 Good morning everyone. A couple of quick updates today before we get to your questions. First of all, some good news on the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail. This Saturday we'll open up another section of the trail from Wolcott to Hardwick, which will be another 6.4 miles reopened in total. Now we have a 79.5 miles of the 94 mile trail, which will now be open. And I want to thank the crews who are working hard to get it up and running. So we appreciate that. Next, I'd like to share what we've learned about those whose heating systems were damaged due to flooding. As we talked about previously, we've reached out to about 1,000 people who had initially reported damage. Among them, we've heard back now from about 590, and of those 590, 261 reported their systems aren't working, and they're going to need someone to help get them up and running, meaning they don't have anyone lined up at this point in time. We've referred all those in this category to Efficiency Vermont and the Fuel Dealers Association, and they're working on getting services scheduled. And to better understand other obstacles these Vermonters may be facing that are complicating things. As of the beginning of the week, they've been able to connect with 95 of these households. 27 of them now have heat. Another 42 are scheduled or are working with a contractor as we speak. The others, as I mentioned before, have more complicated issues that our teams are trying to help them with. And for those they haven't reached, they'll continue to make those calls, and at some point we'll just go door to door when we get the numbers down a little bit further. I want to continue to ask all of you members of the media to spread the word if you don't have heat, anyone out there who doesn't have heat and haven't heard from us or received the survey, please call 802-828-3333, and that's the Governor's office. Now on a somewhat related note, next week is the annual Wheels for Warmth event, which will be in its 18th year helping Vermonters in a number of ways. We started Wheels back in 2005 with three goals, to collect perfectly good tires no longer in use and make them available to those in need for pennies on a dollar. To raise money, the second point was to raise money for those in need to help heat their homes, and third, to clean up our state by recycling old tires that can no longer be used. Vermonters can donate their good use tires or pay to dispose of tires no longer safe to be on the road. Next Thursday and Friday from 2 o'clock to 6 o'clock at the following locations, the Vermont Granite Museum and Berry, Kasella Waste Systems in Williston, Kasella Construction in Menden and the Stowe Events Field from 1 to 5. And then on Saturday, October 28th, tires will be on sale from 8 a.m. to noon at the Granite Museum and Berry and Kasella Construction in Menden. As a reminder, this is a true non-profit. A hundred percent of the money raised will be split between the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, or CVOEO, Brock out of Rutland, and Capstone here in the center of Vermont to help fill the gaps in heating assistance for families. And I want to thank all those who donated the tires, the many sponsors of the event, and most importantly, all the volunteers who worked so hard year after year to make this happen. As a reminder, since we launched this program, we've raised over $670,000, recycled over 50,000 tires, and resold over 25,000 tires. Over the years, we've had support from hundreds of volunteers totaling thousands of volunteer hours. Again, it wouldn't be possible without them, but it also wouldn't be possible without tires. So take a look in your garage, your basement, or your shed, and ask yourself if you're really going to use or sell the tires that no longer fit the vehicle you're presently driving, and consider donating them to a wonderful cause. It's a great way for folks to help out their neighbors, get back to their community, and keep Vermont a little bit cleaner and warmer. So I look forward to seeing many of you at next week's events. And with that, I'll turn it over to General Roy. Thank you, sir. Good morning all. Just some quick updates for today. As of today, we've actually hit the $22 million mark for individual assistance. And we've had 6165 people apply for assistance. As we mentioned last week, we did extend the individual assistance registration period to the end of this month, the 31st of October. And we continue to see day after day other people signing up for assistance, as well as visiting the Disaster Recovery Centers. And we still have two open. Last Saturday, we closed the Waterbury Center permanently. And this coming Saturday, we'll close the one in Ludlow. And we'll maintain the one in Berry through the end of the assistance period. And again, the deadline to apply is October 31st. Don't wait. We've had a long open period, but we are still seeing people apply. So the word is still getting out. So thank you for your assistance in that. To apply for assistance, visit disasterassistance.gov or 1-800-621-3362. With regard to direct housing, FEMA determines if applicants are eligible for the direct housing based upon how much damage they have to their home or apartment. FEMA contacts those who are eligible so they don't need to opt in. As we mentioned before, we will contact them. As of now, there are 253 households that have met the criteria for direct housing assistance. And as of now, we're working between 30 and 40 who have expressed interest. Again, between 30 and 40 have expressed interest in it. The remainder have found other resources who are uninterested. They can contact us and go back into the queue for assistance should their circumstances change. We have assessed 321 separate sites for possible direct housing placements. And we maintain contact with those who are eligible for direct housing to check in to make sure that they continue to have a good path forward. Some quick numbers. As of this morning, we still have 333 FEMA personnel here in Vermont. 6165 residents have applied for individual assistance. As mentioned, we have approved over 22 million and actually disperse $21.9 million in assistance. The FEMA staff have completed 9,867 calls to the applicants and that has resulted in an additional $6.38 million dispersed. Our partners at the U.S. Small Business Administration have approved over $23.9 million for 501 separate loans to homeowners, renters and businesses. For public assistance, we have 210 applicants and 713 projects with an estimated $142 million in damages and that's still continuing to grow as we meet with each of the applicants. And that's what we have to offer today. So if you have any questions, sir? Thank you, General Roy. With that, we'll open up to questions. Governor, you mentioned, I think there are like 160 people who have not been contacted with the heating systems. They need help if they haven't been contacted. Have you reached the point where you need out-of-state contracting help to bring people down? Not at this point that we know of. And again, those folks that we haven't contacted, that haven't been able to reach may have rectified their problem. We just don't know at this point in time. So we were able to glean their names from the initial response right after the flooding and so forth. So they may be all set. We just don't know that yet. So everything looks like we're okay. But if we get an influx of people and we can't take care of it, obviously we'll be reaching out to others for help. But right now it seems as though we have the workforce to accomplish this. But we don't know what we don't know. We just need to hear from people. This may be a better question for Peter Walker. I know he's not here from the Mission Super Bowl. Do you have any idea with the whole review program that you guys kind of partnered with how many people have participated in the matter? Yeah, it's a great question. But I don't have the answer to that. But we can either reach out to Peter or maybe do so directly. But it'd be interesting for us to have that information. And we may have it somewhere. I just don't. I don't know. You said I think 6,600 people have? 6,165. Yes, sir. Of that group, how many have actually gotten some of them? Or does that include all of the people who have? Those are the actual applicants. Pardon me why I put my reading glasses on, sir. So the actual valid registrations. So 6165 is the total people that have applied. And we have 131 of those who have applied, but are from non-declared counties like Addison County, for instance. And we have, I think, referred over 4,588 people, I think, for assistance of one sort or the other. Either individual households in program or direct housing assistance. Are we able to come up with a number that says sort of on average applicants have received? 6,879 dollars, sir. 6,839. Does that sound like a lot? Well, we have 55 people who've received the total $41,000. But you have some people who may have only needed a clean and assist program. So it really depends on, you know, their status. And to reiterate, you know, over 9,000 phone calls from our team here resulted in another 6.8 million dollars. So, you know, that's why we continue to say, you know, if you have expenses, please contact us and see if we can assist you with updated your status in providing a difficult additional funding. Thank you, sir. To Bob's question there, and maybe this is, I don't know, Secretary Samu, Samu since our phone, the President answered, are we seeing enough to get people reaching out to social service organizations for food, health, war, or parental assistance? I imagine that we could go up to .6800, isn't a lot. And for some of these people, we're building problems, a big challenge. I mean, are you seeing enough to get them? Is an uptick in regards to those who have been displaced through the flood? I'm not sure about that, but Secretary Samuelson, is she on? Did you hear the question, Secretary Samuelson? Yes, I appreciate the question. We are working to tease out whether any upticks that we're seeing right now are the typical and traditional seasonal upticks that we see in some of our economic services programs and how much of the impact is on the flood at this point, I can't tease out those two parts to answer it specifically, but we can get back to you. A letter you signed with a number of other governors calling on Congress to act in terms of aid to Israel has said that each state increased security in Jewish communities and at Jewish houses of worship. I don't know if you can elaborate on that in terms of what you've done over the past month. Yeah, I know our Vic Forman Information Center has been actively involved in that. We've reached out to the rabbis and some of the organizations directly from what state police has and other areas of opportunity where we want to make sure that we're remaining vigilant and making sure that Varmada is just safe. So I can have somebody, I don't know if anybody from public safety is on at this point in time. Commissioner Morrison, is that something you can elaborate on? I think you covered it pretty well. The Ramon Intelligence Center has been sharing communication out into the field, and as you said, Governor DSP has made outreach through our federal and partial policing team as well as local station commanders with the sum of the houses of worship that might be impacted by world events and we have encouraged local police and shaft departments in those communications to do the same in their communities. Obviously, everyone is feeling a heightened sense of concern for security in these places and although not relevant to the situation today, we have seen a couple of increase come up for one of our Homeland Security grant programs that's specific to security needs at houses of worship. So we do have resources that places can be connected to to apply for the next available round of funding to their security measures. Have there been any specific events or incidents of antisemitism in recent months or years? Not that I'm aware of. Governor, I have a question about the farm bill and some of the programs that are associated and as you know, we have the emergency FEMA aid, that was approved by Congress, but there's still a few big spending bills that are still outstanding. Are you aware of any programs that are in jeopardy or programs that we're not getting money for right now that as a result of Congress not having a speaker? I'm not aware of any, but maybe Secretary Tevitz can answer that. Thank you for the question. Just a little background. Of course, the farm bill is critical. It's up for reauthorization this year. There is a deadline that is approaching. A lot of the talk out of Washington is trying to get an extension of that if they can come together in Congress on that. So it's going to wait and see. Right now nothing has changed, but if they do give an extension of the farm bill, that will give us a little more breathing room before they get a final bill, which historically has never passed on time anyway. And sometimes it takes up to a year for them to come up with a final bill. The farm bill is a five-year blueprint that establishes many programs, whether it's hunger programs, whether it's the commodity programs in USDA, just a tremendous amount of work and resources come from that farm bill. So we're just patiently waiting and hoping, but the extension is the first thing and then after they get the extension, then maybe a full farm bill coming next year. I know you're not on the ground with DC, of course, but what do you think of what you've seen by out over the last week, two weeks with the speakers? Well, it's concerning on a number of different levels and disappointing and embarrassing in some respects. It seems as though it gives our adversaries, I think, a room to plan. I mean, when you have so much dysfunction in one area, we can't even agree on a speaker, a leader of one body over a two-week period. It shows that you don't have your act together. It shows weakness, I think. So I'm concerned about that, but as well the practical aspects, I mean, there's a lot of work to do. We need some help in Congress with a number of different initiatives and we need them to come together and figure this out. I've said before, I think I said it in one of these press briefings, if I were the moderate and centrist on both sides of the aisle, I'd figure this out and gain control because that's what we should be controlling Congress at this point in time, those in the middle, those on both sides of the aisle who can work together and get some things accomplished. Are you saying that you think there's an opportunity for moderate Republicans to work with Democrats because right now the Republican caucuses slightly ruled that out? They don't want to have anything to do with the Democrats? Well, I'm sure that the leadership of both parties would say the same thing, but I would say if you were able to, I think the bulk of Congress in some respects, I mean, there is a stronghold, I believe, of moderates and centrist in Congress who are actually there for the right reasons and want to get things done and make things better for Americans and for their states. And I do believe that there's enough of them. If five members of the Republican caucus can shut down the Congress in some respects, it seems to me that there's more in the middle that can do the same and actually get it back going. So I don't know if they're going to do it, but from my perspective, that's what I'd be working on. But maybe they are, I don't know. What does this tell you about the state of the Republican Party? I think it's not just the Republican Party because you have the other side as well. I mean, there's nobody coming across saying, you know, I'll vote for that speaker just to get things going. So it takes two, you know, bipartisanship. I've said this before. Everyone wants bipartisanship and they talk about that or it seems like a lot of people do, but it's a one-way street for many. It takes two to be bipartisan. So everyone's got to reach out. Everyone's got to come together in order to accomplish that. To me, it's about the polarization of our country and politics in general. And I'm not, it's not associated with one single figure. It's just the way we've evolved and the way we receive information. I believe that whether it's the media I'm not blaming any of you, but any time you want to confirm your beliefs or what you're thinking, you just have to change the channel and you'll get it, right? So everyone keeps doing that and then we get isolated so we don't broaden our perspectives, listen to one another, and we get more polarized. It seems like both our country and the world is getting more polarized and we've got to figure this out and bring ourselves together because we as a country are much stronger for Americans first and we're much stronger when we're working together. Governor, we reported this morning that a Weinberger for Governor's website is under construction. Any thoughts on facing Burlington's mayor in the next election and are you planning to run? Well, I haven't made a decision on whether I'm going to run or not, but I'm sure there are a number of people who would like to aspire to be governor and I think it's good to have choices. This morning, Global Foundries, or it was at least released this morning, Global Foundries was worth $35 million to continue their chips for aerospace. I guess just in your opinion, if it is, how important is Global Foundries to the state of Vermont, whether it's workforce or national landscape of creating such important technology? It's really essential for us. They're a major employer for us, maybe not to the degree that IBM was at one time, but still a major employer. And this puts us on the forefront. Again, we need a diversified economy and they're a major part of that diversified economy and a lot of it enhances our trade with Canada. A lot of chips go to Canada and it's all good for us, so I'm very pleased with that. Back on the election question, understanding that you haven't made up your mind, in the event that you did run, do you give any consideration of not running as a Republican and running as a independent given the sort of state of politics and his country? I think I've made my mark in politics in terms of always being someone who's willing to listen, reach across the aisle. I'd like to see that in return. But I've been a Republican since I started in politics. I don't believe at this point in time that there's any sense in me changing parties or doing something different. But I do believe that we need more centrist and moderates involved in politics on both sides of the aisle and it's going to take people having the courage to do that and to call out even their own party when that happens. But it's not just Republicans, as I've said. I see the same thing on the Democratic side with the progressives and so forth and the far left versus the far right. So we all have to figure out how to make this work better. As you weigh the considerations of whether or not you're going to run, how much of a factor it is what the Democratic majority at the state house is moving towards in their agenda and how you feel that it's really not an affordable agenda that you feel that you have a need to have a responsibility to run again in order to try to keep things in check. That weighs on me heavily, heavily. In what way? Well, I think that I do have a responsibility. You know, I take that responsibility seriously and I do think the legislature is moving in the wrong direction at times, spending much more than we're taking in and I think it's leading us to a more unaffordable Vermont and I feel some responsibility there but I'd also like to drive again. So I'd like to have my life back. So you have to weigh those two things out. We'll go to the phones and the view on there and let me come back to the room. We'll start with Lola Von Digger. Hi, can everyone hear me? We can. Awesome, thank you. Yeah, I wanted to go back to the subject of the Israel and Hamas war, Governor E.U. and other governors sent a letter to congressional leaders on October 16th calling for the quick passage of a Christian state to Israel, the letter condemned Hamas's both despicable acts of war and terror, but made no mention of Israel's violence against Palestinians and I'm just wondering, do you condemn that violence as well? You know, I see this as a situation where we have a terrorist organization that is overseeing Palestine but they're a terrorist organization and so our fight, their fight, Israel's fight is with Hamas, a terrorist organization. So there are, I mean, I'm very concerned about the innocent victims, Palestinians as well as Israelis and the Jews in Israel and across the country for that matter. But in this case, Israel's our friend, our ally and they're faced against a terrorist organization so we need to support them wholeheartedly and make sure that we're there for them as they would be for us. Yeah, part of your, I think what you're well known for is being willing to criticize your party, right? Criticize your friends. And I mean, do you think that Israel has acted correctly here in, I mean, blockading a territory of 2 million people, half of which are children and blocking food and fuel to that population? Israeli air strike just, you know, it's a school in a refugee camp. I'm just looking at routers here. You know, are none of these actions worth some condemnation? I think the horrific acts we saw with Hamas coming in and taking the lives of innocent women, beheading of babies, killing elderly people in a barbaric way was enough coming and invading Israel in that way is enough for us at this point in time. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Now, President Biden is there now to address the humanitarian portion in Palestine and I'll leave that to him and others to try and work their way through that. But we do have a humanitarian responsibility as well, I believe. And I think he's there at this point in time to try and address that. But that doesn't mean that we don't support our ally and we don't support the eradication of this terrorist organization. So would you support USA, U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestine? Yeah, I think that that's going to have to be part of this. We have to make sure that there's a pathway and I believe that's what President Biden is there for at this point in time to make sure that there's an exit strategy for Palestinians. I mean, you know, on the subject of that exit strategy, the U.S. evacuation orders that Israel gave, you know, this kind of unprecedented evacuation order that they gave has been widely condemned by, you know, the human rights community, right? Human Rights Watch, the U.N. has called it quite literally impossible. Do you think Israel aired there? Well, again, I think that's what President Biden is doing there now, trying to bridge the gaps, pull people together and make sure that there's an exit strategy so that we can protect innocent lives and we don't lose more. But I don't think that Hamas had given much warning to their attack on Israel either. Those are my questions. Thank you. Thank you. Tim McQuiston from our business magazine. This has been really entertaining political discussion. I have a more prosaic question. Thankfully, yes. As I understand it, maybe it's changed, but is the FEMA AIDS still at 18 months? The 18 months, I'll let General Roy answer this correctly, but I'll take a stab at it. The 18 months started at the day of the event and goes from there. So we're already a few months into the 18 months at this point in time. General Roy. I was wondering, General Roy, that the state would have to request an extension to, say, 24 months. Is that the way to work? Yes, sir. If the state deems that the individuals that were assisting in the direct housing program have no path forward at the 18 month mark or prior to it, the state can request that we extend the program to a later period of time, up to 24 months. And the... I'm sorry. And the 18 months started at the data declaration, which was the 14th of July. So I'm wondering, Governor, why wait to ask for an extension since the rollout of the direct housing program, especially the trailer who's been taking time, is going to take a bit more time and that 18 months will expire in the middle of next winter. Not just going into the next winter. Why not ask the extension now just to have that program in place? I think we'd have to substantiate the reasoning behind the extension. So at this point in time, I don't even know for sure how many will be in that housing program to even start with, much less how they'll be, you know, come spring getting through the winter. They may have other opportunities. They may be back in their own homes. They may have other options. So I think we have to substantiate it. So I couldn't, in good conscience, ask for an extension without sure that we are going to need it. Now, if we need it, we'll ask for it. Okay. All right. Thank you, Governor. I'm just wondering what the situation is. Tom Davis. Come to us for a moment. Thank you, Jason. Governor, some latest surveys and there are plenty of conflict with this as well, but there are a lot of them that say that less than 50% of the American public is to get their COVID booster this year given that they feel the risks are not as great as they were during the pandemic. I know that the health department has switched over to a non-emergency reporting system. I was wondering if Dr. Levine as holidays approaching will be joining you for any press conferences to sort of unpack what the future looks like in terms of Vermont giving it success with the vaccination program during the pandemic? Yeah, we haven't talked specifically about that, but I saw Dr. Levine the other day and I'm sure he'd be willing to come back in and talk about that as we enter flu season and COVID season. So, yeah, I think he'd be... We'll put that on the idea list because I think it would be good to have him come in at some point to talk about that. But it is, you know, I will say, Tom, this has... You talk about the lack of interest in some respects of being vaccinated for COVID. As you know, I had mine, but this is now becoming more like the flu and with the flu vaccinations, we don't see the numbers we saw with... or the interest that we saw with COVID vaccinations either. So I think in some respects it's just getting more of a common, I guess, in some respects has more in common with the flu than it did before. I also made us curious to take a look at... If you go through our health site for the state, the number of places where you can go and get a vaccination while still pretty abundant compared to during the pandemic is just not in everybody's mind all the time. I'd be curious to hear where the Health Department thinks of that. Yeah. Yeah, we'll help Dr. Levine in at some point here to talk about that. Much appreciated and no other questions. Keith, Ruffin, Harold. Hi. Maybe 20 minutes, half an hour ago, the Rutland City Mayor made a post to his Facebook page talking about the increase in crime in the city, specifically around repeat offenders. He called them people who get sort of arrested for something and then let out not long after and then they re-engage in the same behavior. They got arrested the first time. He's talking about having some kind of form I think in early November. I'm just curious, you've got a Democratic mayor in a city saying, you know, we got a real problem about putting people in jail or having any services after that. I'm just kind of wondering if you've talked to the leadership in Rutland about this. I don't think this is unique to Rutland, but just not I don't know what do you think about this until you've heard anything on this or... Yeah. You know, I don't know what party affiliation he is in Rutland. I don't know if that's a party-affiliated election but anyhow. But I have spoken to the mayor about this issue. We had a conversation a couple of weeks ago about a number of different issues affecting Rutland. He came up here and I'm supportive of some of what he has been talking about and this is one of the areas where I agree we need to make sure that people are held accountable that we can't just keep letting people go and repeat offenders. There has to be some repercussion. So we'll be having more conversations as we get into the legislative season to talk with legislators about that, just that. But it's helpful to have him in his new role as mayor to talk about it as well. Thank you. Do we have an idea of why that practice is happening? I mean, I have noticed it does seem the courts are less inclined to hold people for any length of time whereas years ago that wasn't the case so much. I don't know. I think it's a legislative initiative. You know, it's happened over time as well. It's not just the courts. It's the legislature. So we just need to come to some conclusion here and I do believe that people need to be held accountable. Enforcement has to be part of the solution and everything that we do. And I think we've lost sight of that. Thank you. Chris Roy, Newport Daily Express. Yes, good afternoon, Governor. We've had a couple of serious crimes up here in the Northeast Kingdom the last several days. A couple of homicides, one in Newport Tower and one in Wheelock. Excuse me, not homicides, especially if they stay corrected. Could you comment on that? Any thoughts about that? Well, again, obviously concerning. We're not sure if they're connected or not. I'll have the commissioner talk about this a little bit as well. But we want to make sure that people, if they've seen something, say something. I think that's important. The one I believe in Newport is, we believe that it's drug related. And I'm not sure about the one in Wheelock. So Commissioner Morrison, is that something you can comment on or give us an update on? Well, sir, I can say that there's no indication that they're related. In fact, we're quite confident they are not related. And I would direct folks to the frequent updates and communications that our Public Information Officer puts out and any specific questions about either of those cases should go to VSP. I don't want to get ahead of them on release of any information. But as well, I think we're asking people if they've seen something. And particularly along Route 16, I believe in the Wheelock area, if they have any information they should present that to the Vic, I think. Is that what we're asking? That's correct. We have received numerous pieces of information and we put up a request asking for folks to tell us if they have trail cameras or home security systems that might shed any images or give us any information about that stretch of roadway we put in on Route 16 in Wheelock. Thank you. Thank you. Back to the room. Governor, last week you talked a lot about resiliency. Read those two weeks ago, I'm sure. But do you have any... We've talked about these big long-term sort of rebuilding upriver and letting more water flow. Do you have any specific ideas for next legislative session? Lawmakers are already working on a bill to put some money aside. How are you thinking about this session? Again, I think some of the big projects we're thinking about would take congressional action and support. So another reason we need a speaker in the house. But we have obviously some ideas in terms of... It's not just ideas. We've been doing them for the last number of years when we rebuild. We have a lot of money in terms of transportation. So we'll be incorporating all mitigation efforts into all the money that we're receiving as a result of many initiatives along the way. So there's a lot of money available that is coming to Vermont. And we're going to use that and make sure that we're hardening ourselves, mitigating future flooding as a result. So it's in every project that we do. Anything you want to add to that? Secretary Flynn. Thank you, Governor. I would just reiterate that resiliency is not a new topic. As the Governor said, we've been working on this, frankly, even before Irene, but I can tell you I was in Irene as were many. And since Irene, we've increased those efforts. I think you heard Secretary Moore say that last week. An example I'll give you is if you go to Vermont Route 131 and we'd even arrange a media tour, if you'd like, the damage sites that you'll see between Downers Corners and Cavendish are sites that were not damaged and not built back better after Irene. The sites that were built back better after Irene withstood. So that's just one example. If you go further up the road toward Cavendish, you come to the intersection of Whitesville Road. That bridge was damaged in Irene. That bridge was not damaged. I've been at both of those sites as I've been at most of the sites since the July and August storms. So along with what you heard previously about the Waterbury State Office complex and numerous other areas, we have built back better. We have had an eye on resiliency. Every storm is different. Every place is different. So we can't say that we're going to get every place before the next storm. But the idea that resiliency is just a current conversation, I don't think gives credit to the effort that's been ongoing. Thank you, Secretary Flynn. Governor, October is LGTQ Plus History Month. Your mom's obviously made history multiple facets, whether it's in a conversation with Becca Ballant to DC. And you've always talked about wanting to be an inclusive state. And I mean, this legislation passed this past session. It's been a part of that. But I guess just, do you have any other things like the state to do or communities to do just to kind of see it back going in this historical month? Yeah. I mean, this is an opportunity for us to showcase our openness, our willingness to be more tolerant of everyone. And I think it's a way for us to welcome more people in the state which we desperately need. So anything, any ideas out there that people have, I would encourage them to come forth and celebrate the month.