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VI UPDATE U.S. Virgin Islands Public Records TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS Legislative Session Legislature USVI June 4, 2025 · 0.8 hours · gov Source recording https://youtu.be/KyzdZM1q8ts 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. Thank you. so Thank you. [2 such phrases repeated 8 times · standby audio before the proceeding, transcribed by the recogniser as speech] 0:00:00 Thank you. Thank you. 0:05:00 Thank you. Thank you. We'll be right back. 0:06:00 Thank you. We'll be right back. [2 such phrases repeated 9 times · standby audio before the proceeding, transcribed by the recogniser as speech] 0:07:30 Thank you. We'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you. 0:12:30 We'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you. 0:14:30 We'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you. 0:16:00 We'll be right back. Thank you. Thank you. so so so 0:17:30 so Thank you. 0:20:30 Thank you. Oh Thank you. [2 such phrases repeated 12 times · standby audio before the proceeding, transcribed by the recogniser as speech] 0:21:30 Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 0:28:00 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 0:30:30 Thank you. Thank you. 0:32:00 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 2 Legislature USVI · Legislative Session Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 0:33:00 Thank you. Thank you. 0:35:00 Thank you. so Thank you. so so 0:36:00 I love you. Here we go. 0:38:30 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 0:39:30 Thank you. We'll be right back. [2 such phrases repeated 10 times · standby audio before the proceeding, transcribed by the recogniser as speech] 0:42:30 We'll be right back. 0:47:30 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) 2 of 2