 Thanks. Welcome everyone. COVID transition committee meeting. So I'll just say that we're hoping to finish everything today. We know that the president pro tem needs this letter. We know that appropriations in particular needs this letter. So we're hoping, you know, Senator Westman and I talked a little bit this morning. We are willing to beef up the first part of the letter to give it some focus, to give it some direction. Giving the introduction. The introduction. Thank you. Yeah, the introduction. But otherwise, we're hoping we can, we're hoping folks are comfortable. We also very much hope to have everyone's signature on this. But we also recognize this can't just keep going on as much as we, we enjoy it. Senator Nica. Don't have Ruth yet. Oh, okay. Yeah. I think it's pretty good, though, in general. Yes. It came from Luke, right? It did. It was the one that came from Luke. Thank you, Luke. Let me let me ask this question. Should we just eliminate Senator Rogers' name or how should we handle that? Because he really, you know, has not been part of, of this discussion really. I agree. Yeah. I think that probably makes the most sense. I don't want to do one more favor. Yeah. Someone might ask, at a courtesy, might give them a call and ask them what he prefer or how we might do it. Okay. Because, because it's not like he's disagreeing with the letter. It's not because. Right. It'll look great. He might not like parts of it or something. So, like, yeah, I think the fair thing to do is give him a call and say the word. Yeah, the right thing. We're thinking of doing that since he wasn't able to contribute. Yeah. Well, we can, we can do, we can do that. But, yeah, my suggestion, my question to him is, how would you like to handle it? And, you know, it would be to take his name off it, and instead of having it appear that he disagreed or something. Yes. That's right. That's right. That's right. I mean, the other thing would be if he just wanted to sign it, but I don't, I suspect he's going to probably just want to get off of it, especially with the time limitations that we have for him to review it. I'll call him this morning. You don't mind. Okay, great. Yep. Great. Now, we're doing him a favor by taking his name off. We're helping him out. That's the way I look at it. Yeah. Less press, you know, when they ask him why his... That's right. Good. Okay. All right. So, Ruth is here now. So, is there, Ruth, what we've gone through and just said is that we are hoping to finalize this today. We know that appropriations in particular needs this. Tim wants this. We're also talking about taking Senator Rogers' name off of it. Rich is going to give him a call today to just make sure that that's what he's comfortable with since he hasn't been able to attend the meetings. And, oh, and Rich and I are going to work together today before the letter is sent to work a little bit on the introduction together to firm that up. Rich reached out to Tim for a quote and hasn't heard back, so we might find that in there. So, with that, anybody else have any concerns at this point? Or are we okay to roll? Rich, am I missing anything? Did I say... Do you want to add anything? No. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for the stuff about the workers and everything. I like that much better. Great. Appreciate that. Well, as I would say in any of these type letters, when you have the number of people, it all is meant to be a compromise to move things ahead. Yeah. I think Senator Harding had a comment. Oh, I'm sorry. Ruth? Yeah, that's okay. Thank you. I'm fine with it. I think it's too long. I don't love everything in it, but I want this to be done. Great. Anybody else with any major concerns? Otherwise, we will plan on making adjustments to the introduction with Luke today, and then from there, we will, like we said, just put everyone's signature. We won't put your signature. We'll put your names on it. We'll send a copy to Tim and others and open copy all of you. Any other questions? Alice? Just wondering. I thought the whole thing sounded pretty good. What are you thinking of doing with the introduction, changing what we have, what you have there? No, we were just thinking we felt back to Tim's point around just outlining the genesis of this, why we're doing it, get a quote from Tim as to what pushed him in the direction to initiate this committee, that kind of thing. But not changing. I mean, is that an addition to what is there or a replacement of? In addition to. In addition to. Just a few lines. Very good. Yeah. Yeah, who appointed us and why did we go out and do this thing on our own? Yeah. Right. That's why we wanted Tim to get a couple of lines in there. Yeah. Yeah. Alice, we might mention your grandkids, maybe. I think we should mention Senator McDonald's cows. Because they've been to every meeting. They've been here more than Senator Rogers has. That's right. And no look. Well, I don't know about everyone else. I personally would love a little more time this morning to get a few other things done. So unless we hear, unless anyone else wants to say anything, I think we can safely adjourn. So I do just want to say many, many thanks to Luke for putting it together. Yes. Yeah, really. And somehow smoothing them out. Thank you. It's good work. Immensely grateful. And thanks to Brian and Red. Well, no, thank you to all of you. And Debbie, thank you for doing the health care stuff and everybody's contributions. We'll have a little, we could have a reunion in a year if people want to. Whether without the cows. What's that? With or without the cows. Absolutely with the cows. Yeah. I hope it can be in person. That's right. We'll do it in person. I think, I think Ruth just invited us to her house one year from today. They're all welcome. I was thinking of a steak. I was thinking of a steak dinner. They won't be old enough for steaks in a year. Okay. All right. All right. Thanks, everybody. Thanks a lot. Bye-bye.