 headed back to new Vermont employee incentive program. We had two amendments voted drafted yesterday and came to agreement on a third. So David was going to draft that up for us and then we can vote this one and everybody can go back to enjoying eighth grade graduation or it is a very nice day. I got 10 minutes at lunch time to go backyard. My poppies and peonies are blooming at the same time. Isn't that beautiful? Yeah, they are beautiful, but the puppy should have bloomed two weeks ago. They are definitely behind this year. Okay, David is with us. Okay, David, as soon as you are ready, we are ready. Good afternoon. Would you like me to share my screen? We'll get people out on Friday. Next week it looks like we may have some pretty long sessions. Senator Cummings, David, asked if you'd like him to share his screen. Did we? She's frozen. The internet in Montpelier has been underwhelming this week. Oh, well, she'll be back. Oh, there she is. She's muted. Hold on. I'll unmute her. Some reason on this site I come on muted and on other sites I don't. Other meetings. Anyway, by three o'clock we should have the final redacted copy of the broadband report from the consultants. Doug, the tech expert is in the hospital. The good news is he'll recover and they thought they might be releasing him as early as today. I don't know what the issue was, but he may not be available to talk to us and you're all frozen again. Okay, I'm back. Are you back? No. Anyway, by three o'clock I've asked Faith to email the whole committee, both the consultants report, which goes through all the major suggestions because they've taken everybody's literature that we could find and go through them, do an analysis of what if they think this is COVID relief doable, within the time frames, both allowable expense and the time frames, done a recommendation for probes, really, of how much money they might want to expend in this area. And then I've asked Faith to include the recommendations from the House Committee on Technology because they have spent hours on this since this is their one topic. And there's other things in there that we might want to consider as we work through for the next week, or the final week, what the recommendations and what we're going to come out with for probes to put in the final COVID relief bill. So that's where we are, but just be watching for that email this afternoon. I figure while you're enjoying this lovely weekend, you can read all these wonderful reports along with me and we'll be ready. We've got an hour and a half scheduled. It took us an hour this morning just to go through it, but we hadn't seen it. So if you all read it this weekend, I think we can use our time probably to the highest advantage if we're ready with questions and thoughts. That's where we are. So, David, you're here. Yes, would you like me to share my screen with the amendment? Yeah, I think that would be probably the easiest way to do this. Okay. I hope that you're seeing it now. We are seeing it. Great. For your record, David Hall Legislative Council, this is S-256, an act relating to creating the new Vermont Employee Incentive Program. And this bill came into the Finance Committee with a full slate of proposals from Senate Economic Development. This amendment makes a few changes to your bill first on the issue of the so-called mini-tiffs. The way that we've written this is to just strike in its entirety that subsection B that dealt with sort of the numbers and timing of the pilot program. So in its entirety that was stricken, there's a new subsection B, so beginning on January 1st, 2021 and ending on December 31st, 2023. So that's all of 21, all of 22, all of 23, a three-year pilot. The Vermont Economic Progress Council is authorized to approve not more than six tax increment financing projects provided that there shall be not more than one project per municipality. So that's your three-year time frame, your six projects, and the limitation is per municipality. And I believe that, I hope that captures your intent from yesterday. That sounds like what I agreed to. Senator Sarakin, Okay, so then the second instance which you have seen is to strike out sections six through ten, so that was the veggie pieces, the downtown tax credit itself, and the full appropriations section which had a number of different appropriations in there in place. We do that or did economic development? It came to what I, those are your recommendations that we put in, Senator Sarakin? Uh, section six through ten in front of me, they were in our bill, they're very stale now given the COVID thing, so I would appreciate it if we just strike them from finance, but we can do a separate amendment on the floor if you want. No, I just didn't, we hadn't discussed it. So yes, if you, if this is, there's a great majority of the committee. Yes, yes, we, we did discuss striking them an economic development and just put them in here, so. Okay. Without objection, all right. So those components will be removed, but replaced by section, a new section six here, and this is the study of the expansion and its impact on the downtown tax credit. It did change here on page two, the reference to the Vermont Downtown Development Board, which is the, in the ACCD administers the downtown program. And then the appropriation being put back in is the one million dollars for the business portal, and that's it. Okay. And that's it, the request of economic development, right? That was that, that was in our bill. That was the only thing that survived in the appropriation, and we're going to have to make our case to across the hall on that. Okay. All right. Committee, any questions? At this point, no questions. Then I need a motion to amend. So moved. Oh, we don't have a clerk. Madam Chair, Faith emailed me the document that we need for this. Oh, okay, then you're the clerk. Yeah, but without objection. Yeah, hold on. I'm not an experience. If anybody wants to fight them, just raise your hand. I'm not an experience clerk, and I'm going to just print this form out here. So give me a second. Okay. And Madam Chair, I just arrived. I'm sorry for being late. You're just in time to have us finish. Is this S-256? Yes. Terrific. And we, sounds like Senator Pearson is going to be the clerk. Great. And I'm hoping Senator Sorotkin or somebody makes the motion for... I will. So moved. Okay. You move that we amend. And I'm looking with David, the draft number... 4.1. 4.1, draft 4.1 dated today or yesterday. Uh, 611, 2020. Okay, draft 4.1. Further discussion? If not, all those unmute. I've got a couple of you muted. Unmute. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Okay. I hear no, no. So that is 6-0-1. Now I need a vote to approve as amended. So moved Madam Chair. Senator Sorotkin moves. Further discussion? If not, all those in favor... Could I just get the bill number again? S-256. Yep. 256. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Further discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say no. That carries 6-0-1. And thank you, committee. Enjoy the weekend. Read all the nice things you're going to get sent. Madam Chair, I was going to volunteer Senator Brock to report the amendment as he's reporting the underlying bill. Am I recording? That's right. We do need someone. Yep, you are. You're reporting a bit. Okay. So, yeah. David, will you email Senator Brock a clean copy of what we did and... I'll get the materials. Face got it. And you just mail it to Bloomer and... And Faith, I return this document to you. Yes. Chris, I've taken notes here as well. So, we'll double check each other. Now, that gets emailed to Bloomer as opposed to a physical, correct? Yes. You have to try to answer this clearly. Email it with the vote, which was 6-0-1. You're the reporter. That's all I've ever done. It's going to go up to appropriations. So, that should do it. Okay. Again, enjoy your weekend. Rest up. Thank you. Say congratulations to all your children who are graduating. That's good.