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VI UPDATE U.S. Virgin Islands Public Records TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS Committee on Budget, Appropriations and Finance Legislature USVI June 18, 2026 · 0.1 hours · gov Source recording https://youtu.be/MyTNeYfJ2DQ Status This is a working transcript produced by machine from a recording of a public proceeding. It is a finding aid, not an official record of the Legislature. Transcribed by VI Update, using OpenAI Whisper large-v3-turbo, run locally. Not reviewed by a person. Reliability Automatic transcription, UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording before relying on it. Speech recognition splits spoken digits and wraps figures mid-number, so a dollar amount, a vote count or a bill number can be wrong in a way that reads as correct. Speakers are not identified: automatic speaker labelling was measured unusable and removed. Public record The underlying proceeding is a public record of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands. 3 V.I.C. § 881(a) defines public records to include all records and documents of or belonging to this Territory or any branch of government, or any "department, board, council or committee of any branch of government" · which names legislative committees by category. § 881(b) gives every citizen the right to examine and copy such records, and the news media the right to publish them. (The open-meetings chapter, 1 V.I.C. § 254, does NOT reach the Legislature: § 253(b) expressly excludes it and its Standing and Special Committees. § 881 does, and it is § 881 that confers the right to copy and publish.) The Legislature broadcast this proceeding publicly itself. The source recording is not ours, is not hosted here, and remains with its publisher at the link above. Rights To what we added · the transcription, its arrangement and its description · we assert nothing. A verbatim transcript is mechanical rather than authored, so there is likely nothing in it to own; to the extent any copyright is nonetheless found to subsist, it is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Please copy it, quote it, index it, train on it, republish it, mirror it, sell it. Redistribution is the point: a public record with one copy is one fire from gone. No permission is needed, and none is ours to grant or withhold. Let's get started. Let's go. 0:00:00 We'll see you next time. Oh, oh, oh, oh. St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John We're ready, start! A one, a two, two, two, two, two You know the vibe Come on, come on From the morning when the sun come up over the sea I knew they're rising for you and for me Fifteen strong, they answer the call One legislature, standing for all Down in the chamber where the people have a city Hear the voices ringing brighter every day So let me hear you Put your hand to the sky For the ones who showing up Who never pass we by Welcome to religious ledger Fifteen sonatas in the mix Wave it Serving every island Doing it for we From the hills of Croy To the St. Thomas' 0:01:00 Welcome to religious ledger Working for the people, that's the fix So wave your rag and sing it, let the whole world see This is we government, this is we family Build up the schools, give the young them a chance Help for the elders, give the workers them advance Roads getting better, the business getting strong Culture in the music, keep we crucial Every district matter, every voice belong From the smallest little village we carry on So let me hear, put your hand to the sky For the territory rising, watch me reach for high Welcome to the legislature, hey! Fifteen senators in the mix, wave it Serving every island, doing it for we From the hills of Croy to the St. Thomas Sea Welcome to the legislature Working for the people off the thick side So wave your rag and sing it Let the whole world see This is we government, this is we family No turning back No turning back One up, one up, one up, one up, one up, one up No turning back One up, one up, one up, one up, one up, one up No turning back, one back 0:02:54 Machine transcript · UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording. Speakers are not identified. VI Update · usvipublicrecords.com · public record, no rights asserted (CC0 1.0) 1 of 1