they're the majority of those reasons are other and don't have anything to do with um cost of either the license um or the cost of regulation or the ability to hire and retain and please or just a or just a playing straightforward lack of resources how do we um gather this information is it like a survey that we send out is it something that our compliance team is asking or it's an interview with your compliance agent she's great yes we're wondering if we're getting like 100 100 percent response rate to these questions or if it's only some people that are answering that but no we're not but i but i think that there's we will get closer to that over time um i think that you know the compliance team has been really incredibly busy with renewal work over the last four weeks um and there isn't there with time um we in the fullness of time we will have a more complete picture um but since they are conducting these interviews rather than we're just sending survey um a better response rate excellent okay so moving on to the license canopy capacity here are the numbers for this month um a slight reduction here since the last month around 20 000 square feet of outdoor um around 8 000 square feet of indoor reduction and here is the capacity versus utilization comparison um the there's no change to the utilization numbers this month um we're still basing these projections on an analysis of just under 15 percent of the licensed um grow capacity so no change to these numbers this month okay i'll move on to the compliance data now um i did remove the advertising slide that i normally go over just because we look at that month to month and there really is not much of a change to that so i think we'll look at that more on a biannual basis from now on unless there's any desire to see it more frequently um so the last month the compliance work this is our summary of compliance work over the last month 16 new complaints um eight new investigations investigations have been centered around the retail ID check requirement the point of sale flyer distribution requirements compliance with the requirements of an employee ID card that's each c cap and the manufacturing level license um there have been two observations of product destruction um due to the relinquishment of license and two notices of violation that have been issued one was for working with an expired employee ID card and one was cultivation battle license um and then one corrective action plan was issued to address compliance with requirements from fire safety so that's your picture of compliance of the last since the last board meeting and then i'll move to our medical program data so um this is some exciting news i'm sure you'll all remember well the days that we were hovering right around 30 days to process our medical applications so we're down to one day now um our staff are processing those applications for both a patient card or cannabis caregiver application um in one day on average that's wonderful yeah well done so the good news comes first and then the bad news comes second which is that we continue to have a downward trajectory here here's our total numbers over the last year and half we've lost 87 patients since the last board meeting and three caregivers so i think that after the after the medical program stakeholder group um develops its recommendations and reports on its recommendations we might um put a we might not report every month on the medical program members until um some of those recommendations have been implemented and we'll take a look again so um that is all in my report the next thing i have are recommendations for licensures and it's my recommendation that the board um take a deliberative session to consider some of the uh applications that um staff is presenting to you this month okay and do we need a motion to adjourn to a deliberative session yes it's just a deliberative session or a deliberative session not exactly uh it would be some of the circumstances so i think that it's one yes it's a suggestion sorry yep there it is okay i moved that the board entered into a closed session to facilitate confidential attorney client communications as well as to discuss matters non-public pursuant to one vsa 316 specifically trade secrets and personal information concerning applicants excited any discussion no all in favor hi okay so um i know we don't necessarily have to do this but i i do want to just know like the issues that we have to discuss relate to applicants um and has some pretty um sensitive information involved uh i've looked at some of the background documents and they seem like this might lead to some conversation um so i think we had on the agenda that this would take like 45 minutes that's probably about right um so why don't we just say we're going to come back at 225 30 225 225 okay and uh we might go a little bit longer we're willing for 225 and Nellie if you wouldn't mind putting up a um just our away message yep can do all right thank you all right we're back from um deliberative session and it's uh from odd cannabis control board wednesday or 29th any 23 and it's 2 29 p.m so during our session we heard some very confidential information about a number of uh proposed um applicants uh an id employee id issues um we didn't take any action in the executive session but i think we're ready to um take action now so brandon i'll turn things over to you okay recommended recommended staff recommended approvals great um so we i'm i'm going to be reading our approvals for um i'm gonna be reading our approvals um like for both initial licensure and renewal this week and we will update um the executive director report and post it online later this afternoon um but i'm going to have to go through and read them for today um so everybody settle in because it's a long list formatting should it's over here yes um that's me yes last minute formatting issues okay so king cola um is approved for a renewal uh this is an indoor cheer one cultivator old school weed company also approved for renewal for outdoor tier two cultivation green mountain scientific approved for renewal for a tier three manufacturing license cave lion approved for renewal of a mixed tier one cultivation license hin valley farm approved for renewal of a mixed tier one cultivation license 802 420 approved for their initial retail license green mountain dreams approved for renewal of an indoor tier one cultivation license waterbury falls manufacturing approved for their initial tier two manufacturing license 7v's farm approved for renewal of a tier one mix cultivation license family tree approved for renewal of a tier two manufacturing license green mountain gold approved for renewal of an outdoor tier one cultivation license capital cannabis company approved for renewal of a retail license. The Canvas Collective approved for renewal of a Tier 2 manufacturing license. BVS Labs approved for renewal of an Indoor Tier 1 cultivation license. Brass Queen approved for renewal of an Indoor Tier 2 cultivation license. Hela Good approved for initial manufacturing Tier 1 license. GMT Genetics approved for renewal of a mixed Tier 1 cultivation license. Honey Tree Farm approved for renewal of a mixed Tier 1 cultivation license. One Drop Farm approved for initial Tier 1 indoor cultivation license. Green Mountain Cultivators approved for an initial Indoor Tier 1 cultivation license. Ilya Processing approved for renewal of the Tier 3 manufacturing license. Green River Cannabis Company approved for renewal of an Indoor Tier 1 cultivation license. Tea Time Herbal Company approved for renewal of an Outdoor Tier 1 cultivation license. High Noon Cultivators approved for renewal of an Outdoor Tier 1 cultivation license. Hire Heaven approved for initial Tier 1 manufacturing license. Holland Cannabis approved for renewal of a mixed Tier 2 cultivation license. High Fidelity approved for an initial Retail License. Satori Investment Partners approved for renewal of an Outdoor Tier 5 cultivation license. Satori Investment Partners approved for renewal of a Wholesale License. Satori Investment Partners approved for renewal of a Tier 3 manufacturing license. Pine Cannabis approved for an initial Indoor Tier 1 cultivation license. New England Cannabis Partners approved for an initial Tier 2 manufacturing license. Horseshoe Farms approved for renewal of an Outdoor Tier 2 cultivation license. Kingdom Kind approved for renewal of a Retail License. Altitude Cannabis approved for renewal of an Indoor Tier 1 cultivation license. Green Heron Farm approved for renewal of an Outdoor Tier 1 cultivation license. Meters approved for renewal of an Indoor Cultivation Tier 3 cultivation license. Rootland Cannabis approved for renewal of a mixed Tier 1 cultivation license. Mood Food approved for an initial Tier 2 manufacturing license. Something Wicked Cannabis Company approved for an initial Retail License. Lamoille Valley Extraction Solutions approved for renewal of a mixed Tier 1 cultivation license. Vermont Patients Alliance approved for renewal of an Integrated License. Cannabis Dreams Nursery approved for renewal of a mixed Tier 1 cultivation license. Park Rec LLC approved for renewal of a Wholesale License. Flora Cannabis approved for renewal of a Retail License. And Rebel East Vermont, sorry. And that is it. Thank you. Okay I'm going to move to our two recommendations for denial of an initial license. Those are found on this slide here. Teach the Sea Sisters applying for a Retail License. Be Well Vermont applying for a Retail License. Staff is recommending these two businesses be denied for their initial license. And lastly, staff have two recommendations for employee ID card applicants. Submission number 43.96. Staff is recommending denial of an employee ID card for this submission as they don't meet the criteria for overcoming presumptive disqualification. Percentive to Board Rule 113. And submission number 43.40. Staff is recommending approval of this employee identification card as this applicant does meet the criteria for overcoming presumptive disqualification. They're the same rule. And that is your list for this week. Thank you. Sorry. So I think the order of operations is that the Board should approve the staff recommendations for approval and then do the three denials individually. Yes, that's a good plan. So yeah, I move that the Board accept each of the recommendations for new licensure and renewal as presented to us by the Executive Director in this meeting, including the ID card application 43.40. I second. All in favor. Aye. And then I move that we enter the recommended proposed decision relative to the Retail Establishment Application of Be Well Vermont. I move a second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. I move that we enter the recommended decision relative to the Retail Establishment Application of THC Sisters LLC, denying that establishment application for reasons stated in writing. I second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. I move that we enter the recommended decision relative to submission 43.96 denying that ID card application for reasons stated in writing. I second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Three. Okay. Yeah. All we have left is public comment. So handle this the same way we always do. If you have a comment, I mean, you're joined by the link, please raise your virtual hand. We'll do our best to call on you in the order that you raise your hand, and then we'll move to people that join by the phone. We've had, oh, there we go. EES is first up. That's your virtual line. EES, you are unmuted, but we can't hear you. They've lowered their hand. Any comments from people that joined by the video? Okay. If you've joined by a phone and would like to make a public comment, you can unmute your phone by hitting star six. There is currently nobody joined by phone. Let's call for a public comment. All right. Well, I'll close the public comment window. Again, Bren will have the list posted on, you know, this will be up on YouTube for all the people who got approved today. Go back and listen to the list. Congratulations to all of you. We do have some bittersweet news. I should have mentioned it at the top of the meeting. Our dear employee number one, 001. Nellie Marvel is moving on to bigger and brighter futures, screener pastures. Although it could be greener than it seems. And that's starting on Monday. So, you know, she's not getting a break in between one roller coaster and another, but you've been incredible support to us.  So thank you for everything that you've done for us. And we wish you all the best, Nellie. Don't be a stranger. Yes. Thank you, Nellie. Employee number one. Those days were crazy. And you kept us in line and on track. So immensely grateful for all of your contributions to building this ship. I'm still in denial. I don't want to talk about it, but I am very proud of Nellie and all that she's accomplished and done for the board. And your trajectory has been fun to watch. And it will be fun to continue to watch you rise. That's the block. And congratulations, everybody, including Nellie. All right. With that, I will adjourn the meeting. Thanks, everyone.


This is basically the same trash compactor that you all observed during the functional test in building 17 and we send that back to Johnson Engineering with some comments from you and after our functional test and they did modifications in Colorado and they send it back to us and we're here today basically to demonstrate to you the modified version of it. This is the actual configuration as far as the storage provision are concerned. So here's the bag itself which we can go get the trash filled out. This is the bag itself, I'm going to live it some way. What to do to go in and fill it out. This is dry trash, it's basically clean. Now do you fill it up with it in there or do you fill it up and pull it onto it outside it? This would be inside a beta cloth bag and a beta cloth bag that Johnson Engineering crossed was only at this point. The reason we can't use the existing beta cloth bag is because this is too big to fit in there. It contains the odor because it has activated the charcoal also has a one-way valve and as well as Gore-Tex for holding the... Soaks up the water and picks up the odor. Is there any bacteria that's generated from the trash inside the bag also? Pull the handles out. Handles are marked right and left so you won't confuse yourself. Which is your right and which is your left? It's early in the morning. It's the hardest part of this machine here to figure it out. Okay and legend here for clarity says compaction when you're red. There's some red and green arrows on the top and also down here. And then you're in retraction mode. So we make sure that the ram is fully retracted to the bag. We insert the trash back in here and we close the door safely. And now we're ready to compact trash and compaction needs to be red. So we should be changing the direction of all three levers inward as they are now. Okay ready? Then as you compact and frag, you cover the resistance. So when you get a good feel, you can stop. If you lose count, it shouldn't matter though right? No. Before you take the pellet out, you want to unload the door so you want to spring out hit somebody in the face. Do you change direction? Trash release handle. Put the pressure back on it. Go back to the red. Now unload back. What they're doing is they're recommending it. Now, if you're expecting juice, we'll get absorbed into the trash. Well no, it's absorbed into a filter on the other side. This is activated charcoal. You should be able to smell it. This is the one way to check if I'm left-handed. There's a water barrier that allows air to go through, but not water. I'm saying vortex on the backside of the filter. Also there's actually a... Well in late in the mission, we should put some fluid like a can or something on them. Right now they're working and testing the bags. All right.


It was too good to be true, you know, we had that Doctor Strange trailer So obviously the pendulum has to swing the other way and we have a Chippendale rescue rangers the movie on Disney plus So yeah, it's shit Whoa, you might be saying Adam don't judge a movie by its trailer. That's fair That's fair.  Oh kill me emoji movie was sure to put a smile on no one's face People liked free guy a lot remember when he pulled out the Captain America shield and a lightsaber and and the people watching the video game We're like he's got a lightsaber in a video game That's kind of like fortnite where everyone probably has a lightsaber cool. I love properties. I like consuming things. I Think I'm done. I think I'm done with blockbuster movies if this is what we have to offer now Listen, I grew up with Chippendale rescue rangers. I'm the target market, right? I'm the audience I'm the the middle-aged man with the kids who can be like children.  I can't wait to see Roger Rabbit in here and was is that scat cat? Yeah, two step forwards. You'll take two steps back.  So look, there's my little pony friendship is magic. Nah Friendship is tragic here. There's a lad and I know him. Don't you dare close your eyes Indiana Jones, that's a property. There's a new one coming out. We got to remind the children about it Dun dun dun dun dun dun don't Here's the plot film takes place 30 years later 30 years after what the stupid show no well Yeah, yes because in this film Chippendale and the rescue rangers. They're a commodity They're a hot ticket item or they were you know the decades earlier But the they're washed up there. They're full of vanity. They're full of fame.  Dale didn't just go for the facelift in the tummy talk He got the entire CG upgrade. He's now 3d. He's now that new model Meanwhile chip not only has his old 2d form. He was somehow downgraded to like cell shading This is clearly not handcrafted animation the shadows God. He just looks flat and then stale lifeless Like this film these two Gumshoes if you will have to team up once more to find their missing rescue rangers So we don't know where they're at we have a mystery to solve and you know what? I'm guessing in order to come to a conclusion.   They appear to be doing the played out to mockumentary style where the these guys are washed up now It's a behind-the-scenes true Hollywood event God I just John Mulaney and Andy Samberg are voicing the characters who sound nothing like the originals Andy Samberg's just doing the same exact voice from Hotel Transylvania. He's the same character, and I like Andy Samberg I like the Lonely Island although.  I don't and I'm not gonna lie Had they just made a regular Chippendale rescue rangers movie set in the new generation Fine, I probably still would have been like oh whatever. I don't care anymore come up with new stuff But this is just perplexing it's it's mind-boggling why they went this route with this property And I will end with this if Gadget isn't still a fine-ass piece of mouse. I'm done I am done with you Disney. This is looking like a home sweet home alone situation It's gonna get shat out on Disney plus I don't think it's getting a theatrical release and you can take these early thoughts to the bank I have a feeling this is gonna be a complete garbage fest. Maybe I'll be wrong Prove it Disney Fuckers, so there you have it Chippendale rescue rangers. I'm super pumped for this. I don't know about you It's giving me Copen Legitimately killing me Subscribe if you haven't if you like honest reactions to things I'm not a negative person, but when I see something that makes me upset I'm just gonna say it outright that Dr. Strange trailer looks sweet though. If you think this genuinely looks good I'm not knocking you we have different tastes. That's fine Let me know in the comments why though. I'd love to hear what you think looks so great about this Like the video if you had a good time subscribe if you haven't I put out movie content constantly and hopefully I'll see you next time Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun Sometimes beep beep beep some crimes beep beep beep go slipping through the cracks But these two beep beep beep gum shoes beep beep beep are picking up the slack There's no case too big no case too small if you need help just call Bandail rescue ranger This danger Show myself out


Ar weithi, mae gennw'n gweithio'r bysdnegolol o'r cyfrifoedd y Gŵyd dros unrhyw. Ysgolwcent ysgolwyd yr afganadd ymddangol i'r fferi trafel yn gallu bain ac yn serffaith.  Felly, fy newid y gwbl y ffrif yn fwy koelwch yn fawr mwy o helyc. Mae ychydig iawn yn cael ei wneud i eich ffyrdd y ffrif o rhan amddangos o'r newid a'u siaradau ac yw rhan am ddyn nhw ddyn nhw dyfodol. Donald Cameron. The Minister will be aware of the Wysb Daily's walk-in that has greeted one of the proposals of the Scottish ferries plan, which led me to increase peak-time ferry fares. A resident of Ile has told me that hiking fares on lifeline services will only serve to discourage people from living in our island communities. What assurances can the minister give to people across the highlands and islands that they will not be impacted by such proposal? More specifically, how does such a proposal inter-relate with the RET? Felly, rydw i ddim chwy說n hwn o'r apsyniadau y fferioes ffordd gŸwyl o'r gweithio cyfrifodol a'r cerddordeb yn'r wneud.  Mae'r De primary vaennyd郵 좋아하伯 a hynny nifer inviteiol wedi i gynnwysau sortr fel LlyfrID ynghylch i fyfyrddog ohau ac wrth gweithio, wrth gweithio, y rhagorau ynghylch yn ei ffyrdd y fwrdd. Fel rhai o'r dda arwag ffrif ventaidd, mae'n gweld, mae'n sicrhau eich ysgrifffos ati γysylltu. Rhyw ddisgu, mae'n gwybod i'r ddechrau ar gael Ddodg, a'r ddodeg, ddodig ddodig ddodig i ddodig diwyllaeth ein torff yw ddodig yn 282 miliwn, ondi yn 234 miliwn. Passager figures in 2007 were £4.73 million, compared with £5.27 million in 2018, an increase of 11.5%. We certainly very much welcome the growing demand for ferry services and, as reflected in the answer to Mr Cameron, we are keen to obviously maintain all fares as low as we can. This reflects the popularity of our islands, of course the growing demand with tourists and the success of our policy to introduce RET, but in the three years since the full rollout of RET in October 2015, passenger numbers across the Clyde and Hebride services increased by 14 per cent and car numbers increased by 25 per cent, which shows the success of the policy. We have commissioned a study to reassure Mr Gibson and other members that will estimate the impact of RET on demand for ferry services across the network. This research will also help to identify the medium to long-term effects of RET to inform future policy decisions and we expect that to be completed by the end of 2019. To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made on tendering the Northern Isles ferry services contract. The invitation to tender for the next contract to run the Northern Isles ferry services was issued to three bidders on 17 January this year. Submission of final tender bid is scheduled for spring of this year, followed by the tender evaluation period with the contract due to start on 31 October 2019. Can I thank the minister for that reply? When will the minister be in a position to publish the specification for the tender, given no one in Orkney or Shetland knows what is in it yet? Does that tender specification have any improvements on the current contract? Will the minister make clear who the third company bidding is, as we well know that Serco and indeed the minister's own choice, CalMac, are already two out of the three companies? We are committed to fair, open and transparent tender, which aims to get the best steel for the communities that depend on the ferry services that are serving Mr Scott's constituents and others in the Northern Isles. It is important that the identity of the bidders remains confidential at the stage in the procurement procedure. We will be discussing the procurement procedure with bidders in the coming weeks, following which we intend to publish the IETT on the Transport Scotland website and make sure that Mr Scott is aware when that is published. We will also review whether it would be appropriate to identify the individual bidders at that point for the clarity that Mr Scott is seeking. I think that, in terms of the points about the improvements to the service, I should say that we have, after extensive consultation with stakeholders including, hopefully, elected members such as Mr Scott, Mr MacArthur and others, we have sought out to try and produce as much flexibility in the new contract to allow variations in services and timetables to be undertaken with greater ease than under the current contract. I hope that that is something that those representing the communities that are served by the services will welcome. Colin Smyth Thank you, Presiding Officer. Will the Scottish Government ensure that vessels on the Northern Isles ferry services contract are covered by collective bargaining agreements with the maritime unions? Will that be part of the specifications for the contract? In terms of the point that Mr Smyth recognises, I recognise very much the point that he is making about trying to ensure that we have fair working practices in the all-procurement contracts that the Scottish Government is associated with. I assure Mr Smyth that we are strongly encouraging through the ITT good engagement with trade unions and other stakeholders, and I will happily, as soon as I am able to give detail to Mr Smyth about what is specifically in the ITT on those issues, that will be of help to him. Mark Ruskell To ask the Scottish Government how commuters views inform ScotRail timetabling changes. Cabinet Secretary Michael Matheson Ahead of the December 2018 timetable change, ScotRail consulted with local authorities and regional transport partnerships that represent passengers' interests throughout the timetable development process. ScotRail has also adopted a new approach to the May 2019 timetable change by publishing its proposals and inviting customers to comment. We are not aware of this level of consultation being undertaken by any other UK train operating company. ScotRail has already made changes to its proposals as a result of responses received from its website, social media and from correspondence. ScotRail will also observe how customers are using the timetable. Mark Ruskell I thank the cabinet secretary for that response. I mean, notwithstanding the national discussions that took place with passenger groups, there was really zero consultation with commuters using the Dumb Lane to Edinburgh services, which led to the withdrawal of the only service that would actually take people to Edinburgh in time for the start of the working day. So what influence can the cabinet secretary bring to the May timetable in light of the public consultation so that it actually serves the needs of commuters? Cabinet secretary, there was an extensive consultation that has been undertaken since 2015 in preparation for the timetable changes in December 2018. That also included an independent assessment of the proposed changes being undertaken by Taktrans in looking at the impact that it would have on passengers and customers using those particular services. As a result, although there were some who were negatively affected by the timetable changes, the vast majority of those would benefit from the timetable change. As ever with any timetable change, there is a weighing up of the pros and cons that go with this. An independent report verified that the choice that was made for the timetable change was one that would benefit a greater number of the travelling public. However, what will happen in going forward is that ScotRail will review the existing timetable as it beds down to consider where there are further changes that can be made, not to try to improve issues where there are matters of concern. However, there will always be a level of restriction and capacity on the network to accommodate all passengers' needs. Further to the cabinet secretary's response, he will be aware of inquiries that I have made to his office regarding the removal of a direct train service between Poment and Stirling on the Dunblane route. He will also be aware that there is a similar issue for commuters in Llanlithgow. Does he agree with me that ScotRail should reconsider those changes that were implemented in December, which are affecting many of my constituents and that consideration should be given to reinstating direct services to Stirling from Poment and Llanlithgow as a matter of priority? As I stated, my earlier response to Mr Ruskell is that there is limited capacity within the network and there is always a balance that needs to be struck in terms of any timetabling arrangements. However, if it is of interest to remember of the 1.2 million journeys that were made from Llanlithgow and Poment last year, those were split. Broadly, 70 per cent were to or from Edinburgh, 20 per cent to or from Glasgow, with 5 per cent to or from Falkirk or Stirling. Given the need to make sure that we try to address issues such as overcrowding and improve connectivity faster journey times and also to deal with the growth that we have on the use of our rail network, there is a need to try to strike a balance and try to get a timetable that meets the widest number of passengers' needs as possible. That is what the intentions were with the timetable change on 9 December. I am aware of the concerns that the members raised as the issues that were raised by Mr Ruskell. Of course, those are matters that will continue to be considered by ScotRail for any future timetable changes within the limitations of what can be achieved within the network. Liam Kerr, to be filled by Jackie Baillie. Thank you, Presiding Officer. The cabinet secretary will know of the timetabling changes that resulted in an up to 30-minute wait at Montrose. Surely, if the Scottish Government cared about North East commuters' views, it would have improved facilities and sought their views before making those changes. Did it seek commuters' views in the north-east, and when will those facilities be improved? Presiding Officer, the member conveniently ignores the fact that we are investing some £300 million in the rail network in the north-east of Scotland to improve connectivity within that particular area. We have also seen a significant increase in number of services that are available now within the north-east of Scotland as well. However, on the point that the member raised, there was a consultation undertaken, as I said, for the timetable change in 2018, which involved a whole range of regional transport partnerships, including those within the north-east of Scotland. As the member will be aware, ScotRail is presently evaluating the improvements that it wants to make to the Montrose station, and at that work is planned to be scheduled and taken forward in due course. As part of the timetable changes my area was promised that there would be six carriage trains, particularly at rush hours, yet in the months since commuters have experienced short-form services with three carriages appearing instead of six and passengers crammed in like sardines. I know that there is no limit on the number of passengers that ScotRail tried to squeeze on their trains, but can the cabinet secretary tell me whether there is anything in the contract with ScotRail about the capacity of the service? Cabinet secretary. Ibsine, remember that we will be aware that we are making significant investment in order to upgrade the rolling stock that we have within the ScotRail franchise, which is resulting in some 70 new Hattachi trains being introduced into the network in order to provide overall a 23 per cent increase in searing capacity across the network. Part of the challenge in some of the routes has been the late delivery and supply of the Hattachi trains and also the refurbished HST at high-speed trains, which are having an impact on the cascade of the rest of the rolling stock across the rest of the network. Once we have all the additional rolling stock in place, that will allow us to make sure that we maximise the use of the rolling stock to address areas where there are, and I recognise that there are areas where there is congestion and overcrowding on some trains, which is unacceptable and is a matter that is addressed within the franchise, but we need to get the additional rolling stock in place in order to address those matters. That will be taken forward in the months ahead when I supply the rest of the trains, which are due to be provided by now. To ask the Scottish Government when it last discussed congestion on the M8 between the St James's interchange and Glasgow city centre with Transport Scotland. Transport Scotland is an agency of the Scottish Government that discusses operational matters relating to the Scottish motorway and trunk road network with ministers on a regular basis. The M8 between Paisley and Glasgow is the busiest stretch in the country, and Renfrewshire businesses are warning us that congestion is deterring investment. Last week, all parties voted for an amendment stating that the Glasgow airport access project, which I remind the cabinet secretary, is a tram train project, must be progressed urgently. The SNP scrapped Garrel in 2009. Ten years on, people do not want any more delays, reports, studies or excuses. They just want you to get on with it. When will the SNP deliver the rail link that they voted for last week, and if they won't, will he explain to businesses and people in my region why on earth not? The motorway link at the western M8 is a key link to the airport and also to the rest of the west of Scotland. We are aware of the congestion that has been caused there and need to make sure that that is addressed. That is an issue that will be addressed in STPR2, and I have asked officials to make sure that it is given priority. The member will also be aware that the Glasgow Airport access project team, which is led by Glasgow City Council and Renfrewshire Council, has been reviewing the evidence that was presented to us on the independent audit of the outline business case for the tram train link to Glasgow Airport. They have identified that there are a number of issues that are outstanding with that, which cause real challenges and will be able to deliver such a project. They have now identified that their preferred option is a personal rapid transit service that will be provided. That is a matter that is now the preferred option and will be presented to the Glasgow City regional deal cabinet in the coming weeks to consider in taking forward the outline business case for that proposal. With a degree of optimism, to ask the Scottish Government when work will begin on the Glasgow Airport access project and how it will ensure that it is delivered as outlined in the business case. The Glasgow Airport access project is one of the projects that is identified in the Glasgow City region deal and is being taken forward by Glasgow City and Renfrewshire councils. As such responsibility for the delivery of the project to improve surface access to the airport sits with those councils. The Scottish Government remains committed to working with partners to find solutions to improve surface access to Glasgow Airport. As part of that commitment, I chaired the Glasgow Airport access executive steering group yesterday. At this meeting, the group heard how the project team have considered issues raised in the independent audit of the project's outline business case. I was pleased to hear that Glasgow City region deal has recognised and future rail service issues that would be compromised as a result of their outline business case. As such, they are now seeking to take forward the preferred option that is for a personalised rapid transit option and that outline business case will be developed by the partners. Johann Lamont I cannot tell the cabinet secretary how utterly dismayed I am by the response that he has just given us. He may be pleased that this Parliament, including the minister himself, voted last week for urgent progress on the deal and plan as outlined in the business case. I do not know what he defines as urgent. What he has said now is not urgent, so I can ask the cabinet secretary who is it that is putting a block on a proposal, where the money is there, the plan is agreed by the partners, it is recognised as having social, economic and environmental benefits to Glasgow on the west of Scotland, and it is still not going to happen. Will the cabinet secretary commit himself to act on the position that he voted for last week in the interests of people of Glasgow and the west of Scotland to change the decision and make sure that he goes back to the proposal that was unanimously agreed by the city deal partners? John Swinney We have acted on it, as I mentioned in the meeting yesterday, to set out that it is going to take forward a business case for a PRT system. As the member will be aware, the outline business case had an independent audit of it that carried out, which highlighted a number of very significant issues, in particular constraints at Glasgow Central, and the potential impact that that would have on services to Inverclyde, Ayrshire and also to East Kilbride, all of which would have actually saw a reduction or a detrimental impact on their service. It would have also been preventing the enhancements that we intend to provide to those particular services. Therefore, because those issues could not be addressed through the outline business case, that is why the city deal partners have identified a PRT system as their preferred option, and they now intend to take that forward. Jamie Greene Thanks, Presiding Officer. The first feasibility study for this was done when I was 10 years of age. Passengers numbers are set to double in the next 10 years. The number of people working on site is set to increase to around 40,000. It is simply inconceivable that that can be achieved by relying solely on the M8, which is already heavily congested. Does the cabinet secretary think that the rail link will be built realistically anytime soon? Cabinet Secretary for Transport and the Islands Well, Presiding Officer, in terms of the two points that the member raises, one is on the M8, and I recognise the congestion issues that are on the M8 to the west of Glasgow. That is an issue that has to be addressed. That will be taken forward through STPR2, and I have asked that to be a matter that is given priority consideration. I have been interested in knowing the member's views as to whether he would be content with the idea of a tram train link going into Glasgow airport, which would result in our reduction in services to his constituents in Inverclyde, or to constituents in Ayrshire, or to constituents who are in East Kilbride, because of the limited capacity that is at Glasgow central. We have to take a whole-system approach to that in order to address those issues, not to look at them in isolation. That is exactly what we have been doing in working with the partners on improving surface access to Glasgow airport. As has been recognised now, that is why they will now take forward the idea of a PRT as our preferred option in order to improve connectivity at the airport. Stuart McMillan Thank you, Presiding Officer. Does the cabinet secretary agree with me that my constituents in the Inverclyde constituency will be shocked and disappointed to hear that the Labour Party is campaigning to have a worse service as a consequence of the Glasgow access rail link? The reality is that there is limited capacity at... Stuart McMillan Okay, order, please. Order. Let's hear the cabinet secretary. There is limited capacity on the line from Paisley Gilmore Street into Central Station, and even with enhancements that would still result in a detriment to services to places such as Inverclyde, Ayrshire and East Kilbride, and potentially also to the Shots line. There is also significant enhancements planned for these particular routes given demand that there is on these existing routes, and that is why the Outland Business Case and the Independent Audit has identified the issues that need to be addressed, and that is why they are now proposing to take through a PRT option, which is one that will improve connectivity to the airport, while at the same time allowing us to increase capacity for these other key areas where there is ever growing demand for reals here.


from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering RSA Conference 2019, brought to you by Forescout. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at the RSA Conference in downtown San Francisco. It's crazy, 40,000 plus people. We'll get the number later today. We're in the Forescout booth for our first time. We're really excited to be here. And, you know, part of the whole Forescout story is the convergence of IT and OT, operations technology.  We're excited to have our next guest, Elise Castante on. She is the OT technology and innovation lead at Forescout. Elise, great to see you. Great to see you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, absolutely. So you've got a PhD in this space. You picked a field that is pretty hot. So as you think back and look at the convergence of OT and IT, what are some of the top level things that people are thinking about? But what are some of the top level things that they're just missing? Well, when you speak about OT, typically, you refer to critical infrastructure and the technology that operates things. So it's cyber-physical systems, right? And when you think of IT, you think about computer and you think about the web. And you're like, okay, when the two things meet, and then you put in the recipe, you put something like an IoT device, like an IP camera, so a sensor for the number of people in a room. Now, these old things are coming together. And they're coming together because they come with a lot of interesting use cases. You can have all the data and information to configure, for instance, your building to be as smart as possible, and to have- I need smart wheels on that part, my goodness. And you have a clear picture of how much energy you consume and then you can basically have the energy that is cheaper because it just arrives in the moment that you need it. Now, all of these things are IT and OT convergence. And all of these things make our cities and our world smarter today. Right. Now, one of the interesting things I saw talking and ready for this is, as you talked about, there's always been a lot of OT systems. They've been around for a while, but they've always been siloed. They haven't been connected to other OT systems, much less being connected to IT systems. So they weren't architected for that from the first point of view. So how does that get implemented? Are they re-architecting them? Are you guys overlaying a different kind of control plane? How do you take these siloed applications around, say, the elevator operation and then integrate it in with all these other things? So what happens is that those systems are legacy system. That's why they are like 60% of the modern buildings today. They are controlled and managed by systems that are 20 years old. So what does it mean? That you make an investment and you don't want to change that investment. You are not going to renew all the backbones of your buildings or of all your manufacturing and operation factories. So what do you do on top of this legacy system that have been developed without security in mind, you put the IT systems to monitor, to control, to have remote access and remote control. And this is where things can go wrong because if this is not done properly and by having in mind, for instance, the threat landscape, that's where you will have the controller for your HVAC exposed to the internet and can pull down all the air conditioning in a hospital, for instance. And that's where WannaCry can come and hit and put down towns and towns of hospitals. It's pretty interesting. I think it's a pretty common concept and security for people that you should only have access to the information you need around a particular project or a particular dataset. But you talked about in some of your other talks that I saw about a lot of these devices come out of the box with all kinds of capabilities because they're built for the nth degree, the maximum use, but there may be a whole bunch of stuff that's turned on out of the box that you probably need to turn off. Yeah, that's actually super interesting. If you look at IP cameras, now IP cameras, they should do one thing, record stuff that they see on the screen. But actually they come with a bunch of protocols indeed, like FTP, Samba protocols, SSDP, that announce the camera on the network and really a lot of information about those camera on the network that if are picked by an attacker or by someone with not good intentions might actually be leveraged to turn the camera against the owner of the camera itself. And do weird things that the camera should not. And that's really part of what the Forescout solution is, is making sure that the devices are profiled and acting in the way that they're supposed to act and not doing stuff that they shouldn't be doing. Yeah, Forescout gives is a leader in device visibility. So what we do is like we enter into a network and we give full visibility of all the IP devices that are there. And that's most of the times is a wow effect. Like the asset owner has no ideas that they had a camera that was directly connected to the internet or they'd have a thermostat that communicates with the servers. So all of these things we bring basically light on the dark sides of the network. So I'm so excited to talk to you because I think the smart cities and smart buildings is such an interesting concept. They're going to be so important as we get denser populations in smaller areas that connected to transportation. I wonder if you could share some examples that you see out in the field where the ROI on putting these things in the good part is way higher than maybe people expected because you're combining a one plus one equals three kind of an opportunity. Right, so actually one example of a very useful and smart use cases is happening in Amsterdam right now. The Bimer Arena is basically all the walls are made of solar panel, which means it gets the energy and is able to basically self sustain the arena. The arena is one of the biggest stadium in the Netherlands. I asked, is there probably? Exactly, all right. Now what they do, if they have collected more energy than they are able to consume, they provide that same energy to the neighbors, which means that you have basically a small ecosystem that thanks to the collection of data knowing what neighbor needs out much light and energy in a certain time, you can actually even improve self sustainability and going green initiatives. I love the innovation that comes out of the Netherlands. We interviewed a company a long time ago and they were basically doing segmented data centers where you would have a piece of the data center in your house and they were selling it as free heating. Is it free heating or is it distributed data center? But I mean, the creativity is terrific. So as you look forward, what are you excited about in 2019? What are some of your top initiatives that you're working on? So we are working on a lot about IT and OT convergence and especially on the IoT part. So we are looking at all those tiny devices that you will not expect to be on your network and what they can do and how these old systems that have been conceived to be standalone are now starting to communicate and what kind of threats this communication can bring and what we can do to actually defend our customer from the threats can be arised. Going to be a good year, we're excited to watch the developments unfold. Yeah, thanks. All right, Lisa, thanks for taking a few minutes of your day. I know you said you had early meetings, you're calling Europe, calling all over the world so thanks for taking a few. Thank you for having me. All right, she's Elise, I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE, we're at RSA Conference. RSA sees the hashtag in the four-scale booth. I'm Jeff Brick, thanks for watching. Thank you.


In this overview, we are going to discuss some of the new features available to modify the style of your chart. These features allow you to modify the size, position, and color of any of the text for a chart created within the Data Visualizer app. You are also able to select from predefined color sets in order to modify the color of the data items displayed within your charts that you have created. We can see an example of some of these features on screen. All of the text in this chart has been enlarged, and the chart title and chart items have had their colors modified from the default selection. Let's review how we can make some of these modifications, starting with our axes text. We can modify the text of our axes by selecting options, followed by the axes tab. Here we can see options to modify the size, position, color, and style of both the axes titles, as well as the labels for the dimensions that have been selected. Let's make a couple of modifications here to see how it affects our chart. We can change both of the axes titles to regular size, and we can modify the position of the vertical axis title to the start of the y axis. While we're at it, let's make both of these titles bold as well. When we update the chart, we can see how this has affected the axes titles. Our y axis title has been moved to the start of that axis, and both axes titles have been reduced in size and become bold. We can also modify the look of the legend, chart titles, and the colors used on the chart itself. We can do this by selecting options, followed by the style tab. When we review the various options available here, we can see that a number of style options have already been applied to our chart. This includes changes to the size and color of our chart titles as an example. These options are separated by the item you are modifying. Let's modify the size and color of the legend key. We can change the size to regular and modify the text color to gray. If we scroll down, we can also see a new option at the bottom of the style tab labeled color set. This allows you to modify the colors that are used to display the data dimensions on the chart itself. Specifically, it will modify the colors of the data dimension that is located in the series of your chart. In this case, we have our data in our series. Some modifications to the color set will modify the lines representing our data on the chart. Two options are available with wider accessibility in mind within this color set scheme. This includes the color blind and pattern based color set options. We can select a different color set and update our chart to see the effect this has on our series items. When we update the chart, we can see that the modifications have been applied. Our legend text has been updated and the lines on this chart use a different color set. These improvements and options are available across all chart types. I can switch over to a column chart for example and we can see the style options are all still applied. In this overview, we discussed new style options that allow you to modify the look of your chart. These options are available across all chart types and can be accessed via the options menu within the data visualizer. We look forward to hearing your comments on these features. For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on the community of practice.


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Hi guys, this is Matt Pisaka, personal training director at Meridian Fitness and Wellness in Brick. Wanted to talk today about some heart health, some different cardiovascular activities you can do to strengthen your heart, improve your cardiovascular endurance, and improve your overall fitness level to be a healthier person. Great option for cardiovascular training is swimming. Swimming is a low-impact form of exercise, is one that can be done for an extended period of time so your endurance can be worked, your cardiovascular training can be worked. Swimming provides a natural resistance for you. You can either walk through the water or do your laps, there's a lot of different options in the pool. Before you start an exercise program, make sure you consult your physician to see if there's any contraindications that you should be aware of.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2016 Ford F-250 SuperCab Short Box XLT is stock number 13133Z. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near New and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This super low mileage 2016 Ford F-250 has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change on the fluid tab and checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood. Ruby Red is the color and I shoot all my videos in 4K so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you like the video and how I do things here at Summit Automotive, consider clicking the subscribe button on my YouTube channel and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. Like I said, Ruby Red is the color and this truck is super low miles. As the painted alloy rims, these are 18 inch rims and it has Michelin LTX LT275 70R18 tires. These tires look like they have probably about 70% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is in very nice condition. This is a one owner clean title history out of Illinois. Clean car facts as well, front fenders absolutely perfect, no dents or dings, headlight lenses are nice and clear. Pumper and lower valance are in very nice condition, no major dents or dings on there. Do you get the chrome trimmed grille? The Ford logo is in nice condition and the hood is in very nice shape. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Passengers side front fender looks really good and the passengers side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes. Now as you go down this side of this 2016 Ford F250 SuperCab Short Box XLT, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here, so when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. You can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at and if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Very clean down that side, factory running boards, this back rim is in excellent shape as well and like I said, if you liked the video you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, the upper right hand part of the screen is a link to do that. Back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires, maybe just a hair bit less but still really good tread left on there, at least 50%. The frame and underbody looks great, you always want to look at the box rails on trucks to make sure that they're not rusting out, these are absolutely perfect and that's why I showed the underbody of the vehicle, has all the remaining factory exhaust and the body looks really good under there too, lower rockers, cab corners all look really good too and this passenger side box and both doors, I didn't see any dings, I didn't see any dents, it does have the FX4 off-road suspension package with the skid plates and the Rancho shocks, rear bumpers in great shape, does have the backup parking sensors, no dents or dings back here and it does have the full towing package which includes the receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is in very nice condition, it does have the tailgate step assist, the bed has been used as a truck, couple light duty scuffs and scrapes, does have the fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package and you do get seven pin wiring back here, nothing a bedliner could not fix, tailgate step assist, there's your step, there's your handle and that tailgate shuts nice and solidly. As you go down the driver side just as clean as that passenger side and see just how nice that paint is on this truck and I didn't see any dents or dings, excuse me on this side. Back rooms in nice shape as well and down the rest of the side of the truck, the doors and the cab all look really good. This one does have the driver side door code entry, we do have the code for this truck and if you ever wanted to find your code for your 11 to 16 superduty in the upper right hand part screening, I've got a video showing you how to do that. This one has the power scope mirrors, they power fold in, power telescope out, they're heated and have built in directional signals inside the XLT package gives you the tan cloth interior, power driver seat, 40-20-40 split bench seating in the front, no rips or tears on these seats, they are in fantastic condition and it does come with a set of weather tech floor mats in the front, auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows, power locks and power mirrors. Now these mirrors do power fold in like so, I was like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly. Now the power telescopic feature works when the ignition is on so I will show you that in just a second. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears, smells extremely clean inside this truck, you do get side current airbags, you get the manual pop-out windows and these seats do fold up a little bit for extra storage back here. I did want to show you the tire and loading information sticker as well as the VIN sticker, I'm always told to show those and I always forget until the end of the video so here you go. Anyways bottoms of the doors, the bottoms of the doors all look really good and we'll hop inside check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. Alright so you can see that this one is 18,622 miles on it, you do get cruise controls and information center controls on the left of the steering wheel and Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, it does come with the six-speed automatic transmission. This one does have the CD player, climate controls and it does have serious satellite radio capabilities. Turned out four-wheel drive has the factory exhaust brake, factory brake controller and you do get four up-fitter switches right there for auxiliary lights and whatnot. Downhill assist control, stability control, USB and an aux jack, sync to connect to your Bluetooth cell phone and your backup camera is located in that rear view mirror. Oops passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition. Like I said smells very clean inside this truck, I don't think it's ever been smoked and the headliner is in fantastic condition and you do get map lights up there. Alright we'll start it up and we'll take a quick look under the hood. You get that built-forward tough animation, does have the active my key active, no check engine lights or anything like that and I wanted to show you the telescopic toners so that one works nicely and once again other side as well. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you'll have been able to verify the quality and condition and options of this truck all the way around inside now. Under the hood we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine and she based very clean runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safe to be inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go.  That light works nicely there too. There is your emission sticker and bug shield came off there a little bit and put that back on. Anyways I would highly recommend this truck to make quality and condition standpoint and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons. You name it we got to go to that website right there summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there click the bell notifications you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel on the upper left. Link to more F-250 videos like this one the upper right link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right. Click those check us out and we are super excited to help you with this ultra clean 2016 Ford F-250 super cab short box XLT FX4 in ruby red metallic. Thanks again for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share and I really appreciate it thanks again