 What we need to do is to use this half an hour to just have a conversation about the public hearings, what we've heard, what we've learned, hand in our paperwork to Theresa, etc. And then we do need to be on the floor. The DAA is on the floor today, so let's get down there. We'll quit at 10. So anybody who wants to go first? That way it's done, right? Diane and I were there on behalf of the House. This was at the Newspy at VSAC, and Senator Ash was there for Senate appropriations. We had 56 people who were just lovely. We held them to two minutes each, and everybody was just wonderful. The top, I just wanted to highlight the major topics. Afterschool programs, all care providers of every description that you could increase the pay, the personal care attendance in various programs. Parent child centers. They've got a lot of people talking about a three-year phased-in increase with the Master 8 grant amount. I've got it all written down here, but parent child centers. We learned a lot about high-tech nursing of age, and I think Diane and I are of a mind that we really need to talk about that. We're restoring the Micro-Business Program and the Savings Match Program for CBOEO. It's in the Governor's budget. Both are eliminated. A lot with regard to child care, scholarship support, broadening eligibility requirements. There was a lot for the PEG, the Public Access TV people, for a little bit for a study, and then more added to the base requested. Many people looking for support for Vermonters feeding Vermonters at an initiative of food bank. We heard about the Governor's Institute needing a small amount. Age well. There were several people talking about age well. There was a specific ask there. Farm to school, women's suffrage, 20,000. I was talking to Kimberly before. Working Lands Enterprise Fund. Those are the highlights. There was not a word surprising, I thought surprising, not one word in any way, shape, or form regarding affordable housing. And there was only one person who spoke in any way, shape, or form, really, with regard to climate-related stuff. And that was in terms of the transportation component that everyone has to ask. Yeah, I'm just looking through that one. Yeah, we've got nine pages each on the notes of this. And V-SAC, the V-SAC, both together, just wonderful. And Scott State kept coming. I mean, I thought you could listen and hear what was going on. All right, Marty. Okay, Chip and I and Jane Kitch over there. We have 33 people. Many of the same topics. People talking about the parent child center and the CIS bundled grade. Apparently there has been some change in that regard. There were concerns about that from two or three people. There were concerns about the Wellness Access Recovery Plan, the RAP program. It's at our local hospital, but I don't know much about it. I need to find out more about that. We had one person talking about the Public Access TV. Same thing, $100,000 for a study, $500,000 for more broad information. We had three or four people concerned about the Micro-Business Development Program. There were three or four business persons who had benefited from it and promoting that that should be continued. Budget for the CIS, that was it. Community Justice Centers, Restorative Justice. Request for an increase needed. We had a homeless person there advocating for more shelters, current shelters we have in the area, in our areas. I say he's been very helpful, but he needs more support. He needs to be more space. There was another person advocating for more space, more support for shelters, as well as permanent housing. The League of Women Voters was there to advocate for the Public Access TV. We had three or four people advocating for the Vermont Food Bank Initiative, the Vermonters Meeting, the Monters, $500,000. We had four of those folks. We had one person advocating for the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance wanting some money for their celebration activities. One of our, the leader of our after-school program for our school district was advocating for $2.5 million from the state. I think we heard that in previous years, but she toped the benefits of that program. Long-term care is a concern from our northern community's health care, that there needs to be more support for that. And there's not enough nursing homes anyway, so we need to make sure that there's money and choices for care. Support those folks. Somebody promoting farm to school and Vermonters Feeding Vermonters. One person advocating for fully funding DHCB at the $22.4 million. One person advocating for more money in SASH programs. We had some people come all the way from Craftsbury who were concerned that they have a community care center. They were concerned that they were not getting adequate funding. Even as much funding as nursing homes do, they wanted some more funding for that. It makes it very difficult to operate. We had a faculty member from NVU come and promote the extra $5 million per year for five years for the college system. We had our regional planner, support working lands program, micro business. We had our local women's group advocating for $500,000 for the Vermont network for domestic violence and also the adjustment CIS bundled rate. And we had our local mental health folks advocating for workforce development and mentioning that they were willing to work with DOC in terms of transitioning folks out of DOC. Any other? No, all the ones I thought you might not. You got them all. Oh, okay. It was pretty broad. Yeah. Dave? We had 50 people show up. It was a great turnout in Morseville. 37 people were on testify in all three minutes. Ours was filmed, streamed live, apparently. Yeah. Oh, maybe they were. They said they were going to. Yeah. Everything that's been said, I believe, occurred just quickly. Community action, the parent child center, home health agency, Lamoille County mental health. Our Crosbury community care home also appeared, state colleges appeared, several people. Fair amount of early childhood. A significant number of different people asking for food bank assistance, the 500,000. The battered women shelter. I may be admitting some that they were all, everything that occurred, I don't think we had anybody from restorative justice. I think somebody mentioned that. So we have multiple people, very impactful and two points and I'll stop. The president of the union, 150 member union, spoke up at the mental health and just gave a couple of cases whereby one person with severe and persistent mental illness has had five different case managers in five years. And as you might imagine in that brother trust is such a relationship. So they just can't keep people. Their wages are 8500 to $18,000 per position, less than what the state of Vermont pays for what they would characterize as comparable positions. They just, they're returning factory and it's just very hard. Home health, choices for care. They lost upwards of almost $200,000 on the program and they're not sure how much longer they can do it. So they're paid less than what their costs are and that coupled with the provider tax is just really raising havoc with that. It was very impactful and glad we did it. Yeah. Who was with you Richie? Rich was with me. Dan Noise was there and Auburn Pat showed up also. Linda. We had 26 people, which is good for up in St. Albans. There were three senators there with us, Randy Brock, Court of Parent and Bobby Starr and then I had one, two, three, four members of the legislature along with me. So, for the, of the House of Representatives. The biggest one was child care centers. That was probably the most. Had a couple of people talk about age well, what we were funding for age well. Two people spoke for public television. They put them on a food bank, wanted their $500,000. Public television wanted $100,000 for the study and $500,000 to make up for revenue losses. We heard about domestic violence, farm to school funding, which is the food bank. A lot of early childhood education issues. CVOEO's micro business development was getting no funding this year, so they were concerned about that. After school for all, they said that $600,000 was there in 2018. They need 2.5 million annual state investments for that. I had one person talk about funding for the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. They were like $20,000 to start memorializing the event. Farm to school, child care, CSI, CIS. What they said for the children integrated services is that right now they are getting $502 a month. They want to bring it up to $634,000, which would be $2.4 million statewide. We had one person talk about substance use prevention, didn't offer any issues, just went on and talked about that. Choices for care, they wanted that average continuing funding of $200,000. I was last night in Barrie with Mary, and then three other members were there, like the rest of you, we heard a lot from the parent child centers, Vermont after school, and one person had gone to a conference in Iceland and had some interesting input from that. We heard quite a bit from the area agencies on aging, in particular the meal gap for their meals and meals delivery. From the designated agencies asking for 3% of a Medicare funding increase. And the fact that in Washington County they have currently 70 plus vacancies, and that's always the struggle like we've already heard in terms of keeping their employees. We heard from the Vermont Worker Center about what might be happening with the ACO. We heard from Microbusiness and about the individual development accounts and their importance in the ecosystem of funding that we provide to businesses in our state. Choices for care, we heard from the Vermont Centennial Alliance, which is 30 plus groups that are working together to allow Americans right to vote, coming into this 100th year. We heard about mentoring and about childcare and as well as about the same farm issues in terms of Vermonters feeding Vermonters and how that's perceived as a win-win across the state. And I think one thing that I would add stuck with me, it was the very last speaker who came forth and talked about the idea that we have this social contract effectively between the nonprofit sector or others who deliver services and the government. And how are we honoring that? And what direction does it go? How does that change over time? And that, I thought, was a nice punctuation to the end of the event. He was basically asking or affirming that the system isn't working and we need to revisit, you know, that whole system and our expectations of them. And he was the last one up. We had 34 people. What was it you heard about the ACO? People felt that there was money that was going to what they stated was a for-profit entity and that was potentially called having an impact upon Medicaid. That's my best interpretation of what I heard from them. We had one that echoed that too. Don't take our Medicaid dollars was kind of consistent. There were three or four of them that said that. Bob, how much yours? We were up one day. It was very good. 42 spoke. What? And there's probably 55 or 60 there. I didn't do a hit count. Partly because at the very beginning there's still a few dribbling in, but as they speak they dribble out so it's hard to get an accurate count. Anyhow, yeah. Now I have to go on all morning with this because I've heard the same exact issues that have already been pretty much in the same numbers. I always thought that the statewide organization filtered down and sent them out to all these. That's what you got. So it was very good. Very good. Everybody was polite. We had eight representatives and senators there. Wow. They just flowed in for whatever reason. And out? But it was good. We're out of there about 7.30 and I've got no way to month here. He's hard. So I want to start off by saying that we were thanked for having more statewide outreach than we had here before had. I don't know how many spots there were, but I think it was like eight. That's my impression. And certainly we were in Dorset. Kitty and I were in Dorset. And it's not the Quaint Village Dorset. It's the Room 7 sign, Dorset. Dorset extends and it's called East Dorset. So that's where we were. There was approximately 20 folks there, 14 of whom spoke. We have Kathy James and Linda Joyce Sullivan were also there with us. I heard much of the same thing just really briefly. The Parent Child Center, they're looking for the $4 million increase to the master. $7.5 million. One time two folks talked about that. The Food Bank, $500,000. One time or ongoing, I'm unsure. That three folks spoke to that. Early childhood educators just need to continue to work on that piece. One person talked about that. Level funding for the Council on Aging. One person talked about that. Farm to School. One person talked about that. The House Bill 744, talking about public access television stations. There's $100,000 in there. I haven't looked it up, but we have three people that asked about that. Working Lands. We had one person that was so grateful for the help that she received some years ago from working land. She and her dad are off and flying. Their product is actually in Texas. A couple of the professional sports teams came to remember to do so I won't even try. Not the Cowboys. She's off and flying, but for a small brand there, she might not be. Someone else spoke to grid optimization and the electric vehicle piece that's in the Governor's budget. Absolutely concurred with doing that. And then the last person talked about body cameras, supporting body cameras and doing more drug treatment and education. So it was good. We gave everyone three minutes. And it was, like I said, overwhelmingly pleased that we were trying to reach out to more locations around the state. Marty, I didn't write down how many people were in here. 33. So it spoke? Yeah, I think that's right. There were probably a few more people that didn't speak to me. Maybe 40, but 33 spoke. I don't know if you mentioned the Scots were there. Scott Campbell and back. Oh, yes. Yes, Scott Campbell and Scott back both of them came in. Scott. I thought you meant the family. He had been there during the day at the Rotary. So we were also thanked and people were really grateful. And I think it was terrific. Also, the public TV made a point of being there. They were endorsing. Yeah. Well, that's so beautiful. I went home and watched this. So we had, I mean, it must have been, it was well over 200 people. 263. Is that true? I'm trying to. Yeah. So that's pretty impressive. That is very impressive. How do you sense people? I can't. We're doing a job well. You know, when we've had. Yeah. Yeah. So. And the people out there are doing their job well. Yeah. They're all came out on a kind of touring night. Yeah. I even connected with one of ours who is a local gelato maker. Well, I'm going to fly. Visit. I didn't know there was such a person around. Yeah. And they're all from off. Thank you. Oh, yeah. That's great. We just need it. Right. I don't know how many people here know. Remember her? Senator Patel. Jane Patel was there. Yeah. Her daughter spoke. And so she was there just. She didn't speak. She just watched. She was there. Yeah. Reading some projects with Bobby Starr and several. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Do these want to go to Teresa? Yeah. Please sign up sheets. And I think all of your testimonies. Boy, Teresa. He don't want our nose. I know. Yeah. There you go, Peters. Thank you. So thank you guys. Good work. How's that for time? Before we split, for those of you who don't know, we learned at ours with regard to the micro-businesses, switchbacks, the growth. That's how it started. That's all right. We learned that too. Yeah. Switchbacks started through that micro-business program. We've been in many ways asked to restore to the budget. And the woman who's doing the florist design now, who was almost going to leave Vermont and because of the micro-business, started a business, staying here, now purchased a home, increased her business, more employees. And I got the award from the administration as the best go-on. Any other concluding thoughts? So, we are on the floor. We should be there for an ounce, as well as the BAA. And then it looks like there's caucus, at 12.45, there's voluntary introduction. I think that means Kitty would like us to be here, but we're not required to be here at all. It's kids from various areas. What is it? It looks like it's a tobacco control program. And there's kids who wanted to talk with us. So, it's not formal testimony, but it's that order of one. And then at one, I guess we're going to get trained. So, thank you. The new trainer, Delia, and I want to just check him with everybody on your iPads, because we have a path for saving files from the share drive over to your files that's quicker. And if it's not working out, we want to know why and what your settings are so we can fix them. Because I think a lot of people are running into headaches with this, and we need to figure it out. It's a group adjustment. Group adjustment, yes. Look at that. All right.