Hey everybody welcome back to the channel Gio here and today we're going to talk anime specifically the 2022 spring season and all the cool shows that are coming out. Sort of a first impression spaces and of course I'm going to recommend to you the five top shows that I think you should be checking out. Now at some point in my life I thought man wouldn't it be cool if I saw every single show that's coming out brand new and I could talk about it with everybody. Sort of boost up the credentials on the old YouTube channel but I quickly realized that's kind of hard to do because of real life and work and other obligations and it's just a whole mess. However I do try each season to watch as many shows as I possibly can. Unfortunately some slip through the cracks others I'm not that super interested and some I just flat out ignore and here we have a lot of shows. I mean look at all this I'm not going to watch every single one but I do have most of some of the good ones. The rising of the shield hero season two the animation started out rather lackluster. The first episode felt like I was watching the middle of a season and not necessarily the start of a new one and I know it's me probably nitpicking but I thought it was a worthy thing to point out because it's anime. You like that crisp fresh nice looking animation and in 2022 when so many other studios are putting top-notch material I kind of wanted that for the season premiere but hey again it's just me nitpicking who knows maybe in this season we're going to get spectacular episodes down the road when it comes to like the big key moments. Next up is Spy Family. Now everybody in the grandmother is excited about this I was really looking forward to seeing that transition from manga to anime and it's done in a collaboration by two of my favorite studios Cloverworks and with studios. The animation is wonderful the voice cast is superb and I think it transitioned pretty well and now everybody gets to find out about Anya and all her crazy shenanigans. Next up is Kaguya-sama's love is war ultra romantic aka the third season of Kaguya-sama. This show each season it gets better and better they really found their footing with season two and just the comedic timing and the beats and the jokes themselves and the characters especially the voice acting get better with each script and each episode in my honest opinion. Here we have Comey can communicate season two if you are a fan of season one it's pretty much the same it's like it never left airwaves if you will it has the same style and flair it's OLM I think they have done a phenomenal job animating the manga and yeah you know it's more of Comey and and her quest to gain as many friends as possible. Next up here we have I'm quitting heroine this is a total surprise I love this episode I thought this was going to be another isekai instead it is based off the light novel of the same name and you have a character in a very interesting twist he defeats the demon lord and he is still resented by the population and the rest of the humans because he's so overpowered they are fearful of him and think he must be even more you know of a threat compared to the demon lord so he's sort of exiled and in his frustration he now has a vintetta against all these people and does the unimaginable I guess for leads in manga and light novels like this he ventures out and seeks the former demon lord and wants to work for her and her kingdom and organization on all that stuff for the most part it has a great cast of characters and a really nice role reversal of what it means to be a main character in a fantasy series so I'm really excited for this one a skeleton knight in another world is an isekai it follows arc this kid he wakes up in another world in a body of his mmo character this skull knight or whatever and right out the gate without any warning whatsoever this is a pretty shocking essay that occurs right from the very first second and there's no warning whatsoever you don't even have time to react as soon as you start the episode it just happens and I thought it was pretty suspicious when I started watching the first uh the first episode and there's a disclaimer I'm like wait I mean isn't this supposed to be a funny wholesome show what what's happening and then we get treated with that which was pretty shocking because I was watching it in a public setting and I immediately turned down the volume so there is that and then arc's reaction when he finds out what's happening to the characters that I'm mentioning is also pretty shocking because I didn't know this was going to be a really macabre violent series arc has major overlord vibes you know with a similar looking design to irons but this is much more comedic in nature so I am excited to check this out because it is funny I just wanted to give you a heads up on the elements of episode one Shikomori is not just a cutie now in this series we follow Shikomori she is this beautiful kind and loving girl and she's dating this guy Izumi and and their love and all that stuff and the actual plot of this and I have to read it off because I just find it fascinating that it literally just says she's a pretty cute and loving girlfriend but when Izumi's in trouble she transforms into a super cool heartthrob girlfriend that's it that's the plot of the thing I mean this is done this is adapted from a manga the studio behind it is Doga Kobo which fun fact not so fun Doga Kobo just shut down because it's basically a COVID hot spot right now so all the best wishes to them hope everybody gets treated and recovers swiftly the first episode I thought looked gorgeous I love the character designs I love Shikomori's hair I'm a sucker for bubblegum pink hair and the plot they're just don't plot here it's just you're following the adventures of these of this couple I should say and the rest of the characters in high school and the main shtick I guess is that the girl she has this other side to her she's confident and a badass and all that stuff which I theorize that since so many anime and manga feature the same type of characters the same type of high schoolers this one comes off as different or somewhat revolutionary because of that trait because the personalities resemble more like real life people where you know it's not all just peaches and cream 24-7 or like super awkward or nerdy this is a little bit more robust in its emotional range when it comes to your main protagonist but that's just me spitballing here I do like the art and the animation but the plot I don't know I'm still gonna watch because it's cute and I like the visuals so we'll see what happens aharon san wa hakarenai like probably butchered that so I do apologize in this story you follow these two characters that you're seeing here on the screen first is reina aharen and raido the two sit next to each other in school and reina is extremely shy and just a really quirky character that with a lot of personality behind her while raido is more stereotypical of a guy in school then all that he's still fascinated by her and wants to learn more about her and a friendship that blossoms there and it's just fun it's a school comedy series and they get into all sorts of hijinks and you get to laugh at the reactions and and all the silly stuff that happens not my favorite of the bunch but still cute enough that I want to continue watching it the executioner and her way of life animated by jc staff this is based off a light novel of the same name this took me by surprise it is an easy guy but it does its tropes right and it flips them on its head it subverts your expectations with what you're thinking of when it comes to easy guy here we have a really cool setting of this other world that is sort of accepting all these travelers from our earth and when they arrive they are treated as harbingers of destruction because of abilities that they now possess and all that stuff so there's this group that's tasked with executing them and that's where our main character comes from and a lot of stuff happens in the first episode that really makes you question what it is that's going to happen in this because it gets pretty brutal fast pretty friggin interesting I love the art the character designs and the renders kind of and I might be might be in the minority here kind of remind me a little bit of like re-zero it has that flair to it at least to me just really cool do check it out if you can ascendance of a bookworm season three one of my all-time favorite easy guy I love this show so much this breaks the mold and makes easy guy fun it's as it should be great world building and characters I cannot recommend ascendance of the bookworm enough here we have love afterworld domination animated by project number nine based off the manga of the same name and this is sort of a play on super sentai and stuff like power rangers it's essentially a power rangers anime but with a romance twist because you have the red ranger or the red gelato because they're like the five gelato squad or whatever and he ends up falling in love with the villain of the show and they form a relationship but they're hiding it from the rest or she's not the main villain but one of the main bad guys and they're hiding it from the rest of the cast for the good guys and the rest of the bad guys so it's it's it's silly it's fun it's a bonkers little story the animation's competent enough and I do recommend it it's it's quirky and I think you'll like it if you give it a shot a tomodachi game is also out if you like stuff like alice in borderland or fricking squid games that psychological game death game thing you're gonna be right at home with this however this one I do find it a little bit more confusing with its rules it's a little bit more convoluted for its own good at least based on the first episode but I've heard nothing but great things about the manga so I'm excited to check this one out and see what happens with this I like the main little boy animatronic thing I it steals the show for me and makes it instantly memorable in my opinion although summertime rendering has not come out as of me making this video I do want to point out that this is being streamed at Disney plus and that is awesome because who would have thunk it 2022 so many streaming outlets embracing and putting out all the anime that they can afford to get that's just awesome I love it what a time to be alive diamond I hope I'm pronouncing this right a recipe for happiness based on the manga of the same name this one is pretty cute it's a slice of life sanen series you have the character of idino returning home when he gets a call that his father is hospitalized turns out it's not so serious and finds out that this young girl she is going to take control or inherit the sweet baking shop and it's sort of like reminds me of barakaman that type of show that type of dynamic now the character idino at the suggestion of his mom is acting sort of like a surrogate type father to the main girl so it's pretty cute and wholesome and I do suspect it will be a nice simple show that everybody can enjoy a bunch of other shows here don't hurt me my healer following one of the sassiest girls in all of anime and all of recent anime I should say Karla the dark elf cleric she will insult you and try to look cute and talk her way out of everything and swindle people I love this character she's a blast she can be annoying but she's pretty funny at the same time and I mean if you watch the first episode you know what you're getting yourself into it's pretty one-dimensional but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing the story is funny enough that I don't really mind and it's a nice break from reality plus I I like the character of Karla so I'm interested to see what adventure she gets herself in in the heart of kunoichi subaki this is pretty interesting similar to don't hurt me my healer this is the type of show it's based off of manga this is animated by clover works this is the type of show where by the premise you already know what you're getting into and I don't think it's going to deviate too much from that path this is about a group of kunoichi on this secluded hidden village or whatever and they are forbidden from contacting men they have a policy or a rule no contact with men of course the main character you know that eventually she is going to make that contact and it's going to change things and it's played to comedic effect sometimes a little bit too repetitive on some of the jokes but the animation from clover works honestly is a lot better than most of the popular ninja themed anime in the past they knocked it out of the park in my opinion next up is heroines run the show I wasn't originally going to check this out but I gave it a shot because I saw the trailer for it and I'm I'm in this is a this is a lot it says here comedy drama bromance school it has a little bit of everything you follow hiyoti she left her hometown to pursue a career in or you know track and field and all that stuff in a prestigious uh Tokyo high school that she enrolls at and in there she finds out that two of her classmates are popular idol members of a group called lip lip and through a series of shenanigans she's placed sort of in the middle of the two of them that are currently behind the scenes not getting along and she's placed in the middle of working as their manager in all the crazy stuff so I am going to check it out I love that it's mixing totally different genres from sports to drama and school life and all that I want to check it out I'm not a fan of idle stuff which is why I didn't want to see the the first episode but I gave it a shot anyways and I was surprised the animations uh serviceable the character designs are awesome I love hiyoti's character design it's instantly recognizable and she's just a bundle of wholesome energy that I can't help but root for and want to see her succeed also the voice cast on this thing is insane every character's voiced by a very famous Japanese actor and that's awesome I love it some of my personal favorites are there which is another reason I'm giving heroines run the show a shot this is a contender for best of the season and quite possibly one of the best shows of the year my early prediction this is Yaboi Konmin you have Konmin famous tactician and military leader from the romance of the three kingdoms of in China in his dying bed he wishes to live in another time of peace and all that stuff so he gets transported to modern day Tokyo and he ends up meeting this amateur musician called Aiko and she is just a really awesome young girl her songs are really good I like that they're in English gives it a little bit of an extra spice some people were saying like oh this is a cool idol show I don't see it that way I just see it as a music drama slash comedy mostly comedy and it's wacky and silly enough where it just works the idea that you have a character from thousands of years in the past and now in modern times with the old clothing and all that stuff is sort of this culture clash of modern technology with somebody that's from ancient times and Aiko she's struggling and now she has this new lease on her professional life thanks to meeting Konmin at first you know the circumstances don't necessarily dictate that that is what's going to happen but that's part of what's fun about this series it doesn't take itself serious and the cast can just have fun you know what you're getting yourself into and the animation is great is from PA works they're one of my favorite studios and I believe this is the second time they're doing a manga adaptation they mostly have done a lot of original work so this is really cool the music is great like I said and the art and all that stuff I highly recommend it just go in and have fun do check it out I guarantee you're gonna have some fun with it okay final four here here we have uh that am I saying this right? Dan Stanzur from Studio Mappa adapting the manga the same name this is a drama series and I think this is a contender for best of the best in my opinion we follow the character of Junpei he loves ballet but circumstances have made him not be able to practice that sport that dancing as in favor of other things you know following cultural things that you know you gotta be manly and being manly means cool so you gotta do sports like soccer or martial arts and stuff like that but his true passion is in ballet yeah he's scared of what the public might think and his fellow students his fellow his fellow classmates and all that but a chance encounter happens when he meets Godai Miyako who happens to have a ballet studio or her mom has one so now he has this opportunity to fully express his love of ballet after you know being denied that will he stick to what society wants him to be or will he break out of that show and become the dancer that he's meant to be this is the type of show that I'm excited for it's awesome I love that in just one episode the beginning you get a lot of character progression I cannot wait to see where the story is headed and if it's just as good as the first one we're looking at one of the best shows in my honest opinion I love the art I'm a big fan of Studio Moppa like many of you however I don't like and I do think this is because they're doing the because it's based off the manga art every character has a half circle in their eye I found it really distracting and I could not unsee it so eventually I got used to it but it's something that I was not too fond of but aside from that everything looks great the animation when these characters are doing their ballet movements and dancing is top-notch obviously Studio Moppa has had experience with this I'm reminded of gymnastic samurai and that how it combined the CG stuff with the drawing and the fluidity of sports and gymnastics it's similar to this where dance dance you have these characters doing complicated twirls and spins and then stretches and all that stuff and I think it looks really freaking good speaking of sports here we have love all play this is extremely generic but really fun and I I do recommend checking it out it's essentially about this kid who gets into this prestigious badminton high school I actually played badminton growing up back in the day so I do like that sport so that's great to see something you love being represented on screen and it has all the cool stuff that you come to love from sports drama you know you get the competitiveness the trials the qualifiers the practices you have the characters getting to know each other there's the rival there's the hot shot player who looks down on the newbies it has all the sports tropes that you come to expect from anime and manga or in this case the original novel but do check it out it's fun and it has a good voice cast and the animation is really nice as well another one for the sports section here is birdie wing golf girls story this is fantastic that you can take the sport of golf which is not everybody's favorite it makes something entertaining out of it its premise is bonkers you have two characters they come from completely different backgrounds and they're playing for various reasons one of the characters is aiming to help some orphans and be able to feed them and all that stuff and when you get the golf play it has sort of that ridiculousness of all the high-end moves and the super detailed stuff that you come to love when they are exaggerating these things so I do like it for that and the art is nice this is by bn pictures I do like it it's not technically the best one of the bunch but it's competent enough that I keep coming back that I want to keep coming back to it for more golf action and finally here we have a fanfare of adolescence this has the wackiest plot of them all because you boy kong meme yeah it's fantastical but this one takes the cake you have the main character who is part of an idol group but his true passion is in the horse racing and he decides to quit and join a prestigious jockey school horse racing and of course the Japanese media don't take too kindly of it so there's that dynamic of paparazzi and press and media and all that stuff and the pressures of it and now you have a character that is getting into a brand new ball game and wanting to learn to be a successful jockey and all that I'll check it out the animation is done by lay deuce and it's all right I do like it it's the character designs are nice and detailed enough the horse animation it's mostly cg I'm not a huge fan of that but it's competent enough that I don't mind it it could be worse I would say so that is that as they say a lot of shows I'm very interested to know which ones you're watching are you watching something that I didn't mention let me know in the comment section down below I've got to go thank you everybody once again thank you for subscribing and being a part of 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Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for being here. We're now about halfway through the legislative session, so I wanted to share some thoughts on where we are, or unfortunately, more like where we aren't on housing. As a reminder, I've made housing a top priority since my first year in office, long before it was called a crisis by many in this building. And the reason I made it a priority is pretty simple. Workers need housing they can afford, and employers need workers to survive. And we desperately need more taxpayers, not more taxes, but none of it is possible without housing. During the pandemic, to their credit, many in the legislature also began talking about this issue, and as a result, they approved many of my historic housing proposals, investing hundreds of millions of dollars to build and restore units. And although we've made progress, one thing has become very clear, is we can't just spend our way out of this. So we need to make it easier, faster, and less expensive to build and restore the housing we all know we need. So the state's investments go further, and the private sector, who historically build way more housing than the government, get back to doing just that. As a reminder, we're seeing about 2,200 residential permits each year. Only one third, around 700, are state funded. Just to meet current demand and create a healthy market, we need to build about 6,800 units per year. So if government spending alone was the key to closing this gap, it would cost over $3 billion a year, which we obviously don't have. That's why we need to focus on the other side of the equation to make it easier, and less expensive, and more attractive to build. At the beginning of the session, I stood here with a tripartisan group of lawmakers to outline a package of common sense, but impactful regulatory reforms and incentives that would help increase housing rehabilitation and construction across the state. To date, that bill has received no attention in the house, despite the efforts of members like Rep Bartley and Rep Elder who are here with us today. The Senate Economic Development Committee moved forward with the Be Home Bill, which has been stuck in the Senate natural resources for weeks with no discussion. What we're hearing, and this is what we're hearing, is they're waiting for the conservation bill in the house, H687 to pass, which has little to do with housing other than to prevent a lot of it. And then they're going to lump it all together and put it in one bill. This isn't anything new. For years, I've seen the legislature play the game of combining housing proposals I support with others I don't that actually made the problem, makes the problem worse. As I said, if we truly have a housing crisis, we need to start treating it like one. So I'm asking the legislature to send me a real housing bill, one that has tools to fix our housing problem, and the Be Home Bill in the Senate is a very good start. For monitors, can't afford these political games.  Representative Bartley and Representative Elder have been strong voices for common sense and will give their perspectives on what's going on in House General. And Commissioner Farrell will also give a refresher on the tripartisan bill we spoke about in early January. So with that, I'll hand it over to Representative Bartley. Thank you, Governor Scott. Two months ago in the early days of the legislative session, I had the privilege of standing alongside a coalition of legislators from across the political spectrum. We gathered under the banner of tripartisanship with a shared commitment to addressing one of Vermont's most pressing issues, our housing crisis. Joined by Governor Scott, we unveiled a comprehensive housing reform bill, H719. The housing crisis has permeated every major hurdle facing Vermonters. More inventory would help stem the tide of increasing numbers of people experiencing homelessness. Education funding issues can be helped with an increase in the grand list across Vermont cities and towns. Our demographic crisis can be resolved by recruiting newer Vermonters to fill thousands of open jobs we have now and contribute to our local economies. But since mid January, when it was introduced, H719 remains untouched in the House Committee on Environment and Energy and has subsequently died on the committee wall with no interest to take up the bill, despite being sponsored by over 30% of the House, 30%. Simultaneously, another crucial piece of legislation known as the Be Home Bill, S311 took shape in the Senate Economic Development Housing and General Affairs Committee. The committee did great work and I applaud Senator Rom Hinsdale and her leadership seeing the bill through. H719 and S311 represent collaborator of efforts towards comprehensive housing reform, offering effective solutions. Both bills were sent to committees with chairs vocal in their desire to not only maintain the status quo and land use and zoning, but as we are seeing in the House, this session thus far has spent far more time expanding Act 250 jurisdiction and creating further hurdles to development. Neither bill will meet crossover. The process enabled by House and Senate leadership has stunted progress. Not only will at now, S311 will not make crossover. There are however plans in the Senate to water down the benefits of S311 by combining it with a separate land use bill, not a housing bill that will come from the House, effectively ensuring that the House will have absolutely no substantive input on any landmark housing legislation this session. As a member of the House General and Housing Committee, I have struggled with the arbitrary notion that our committee does not have jurisdiction over Act 250 or municipal zoning. Our committee has been forbidden to discuss any aspect of land use, a struggle that has been shared by several others within our committee. How can we possibly have holistic conversations about housing and legislate effectively when we cannot discuss factors in housing development, planning, land use and zoning? For decades, we have witnessed a status quo approach to the housing crisis, but now momentum is building across the political spectrum and we need to act in unison. As we stare down what is in the House called calendar math, we can still get this done. I acknowledge that addressing the housing crisis requires a multifaceted approach and I recognize the very valid concerns of my colleagues who argue that Act 250 jurisdictional reform alone won't solve the crisis. I agree, but simply spending more state funds will not solve it either. We cannot buy our way out of this crisis, as the governor has said. That's why I had voted against a bill that barely passed out of our committee that proposes nearly $200 million more a year spent for the next 10 years. $2 billion taxpayer dollars yet to be funded that we do not have the budget for. More money thrown at a problem without solving the systematic underlying issues. To be clear, this administration has already invested far more money in housing than any administration has in the history of the state. Since 2020, we've committed over 500 million on initiatives aimed at bringing vacant units online, constructing new homes and expanding shelter capacity. Despite these efforts, the impact has not been significant enough. That's why we're here today. We must explore fresh solutions. The legislator has been made aware that there is a need for 40,000 units over the next decade and that is a conservative number. With construction costs the way they are today, this could total $18 billion at the current rate. Addressing this aspect of the housing crisis will take every possible tool. As I've outlined, the process is broken. When the voices of the few drown out the collective outcry of an entire state. Vermonters deserve better. They deserve proactive and earnest efforts from their elective representatives. They deserve transparency and accountability in the legislative process. I stand before you as a voice for Vermonters for housing and for housing everyone. And I am committed to championing tangible, collaborative solutions to our housing crisis. I urge my colleagues, irrespective of party affiliation, to join forces in this endeavor. It is time for House and Senate leadership to prioritize the well-being of Vermonters over political posturing and personal agendas. We are at a precipice where progress and process must be made more important than party. Together, let us rise to the occasion and deliver the meaningful, collaborative housing reform that Vermont so desperately needs. Thank you, and with that, I will turn the microphone over to Representative Elders. Hello, and thank you to Governor Scott for having me join the press conference today. My name is Caleb Elder. I represent the Addison Ford District, the towns of Bristol, Lincoln, Moncton, and Starksboro. I also want housing to turn a new leaf in Vermont for us to be able to build the houses that we need right now, the houses for our future, for our kids, that acknowledge the challenges of climate change and bring our communities closer together and walkable downtowns. These are goals that many of us share and that I know a majority of my constituents hold as values. I want to just talk a little bit about regulation, but first I will mention, in terms of money, with all respect, the governor's budget doesn't have enough money in it for housing, in my opinion. Now, it also is not going to help to just put a ton of money in and not have regulatory reform. Last year, Representative Bartley and I worked closely together in the General Housing Committee on S100, the home bill, where we deployed over $100 million towards housing, but without the accompanying regulatory reforms that I thought were necessary to give that investment a place to land. When we asked to address those in the General Housing Committee, we were told that basically in the house, we don't have the housing folks work on Act 250, it's just the natural resources or now energy environment. One, I don't think that's supported by the historical record, and two, it's not supported by the House rules. House rules say that our committee gets housing, the other committee gets land use. The rules do not mention Act 250, and I think it's clear that Act 250 must be shared between those jurisdictional areas. That is the approach in the Senate, and I believe that's why the Be Home Bill, S311, is as strong as it is, because you had an opportunity to look at the land use and the zoning from a housing perspective, not at the expense of not looking at it from a natural resources perspective, but in addition, I believe we have to take this approach in the House to have good results, merely saying this is the way we've always done it, so this is the way we've got to do it, is clearly not acceptable in this moment. If we keep doing things the way we've always done them, we'll get the same results and those are not acceptable to our constituents, so I stand here today as a supporter of S311, as a supporter for multi-jurisdictional consideration of Act 250 in the House, and also as a firm believer that we have it in us to come together from all sides and really address this issue. That'll help our economy in many ancillary ways, fundamentally get people more affordable places to live, and I believe mitigate some of the effects of climate change and give us greater resiliency moving into the future, so thanks very much. I'll turn it over now to Commissioner Farrell from the Department of Housing and Community Development. Thank you, Representative Elder, I appreciate that. So as a lot of you will recall, since prior to the start of the legislative session, the governor and the administration worked with legislators of all parties to develop a comprehensive approach to combat the housing crisis using a variety of complementary tools. Our approach has been informed by data that the administration and our housing partners have gathered regarding our housing needs in Vermont. To put it simply, Vermont has not been generating nearly enough housing, and that's not news to anybody. According to building permit data, since 2008, Vermont has produced an average of just over 1,700 units per year. By comparison, in the 1980s, the average was about 3,900 units per year. Our data suggests that in order to not only meet the current and coming need, but to dig out of the current deficit, in the short term we'd need to create about 6,800 units conservatively, and then at least 4,000 to 4,500 units on an ongoing basis. While progress has been made in 21 and 22 Vermont produce an average of about 2,300 units per year, we're still far behind, and it's clear that structural change is needed in order to meet the need right now. As such, we developed a plan to meet this need, and that plan formed the basis of the priorities that we've worked with legislators to advocate for this session. Initially captured in H719, and now largely captured in S311, the B Home Bill over in the Senate. These bills represent a comprehensive approach to housing that builds on recent successes, corrects historic flaws, and empowers communities of all sizes to create housing. All the tools and those proposals are needed to meet this challenge, and any effort to reduce or diminish those tools will simply inhibit the state's ability to catch up on housing production. So to walk back through what those proposals include at a high level, I'll start by talking about what's in both H719 and the B Home Bill. Firstly, updated standards for local zoning to encourage gentle infill development and greater density in areas where we have municipal water and wastewater. This approach accounts for community capacity, maximizes the taxpayer investment that we've made in municipal water and wastewater systems, and it focuses development in areas that are prepared for growth. Two, appeals reform for housing development. Too often in Vermont, popular and necessary housing construction development gets derailed or diminished by a small number of folks with no direct skin in the game, and reluctance to welcome new neighbors. Three, interim exemptions to Act 250 for residential development in designated areas, such as designated downtowns, village centers with municipal water and wastewater, and growth centers. Those exemptions, with a five-year sunset, will provide a runway for the implementation of the broader land use reforms being discussed, but it'll provide a five-year window for robust and smart growth. Four, tax incentives directed at the rehabilitation of blighted structures for residential use. This is an innovative approach which has been successful in many jurisdictions across the country, and which will direct private investment into our neighborhoods where buildings are falling into disrepair, we're losing homes, and where communities are in desperate need of revitalization. And five, investment in innovative programs that reinvest in our aging housing stock, create new homes for low and moderate income Vermonters, and revitalize our communities. So these tools, all of these tools, are absolutely essential in this effort. We've heard from employers, health care organizations, labor unions, educators, community leaders, homeless advocates, and residents from every income level and corner of the state. They all support this approach, and they're begging for bold action, not symbolic or modest gestures, but immediate and bold action. If folks listening today want to help, please reach out to your legislator, reach out to legislative leadership, express your support for these priorities, express your desire to see movement on the Be Home Bill, S311. If you don't know your legislator, you can go to legislature.vermont.gov to find your legislator and their contact information. I'll now turn it back over to the governor. Thank you, Commissioner Farrell. I'll now open up to questions. Governor, Commissioner Farrell mentioned more density and infill in urban areas with the wastewater capacity. Are you confident that there is enough capacity that we seem to have had quite a few sewer overflows? Sure, there is in some areas and some have challenges in terms of capacity, and we should be building out the infrastructure in those areas where it's appropriate. So it's a balance, and we have to invest money in the traditional infrastructure of wastewater and water, other water, stormwater, and so forth, in order to move forward. But that's an ongoing process. What do you say to folks that might say that activity isn't a problem here, right? That might say the vast majority of permits are approved and that there's factors like labor, lumber, lending, inflation, things that are other things that are cycling growth? Yeah, I would say that it's labor prices, it's construction prices. Black of any competition in some respects. We suffer from a lack of workforce. We have a labor shortage in the state, but the only way we're gonna work our way out of that is to build more housing units. I hear from people every day, it was in the Springfield yesterday, not a single entity of people who were there, there's the local chamber and the rotary, who didn't have a shortage of workers. So they're saying we need housing. So we need to do everything we can to provide a pathway to more housing. Act 250, as you heard, Act 250 isn't totally responsible for this, but it's a 50-year-old law that needs to be updated. We also have local zoning that needs to be updated and upgraded. If this is truly, again, if this is truly a crisis, housing crisis, everyone seems in this building would agree, or most everyone, a lot of them, a lot of representatives and senators campaigned on that issue. Then we ought to treat it like a crisis. And during a crisis, it gets uncomfortable. Some of the regulations we have to impose or put off to the side are uncomfortable. But if it's a crisis, you do what you have to do to improve. So I'm just saying we should be reflecting on all the barriers, any barriers that prevent us from building more housing units in the state and do something about it. We're hearing plans for a number of interim shelters of the administration coming together from the adverse weather conditions and for the motel program on Friday. Can you tell us what the administration is planning? We're always planning. We're always planning for the worst. We don't know what to expect after we were successful in negotiating with the hotels and motels and reducing the rate through the efforts of Eric Pembroke and his whole team and many from the administration we were meeting on a daily basis about that. He was meeting in contact for weeks with the motel owners. After that, when we were successful in accomplishing that in the legislature past the BAA, which had the cap in there, which was tremendously helpful. At that point I said, this isn't a time for celebration because in two weeks, we have another cohort of people who aren't don't qualify for the GA program that will be falling under the adverse conditions. Now, remember the adverse conditions are still in play. If there's a couple of things with the temperature drops or precipitation with drop in temperature is one other qualification, then they would qualify for adverse conditions and have a place to stay. But we're trying to anticipate. We don't know what the number will be, what plans they've made, but we wanna be prepared just in case so that we can give a slope, a transition to them being unhoused in the hotels and motels to a better plan in the future. So we're just trying to give them a little bit of room, but we wanna be prepared for whatever hits us on Friday. Can you give us any more specifics on that? I can't at this point in time because we're still dealing with negotiating and so forth and I wouldn't wanna give any details that would hurt the process. Back to housing, we all know you've mentioned the four of the supermajority that the legislature has and as you mentioned, it seems like this bill in the House is kind of near the transit vehicle that then goes to the Senate, but what is your confidence level? I mean, if that means it does get to your dust, it's really gonna have anything that you like in it or what you believe the state needs. Well, I'm a bit of an eternal optimist and I hope that they will listen to their constituents, listen to their monitors, understand the businesses that need workers, need housing and will do something about it. So this is just a way to reset or halfway through the session. Anything can happen and I hope, I hope that they hear what we all have to say and do something about it. Take action. The BAA, I believe, on the adverse weather housing included a pathway for people who qualified for housing under the adverse weather program to qualify for extended housing after March 50, have those people been reassessed? Are they all, what's going to happen? You know, I don't know the details of that, but we have had, for those who will be affected, we've asked our agency of human services and they have followed suit and they are interacting with those who might be impacted to determine where they're at, what the path forward is and what to expect. So they are in communication with them. I think they know who they are. And I might, is Todd on here? Jenny, I may refer to Secretary Samuelson to go further on that. Governor, you're actually right. We'll repeat very closely with the clients in the program to assess their current needs, to assess where they're at, and to help them with their planning as they make transitions or show manageability. Anything further, John? That Secretary Samuelson might be on the answer. I think it was, the intent of the legislation was to, when lawmakers were writing the final language, they believed that many of those who are currently in the adverse weather program would qualify for extended housing. Has that process gone forward? Are those, has there been an assessment whether these people would qualify because they're disabled or elderly or family or children, et cetera? Yes, we've been working very closely with individuals who entered the program under the adverse weather conditions to determine their eligibility under the guidance that was provided in the BAA to make sure that we are clear on whether they continue to remain eligible and to stay in the program. And so we're working very closely with the individuals who are currently sheltered in the hotel to make sure that we know whether they meet the criteria laid out by the legislature. And the program, that process will be included by Friday? We've been working very closely on an ongoing basis with the clients in the hotel. And so this isn't the BAA, it was the start of that process but it's a continuation of that process and the work that we have to ensure that the clients that we started really get connected to the services that they need are working on developing a plan for permanent housing and have the supports that they need to be successful in their housing. Thank you. Got a few folks on the phone. Starting with Ed Marver, Newport Daily Express. All right, we'll go to Keith, Rhell and Harold. Hi, I was talking to some folks with the Vermont Business Roundtable earlier. They have a survey they do for nursing staff level needs and one of the things we were talking about that I hadn't heard before but maybe it's come up is there seems to be a little shortage of people who can teach nursing to others. That seems to be one of the bottlenecks they're talking about now. And I was wondering if there's been any talk or thoughts or decisions made towards possibly ongoing funding to increase the number of teaching positions in the nursing field? Yeah, this is nothing new in some respects. I remember having a conversation with Senator Sanders. We had a group discussion at the VVC campus in Williston about this very subject and that was probably two, three years ago anyhow. And so we identified the problem. There was, I can't remember the terminology used for this teaching position. And Senator Sanders took a great interest in that, was trying to get federal funding for it. And it's not lost on us but just finding those people has been difficult just like everything else. The whole labor shortage, labor crisis affects every single sector and this is one of them. Even the teaching positions themselves. So this has been a struggle for us and then they need housing too. So we all end up back at the same place where we need more housing. In order to attract more people and it has to be affordable. So that's what we're here for. So Keith, I don't have any specifics on that. I can get you, I can get in touch with our folks to see if there's any movement on that. But we did, we did address that. It seems like two or three years ago and identified that as a barrier. Tom Davis, come with us for a minute. No questions today, thank you very much. Tim McQuiston, Vermont Visits Magazine. At Governor, it was four years ago today that the housing situation has a crisis. Would you consider a state of emergency in that regard? It's always on the table. I spoke about this a little bit yesterday at the Springfield event. And somebody asked, you know, aren't there any executive orders, anything you could put into place? And I said, well, we do have, you know, a state of emergency provision. I know the speaker had asked me, or maybe not asked me directly, but it said that I should declare a state of emergency on housing maybe a year or two ago. And I'm hesitant, you know, in some respects because I want to preserve, I don't want to abuse that power, we used it during the pandemic. Obviously four years ago, we've used it, it's still in existence for the flooding in July. And if we can do something legislatively, that's the preferred track. But as I've said, if this is truly the crisis, everyone is saying it is, and I believe it is, then that is on the table. And we will do everything we can to keep moving forward with improving housing and improving our economy here in the state. So again, no plans at this point, Tim, but it's always on the table. And it's not something that I've put aside. And the time is kind of running out of legislation. Where will it be a tipping point on the timeline? I would say we'll see where we end up at the end of the session. There's always an opportunity here. So we're only halfway through too early to talk about that emergency provision. But again, it's on the table. Thank you. Back to the room. Governor, are you putting on signing the budget agenda? I am, although I might be doing them a favor by vetoing it. And I only say that because I listened to some of the dialogue and I'm sure you have and others have in a house appropriations yesterday and there it was interesting. Maybe a little frightening as well when they started coming to the conclusion that we don't have any money. And the $15 million that they had added to the BAA is going to impact the budget itself, the big bill. So they were all over the place on that and wondering where they were gonna come up with $15 million without cutting other programs that we guess where they need.  They were talking about all kinds of things that cut. They were saying that taking the FEMA match, not doing that, leaving federal money on the table, which would be incredibly bizarre in some respects because we leverage a lot of money by federal money, free money in some respects by having our match. If we're willing to leave that on the table, that's concerning. So again, I'll be signing it. I'm sure they don't want me to veto it, but I might be doing them a favor by giving them extra time to reflect on that at this point in time because these are gonna be tough, tough decisions. We had to make them early on and my budget address I tried to put a fine point on that. How difficult this year was going to be because there just isn't any money. But many here seem to be in denial. At least now, I think it's coming to fruition. I think that they understand the complexity of the problem we're in and there's no easy way out. And we're back to what we were long before the pandemic where a million dollars is a lot of money right now. Whereas during the pandemic and the billions of dollars coming through, a million dollars didn't seem like that much. And now the million dollars, a lot of money, I expect 100,000 or 200,000 will be a lot of money as well. Can you be impressed with the mental health services or a few amount of dollars? I know you stood really firm on not letting you raise taxes but is there a point that you think that the tax dance has to change you? We were able to present a budget that didn't raise taxes. So, and we actually increased spending by 3.57%. So I think it's doable, but tough decisions will have to be made. So I stand firm. I think we've taxed enough. I think Vermont would look at the property taxes and that's $225 million, 20% increase, 30% of the budgets fell. That's unheard of in Vermont. So we've got a problem on our hands and that we'll just add to it. Sometime this week, the House will be voting on the flavored tobacco ban. As you were thinking on, you said that you were opposed to it originally. No, I said I was, I wasn't opposed to it. I was ambivalent in the beginning because when we first started talking about the menthol ban, we're talking about the menthol ban and the cigarettes and I thought, well, it's not, it wouldn't be my first approach but that's what they wanna do, fine. But they've added a few things. Now they've included the zins in that which is caffeine filled pouches, I believe. And they also started to do the financial aspect of what that would mean to the state and we're talking millions and millions of dollars. So if it's $15 million that we stand to lose by putting this ban into place, I think we've gotta reflect on that because we have 15 million that we have to come up with from an overspend in the BAA and now we have another 15 million that we'll have to be backfelt in some respect. So we're talking about 30 million. So then we started talking about real money again. So I don't know what they're going to do. I know it's up for a vote. We'll see what happens. A lot of folks I speak would say that kids are actually getting these things online on apps. Is there anything that the state can do or the attorney general or the law enforcement can do to? I would assume so but that would be a better question for the AG. But I would assume that there's something that could be done from that standpoint. But getting back to the menthol, I made this connection before. You know, we promote flavored alcohol. We sell it and that's a choice that adults make, right? And that increases the use of alcohol which we know isn't great for us either. We have cannabis that we've now legalized. Now they have edibles. I'm much more concerned about the edibles available to kids than I am menthol. But that's a choice. If we can keep it out of the kids' hands, that's a choice that adults have to make. So it just seems like we're not being fair about this in some respects. I mean, we already do it so many different areas. I'm not sure why menthol and zins and so forth is getting all the attention. On the subject of edibles, H612 would take away the caps on THC concentration for legal cannabis. Is that anything that you're concerned about? I've been concerned about it in the past but I don't know what the language looks like now. I don't know where it is. I haven't been following that bill. A housing question follow-up. Governor, Representative Bartley said it's not good for Ramon, quote, when the voices of the few drawn out to collective outcry of the entire state. Would either of you characterize Representative Sheldon and Senator Bray as among the few there? And if so, who else are we talking about? Well, I have, you know, I made no secret that I think that these, some of these bills that are going through have been stalled out in two committees, one in the House, one in the Senate and both deal with natural resources. That's not a secret. So, but they have their viewpoint, I respect that. But I think it is unfortunate that it seems as though the majority in both bodies understand that we need to make some changes, that we need to do something about housing. And I'm not seeing that there's any movement there. I think it's take some leadership to pull those through, bypass the committees, do something, put it to a floor vote. What's the grand bargain gonna look like when we all find out, you know, any sense of that? I have no idea. No idea. Governor, around town meeting day, mob healer approved just cause eviction protections. Historically, you vetoed a similar measure coming out of Burlington. What do you make of another municipality passing these? Yeah, again, I have been concerned about what that means. I understand why they're doing it, but I'm concerned about the incentive for anybody to want to be a landlord, even a small landlord with some of the provisions that are going into place. So anything that prevents housing from being created. And I think we do need more accessory dwellings. We need more small apartment units and so forth. And I think that this has an adverse effect on that. But I'll take another look at it. Okay, you know, a similar charter change that ends up on your desk. We'll take a look at it. Governor, about six months ago, excuse me, you went to bear and presented the plan to reach out a portion of the city with the hit by plans. Is your administration tracking that at all? And do you see that as a model for other communities to really rethink how they've probably developed their areas and provide housing? Yeah, we are tracking that. And Pat Moulton is our lead there in the city. And it's been going to all the meetings and talking with individuals, getting smaller meetings together and so forth to determine a path forward. When I presented that to the city council, a lot of it was predicated on financial help from the federal government. That seems to be much more difficult path than it was then. So I'm not sure that we can bank on support from them. I was thinking we needed $100 million from the feds to make this work. But there are things we can do. There's TIFs and so forth that we can be creative. We can look at some of the buyouts and so forth that are going to, I think, are going to take place in some of the commercial establishments as well. So we're still working on all of that. But I do think it could be a model for others and I hope we see it through. I know that they're engaged, the city of Erie, the city council, it's been good to work with. I took a vote, I think it was last week, on supporting some different measures. So we're working hand in hand with them to see this through. And I'm just looking for clarification on S18. Did it ban the sale of fences, is that part of S18? That's what I heard, but maybe I have that wrong. Just looking for clarification, that's all. Yeah, I didn't even know what the term meant about two weeks ago. But maybe you do, Paul. I do. Okay. It's all my friends' days here. I think it's that generation, yeah. Governor, what do you think, to the charter change question, today there's gonna be one of the town of Essex which will allow for recalls of select board members. I think it's one of the first times the system looked at in the state histories. Is that under radar or would we make the main call? I have, I think in this case I will sign it and we'll let them see it through and see what happens. I know that they had some issues there in the town before it became the city. And so that's probably in anticipation of that, maybe what they've witnessed and experienced. So I will probably sign that. So I also came up in GovOps earlier this week in talking about municipal ethics and GovOps. I mean, is that something like a recall idea? Is that something that can be formed on a statewide level? Well, we certainly have had a lot of issues with sheriffs, state's attorneys, select boards and so forth. So I don't know. I mean, it's uncharted territory and maybe it has to be considered but it should be a fairly high bar. I don't know, when people are elected they should be able to serve in that position, but at the will of the voters regardless of your, you know, maybe dislike for someone. It would have to be a very high bar, from my perspective. Governor, does the Senate will soon be discussing the drunk resolution to reestablish the post office here in the middle of the year? Do you have any thoughts on that? Well, we've been working with a post office in DC for a number of months. We've reached out to them. We've presented a number of different alternatives to them. Both short-term, long-term, here in the complex and there doesn't seem to be much interest. So I'm supportive, but I would say, and I live in Berlin now, they took a vote wanting a post office there to, you know, resolution's fine, but it doesn't seem to carry any weight with anyone. So, but I'm supportive of reestablishing the post office here in our capital city. I mean, I think that that's important to have. And we gave them, again, some, I think some viable short-term options, but they turned us down or had no interest, which is bizarre to me. On Friday, are there any bills that have a data of the committee yet that you're watching? Housing. Oh, there's more. I haven't, I don't know, I don't know what else, you know, I'm sure that there are, but we have the money bills to come after that as well, so we'll see after Friday what's left. Thank you all.


Everybody, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat. I'm talking today with Craig. Hello. Hello. Hi. I'm Craig. Hello. Yeah. So for folks that don't know you, Craig, who are you? Where are you? And what do you do? So that is a good question. I'm Craig Janky. I am a, I'm in Chicago. So yeah, just outside of Chicago, about 30 miles straight west, I am a senior manager over our M3C, M365 consulting practice for WM reply. So I lead up a team of consultants and try to get business and try to build things in a SharePoint mostly. You have right now as we have connections, all of that coming together. Yeah. Craig is one of those folks that people that know Craig is, it's one of those people where a lot of people just be, you know, like assumed he was already an MVP for a long time. And like, what are you doing?  I don't know. I think when we were talking about it, previous to this on another call, I'm just not what I would call a very big self-promoter. I'm just kind of fine to do the work and, you know, the whole, if anybody notices, they notice. If they don't, they don't really care. So yeah.  I mean, you might be surprised to notice, like, I really struggled with that for years. I had managers, the jobs that are like, you're doing all this stuff, but it's not visible. And I'm like, what do I care if it's visible? Like, you're my manager. You know what I'm doing. I'm doing this work. And so it was something that I had to adjust to. And I just created habits to, you know, to promote that work, to make it more visible to people of the things that I was doing. And it's so it is a learned trait. Yeah. And it's something. So even now, like I got the MVP in my, like a couple of people at my work, I told them they were excited about it, right? They're like, oh, that's cool.  I'm like, I don't know. I feel uncomfortable about it. I have no real reason why, but I do think it's funny because when I might, one of my, one of my direct reports found out, he said, yeah, I was, I posted it on LinkedIn. That's how he found out. But he's like, I'm sitting with my role with my family watching TV. And it's, oh, Craig, he became an MVP. That's awesome. And they're like, what's that mean? Yeah. So if you're not in the space, nobody knows who you are. So anyway, well, it's, and I know. And if you go out and do, like search the old videos, there's a couple of Microsoft.  But, but you're right. It's, it's, I mean, where it's really meaningful. If you work within, especially within the Microsoft sector. Right. And, and you're looking for expertise or you're looking for a speaker or an author or something. I mean, so you know that, hey, there's a certain caliber of person. They've got a certain amount of experience that Microsoft has recognized them for that. But most people on the street have no idea. My wife, she thought it was nice, but she understands all the, all the work that I put behind it. But yeah, she, you know, it's not, it doesn't, it doesn't like fully resonate with her. I don't think, but. Well, it's, you know, the other thing too is I've started to, it made me pay attention to the similar awards and other technologies. Yes. And a lot of SAMR and MVPs and Salesforce MVPs and, and things about that now. So, you know, looking at that, again, they're run very similar to the Microsoft program. Yeah. But yeah, so yeah, it does make you be aware. And then I, like, encouraged other people, right, to just kind of do as I say, not as I do, like you should be promoting yourself more. Like when I talked to my co-workers and things like, that's a good idea. Have you thought about presenting that or something like that? Yeah. So what, what was kind of your path? I mean, so we were joking about it. You know, we've known each other for a long time. I participated, I think in the first and second of the suburbs event. Yeah. First couple of years of that. So mine was kind of a long, long interesting path that I actually, me and Ralph Rivas, who's also an MVP, and he was the one that nominated me. We were talking about it. Oh, we've done a presentation on how you can do this. We did it at one of, oh, we did it at the Power Platform Conference in Orlando over the summer. So I couldn't go to it, but Ralph could go to it because this company would pay for the bill. So he phoned a friend in and we talked. So it was actually a hybrid presentation. It was pretty cool. But so it's, mine is long. I went to a SharePoint Saturday that was in Chicago. I want to say 2010, 2011, it was at Illinois Benedictine College. Like I had always been interested in speaking and that kind of things. And I went to all the dotnet user groups and kind of an awe of how people could just get up and do a presentation. And I never knew how it really got started or how you get started into that practice, right? Like I could write a blog or whatever, but I didn't know how you even made it into events. So I talked to a couple of the speakers there while they were presenting in between class because I didn't really move around classrooms. There was like the sessions that I wanted were all right after each other. So I talked to a few of those speakers. Reuben, you probably know him. Yeah, and- I think I was at that same event, the Chicago event. Richard Harbridge. So Richard performed them, one of them not performed. And then Reuben went after that. And so I talked to them about how they get started. And they're like, you just go over user groups and things like that and submit people are always looking for that. So Andrew, what was Andrew's name? Yeah, it's keeps me. Connell? What? Was it Andrew Connell? No, but also last name with a C. He no longer does SharePoint. He wrote a book, the SharePoint in six. He was with those guys.  But I went to his presentation on, what is it called, file shares, not file shares. What's a thing, file shares, yeah. No, I know that, but it was, what are they called? Document sets. How do you have doc sets? Oh, okay. Which, it was a pretty good thing, but he gave me his Twitter. And I was, you know, I started following him on Twitter and one night in the middle of, like, I don't know. He tweeted, oh, I'm starting this user group for just kind of SharePoint people who are in the know. I was a better way of putting it. So all these people he was going to invite who were the speakers in the Chicago area. I mean, called it the SharePoint garage. And he's like, well, unfortunately, I am starting this at 11 o'clock on a Friday. So who's gonna, so I'm hoping he'll see it. And I just happened to be like checking my phone and I was like, oh, it sounds like an awesome idea. I would go. And so he invited me into that. And then actually I kind of like was sending out emails and stuff. So I kind of was like Cole ran it with him for a little while. So then I kind of got into the user group, but it was downtown Chicago. And it was in the AI building that we would have these meetings. And there was some stuff that happened and we just kind of fell off doing it. And I don't live in Chicago. I live in the suburbs 35 miles out. And I got tired of going to the city to go to all the vets. So I was like, well, maybe I can just start my own user group up here. And like we did it in the city and we didn't really, I didn't really think about it, but you don't have to ask permission to start these groups, right? Which I don't think people know. They're always, well, how did you get started? Who'd you ask? And I said, well, I went up to meetup.com and I just put in a user group. And I reached out to some people who I had emails on and Robert Bogue agreed to come out and be the keynote speaker to our first event, which I never really expected because he's still a big name. But at that time he was like the big name at SharePoint or one of the big names, right? And so he came out and presented. You know, I felt bad because it was only like about six or seven people there, but he seemed to enjoy his stuff. So I started that way. I had a user group with the Elgin SharePoint user group. And then I went to another user group meeting called the SharePoint user group and they met down his grove, which Microsoft has an office about 20 minutes away from where I live. And at that time, we were talking, I was talking to people over there and they're like, well, there's no, there hasn't been a SharePoint Saturday around in two years, anybody know about it? And I said, I'll check into it. And if I find anything out about it, I'll help you throw it. So we emailed the SharePoint Saturday people, took them a while and they said, no, if you want to have one, the other group who was there, we didn't get any response from. So we, I had a contact at Debrah University. So he let us have the event for the facility for free. So then we did our first SharePoint Saturday Chicago suburbs in 2013. And then we've just been running them annually, sometimes semi-annually it depends since then. And that's really how I got my start in between their right blogs. And then about four or five years ago, I think I was, I was working at a company that would actually pay me to go to other SharePoint Saturdays and present there. So, and that's, I get, I think that's the big hurdle for a lot of people. If you want to make that kind of commitment, if your company will pay for you, right? Which ones can you go to? So, yeah, so then, and then, so then I met Jay Leesk and we started doing like podcasts for again. So we've done some stuff together.  I had done enough in the Chicago that the 365 Ejicon people reached out to me about presenting at their conference or at least helping them hype their conference. So then I made it into, I guess, what we would call that circuit of conferences because they have like three or four. So still trying to break into the big ones like the Ignites or anything like that. But yeah, that's how- Well, what you'll become easier now because they give preference to MVPs. So- That will be awesome. Yeah, I'll get you on the answer there.  Like we'll be naming ours in Utah. It's collab days, Utah, instead of- Yeah, ours is now M365 Chicago. Yeah. Or for the last three years. So with that change, yeah. And we also moved ours to Friday too. So there was that change. But- We did too, as well. Yeah, so with changes like that, it's been a bit disjointed. I know Microsoft has their community initiative and they're trying to centralize calendar around some of the events. So you could go to the communitydays. Is it dot org? I think it is dot org. Yeah. And do that. And there's collab days and there's other places. But no, I mean, you don't have to do a lot of traveling to get involved. Like you could just be a- No, virtual speaker. If you're a virtual speaker, involved with your user group, and if there is a local event, like reach out, no one's gonna turn down volunteers. No. You just need to show up and when you get assigned a task, do it. Oh, and I, like I said, that's a great way. But if you can't find any of that, it is so easy to do your own thing. But, oh, Andrew Clark was the person I was trying to get. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, so. But see, that's true too. It could be a user group, like within your company, if you allow external people in, but to get together, do something in the lunchtime, it can be even more casual where it's people, where you don't, maybe you don't have speakers initially, but you're getting together at a restaurant where everybody's getting together and just talking, and it's more of a networking type thing. Yes. Really. And that was really the one that I was telling you, I went to, it was in Donner's Grove. That was, it was called Share, it was more of a Share Pint group. So we just kind of went in round table. So if there was enough people, 10 people at a table, and there was really 10 people we would add another table and just have some beers and we'd have like a topic. Almost, I want to take this from ToastBassers, a topic tender who would say, okay, we're going to talk about this topic. We're going to talk about it for this long. So here's the networking table. Here's the admin table. Here's the developer table. And this is the user group, the power users table. So that was pretty cool. Yeah. And then you got to, I think one of the biggest benefits of it and why I started to get into, so I knew like programming and that kind of stuff. But when I got into SharePoint, it didn't know a lot, right? It was a big change for me or, and then the job I got in it was like, I was expecting to join a SharePoint team and then I was the SharePoint person, there was no team. So it's like, okay, I got to know everything and I don't know how to do that. But now when I started doing the user group and the networking type of occupation and even the SharePoint Saturday stuff and Twitter, right? Just following the right people on Twitter, it was like, I've got people I can ask questions, those resources that you don't normally get. So that's when I, when I talk to like my newer employees or kids coming out of college, I'm like, you don't understand how important networking can be to the success of your career. Just in who you meet, who you can ask questions, job opportunities and if nothing else, right? Just I already said, if it's SharePoint, my wife doesn't know much about it. Most of my family doesn't understand what I do. So if I want to have somebody to celebrate things that I've done with or if I've got questions or things that are just irritating me, like I'm better off talking to you because you understand it, you've been there, right? Or somebody who's in the field going to talk to my brother who's a pharmacist, you know, he gets customer service, but he doesn't get technical. But the same way if he started talking to me about drugs, I'm like, I just know I take two a day. You know, I have to say on that note that it was such a great day when a few years back where my wife, her company rolled out Office 365 and she had some questions.  I was like, no, no, like you didn't care about what I did. You didn't like listening to my stories about stuff or talking to you about tech. Now you come to me for help, like, no. It was an hour ago I was downstairs showing my wife how to open a file in Teams so that it opens in the app. And then I had to prove to her that having it side by side screen that the app could be here, we could still open the file in the browser and that if you update one it will automatically update the other. She didn't, she was like, she had no trust that if she opened it up in the app that, because she would open it up in the browser and then she would click it on open an app and then it pops that little thing on it. You can tell her you could shut the browser but she's like, I'm so worried that it's not saving back. I'm like, look, it's like, you know, it's fine. It's well, I think that it's, there's some legitimate trust issues because of years past one drive issues. Yes. But yeah, but it generally works the way it's supposed to these days. Yeah, so that's it.  She's awesome at, she's an advertising and she's awesome at PowerPoint. And like, if I need a PowerPoint presentation that she can do 100 page deck in like two hours where I can do two slides in two hours. Yeah. There's the people that, so my wife is a designer. So she, her presentations are amazing looking. You know, and when I go for help then she does the, well, how much does that pay, you know? So yeah, we have a great relationship that way. So keep things separate. Well, Craig, so what kind of stuff, what are your topics? What are you passionate about like focused on these days? I wish I knew. Lately it has been Viva. So I got my MVP in business applications, so PowerPoint. And that was not PowerPoint, power apps, power automate. Yeah, and that was a long, I was trying to get into that, that field, right? And I've been doing a lot with that, especially when they deprecated SharePoint designer workflows that I helped a lot of customers like move all those to power automate and create some apps and some pretty cool apps around that, still doing that a little bit. I like to do that. I was, a lot of my presentations around that were more on the governance of that and best practices and things like that. And some are on Dataverse and getting started with Dataverse and creating teams for that. But what I've fallen into with this job that I've been at about nine months is we do a lot of internet stuff. So it's, well, I like to say, yeah, internet, so SharePoint online, but not SharePoint online as we used to think about it is like, oh, we're going, we created internet using SharePoint. Now it's throwing the Viva Connection wrapper on it, putting it in teams and thinking about that frontline worker experience and what kind of cards you can use, adaptive cards you can use or the Viva cards that you can use to present that information. It really kind of becomes that full internet that I think we've been looking for for years where it doesn't matter if you access it through the browser or you can access it through teams. And then the mobile experience, we've been doing some really cool things with frontline worker apps to let people who wouldn't normally be able to or normally you wouldn't think as teams users can now use teams. Like we have a pretty cool app that we developed for Disney for, it's based in teams. So they only have to have teams on their phone but now they can use that for the resort people who are cleaning the rooms and things like that. So right now we're piloting it in a couple of rooms but they can go and do like a checklist, they can take pictures of things that they see along the way on the rooms and all that kind of information and that can be stored in teams and then we can run some workflows and stuff like that. So I've been doing a mix of that. We're still doing, we still as just Office 365 if somebody needs an app, like we've done some room booking apps, we've done some project management apps where what I call a project managing app but an app to measure projects. I have a manufacturing company that if anybody wants to submit, hey, I need this part fixed or if I need this, I have an idea that I think would help this manufacturer process go better. They can submit it through the app and then if it gets taken on as a project then we can assign people to that project. We can add our documents to it. So it all lives in teams. It's pretty cool. So I've been doing that. And then talking, I was one of the first people to go through the Viva Insights training. So it'll workplace analytics and I've still had my hand really well into that. So I do a lot of my talks around Viva Insights and how workplace analytics or now workplace insights, they're finally rebranding that work. And then the whole, just using the whole Viva Suite in general, me and Jay Lee have been doing a workshop actually kind of partnering with a couple other MVPs, Mark Rackley and Stephanie Donahue, where we will do, this is an overview of how a Viva, although it's getting really big. So it's getting hard to squeeze into that half day. And then they do, so me and Jay will do that. This is what Viva is, is why you should care about it. And then they'll do more like, this is how you use it in the wild, right? These are the use cases for it that we've actually implemented. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see it because there's now eight experiences and they're gonna be adding more. They've said they're gonna add more. And I think we've heard whispers of some things and some of the things we've heard may not be standalone, Viva, again, I always, experiences have to do the air quotes or modules or whatever you wanna call it. Right. Some products within the Viva brand, some of the things that they're talking about could end up just being features, subsets of the existing ones, but they've already said, hey, there's more coming. So yeah. Well, I think it's gonna be an interesting mix because they have connections, insights, topics, learnings, goals is the big one that people are excited about. And those are pretty much intended for everybody, right? And then you have sales, which is bringing dynamic CRM right into teams, which is more aimed for role-based, right? So if you're a customer service rep, if you're a sales rep or somebody that deals with that, then you're going to want that, but not necessarily everybody in the organization who's an office worker is going to need that. So I picture more of those. I just don't know what those were. Well, exactly, because it amplifies a great example. It's internal comms. It's like internal marketing and comms people. Yeah, so I think you're gonna see more along the lines that are like HR solutions. There could be eventually like, specifically like industry-focused like manufacturing. It could be something where it taps into the other sides of like the ERP side of Dynamics. And I mean, yeah, there's a lot that could happen with that. Well, yeah, and then that gets interesting because I didn't, until you mentioned it, I never really thought about it, but because I just think of Dynamics 365, I hate to say this, but I just think of Dynamics 365 as a CRM system, but there are a lot of modules to that now. And I really only knew about that when I was studying for like the power platform architect role and started to think about the sales module and the customer service module and the field services module and the marketing module and all of that. So they have customer service modules. So they have all of these modules that you can now tap into, especially if you're building a power app and need to get at that data, right? So yeah, they're gonna, I imagine as you said, bring more of that into the view suite. Now the question always gets, and this is where we run into roadblocks as consultants, how do you pay for all of that? Cause they don't just give away cheap. Right. Well, that's always like the first question is people say, well, how much are you talking about this to Microsoft? What are the, what license model like is it free? Do I need to require E5? Is it additional cost on top of E5? Like what is that? So yeah, that's- Even at $9 a person that gets pretty hefty cause, oh yeah, we were talking about it. For some company, $9 a person was gonna end up being it's seven, I wanna say almost 700,000 a year more. And then it's like, well, are they gonna pay for that? And then pay for us to implement it and to do the change management around it. Cause that's something that I actually like about the company that I'm at now is we are heavy into change management and all of our proposals come with almost all of them come with some kind of change management behind it. We're really good at it. Whereas other places I've worked is, well, yeah, we can do it technically, but kind of throwing it over the wall and hope it gets implemented. But that costs money and that's usually the first thing where somebody wants to cut that out of the budget. I always, you know, there's a buckliism, there's something I quote, I kind of self quote that I always do it. And I actually had it in a conversation, used it in a conversation this morning, but, well, basically the paraphrase, it's, I was looking for the exact quote, but you know, companies that are good at change management will have a distinct advantage over there, all their competitors. That is, that should be a core competency of, you know, consulting organizations and yet it isn't with a lot. Yes, no, I totally agree. And I guess you're starting to see some of that now too, or not that specifically, but change management, you gotta be good at, the other thing is you gotta be good at looking towards the future. And I think so many customers, and especially where you're seeing this little downturn, are just looking at today, right? And maybe the end of the month and if you're lucky, the end of the quarter and you're not looking at the long term. And planning that and those are the customers, those are the companies that don't do well in the long run either, right? They're good for a short burst, but now you have a downturn in marketing, what do they do? They cut everybody and they don't know how to weather the storm. Instead of seeing the opportunity, that's there to grow. Yep. Well, great. Well, Craig, really appreciate your time today. I appreciate you having me on because like I said, I'm not getting myself out there. Well, it's, hey, there's always, I'm always happy to, as we've talked about before, but always to talk about advice for that. It's about creating healthy habits. Yes. It's not. I've got it on my list of things to do, if that makes sense. I don't think of it as like, I mean, it is self-promotion, but I guess it's a marketing, it's the marketing guy in me that wants to rephrase that. That sounds very narcissistic, you know, to self-provote it. Building your brand is totally, but yeah. But you definitely want to surface that information and make it easily searchable, findable so that people can get that. You know, again, I don't care so much about the accolades is I create the content. I want people that need that content to be able to find it. Yes. Well, it is nice if they're consuming something like putting out a blog post, right? And seeing two people read it, three people. Actually, I think one of the coolest things in some of the stuff we do is like, somebody will ping you a question on a blog you wrote three or four years ago. One of my favorite things that ever happened to me was I was working at a consulting company at the time. Yeah, I don't want to name who they are, but I was working at them. We took over a project from Deloitte and so they gave us the company we took it over from gave us the documentation for Deloitte and on how to do the app and get it installed in the environment, they cited a blog post that wrote it. So I was like, look, I'm in here. Yeah. Well, you know, it's one of the thing I think I mentioned this last time we talked about, so I meant extensive one note users. So every blog, every article, everything's a one note and when it's published, I will take the published URL, put it in it and then archive that page. So when I go and research stuff, like a new topic or something, one of the first places I do is I go do search within one note, like, have I written about this topic? Because I write enough, I do enough that I don't remember everything that I wrote. It's all go searching for that. And so there's a couple of times where I've done internet searches and I've found stuff. I'm like, oh, that sounds really good. I opened up like, oh, I wrote that fiber. Oh. I've seen that. Or when I'm searching for questions, this one I hate, I had this one not. I had something come up and I couldn't figure out how to do it. And I'm like, okay, let me search for the question. And two, three years later, I had posted that same question on a blog post and nobody answered it on a support page. Like, okay, apparently nobody's figured this out yet. There was a lot of following comments to see what the result was. Yeah, yep. I run into that a lot with the AMAs that I do. I love trying to tackle those too, the unanswered questions and trying to answer it. What I'm not good at is when we've answered it and then taking a link from my video and going back and posting it there. But I gotta get better at that. But that's why those people just need to keep searching and they'll find now the content. Anyway, well, Craig, really appreciate your time. Folks that want- I appreciate you having me. What are the best ways to reach you? On LinkedIn is usually the best way to get me. So just searching Craig Janky. I am the one that works at WM Reply. I think you might hit a couple of teachers that live near me. There's also a Wally Fisherman in Appleton, Wisconsin. Or Tech Janky, T-E-C-H, J-A-H-N-K-E on Twitter are usually the best too. Or my first dot last name at Gmail if anybody wants that. So I answer emails. Those are usually the biggest ones. Excellent. Well, it's great talking to you. We'll see you soon. All right, cool. Thanks.


In this video, we provide the solution to question number 14 for practice exam 1 for Math 1060. We're given the following geometric diagram that you see right here and we're asked to find the variables x and y. So what are some things I know about this? Well, first of all, I see there's some unknown angle here that depends on x and there's some unknown angle right here that depends on y. But when I look at the two angles together, they form a flat line. We see it right here. And so these angles are in fact supplementary angles. That means if I take 5x plus 20 degrees and I add that to 2y plus 45 degrees, that's going to equal 180 degrees. They're supplementary angles. Therefore, the sum of the two angles will give us 180 degrees. So let's see what we can do with this equation right here. Combining like terms of some kind, I mean, you have these x's and y's. You really can't combine those together yet. You have 5x plus 2y. Of course, you get 20 plus 45. That's going to be 65. That's equal to 180. So we can of course subtract from 180 the 65 right there. That of course gives us 5x plus 2y is equal to 115. But now we have two variables x and y. So there's really not much more we can do with that. Maybe we can find some more information in this problem. Another thing to notice here is that we have this triangle right here, this triangle. We know that the sum of the three angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees. And you'll notice that each and every one of these angles only involves the variable y. So maybe that's what we do with next here. If we take 4y degrees plus 2y plus 45 degrees plus 2y plus 15 degrees, this is going to equal 180 degrees. So this time we want to solve for y because there's no x in play right here. If you take 4y plus 2y plus 2y, if you add like terms, you're going to get an 8y right there. You have 45 degrees plus 15 degrees. That's going to add up to be 60 degrees. That's equal to 180. If we subtract 60 from both sides, we get 8y is equal to 120. And if you divide both sides by 8, you're going to get y equals 15. All right, so we get y equals 15. Then we can use this substitution into our equation down here for this unknown x and y. We now know y. So we're going to get 5x plus 2 times 15. 2 times 15, of course, is 30. So we get 5x plus 30 is equal to 115. So track 30 from both sides. We get 5x is equal to 85. And then if we divide both sides by 5, we'll get x is equal to 17. Thus, we were able to solve this problem here. x is equal to 17 and y is equal to 15.


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