When the narcissist knows you're on to them. When you figure them out, you're going to become indifferent. You're not going to care about them anymore. Because you know it's all a game. And when that happens, they will sense it and they will try to test it. Because they can tell that your feelings have changed. They will even tone down their behaviour. They will stop doing whatever they think is bothering you. They will pretend to adjust. Because they already know exactly how to behave. They know how to act right. But they want to do what they want to do. They want to act how they want to act. And they just expect you to tone rate it. Which is why they rely so heavily on their manipulation. Because it's meant to make you put up with it. It's meant to make you doubtful and uncertain. It's meant to make you confused. Because sometimes they act normally. To show you that they can act right if they want to. But then it makes you question why they don't act how you want them to act. And the reason why they don't do that is because they're preparing you and training you for a specific purpose. Sometimes they act right. Sometimes they cooperate with you. But most of the time they don't. And it's meant to show you that they are capable. They can act right if they want to. Which leads you to hold on to hope and expectation of them changing or being better. Because you've seen them behave properly. You just don't understand why it's not consistent. But that is their disorder. That's what makes them a narcissist. They can't adapt or change. They can't be what you want. They can't do what you want. They are incapable of that. And when you finally realise and accept that they will sense it and they will test you. To see how much their behaviour has affected you. To see if it has really changed your mind about them. To see if you're getting ready to leave them. Because that will tell them what they need to do next. To make you feel better, to win you over again. But it won't last for long. They gave you glimpses of this magnificent character in the beginning. Who was everything you could have wanted them to be. But then they began to make excuses for why they've changed. They said it was because of something you were doing. To make you think that you were the problem. So that you ended up trying to fix something. When there wasn't even a problem for you to fix. Because it had nothing to do with you. And the narcissist knew this the entire time. They knew that you went the problem. Even though they were arguing with you every day and looking for things to be wrong. They already knew that there was nothing wrong with you. But while you're trying to fix things. They go back to causing disruption. And it leaves you confused because you don't understand what is wrong with them. But once you first catch on to it they will try to behave well. They will act polite and friendly. They will give you compliments. They will express their gratitude to pretend like they understand what they've done wrong. And they're trying to correct it. But they don't really care. They're just doing it to pull you back in while they're looking for someone else to replace you. Because they already know what is about to happen. They've seen it happen before. So when they know that you know they're not really about anything. They will slow down. They will pretend to act right. But while they're doing that they will be pursuing someone else behind your back. They will be looking to replace you.  You don't respond to them the way that you used to. You don't care about anything. So they know it's only a matter of time until you leave them. So they've got to beat you to the punch. And this is when they will start to support and encourage their new source. They will go out on dates with them. And they will try to advance them to the primary position. They will try to get them to take your place. And this is where their mask will come all of the way off. This is where they will really try to affect you. Because now they know you don't care. Now they know you've figured them out. So at this point they don't have anything to lose. They will show you exactly who they are. They will show you that they never cared about you. They may even tell you that they were just using you and playing you the entire time. They may say that they were only with you because they didn't have anything better to do. Because they want to break you. They want to tear you down.  They were seeing other people the entire time you were together. Because they want to crush you before they leave. So this is what the narcissist will do. When they know you've figured them out. They will try to destroy you. They will try to crush you. Because you've gained an advantage over them. You've figured them out so it's all over. Because even if you did go back. It wouldn't give them the same rush as someone who doesn't know what they're about. As someone who sees them as perfect and innocent. Because that's what they're really looking for. But with you you've been through so many arguments and situations with them. And they know that you remember everything they've said and done to you. So they know you're never going to see them the same way. But the narcissist wants someone to react to them without any setbacks or limitations. Without anything holding them back. With someone who has never had any bad experiences with them. Those are the types of situations they prefer. When you are no longer emotionally affected by the narcissist. You have won. You have defeated them. Because that is the only position they have. To have you emotionally invested and involved in them. To where they can do what they want to do. And have you always willing and ready to do whatever they ask. And even if you don't do what they want you to do. They can do something to upset you. They can do these things to hurt you. Which also gives them fuel. So as long as they can affect you emotionally. They still have power over you. But when they see that they can no longer affect you. They know it's game over. And they're not even going to pretend anymore. But they will test you to see if you're really done.  Because they want to hold you off until they're ready to get this new person to take your place. Because when they know you're on to them you become a lost cause. You have no use to them. If you don't care anymore it's time for them to go. Because they know when their time is up. They may try to get back with you but they know it's not going to last for long. And you will just end up in this situation where they have someone else on the side. Where they will be doing things boldly.  While still pretending as though they want to work things out with you and be loyal to you. They will just end up playing you even more. So once you've seen them do it once. You should choose to move on in a respectful and dignified way. Don't fall for the trap. Because they will say that they want to work things out. They will say that they should have done more for you. But don't fall for it. It's just future faking. They're just messing with you while they're waiting for another opportunity to come their way. So having any involvement with them is just a recipe for disaster. Thank you for watching. If you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up. Share your thoughts in the comment section. Hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications. If you would like to support the channel. You can donate at paypal.me slash nark survivor. You can book a one-on-one with me on my website. It's nark survivor at the Cuddy UK. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Okay guys, weird experiment! I've accidentally made a new account, I don't know what happened Drasvald Live was like, oh we got no account, here's a new one. So actually I'm gonna try something, so as you can see right where I am, we've had a saw, no desuchus, or nungosaurus, uh, airutated gen 2, and doethasaurus. So let's sign out this one, sign back in, and just see if the same dinosaur's appear where we are, let's have a look shall we? We actually only have one! Weirdly enough, uh, no airutator, no apadasaurus, no nungosaurus, but the delofasor gen 2 is there. Ha, interesting. I was just curious, I didn't know, like we haven't moved, like they should be right here. Now the next thing would be to do different devices, because I think I've noticed that on an iPhone and an iPad, you get different loadouts as well. Obviously some will be the same, but there does definitely seem to be that some dinosaurs appear for different accounts or differences. Anyway, anyway, hello everyone and welcome to an episode of Jurassic World Alive! How you doing? You doing good? Hey, we're back here. So, before we get into what's new and all the wonderful, lovely jubbliness that is Jurassic World Alive, let's have a look at the showcase, because if you remember, it's on Wednesdays now, they revamp the list of what's coming up. So we, take a look, take us away, yes, to the newsroom, yes. I love this music. So, we're not obviously going to talk about Wednesday or Thursday, because I'm looking, yeah, there you are, hello. We're obviously, you know, that's past. So, today's Friday, obviously the day the video is going out, and of course Friday, Saturday and Sunday, of the best days. Actually, to be fair, Monday and Tuesday are up, we'll get into that. So Friday, Saturday, so this weekend starting today in about one hour, whatever I'm recording, but it should be up for you. You have epics to do it. You have 12 attempts to do it, the Antarctic appellate, the deer, I call it Mega, Mega, Mega Lazarus, I think it is, the hybrid that is the sloth in the Nazoutas seratops, I can't remember what that one is, and the alasmus, alasmatherium. So, out of those, it's kind of like, it's really up to you, the new hybrid that's in the game, I think it needs that. You need to make first the deer for it, so if you're working towards that, that's your best bet, and to be fair, out of all of these, the easiest one to dart and something to take into account is the deer. The deer is the easiest thing to dart, but hands down, I've often got 300 plus on the deer, because it doesn't move too much, it starts a maimie in the middle, so if you want the most bang for your buck, get it. You're probably best going for the deer. I would anyway, because you're going to need that to make that new apex eventually. Also on Friday, you've got the Tarktokopelta Incubator to get, so that's already like 300, 200, I think it's 200, and Tarktokopelta done. So if you're all going for Tarktokopelta, well, you've got 200 already there. Now on Sunday, you get one attempt for the mammoth therium, and the, I don't even know what those are the ones, the mammoth and sinceato hybrid or lambio hybrid, I think it is, and the other one, which I have no idea what is, but that's interesting. I mean, go for whichever one you're working towards, and then really the best one out of all of these, I'm not gonna lie, is Monday to Tuesday, which again, Ludi, are being very generous with this. You can get the bear, you can get the sloth, the clinicin, all the new deer. Now two of those, you've got 24 of these, this, the bear and the new deer are both creatures you need for the hybrid. So basically this game has been for a few weeks, it's giving you all the ingredients you need to make that hybrid, the apex. You're probably not going to be anywhere close, but it's there, and they're giving you the opportunity as well as an incubator, a legendary or epic sort of incubator on Tuesday, and on the Monday, a rare incubator as well as a speed boost. So yeah, that's coming up this week, so where are we now? Let's take a look. So there was an update not too long ago, and the game allowed me to, or at least it was like, okay, we've got new apex, you've got the bear apex. So if we have a scroll down, as you can see, we've already unlocked one of them, but the other hybrids, because they made the ankle hybrid, the bear I think was already in the game, they made the birdie hybrid, and they've made this new snake hybrid. So we have aided towards a snake, I don't know what we're missing for it, the true deboah, that's right, we're missing Troodon. So it's not the first unique snake that we've had, the other one of course being the spinal constrictor, I think it was. So Troodon, I don't know, it's kind of a dinosaur that I don't really see too much, so I was hoping to unlock it, didn't quite get there, just shy of it, but this one as well, the Fufu-kyoukasaurus or whatever it is, the Japanese Hadrosaur, I haven't seen too much of it. Struthamimus, I think actually, we could probably get this level 15, I have so much of this. Of all of the epics that came out that were like region locked, Struthamimus was the only one that I could dart, and it had no hybrid for the longest time, but now it does! The only problem is the other ingredient, and you know what it is? I've completely forgot what it is. Struthamimus being one of these dinosaurs that's again very easy to dart, and it's the reason why I have 6,000 DNA, and you know, I don't really need it, I suppose. Exploring Europe! I've done that, I live there! And then the Fufu, what's it called? The Fufu-kyousaurus. Interesting, you know of all of the the dinosaur discoveries of the modern era, you could say, with feathered dinosaurs and all this jazz, I don't think many of them came from Japan, it's mainly been China, which is why we have Changesaurus and Archaeologists and all that. But we don't really see too much with Japan, I wonder why that is. There's gotta be, there's gotta be, I need to go over them and be like, okay, where are you hiding your dinosaurs? That's what I need to do. So we're gonna try to get this to level 15, we're probably only gonna get it to level 12, if we're gonna be honest. Very strange with its jaw there. So level 12, so we're not gonna be anywhere near, we need to first get level 15 and then, not only that, we need to start fusing it in order to get the Fufu-kyousaurus. Yeah, we're gonna have to edit that, yeah, we can't say that, Jesus. Anyway, that hybrid, yes, James remember to censor rex that, good lord. So they added another apex, which was this guy. The Dio I've already got, like, plenty of DNA for when I could hybridize more for that. Only problem is Bumpy to make the other one. So we can give it a pop, we can give it a pop, and you know what, yeah, that's, you know what, if we have effects on that, can I, yeah, yeah, we get that. I'm pretty happy with that. That's good, I'll take a 40. We need that 10 more times, eight more times, I'll be pretty happy, maybe even seven, but that's not gonna happen. And I think actually in this game, there was a datamine, and if you don't know what a datamine is, it's basically where somebody takes the APK file, like the app file, and then extracts all the information out of it. And they found out that actually these dinosaurs aren't random for fuses. Basically, it's, I don't want to say it's rigged, but there is a chance of getting something. So if you're fusing commons, there's more chance of you getting 100. If you're fusing uniques to apex, like the chance of getting 100 is like 0%. Base, I don't know what it is, but it's very low. And 10%, I think 20% is actually the highest. 10% is low, because I think they know that 10% annoys people. So they give 20%, but 10% is still higher than 30, for instance. But we do have this, the Alberta Spinos. So out of all of the newest hybrids, we do actually have one to show off. It is a unique. It's probably gonna have bleed, I'm assuming. So, oh, yeah. Oh, look at that. Oh, it looks so badass. That looks awesome. So at level 21, 3,000, 940 damage. No, I'm not gonna rate you five. God, I play your game enough. So let's have a look at this. This is good. So you've got a delay of one. So you can't instantly come in and do a priority shattering and stuff. So shattering swap in wound. Ooh, so when you swap in, you break the shield. Also do a 20% damage over time. Oh, minimal critical counter. So when you get hit, increase critical hit chance by 5% for three attacks. For three turns. Let's say if you're gonna survive. Also, they can't swap out, so that's quite interesting. You're also resistant to being swapped out. And you get a general all out. You know, you can't be spared reduced. You can be attacked reduced. However, you do have two attacks that are about the swappages. So defense shattering wound.   And it lasts for three turns. So unless they swap out or they heal themselves, they're gonna die in three turns or 100%. That 0.4 means they do die. Because I think at one point it's 33.3. But then of course, the damage, the attack usually does damage. So that takes it into account. But because this one has a swap, meaning you don't do it, then I kind of like that. I kind of like that. Killer instinct, of course, fierce rampage is decent as well. This has, ooh, it has the ability to do some decent damage to tanks like sonosaurus or that hybrid. That's quite interesting. So we'll do a couple of fuses. Oh, good a good a 70 there. Okay. Alberta saw being one of those dinosaurs, I think, was quite decent for getting, you know, incubators and stuff like that. I don't think anything else. So whoa, I'm quite low on the Utah Spinosaurus. Is it? I think it might be Utah Spinosaurus. This thing is stuff of nightmares. Look at it. Oh, it's all bony and spike. At least this one's, it's a little bit chunky. So we'll go for another five. Oh, two fitties. Oh, 150. Oh, I'll take that. I think that might, no, it won't be enough in order to fuse again. But we'll do another one there. Okay. Okay. So we can get it to level 23. So I'm happy with that. I think at least we need it 25 in order to, you know, hybridize it to make an apex if it does get that hybrid. Now that that bar has been set by Lydia, you kind of don't want to make your, unless you really want to use a unique at level 30, you kind of only want to get them to level 25. Oh, that is kind of a waste. Oh, I'm excited. We'll do one fuse, because why not? So it speeds decent. It's crits not even though it does increase its own crit, but it doesn't have the survivability of 3,300 health, 1,000 damage. It's not a hard hitter. It's quite fast at 124. And I mean, as long as it survives one round, you can lethal swoop out. And maybe that's what you want to do.   We are very close to getting a level 28 copy. They just switched it over to Sonosaurus for the daily rewards, which I'm not too fussed about because I kind of do want that hybrid, even though I feel like with this game every time something's good, it's other things come up to you, serve it, or it gets nerfed. And I feel like with Sonosaurus, it's slowly going to happen to it. But we are very close to level 28 for copies. I do, I want to use my babies, but they're so bad. There's nothing I can do. So what we're going to do is we're going to jump into Gyrus V depo because it's just restarted. And let's see just how we can do. Okay, so Arena 12, Gyrus V depo, everything's reset. Will I be put with people of my level? I don't know, maybe not. Okay, so here we go. We got our fast Morty. We got the, you know, the into Taurus with a boatload of health to counter the Scorpius. Really, what's actually good here is Eutarnix is ready to swap into the Scorpius Rex Gen 3. So worst case scenario for me is something like Trikel here. What would be even worse is Hadrosaurus Lux. So at least this way, we can, we can go for this. We are quicker now. We could big brain play it by, because he's going to do a boatload of damage to us here. And we're in the region of something being able to kill us. Now he knows we could go for Rampage and run and do a lot of damage and get out. However, if we switch in into Taurus, he might try to switch out and we can get a hit off.  I'm inflating. Is it going to happen? Is big brain play going to happen?  There you go. A pescula. Brilliant. So something's going to come in. It's going to hit me, but it is going to take a counter. Oh, it is going to take a counter. I'm so sorry. Not only do we resist it, but apparently it goes through a cloak anyway, but something big is going to hit back on.  So what we could do now is just swap out. The chances are he's probably going to go for his critical side step. But saying, if he is going to do that, I think he's, oh, he doesn't. Interesting. Oh, when he goes through our cloak twice. What? I mean, what can you do against such reckless hate? We're going to die either way. So I guess, oh, that's unfortunate. He went through our cloak twice. And the thing is when stuff like that happens is now you can do, he's just going to go for a hit. And I have to do this. Oh, and he gets a crit as well. He gets a crit as well. So pretty much we went through our cloak twice. He got a crit when his crit was only 15%. Yeah, we're pretty much screwed. We're pretty much screwed. We should be one nil up at this point and still having our end of torus with like maybe a little bit of health left. So hopefully we can get lucky and judging by that, 3,170. Oh, okay. Okay. I'm kind of tempted to go for the cloak and get our speed boost up. But you know what? I'm not going to. Hopefully he doesn't get a crit. He doesn't. That's good. Even with the 20%, you know, 5% more chance to get it. I would have went for, oh, he thought I was going to do it. He thought I was going to big brain him, but I didn't know. Sorry, son. Unfortunately for us, however, we don't really have anything to counter this. Even our utarenix is not quick enough. So I am kind of tempted to... I mean, there's nothing I can do here. There is literally nothing I can do. I'm going to try and... Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. I will see. Oh, what was he? What was he attempting to do there? Do you think he was attempting to expect me to just go for the defense shattering and not get a crit or something? What was he expecting to happen there? Oh, very interesting. Very interesting. Always hoped for the crit. I was hoping for the crit.  Pretty much. Yeah, he has to go for that. Oh, I got a zero. Wow. Okay. Pretty much we've lost this one. He got through the two cloaks and got a crit. Yeah, we've definitely lost this one. Although saying that, it really depends what his other creature is, because I'm going to go for my roar here, freeing me up to go for a big hit next time. What does he have? Oh, okay. Okay. Interesting. Interesting. I think I've lost. I think I've lost. Yeah, I've definitely lost. Yeah, because he reduces me here. And then, yeah, he just needs to get me to the point that I have less than 3,000 health. And with his, what is it? Yeah, 3,000 damage with the bleed. He's pretty much won. Good game. I'll blow up my kiss.  So, well done. Well done. That was a 3, that was a 3-1 victory when really, I feel like we probably should have won that. But like I said, you went through the cloaks, you got his crits when he needed them, and that's just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. Complete luck. So, I apologize. I mean, there's nothing I could do there. I'm sorry. Let's do another one, shall we? Hopefully, we get better RNG. Interestingly enough with this one, I kind of want to get rid of my idea, because at least with my Tarnix, I can swap in Monalorino, and do a, you know, get a rampage run, and then get the swapping attack. So, I'm actually going to just start with this. It's risky. But at least in this episode, we get to see also Lockwood Manor. So, actually, this is, it's not the best matchup for me, because he can go for his persistent attack, and then do a dig in and just heal loads. So, I feel like this, this, this battle here is not favouring me at all, like in the slightest. I think I might be tempted just to dig in now, and I will, because I feel like he's just going to go for his biggest hit, or another ferocious. Either way, I'm going to block it, yeah. So, I think now what he's going to do is his dig in. I don't think it stacks twice. I think it's only for one turn, yeah. Okay, that's good, because otherwise he could do a huge dig in. So, I'm going to assume he's going to go for dig in here. Oh, he didn't! Oh, bugger, I could have done a lot of damage there. Let's see what he's going to do. Is now he's going to do the resilient? Okay! Okay! Hold the, hold the phone. Get that phone and hold it, because I think we might be in with a chance here. I'll go for rampage now. Oh, damn, I got completely played. I mean, I couldn't really predict that. But good news is, I could use it next turn, and, well, not, you know, the one after any card he's digging. So, a little bit of damage. We can do as now. So, it depends what he might do. I think he's going to just try and stack the next hit, so he's going to go for ferocious this time, then resilient next time. No! Interesting! Okay, so now I've healed so much, and I can also just go for my biggest hit now. Oh, isn't favoring him actually? I thought it would. He did remove my speed, so that's something at least. And then he can go for his dig in next turn, which will heal him quite a bit. But this is a big chunk of damage, like 2600, as well as, you know, just doing a hit. Oh, yeah, he's just going for it. He's going for it. I actually don't care about this deal at this point. My strategy is Utarnix to switch to do Model of Rhino, and then hopefully it survives and does it again, because Utarnix is quite fast. I don't reduce its speed. Now, am I tempted? Like, you know what? I'm just going to go for this. Yeah, I'm going to go for this. I don't think he can kill me. I don't think he can kill me. Yes! We actually killed him! No way! I didn't want this to happen. Okay, we're a level lower, but I think, yeah, we do 2000 damage, so we killed it. Wow! It was a level higher as well. Should I have won that one? I feel like I shouldn't have won that exchange. I think he's way better. Oh, okay, a Phosphora. What's its speed? 146. That's all right. He's probably going to go for his instant thing. Oh, good. Good. That means it's out of the way. I like that. I like that a lot. Okay, so he, on this swap out, I think he just does a rampage. Does he do rampage on swap? He just stops you from swapping. What? Am I able to swap out as... Oh, I'm not guaranteed a swap out. Okay, okay. So 146 speed, 154. Yeah, he'll go for critical sidestep. I don't mind that. I don't mind that. I think this might not be too bad. It's either going to be really bad or it's going to be really good for me. It's going to be... It's neither all. Have I taken damage? It looks like I have. It looks like my bar is not full enough. So I'm just going to go rampage. Yeah, he'll go for lethal rampage here. That's fine. That's fine. Unless he's got a really good monorino. Yeah, yeah, I didn't think so. Okay, that's fine. That's fine. We're not going to get any bleed damage here, but he does have a dodge. So he does get the dodge, yeah, and then monorino will come in. Actually, monorino is pretty decent for taking on this guy, because in two hits, I do get to just go through his dodge and also his invincibility. So he says well played. I mean, I think it was well played on his part. I'll give him the thumbs up though. We've got to give him a thumbs up. So now, I think it's the attack that can't be reduced. So it's actually better for me to go for a shield at least. Yeah, crappy strike. I think that's the best I can do really. He's going to go for his nullifying. Actually, that's a lot of damage, 5,200, and I only have 30% armor.  Yeah, oh, it was close. It was frigging well played, dude. Well played. Okay, now what's his speed? 158. Good lord. And I can increase my speed by 30%. I think I've just got to do it. Is he immune to bleed?  I think he, yeah, this isn't good, because I think he'll just go for invincibility here. Long invincibility and just stall me out. Although, no, saying that I can just go for like a regular hit and just go through that. So I think he's going to try and go for invincibility here and just stall. No, he went for crappy strike and gets a crit.  Uh, bypasses dodge and armor. So is it a priority for the sidesteps priority? So he might do that. Yes, he's going to do that. Oh God, these people have just had like the perfect team to take me on. I never see this. I never see this guy. So hopefully we can get the crit here. Don't get the crit. And he also doesn't die. And we don't. Oh, he's stunned though.  He can switch out if he wants to. Now, how long does his speed last for? You know what? You know what? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll go for it.  Finally, the cloak works. I've lost this game. Don't worry. But I had a feeling. I had a feeling. I might as well do this because he will go for priority. I want to play this safe in case he wanted to swap this in. So he'll go for his cunning. Or is he going to heal himself? No. Okay. Okay. So he has to go through my cloak and finally some stroke a bit late. I would have preferred this in the other one. So we can at least do that. We don't get that crit because he removed that 3000 and odd. And now he gets the speed increase himself. And I think he's definitely survived this. I think it's a 100% chance to dodge 70%. Yeah. Oh, something like that.  This is very unfortunate. I think he's got his priority move back. Oh my God. Just the perfect. Just the perfect. Yeah. Well played, man. I don't think I could have played that any better than I did. He had the perfect, like that was faster. Got the right counter for my model of Ryne. Like so much boosted on the attack. That was crazy. Two of those dinosaurs so close to death. I can't remember what his other dinosaur was, but you know what? Like, well done. We, you know what? We're going to do one more. I will freaking win a game.  This is what you don't get on any other YouTube channel who plays Just Will Live. You watch their battles. You know they're going to win. They never put in their losses. I'll do. I'll put one in for you. I'll love you. I'll do it. Okay. So let's start strong. Let's start with you, Torex.  A Thor door and level. Okay. It's a level 28. Oh no. Oh no. Now I feel bad. Thor door is so bad and it's only level 28. Oh no. No. And I even get to like do, because I could do instant shots. I get to do this. Oh. Oh well. Okay. Okay. That's not, that's better. He might even stun me. That's better. I think he's immune. Okay. So well played. Well, but I could have, I could have went for the rampage and run and you know, actually killed this thing in one turn, but now he can do his priority. So you know what? What should I do? I think I just have to see. I'm just going to swap him on Ryne. I'm going to try and keep my Euteronix alive. So far it's quicker than most things. I would have preferred to have gone for a big hit, then done this. So yeah, he would have some health. I wouldn't have killed him, but I would have killed him this turn, I think. So we'll go for group accelerating. Then he'll go for the rampage, I think. So I kind of just want to go for, I mean, I kill him. I'm going to go for the priority here. I'm going to go for this one, because I know he's just going to go for that. Yeah, he'll just go for that one. Oh, he got a crit as well. What a 10% chance. What's with these guys? Oh my God. So I'm just going to kill him. This is going to kill him. Everything's getting crit. Everything's doing good. Oh, he wants to save it. Oh, okay.  Like, I would have just cut my losses there and hit the Thordor. You got a Thordor Sarumagnus. A Hydra, freaking, but what level? 20.  Well, the bleed's not good against me. I'm not going to switch out, so you don't get that. I may as well. I may as well just reduce your attack and then possibly next turn, as long as you're not faster, I can just go for something good.  Okay, so you're back to normal. So slip really, okay, you cleanse it. You got a speed boost. No. No, you don't get it. Oh, I'm sorry. I've never faced up against a Hydra Boa, so I got to remove the dodge, at least I do. Is it got boosts on it? Does it? Is it that good? 129? I'm 26 feet. That feels like one. Oh, I feel like I'm against somebody who's quite mid to you. Oh no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't mean to.  Oh, oh, he's trying. Oh, a Foss for X. Oh, a level 30 Foss. Well then, 154. Okay. Okay, something that's pretty high tier. We're taking on now. Right, so what do you want to go for? Oh, this is it. What's his damage? He does 5000. Okay, okay, okay. So I'm kind of tempted for Inditoris. I feel like I, if I go for the cautious, then he's just going to, he's going to outspeed me. Do 5000 damage. And then I can go for cleanse next turn. At least do something. You know what? Yeah, you'll go for the instant. Instantly done like 5000 damage to me. No, no, no, no, you might not. Now you might not do that much damage. What did you, oh, did you already use it? No, did he use it? He might have already used it. Oh, no. Okay, okay, okay. Well, at least we, okay, fair enough.  I mean, right. This is interesting because what's he going to do?  Do I still got to switch out even though I'm stunned? Please tell me I do. Please tell me. Yes, okay, good. I was going to say, because if I can't switch out, I'm stunned. That's rubbish. Oh, there we go. Okay. Could I be resisted? Like, could I be locked down there? I didn't, I didn't think that through. That was, that was a, well, we're playing mid. We're playing mid here, guys. There's only so much we can do. So he has his own priority. Fable, is it fable fangs? Oh, I love the sound of that move. That sounds so good. Oh, no. I really beat that guy a lot and I'm so sorry. The thordor let you down. If you're watching the thordor, get rid of that small, a small fish. Oh, no, I feel like that he was well under level. I should not have taken him off. Well, anyway, guys, we're going to leave it there.  But the thing is, with this game, unlike Jurassic World, the game, it's like new hybrids come out. I can't make them. So I can't make content. And I've already relayed, you know, my, my, my, this feeling to Ludia. It's like, I like the game. I play it, but I can't dedicate so much time to it because I do so much of the things. So it's either, I only make like one video a week, if that. And that's it. I want to play more. It's loads of fun, but I can't showcase too much because I don't have anything. And they do, you know, they gave me, like, maybe twice a year, which is great. But even then it's like, I can't really, I have 17,000 books, but that doesn't give me more DNA. And even if I want to open incubators, they start that good. And even then they cost real money. So anyway, guys, we're going to put in the three hour incubator. If you enjoyed it, leave a like and until next time, I'll see you cuties later. Oh, bye-bye.


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All right. Welcome back to the House Committee on Natural Resources Fish and Wildlife. We are reconvening our meeting. Thank you all. We're going to pivot back toward to Chris Cochran and Jacob Hamarick to wrap up their presentation. I mean, I'm flexible. If you want me to wrap it up or let these folks go, I mean, I can make my point at any time. It's already kind of non sequitur. Okay, sure. Why don't we pivot to Jen Haller. Welcome. And maybe maybe Lizzie can pull up the presentation I sent. So good morning. My name is Jen Haller and the policy director for the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board. It's been some time before I've been before your committee. So just by way of background, my background. My experience is in housing, community development and conservation at the federal, state and local levels. I serve as the policy director for BHCB. I work across across the organization about the housing and conservation side. And before I came to BHCB about almost seven years ago, I served in the Schumer administration and handled housing issues for the governor at the Department of Housing and Community Development and got to work with Chris. So what I'd like to do today, I think is to move through pretty quickly, but to kind of three main things. And that is to provide some background, speak a little bit to 226 at the very end, but at the very high level to provide some background on housing work that the state is supporting BHCB is the organization through which the state provides funding for housing development. So talk about how that's going, where it's going and what policies are around that. Ask me to talk a little bit about how much housing BHCB has done over time and affordability levels. I'll touch on that. Before I dive into any of that, I want to say thank you. So thank you very much to this committee for your incredibly supportive letter to the House Appropriations Committee. We made a difference in their deliberations and BHCB received an increase in our base funding coming through the House to put us in a much better position. Our base hadn't changed or gone up in many years. We've been fortunate, as you know, to have been asked to handle a lot of federal housing money, but our conservation numbers have been pretty flat for a long time. So thank you for that support. Thank you for the work that your committee is doing. It's been really exciting to see conservation be a bigger part of the State House discussion this year, and to see the UVA bill and 606 moving along their way. So wanted to all that. And so this actually, so there's happening all over the state and it happens through the pandemic construction did continue and and we are continuing to review lots of applications for new housing. There's a tremendous need. And that's a lot of what you've heard from CES excellent presentation. So as 226 really talks about is like we know there's going to be pressure for housing development. And what 226 does I think is sets the table for where we want that development to go. And this, this is just an example of something we funded recently and there's some existing housing that this is in Westbrook. So we work in all kinds of communities. There's some existing housing will get rehab to more units will be added. So we always ground our testimony in our, in our statutory purpose it's housing and conservation really preserving the state's historic patterns what you see here is just north of Bennington and Shaftsbury, the body of water at the top is Lake Perron. Over time, the HCB has been able to support the Robert Frost House there with the historic preservation grant on some walking trails. A few years ago, new housing development was created there called Lake Perron housing new affordable housing and the lake it's land around the lake itself has been. It's a little bit of everything we do there and I raise this because what VHCB is really bad is balancing those two, those two imperatives the need for housing but then also to protect our important natural areas and working lands. Okay, next slide. You've heard from you heard from Trey and Gus about this recently when the context of H606 and just to mention Gus will be with you again tomorrow when you take up the issue of ag mitigation. So over 34 years, this is what we've done in a really big picture, not very exciting kind of way, because it's just numbers but the chair was wondering about how much housing we had done and a little over 14,000 units over, over that period of time also working for us natural areas, recreational areas. We do historic preservation projects for buildings are going to be for community use. And then, about 20 years ago, we established a farm and forest viability program thinking that not only do we need to keep our working lands open but we need that we need the businesses and the owners who take care of that land to be able to remain viable so we provide technical assistance business planning succession planning and those kinds of services help 850 over time. The pictures you see here are just a smattering the one of the top left is in Putney. This is a small church it's now a performing arts center. The middle photo is a vital form by ability client and I gate small axle farm, and then at the top on the right is prospect mountain, which is, which is a much beloved recreational asset in the area that's now been conserved and living a new, a new phase of its life. Okay, we can go to the next next line. So I'm a major tenant of what the CD does is around permanent affordability so when we invest state when we when you entrust state dollars to us we invest them in housing and conservation in a way that's going to be protected over time. The housing project conservation easements. If it's if it's a housing development it comes with a housing subsidy covenant that requires the rents or the homes to remain affordable in perpetuity. The housing the 14,000 housing units that we've done summer rental summer home ownership over time. The housing is restricted by housing subsidy comments. The details vary greatly as you can imagine lots of different types of housing but generally, those are affordable at 80% of the area median, and one third of those affordable at a deeper level at 50% of the median income. Now recently, a lot of the focus and emphasis has been on creating homes for folks who are coming out of homelessness and so some of them are specifically dedicated to that purpose some of the apartments. Another example of a variation is when the state asked us to use the resources from the housing revenue bond they said please use a quarter of it for apartments or homes that are affordable at one of a middle range so between 80 and 120. So there is variation but it generally that's what we look to for affordability and rental housing and home ownership. Again, also with housing subsidy comments, our statute allows us to do that for households up to 120% of the area median income. So it's at 100. And we sometimes we provide funding for the construction of new homes but a lot of what we do is through what we call the shared equity program where we provide funding to a eligible perspective home buyer, they go buy a home with the assistance from us through one of the local housing nonprofits and in exchange when they sell that home, they agree to just take 75% of the equity with them and 25. Excuse me it's the reverse they take 25% of the equity and 75% of that value remains with the home. So each time that that property sells and they sell it like an average every seven years. So that means a little bit more affordable for the next, the next purchaser. The quick question Jen, how do you, when somebody, the end of that seven years when somebody else buys it, how do you ensure that the person buying it fits the criteria, the local housing nonprofit is in charge of that basically and they they help find the next eligible buyer and the restrictions are in the land records. And this is a property in in Bennington, a new neighborhood that was developed down there it's called Monument View for obvious reasons, you can see the Bennington Monument in the past. It's a location that was within walking distance of the downtown and a good infill development. Okay, we go to the next slide. So we're moving on kind of the principles through which we do our work so a little more on home ownership is that we provide funding to create new homes and help new owners. I talked about the shared equity program we've done 13 hundred of those statewide and as they've turned over or new buyers they've served about 900 families. And 157 homes that were built by the new homeowners through the Habitat for Humanity program here's a couple examples one in retland. And then one in East Montpelier. And we can keep going a little bit more on home ownership because an awful oftentimes we talk about rental housing a lot but we are doing home ownership. A point I want to make here because you've been thinking about environmental justice is one of the main ways that we can, one of the best ways we can make our communities more welcoming and inclusive is to make sure that there are people who have been historically disadvantaged to make sure that there are affordable homes. So here's a few examples there's a Manchester Habitat for Humanity home and a woman and her son. She works at one of the local businesses moved in there in Butternut Grove condominiums in Winooski the city contributed a piece of land and the Sheppland Housing Trust and Ever North have developed condominiums and their marketing and outreach is going on right now and it's focused at BIPOC households in terms of the marketing and outreach now these aren't restricted to BIPOC households because that raises all kinds of constitutionality questions but that's the way they decided to try to get at that issue they wanted to develop home ownership opportunities in Winooski a really diverse community. And then separate commons and Woodstock has a little bit of a notorious reputation the rental housing that was already there was subject to appeal was caught up in appeals for 10 years. Eventually the rental housing was built and now there are some home ownership units that are being constructed there so that's so that's exciting. Okay, go on. A lot of what we do is to renovate old buildings here's a couple examples of these are with emphasis on those experiencing homelessness ones in old school in Rutland. And one is a historic building in the neighborhood in Bennington. And those are either completed or will be before too long, we can keep going and I'm just trying to give you a flavor of the kinds of things that the HV or the state's doing through the HV. A lot of emphasis on revitalizing downtowns and village centers mean smart growth and putting things in the heart of our communities is very much a part of our consideration whenever we review a project application. And you can see a smattering of what we've done here a couple in small places like Guilford and Lindenville. And some in sort of moderate size, I borrow more pillar as the French block downtown you've heard about that when it was vacant for 75 years and then now there are two floors of apartments on the top. And in St. Albans, that community has showed incredible leadership and welcoming downtown and there's a public private partnership there, but we can move on. I think maybe Chris and Jacob have heard this before what do you guys think they're both on their phones. We do new construction, this is a smart growth area. This is an example of one that we just like closed closed in terms of like sealing the real estate deal and construction will begin soon. Stuart Avenue and Colchester and it's in a, it's in a growth center, and it would qualify as a priority housing project. It's part of a larger private development to have more than 200 market rate apartments and condominiums retail commercial space restaurants and the daycare center nearby. Next slide please. How does, excuse me, but the market rate, how does that relate to affordability. Well, market rate is something that's unrestricted so it would be an apartment that could be rented at whatever the market will support. So it's primarily just addressing housing needs not necessarily exactly general housing needs and not specifically what we call affordable housing. So smart growth as I mentioned is part of our DNA, BHCB's DNA and one way you can think about that is the Vermont Natural Resources Council does a smart growth sort of report card or progress report. Periodically, one came out not too long ago and they looked at investments by a bunch of different entities from FY 2013 to 2019, including the housing and conservation boards. What they found was that 90% of everything we funded was in smart growth locations. They said about 9% of what we funded would qualify as being in a sprawl location and then unknown as 1%. But I think, so we're pretty proud of that. I think the thing to really known is that all the investments. New housing or in smart growth locations. So sometimes and often we will provide funding for the upgrade of a mobile home park or, you know, mobile home community or some other existing housing. That may not be in a smart growth location and that's what you would find in the, that's what comprises the 9%. Okay, we can go on. So to get to some of the current funding, you know, we're working with our usual BHCB typical state funding also doing a lot of work right now deploying the American Rescue Plan Act. Housing resources that the legislature has allocated to us and there are lots of different layers to that in terms of how we could use that funding. But the very top layer is the US Department of Treasury's final rule and associated guidance. It's like this thick. So that's, that's what really establishes how that money can be used. The next layer down is at the state level in the state appropriated the funds to us specifically in last year's budget to provide housing and increase shelter capacity with priority for those who are living in motels but then also to create housing in the next income settings. And then at the BHCB level we have additionally adopted guidelines and procedures for what kinds of projects are eligible for that funding and what our priorities are going to be when we get a batch of applications. $62 million in applications that our staff are reviewing right now 26 different projects about 400, 400 to 600 new homes. And these, these are additional requirements that we have added on to that to reflect our state policies. So those include permanent affordability, and then also prioritizing smart growth locations. So that's a lot of the work that we're doing right now. Okay, the next slide. And here's what's been funded so far with both our funding and some of the state supplemental there was some one time general funds that the state directed to us to get at that homelessness issue people were so and still are so concerned about the people in motels. And so there was funding for that. But here are the results so far. Some of these are completed some are still rounding up other funding sources and summer and some are in construction but 431 rally units. More than half of those for households experiencing homelessness recovery housing transitional units. And we've done some other things too so home accessibility projects a big grant. To the Vermont Center for Independent Living they do home access projects to help people with disabilities or to be able to stay on their homes. Well the home communities and infrastructure improvements. And then a farm worker housing rehab loan program is something that's new and it's right at the intersection of our housing and conservation mission. I guess I'm rolling that out. And anyway I mentioned that 62 million applications or we're doing right now and we'll make recommendations for a board in May and June. Okay, the next slide. So I thought it might be helpful to talk about priority housing projects a little bit because it's a lot of what's in the bill. So I included a couple of a few data points here that I think might be helpful. So essentially as you heard Ellen, and as you well know active 50 includes a definition of a priority housing project and the project meets that definition. Then it is not considered it doesn't meet the definition of a development it's not considered a development for the purpose of active 50 and does not need to go through the active 50 process. So, in our view, those PHP provisions in active 50 are really important. And these are the reasons why from our perspective and that is that government, federal local will never be able to fund the creation of enough housing to satisfy our housing needs so we need to do what we need to do and we can to, but we also need the private market and private developers obviously to be able to develop to and one of them read one of the things that the PHP definition does is that it incense private developers to include affordable housing in their developments that really works and that's been a great thing because if they include 20% of their units affordable at 80%. And they're in certain areas, they meet that definition and don't have to go through active 50. That's a pretty big incentive of a developer and you've heard that doesn't need to go through active 50. So, it really helps direct development to those areas where we really want it to be, want it to be and in smart growth areas designated areas. And it really does have that effect. It reduces the cost and time to develop projects. There's an extra word in that in, I think a lot. And as Seth explained projects are, we need them to come online quickly and they're also getting increasingly expensive so that's a good thing. And then there are those who have concerns in communities about bringing affordable housing in and who might live there, and that's an unfortunate reality. But if a project does goes can go through the local zoning process but not have to also go through active 50. It eliminates a point at which people can raise objections. And at this point, I think, I think what a, and we from phcb's perspective because we always look at it from both sides the housing and conservation, that that's an appropriate balance that these priority housing projects are really made, or that avenues are available, only in those places and I think so doesn't compromise some other conservation value that or there's some other process that's already in place at the local level or they've gone through the designated, gone through getting a state designation so the things that we would all be concerned about in terms of location and design have been addressed somewhere else. To help put all this in context on the Senate side and Natural Resources Board provided them with information that said that 21 housing developments in the last five years. Matt the definition of a priority housing project and we're there for except for Mac 250. I get this question a lot but 40 of those were developed by nonprofit housing developer and 60% were by private development. So there really are private developers who are trying to meet this definition, including affordable housing in their unit in our projects. And then, in terms of what VACV is funded so far with ARPA funds, we fund it so far and we're like I said we're doing a bunch more. We have funded 17 projects so far. And two of those are mobile home communities infrastructure improvements so they don't, you know, that doesn't trigger active 50, but 15 and one more rental housing developments, seven of those 15 that we funded our subject to active 50. And of those seven, five qualify as a priority housing project. So the priority housing projects were out of active 50. I'm sorry, I didn't catch the question. It's seven of them are subject to active 50 and of those seven, five will qualify as priority housing projects but priority housing projects don't aren't subject to active. Otherwise be subject to active. So seven of the 15 would be covered by active 50, and five of those qualify as priority housing projects so they don't don't. Yeah, maybe. Well, my question to what was a little different. The approach of those seven, which are projects are funded our subjects, seven of those only five qualified as PHP. They qualify when they're developed as such. When they're not developed with a 20% they don't qualify. So does this statistic mean five of those that could qualify. Of those seven, five, didn't because they didn't want to include. So these are ones that are funded by the hcb and everything we fund because of the funding we provided they're much more affordable than what a priority housing project requires so. So one of those five meets the affordability threshold for the priority meets and exceeds the affordability threshold and a priority housing project. Yeah, because we require them to do much more affordability. And of the, so five qualifies PHP's meanings they're super affordable. And they're in the areas where you can qualify as a PHP like a, you know, a downtown area. They're still in smart growth locations, but they might not be within the boundaries of it as a designated area. So they didn't qualify for that reason, but they were not developed out in that fashion. Pardon, or we're not built out with 20% in there. Well if we funded them they get the other two. Seven are all ones that VHCB is funded so they all have state or federal funding. Okay. Okay. Thank you. If I think it's just the designated areas as you saw them that are very, very constrained to tight areas. So there's and this kind of makes the point of the why we're having this conversation about this bill is we'd like to enlarge those areas there's a lot of smart growth areas that are designated. And if it was easier for communities to designate neighborhoods. I suspect those two that didn't qualify for priority housing projects likely. Yeah, they might have. Yeah, thank you. Look at that. So Lizzie I think if there are no more questions we could go on to the next slide. Okay, so not to get into the weeds of S 226. But just to speak generally to the land use elements of the housing bill. We really support the housing permit reform provisions so and there is largely based on H 511. We feel like it's a very important balance. So allowing housing where it needs to go is going to be housing development pressure. Housing is going to get built where do we want it to be let's create more space for them in the places that we want housing to be like these are kind of incremental thoughtful approaches to doing that. So picture actually so one of the provisions that you've heard Ellen talked about was saying that a municipal permit can't expire before the end of two years. This is an example of a project that had gotten caught up in that it's in the village center of Morrisville, or it's called Village Center Apartments in Morrisville and it takes a while to pull together all the funding and get through all the permitting it can take two years for a project to come together but sometimes there are delays. When someone got delayed and they had to go back through the municipal process again and there was no real public benefit to doing that. So that's an example of where we think that that we think that's important. When we did the housing revenue bond we were determined to also take a hard look at some policy issues that would outlive the actual creation of the of the units and tried and we were really happy to support the work that his team have done. We're working on the zoning for great neighborhoods, working with communities piloting some of these things and it's ultimately led to the umbylaw modernization grants and S226 includes the official authorization for that. You might recall that last year I came in and asked when you were looking at this and the other bill, I asked you to include the word affordable to make sure that when communities are doing that and planning on it. They don't do it. They do it in a way that make sure that affordable housing remains in that mix. And so thank you for doing that and the version that came over for the Senate has that language as well. Waste water connection permits were supportive of that if there's a duplication. That's not necessary. Let's let's not do that anymore. Yeah, the duplication can be. We can remove the local review and leave it to the experts at the state that's another alternative to the streamlining of waste water connection permits and a little uneasy of having the by removing the experts. I see. I don't have a comment on that. I would say that it would be best to not do it twice if it's not, if it's not really leading to a public benefit. There's some tweaks to the parking requirements we support and then also, and you've heard us mention the designation programs over and over again, there's such an important tool, but I know that department would like a chance to really take a look at that and see if they need updating or revising or improving and we would certainly support adding that to 226 if you have the opportunity. Then we can go to the next slide. And I think it might be the last. So that's how to get a hold of me if you have any questions and then I wanted to finish with this picture it's a project that we funded. And it illustrates the point and the value of raising the caps in the communities that's one of the h511 provisions and one of the. This is proposed to be 24 units and that's purposely to stay under the cap. And if, if the cap was raised for this community, you could get a handful more of housing there it's a good location it's in a neighborhood development area. It's been a lot of community input. So, it seems a shame not to be able to have added a few more homes there it's not easy. It's really not easy to site and permit an affordable housing or any housing development so if there's a general agreement that this place makes sense let's add let's get a few more homes out of it and I think raising that cat well, we'll have that will have that effect. Can I ask no question. Yes. Thank you and maybe this is something more for the state but then those communities with local zoning, and that are interested in this, at least have the capacity to be able to look at the site design to ensure that that new development housing development in particular matches kind of that the, the community landscape or aesthetics, if you may, if I may, at least doesn't conflict with you know that and that helps tourism helps economy helps that vibrancy. There are communities that don't have that and you remove active 50. I'm just concerned as to whether how do we maintain that kind of sense of place that our rural communities would want to maintain so that that they don't become potential that come integrated into that the, that view scape of that of those communities. Yeah, well I. Maybe this is what you're asking me but I'm not suggesting that active that housing shouldn't have to go through active 50 at all I think that it makes sense in those areas where there is a local process or has gone through the designation program. And the community has embedded review processes that that's where it makes sense, but I wouldn't say housing shouldn't have to go through active 50 at all. Thank you. If I could add I'm sorry, it's a voluntary program so the community has to go through the process so it's not we're not making a blanket change that affects all communities they have to seek the designation meet all the requirements they have to have local regulations. So I think, I think the way it's designed addresses your concern. Thank you. I think you might hear for some communities that they feel like the state asked too much of them before they can go through the debt to be designated but that's a policy thanks balancing question. Thank you for your testimony. Go to see a possum. Yeah, you got to hang out in here a lot more often than your years and only seen one. Want to go. Well I feel like you have a lot more of that background. Well, we have, we actually have another, we have to get into another agenda item so I was going to wrap with you and Chris and Jacob come back we're not finished with this I was not expecting all of these presentations to go as long as they did. It's great we had lots of good questions great presentations but we, this is, this is chapter one of exploring the housing. You can just say you love the bill. Yeah. Well, good morning and I thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Katie Gallagher and I direct the sustainable communities program with Vermont Natural Resources Council. And as you know we are a statewide environmental organization and our sustainable communities program focuses on primarily promoting smart growth and preventing sprawl. So we are very interested in this bill because of course we want to see more housing in those right locations in our downtown and villages, where people can have more transportation options, we can take development pressures off of outline areas. You know this is mentioned I think by by some witnesses already this is an equity issue it's an economic development issue quality of life climate you name it this is housing affects all of these things. And we were very grateful to be able to work with our partners. This, this fall to help to craft and refine each 511 thanks to representative bond guards and James. We really appreciated that process felt like it was, it was very inclusive and thoughtful. And so, I think that as 226 is is a great example of the process that that resulted in a very thoughtful bill. So, thinking about this, you know we understand that the housing crisis is a very complex issue. And while we offer our support for the majority of the provisions in this bill I do want to state upfront that vnrc does not believe that regulations are the only or the primary way to housing production that said we recognize that regulations and active 50 process can be collective and in some cases, especially in towns with sophisticated planning and zoning. As we just talked about this is the case for municipalities that have gone through the process to get a neighborhood development area designation they they already have very sophisticated planning and zoning. And I believe that it's really important that any bill that encourages housing also includes provisions that protects our forests and working lands. You know we need to address the need for affordable housing but also the pressure that is going to be put in is already being put on our forests and working lands through, as we've talked about again the incoming. Both coming in from out of state but also those who are looking for homes here. If they can't find homes in our downtown areas in the places that we want, they're going to be looking to those places that we don't want housing development and we know that we are facing a loss of forest land at over 14,000 acres a year so this is a fairly significant issue. So in order to achieve a more balanced smart growth approach to housing development we suggest moving the active 50 related provisions in S2 to six into S234 which you're going to hear more of tomorrow this is an act relating to changes to active 50 recently with much of the same language that's in S226. And again you'll you'll hear more from my colleague Jamie Fidel on S234 tomorrow I believe. So, with that framing and that in mind, I'd like to just highlight a couple of the policies that we support in S226 and again we very broadly support this bill, but we do have a couple on suggestions from crew. I wanted to highlight some of those pieces that have more environmental and land use considerations. So I'm going to go into a bit more detail than the previous witnesses and appreciate all of the helpful context that has already been provided so hopefully this, this makes sense. But starting with in section two is allowing the neighborhood development areas to include the flood hazard and fluvial erosion areas that contain pre existing development and are suitable for infill development. This section we support because it acknowledges that most of our historic centers, as we know, we're already built along rivers. And this has resulted in an obstacle for those municipalities that are looking to to achieve a neighborhood designation area. So, this provision helps to bring the NDA program in line with the agency of natural resources guidance that infill development in these areas can be environmentally responsible if done properly. So we feel that this is a reasonable approach that that also has the benefit of requiring these local bylaws to also address river corridor protection outside of that small geographic area of the NDA itself so we have up and downstream protections from this from this provision. In section two C six. This is allowing municipalities to apply for an NDA prior to having municipal sewer or alternative wastewater systems. Chris and Jacob touched on this earlier, but this provision supports the ability of municipalities to move forward with community sewer or decentralized wastewater system or priority housing projects. I'm sorry. Page five. Thank you. To section to see. But that language has been struck. Well it's proposed to be struck in this in this bill. Okay. And you're saying you're in support of that of the. I think it's something that we, I would say, don't are not strongly in supportive but something that we are not opposing because we understand the benefit and the, and the trade off there that ultimately these projects would still require a state water and wastewater permit. And when we're talking about priority housing project is as a relatively dense development, it's going to need some wastewater capacity. So it's not something that that we're worried about contributing to sprawl for example with individual systems. Moving down to section five, this is the proposed increase of the, the high population cap for the priority housing projects. And that would increase the number of these priority housing projects exempt exempt from active 50. This would allow particularly smaller towns to build affordable housing with greater density. So we do support this provision. However, we do recommend that the increased sunsets after the ARPA funds are required to be expended in order to collect some data and feedback and actually evaluate the impacts of this change. So this is a an assessment of the state designation programs that we support that is being considered this session. That's floating around at the moment that this evaluation of that change to the population caps could potentially be a part of of that assessment. In 2012, the municipal bylaw modernization grants. We strongly support this section, they are a very important incentive based mechanism to support municipalities efforts to ensure that their bylaws for the housing density and accessibility that we're looking for. And then I just want to note that we support the appropriation of $650,000 that is in addition to the funding for the municipal and regional planning fund. I was unclear in the language whether that money was being taken from the fund, but it's just can't state how important it is that we are adequately funding planning in general, and the modernization grants should be funded on top of that. And then in section 14 the downtown and village center tax credit program. This is a really critical high demand source of financial support for the creation of housing units and adaptive reuse and our historic centers. So we support expanding eligibility to include the neighborhood does does it. Well, neighborhood. It's not designation development. Thank you. Wow. There is because it would provide greater access to these opportunities while continuing again to prioritize our, our smart growth areas. So we, we support funding for the program being increased along with any eligibility expansion to not, again, they loot that existing funding pool. So we're pleased to see the Senate support for this program as well. So I think I will, I will leave it there and again, there's several other provisions in this bill that that further support housing creation and I did not mention them but we are in support of many of the other pieces of policies in this bill. I feel like it's very positive step forward to address our housing crisis. But in closing, I would also just reiterate that we feel it's very important to pair housing development policies with force protections, which you'll hear more about in detail tomorrow. So, we'd be happy to provide any further testimony and happy to answer any questions if, if there are time, if there was time. Members have quick questions. Representative Dolan. There's a strong interest to try to streamline the permitting of water and wastewater and I think what's in this bill is eliminating state oversight and having the municipal. Do you have a perspective as to how we should best remind that I do not have a perspective on that. I would say John Grove might would be might have more, more insight on that particular position. Thank you. And if you could file your comments. Yes, I'm sorry and I will do that. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for your testimony. Do we have Ellen coming in?


I want to raise a point of order on a secure guidance on the potential misleading of Parliament by a minister. The national transition training fund was launched in October 2020 by the then minister Fiona Huzlop, who said that the initial £11 million phase of the fund will help up to 6,000 people by March 2021. That was targeted at unemployed people. In a debate in November last year, I had an exchange with Minister Jamie Hepburn on the fund and the Government's failure to meet its 6,000 target. That was based on a media report earlier in the year that Mr Hepburn said that 3,000 places have been awarded. In the debate, Mr Hepburn intervened on my point about the failure to meet the 6,000 target for strand 1 to correct his own claim, claiming that the number was now 9,000. However, in today's report of the national transition training fund, we discovered that the number for strand 1 was not 9,000 or 6,000 or even 3,000 but is actually 1,206. The minister claimed that the scheme was a success and had succeeded its target by 3,000 places, but it had fallen short by 4,800, failing 4,800 unemployed people in their time of need and potentially misleading the Parliament on its success. As is often the case with this Government, the talk is better than the action. Can the Presiding Officer set out what avenues there are for ministers to correct the record? I thank Mr Rennie for his contribution. I have not had a chance to see the report that the member is referring to. However, Mr Rennie will be aware that the chair is not responsible for the content of contributions made by members. However, the guidance on the official report correction mechanism sets out the steps that a member can take if they wish to request another member to make such a correction. I remind members of the Covid-related measures that are in place in the chamber and across the Holyrood campus and at face coverings should be worn. The first item of business is general questions. In order to get in as many people as possible, I would be grateful for short and succinct questions and responses. At question number one, I call Paul MacLennan. To ask the Scottish Government what support is available to maximise the growth opportunities for the renewables sector in East Lodian. The Scottish Government is maximising growth opportunities in the renewables sector in a number of ways, including through our national planning framework, which is currently under review funding and support for nexus to consider the industrialised decarbonisation of large-scale emitters, including East Lodian's tarmac. The £180 million emerging energy technology fund provides capital support to accelerate low-carbon infrastructure projects, the Scottish Government's community and renewable energy scheme and the £100 million capital green jobs fund, offering support to help businesses transition to a low-carbon economy. East Lodian has access to all those initiatives. Paul MacLennan. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. East Lodian is ideally placed to take advantage of the growth opportunities with existing grid connections at Cackenzie, Tornes and the proposed new East Link at Dunbar. Can he expand on the opportunities for the supply chain specifically in East Lodian? I agree that East Lodian is ideally placed to play a pivotal role in Scotland's energy transition. In particular, the SSE, Berwick Bank offshore windfarm, provides an opportunity to capitalise upon what is very significant economic benefits that East Lodian and Scotland could benefit from that. There is a range of work that we are taking forward, including the actions that we are taking to help to support businesses in their energy transition. I have no doubt that businesses based in East Lodian area will be able to benefit from that in the months and years ahead. East Lodian and its coastal areas are leading the way in renewables, but last month we found out that Tornes power station is to shut its doors two years earlier than planned. The SNP Green coalition has used the planning system to close down nuclear, and it is throwing the oil and gas sector under a bus. As we build renewable capacity, in what way is it making the south of Scotland dependent on volatile gas supplies from Russia, either just or a transition? The priority is to make sure that we decarbonise our economy, so we are not independent on imports of gas from other parts of the world. That is not just my view, it is the view of the UK Government, which is why it announced yesterday that it is increasing the rate at which the contract for difference programme will be taking forward and not to speed up decarbonisation. The approach that the Scottish Government has taken for a number of years now is why we are exhilarating investment in our renewable energy sector to ensure not only the security of supply here in Scotland, but to make sure that we also secure the economic benefits for those who live in the East Lodian area. 2. Megan Gallacher To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons school pupils have taken examinations in some subjects such as business or geography, will reportedly receive advanced notice of what content will or will not be assessed, while those taking other subjects such as chemistry will receive no advanced notice? Question papers for exams are different for each course as they assess different types of knowledge, understanding and skills. Accordingly, the revision support has been tailored to reflect this, as well as to complement the significant course modifications that have already been made this year. In some courses, learners may be advised that topics, contents or content will or will not be assessed in the exam, for others, as additional information has already been provided. It is not possible to take the same approach for courses where the exam will assess content from across the whole course or where the topics or content cannot be separated easily. For pupils receiving a study guide, they will need access to a laptop or device in order to fully prepare for their exams. The Scottish Government also promised internet connectivity, which is vital for pupils to access the online revision platform. I raised in the chamber last week that 80 per cent of school pupils still do not have a digital device, so can I ask the cabinet secretary again when will pupils finally receive a digital device? Will that be before the revision support is published in March? As has been made clear in the chamber a number of times, the Scottish Government has provided funding for 72,000 devices and 1,400 internet connectivity solutions to be distributed across Scotland. COSLA has reported that there are 122,000 devices that have been distributed, and we believe that that is an under-reporting of the issue. As has been made clear, as I said many times, the Scottish Government has a commitment to provide advice for each pupil by the end of the parliamentary term. We know that teachers have faced significant disruption to throughout this past year. How are the Scottish Government and its agencies supporting them to deliver the best outcomes possible for our learners? We absolutely take the wellbeing of our teachers very seriously, and since October 2020, we have invested £2 million specifically for supporter teacher wellbeing. Of course, we also have on top of the 1,400 teachers recruited during the pandemic. We have committed to bringing 3,500 teachers and 500 support staff into the system by the end of this parliamentary term. Once the effects of the pandemic are less direct, the increase in staff will support improvements in attainment. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the provision of new ferries in light of the publication of the strategic transport project review 2. Minister Jenny Gilruth The Scottish Government has committed to investment of at least £580 million in ports and vessels to support and improve Scotland's ferry services over the five years to 2026. We have been working with partners to progress our fleet replacement programme, and last year we announced the decision to extend the highly vessel procurement being undertaken by Caledonian maritime assets limited to a second vessel. Bids from shipyards are now being evaluated. Our recent investment in the purchase of the MV Lough Friza and vessel cascades will bring benefits across the network to mull, sky and the outer hebrides. Further projects are under way, the small vessel replacement programme, new vessels for Dunoon and Kilcregan, further major vessel replacements for mull in south Uist and replacement freight ships for Orkney and Shetland. The Collier and Elandshire, the Western Isles Council, have this morning released a scathing statement lamenting the decades of under investment in ferries and calling for urgent action. That is a significant intervention by local authority whose residents rely heavily on the robustness of Scotland's ferry network. Will the minister meet with the Collier as a matter of urgency to discuss their concerns and will she apologise for the SNP's abject failure over the last 15 years to maintain a reliable ferry network for Scotland's island communities? Can I say to Donald Cameron, first of all, I'm not cited on the detail of the statement that he alludes to. Will I meet with the council in question? Yes, I'm more than happy to meet with that council. I will also point out that the 2021 budget included £19.2 million for local authority ferries, an increase of £7.7 million on last year. That ensures that local authorities are fully funded to operate their internal ferry services. On the question of whether I will engage with the local authority on the detail, I'm more than happy to do that. I think that it's hugely important that we have a ferry service that is fit for our island communities. I hope that, given that I'm relatively new to post, he will take the spirit of my offer here, with the intention that it is meant and felt with. I'm keen to meet with local authority partners on that, because it's so important that we get our ferry services right for our island communities. As the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress regarding free early learning and childcare provision for all one and two-year-olds? Minister Clare Haughey, latest census statistics show an increase to 13 per cent of all two-year-olds registered for the current funded ELC offer, up from 9 per cent in last year's statistics. Given the challenges of the pandemic, this is important progress, and I'm grateful to local partners and staff for all their efforts to deliver expanded funded ELC in difficult circumstances. We're learning from what we know about the barriers for families with young children to take up funding ELC, to inform how we develop our new commitment to all families with the one and two-year-old, starting with low-income households within this Parliament. Our vision is to develop an offer that will contribute to supporting the wellbeing of the whole family and help to deliver our mission to tackle child poverty and to implement the promise. We are starting our engagement with families, the early learning sector and academic experts to design how the new offer can best support children and families this year and will ensure that this early engagement informs the resource spending review process. Our nursery staff provides such an important and valuable service. As the roll-out for early learning and childcare has resulted in more children than before accessing early learning, would the minister be able to inform me what support is in place for the staff and management of both private and council nurseries to ensure that they can continue to provide a robust service? The early learning and childcare workforce is vital to providing high-quality funded childcare and we're committed to supporting the continued development of practitioners via our refreshed national induction resource. Scottish Government grant funding supports the childcare sector representative bodies who support and advocate for their members, while our core funding to local authorities ensures that they can support funded partners and public sector settings. We have also developed a wellbeing resource for all childcare practitioners and are supporting recruitment through our national recruitment campaign resources. Recent work with the Scottish Social Services Council to invite registrants to return to the workforce and the creation of thousands of additional training places across Scotland. 5. Ruth Maguire To ask the Scottish Government what action it's taking to identify perpetrators of human trafficking and disrupt their activity. Human trafficking is a horrific abuse of human rights and there is absolutely no place for it in Scotland or elsewhere. Action to identify perpetrators of human trafficking and to disrupt their activity is led by Action Area 2 of the Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy. This group, chaired by Police Scotland's dedicated national human trafficking unit, worked collaboratively to maintain the profile of human trafficking throughout the pandemic, including the development and circulation of monthly briefings to draw together intelligence and information. Police Scotland continues to pursue and disrupt perpetrators of human trafficking and exploitation, including across national boundaries. Joint investigative teams have been developed with other European law enforcement agencies, including Romania.  Does the minister think that the current legislative framework in Scotland provides our law enforcement agencies with all the tools that they require to end this exploitation and bring perpetrators to justice? Police Scotland actively investigates all reports of online sexual exploitation and human trafficking legislation gives police and prosecutors powers to bring traffickers to justice. In addition, we have laws that make it an offence to procure for the purposes of prostitution and, including in an online context. Work to design a model to challenge men's demand for prostitution will consider whether those current laws need further modernisation or strengthening. Recognising that the regulation of internet and online service providers is reserved, we are liaising with the UK Government on its online safety bill, which will also form part of that consideration, as more details on that become available. Criminalising the purchase of sex would make Scotland an unwelcome place for traffickers. Can I ask what action the Scottish Government is taking using websites to identify people who have been trafficked and traffickers? Can I ask if they are going to take further action in this regard? We are taking further action in this regard. It is an ambition of this Government to create an environment in Scotland that makes Scotland a hostile place for human traffickers. Trafficking is an absolutely abhorrent crime. The member will know that there is a vast amount of work being undertaken by the Scottish Government on the model for Scotland that will seek to challenge men's demand for prostitution. As I have said, we have the UK Government's online safety bill that is coming forward. It is a developing situation. At the moment, it looks like there are some interesting developments in that for the part that the member has raised. However, this is something that the Government takes very seriously and there is on-going work in this area. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when it expects college and university students to be able to return to full-time, face-to-face learning. The guidance for the current academic year has been reviewed in collaboration with the sector, taking into account advice provided by the Covid-19 advisory subgroup on college universities. It is for institutions to determine an appropriate balance of in-person teaching where that focuses on the reduction in management of risk and a cautious approach to keep people safe. The First Minister announced that an update of the Scottish Government's strategic framework will be published shortly. Updated guidance for colleges, universities and community land development providers will, of course, be in line with this strategic framework. Liam McArthur Can I thank the minister for his response? Of course, recent relaxations and restrictions have allowed some normality for students after two years of disrupted learning. However, I have been contacted by students from my constituency who continue to experience largely online learning for science-based courses. Given nightclubs are open but some lecture halls remain closed, does the minister not accept that guidance on face-to-face learning on campus now urgently needs to catch up in the interests of students and their learning? The first thing that I would say is that I am hugely appreciative of the forbearance of our students across Scotland in playing their part in responding to minimising and mitigating against the spread of Covid-19. I understand the points that Mr McArthur has made. What I would do is reiterate the point that I have just made. All of our guidance is constantly kept under review. It is designed in the balance of ensuring that we respond to the various harms that we know exist through the response to Covid-19. That is the manage that we will have approached throughout and continue to approach this. To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to ensure that energy companies do not discriminate against island residents and smart meters in residential properties. The smart meeting programme is owned and led by the UK Government, while loft gem monitors suppliers and ensures that they comply with any regulatory obligations relating to the roll-out of smart meters. We will continue to press the UK Government on concerns raised regarding smart meter roll-out while using our new powers in consumer advocacy and advice to ensure that Scottish consumers voice is heard by energy companies regardless of meter type or location. Additionally, we will carry on working with bays of gem, smart energy, GB and the wider energy market to ensure that the views and needs of Scottish consumers are heard and taken into account in policy planning. I thank the cabinet secretary. My constituency already faces the worst levels of fuel poverty in the country. Difficulties in getting smart meters fitted is just one of the challenges that my constituents come up against. The UK's recent price cap hike will cause many energy bills in the western isles to rise potentially even higher than off gems, 54% increase from April. What can the Scottish Government do to press the UK Government to remedy what has just been inflicted on vulnerable people in the islands? Of course, those who live in rural areas, including in our island communities, are very often off grid and are at greater risk of fuel poverty. Smart meters can assist households in managing their bills, which is why we need to see much more effective roll-out in our rural areas in Scotland. In addition to that, given that there is a greater dependence on electricity supplying heating in our rural areas, the UK Government should look to remove the obligations that are placed on energy tariffs, which would help to reduce the cost of electricity as a source of heating. Alongside that, it should also look at extending and expanding the warm homes discount scheme, which could help to support tackling fuel poverty in the medium to longer term. Of course, the Scottish Government will set out in the budget later on this afternoon the measures that we will take to try to help to support families who are experiencing significant pressure due to marked rises in energy prices.


Hi, my name is Colette Hemmings and I'm from Riverton, Oregon, originally from Scotland. I've been in sports personally when I was younger and been in that industry for the last 20 plus years and as far as I'm concerned mental health and managing your own energy is the future of sports. I think a lot of, you know, top level athletes do this but they're very nature now. It's not something strange to talk about, it's actually very normal and I think the next step is to make it really an everyday practice for everybody so it's like a daily sport for everybody. The final frontier of sports. An unusual thing in business now is having leaders who really truly listen and create space because actually as you kind of rise through organisations it becomes increasingly important that you're hearing, seeing, feeling if you like, what is going on within your team and you're guiding more than setting rules. Managers set rules and expectations and it's kind of stressful and to me the best leaders I've worked with and what I really try to do now has become a, you know, you've heard the expression servant leader but really see everybody in their fullest potential and my job is really to bring that out in everybody that I meet, everybody that I work with, with no expectations actually. So just really and don't be too hard on people and treat people like you want to be treated yourself. Very simple. I found brain education around 13 years ago when I had been on an assignment for about three years in Shanghai in China and when I came back or when I came to the US I discovered body and brain and I just really wanted to learn how to breathe again and long story short I got very sick for the previous five or six years but I became very aware of the year before that. It was in 2006. When I was sick I had, first of all I had like a gallbladder pain so I was really bent over double almost a year travelling to work and trying to perform every day and do a good job and be nice to people and but really feeling physically and emotionally sick every single day and then the other symptoms I had I had really chronic lower back pain for about 10 or 15 years which I just kind of suffered in silence and every six months my back would I would be on the floor for at least one or two weeks without being able to move. The other things I started to get because I didn't really talk about those things with anybody was was really bad anxiety. I wasn't aware how anxious I was just generally about everything and then you don't deal with that and then I had some depression as well so pretty much a good taste of everything. After brain education I would say my I think there's no before and after but what I would say was there's a gradual unraveling and rebuilding so I always look at my life as you're unraveling the past behaviors that don't serve you anymore and you're also building your future path and that's the part that really changed for me in brain education is I really feel like I'm creating my own future for the rest of my life I become you know really doing all the things I want to do that open up my mind and really create a better society so I'm very confident in following those things now rather than following the voices of others that's been the biggest thing for me and then managing emotions managing things like anger managing things like especially in my case like anxiety where you know I could never have sat in front of a camera and talked in front of large groups of people a lot of people who know me now wouldn't believe that but that's how bad it was before so really when you tune into your own body and your capacity you can really do anything. The thing that helps me most with anxiety is really the main principles keeping your body in the state of so water up fire down well first of all I didn't really know what that was and I think until you feel it in your body you can't really describe what it is and water up fire down is kind of a cool head and a warm belly and that seems really simple but the exercise is all legit to create this heat in the right area so instead of being hotheaded and you're angry and frustrated bringing that hot energy into your core and then the cool head creates more focus and a discipline of the mind and that for me was whenever I feel the anxiety creeping in now and I feel it well ahead I can really manage it well and I'll do like body tapping or intestine exercises just quietly I don't need to do it around people but I just have some simple exercises that really help me manage anxiety the routine that I do every morning I do what I've realized is shorter is better for me so the very short exercises like sleeping dragon where you lie on the floor and just your whole body weight you focus on your core area and just raise your body for like one minute and then one and a half minutes for me to do one minute and then one minute 10 and 20 was really challenging because one minute became two minutes became so just a small increase every day or in things like sleeping dragon the plank I couldn't do at all before brain education so things like holding full body weight and six foot tall was really challenging so I practice all the things that I found difficult I practice every day now to really strengthen those muscles that I haven't used before so the most hopefully inspirational thing I can say is I'm the kind of person I now realize that it never gives up so learn the principles of your body learn how to manage your emotions really never give up and have your own dream and vision like don't blot out the picture but actually make the picture brighter and brighter every day and the more you practice and discipline your mind actually the more free you become and then you don't get so attached to the emotions whether you're in business or whether you're at school whether you're at college actually what you're managing is your environment every moment of every day and when you can get to that place through the body and mind practice and breathing well then you can really manage everything including like family relationships and things just never give up just do it