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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 · 0.0 hours · gov Source recording https://youtu.be/SmfHkjkkqXQ 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. our ends and tree correctional technicians under 29 others are administrative positions 29 administrative position yes in different areas break them so we have we have an administrative assistant one second senator okay if let me get it to me how many administrative positions do you presently have in terms of vacancies or just overall oh yeah right now not to include a vacancy how many we have one two three oh they are confusing me you say no no you asked me how many administrative positions we have so I'm giving like administrative assistant officer and specialist so in St. Croix we have one we have okay let me tell you how many what are the other 29 position you said administrative so that's what I have to give you what so you're saying that you presently have tree administrative position you want to add 29 no no no no no okay you asked me to break down the the vacant positions so I was giving you how much I have in each category to make up the 69 what okay so you didn't the correctional officers the nurses the maintenance and then after that you said I have 29 other position I said what are the 29 other position you said administrative so that's the ones I was giving you now okay other 29 what they include so now I'll go back to the question presently how many administrative positions do you have okay so let me give that to you it can be three okay you can't be on 29 so I was giving you in terms of administrative 0:00:00 specifically administrative assistants specialists and coordinators that's administrative overall so I will have to get get back to you with that so let me calculate that while you ask those 69 positions a hundred percent funded 50 or 75 percent you have you have 15 50 I'm 15 that are 50 percent you have 2.75 and the others are full a hundred percent okay so you have 15 that's 50 percent funding yes sir so what 75 percent that's 17 and then the next 52 is a hundred percent funding yes sir okay do you actually believe that you're gonna hire those 52 individuals by October 1st that you would require 100 percent of funding no we won't okay so that's an area that we need to adjust so when we're doing the budget markup we will ask you for your realistic numbers in terms of your expectations to be able to onboard these individuals and they will fund accordingly so that 0:01:48 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