Solid waste seasoned transport system, 21. 2 million for passinging lanes on highway 59 between douglas and gillett and casper and shoshone. Funding for the High AltitudeSports Performance training center, Unconventional Oil and gas reservoirs research, entrepreneurship initiative, Science Initiative, Literacy Program and athletic competitiveness. All at u. W. And subject to private matching funds. Heres the deal. We have one fouryear land grant university. In those areas that are important to wyoming, such as ag, science, engineering, we do not need to accept playing second fiddle to anyone. Private citizens are recognizing this. Private citizens have ever of wyoming of wyoming have been giving many millions of dollars out of their own pockets to u. W. And as with engineering, the Science Initiative has the ability to be transformational. Making u. W. A leader, making wyoming a leader. We want important academic programs at u. W. To be top tier. And the same is true with athletics. I care about us competing. I care about us winning. It not only brings pride to our state, for example, the u. W. Basketball is in the top 25, as you may know. And this helps recruit students, increases alumni dollars and builds the university. The funding im asking for u. W. Will serve notice loud and clear that brown and gold is not fading. It will be brighter. We will be leaders in business education, science, athletics and many other areas. Some of my funding requests may reoccur, but they would have to be asked for and approved again. For example, a new Initiative Im introducing today is called wyoming grown. Heres the situation. For decades, wyoming has had challenges keeping our kids in wyoming after they graduate. Research shows that of all 18yearolds working in wyoming, on any given year, only an estimated 40 are still working in wyoming 10 years later. Were losing 60 of our greatest talent. Wyoming grown will seek to recruit wyoming computer programmers, doctors, welders, engineers and others who have left the state but can continue to build their careers and raise their families here. Work force services will use this network of employment specialists to connect job seekers with job opportunities. As part of the initiative, the Tourism Office is developing a web page to highlight the wonderful qualities of our that our communities have to offer. The initiative is not costly. Ive asked for 10,000. But it is critical for continuinging to strengthen our work force. Businesses recruiting people businesses recruiting people to wyoming know that if a wyoming kid will come back, its a great fit because they are coming home. Lets open the door to get our kids home. Another initiative is for job training and placement. We see what the private sector can do to help people become selfreliant. We have with us today ray fleming. She has a u. W. Business degree and a doctorate in psychology from u. M. C. In 1986 she saw single mothers needed help reaching independence. She founded climb wyoming, a Nonprofit Organization which provides single mothers the resources needed to succeed on their own. The Program Benefits mothers children, communities and the state. It started in cheyenne and branched out to other communities. Ray remains executive director. More than 1,600 mothers with nearly 2,600 children have been served by climb wyoming. My request for job training and placement is 1 million and is subject to private matching funding. Its intended to allow innovative programs like climb wyoming to reach more people. Ray has been remarkable, all that you have done. Please stand so we can recognize her effort. [applause] while the supplemental budget gets us started, there are other items in my budget that keep building wyoming. These items are a list of forwardlooking initiatives. Here we have to recognize some hard facts. With oil dropsing, the revenue estimates will be going down. And it should be a concern for all of us. But the fact is, its not something new to wyoming. Weve experienced this in the past. Some of you have experienced this in the past while in the legislature. But we are in a better position now than weve been in the past. We have positioned ourselves. And with less government, more efficient government, we will work through this. We will be able to continue to build wyoming. The fact is, in wyoming we have never spent revenue we dont have at hand. Were not like d. C. And we never will be. We recognize the drop in oil prices. For each 5 drop, the state loses about 35 million in revenue a year. But we know safely we have 220 to 240 million for the next fiscal year. This counts for versions in sipa which i already mentioned. And investment earnings as of december 10, 2014, which will be realized on june 30, 2015. This does not come out of savings. It fully funds my supplemental budget as ive said and it leaves money left over for the list. Ill single out a few. As i said in my budget message we need to fund the gillett madison. And the capital renovation projects. I dont view either of those projects as optional. In addition, we need to look at Industrial Parks like the heartland project in canada, which allow companies to cluster, benefit from each other, develop technologies and produce Innovative Products from our natural resources. That are vital to our economy, especially to Energy Manufacturing and tech businesses. Theyll benefit from the synergy such parks will provide. These parks need infrastructure to get off the ground. The startup cost for a reserve account would be small, a small down payment for big future gains. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Wildlife Trust. Fully funding the Wildlife Trust would be a onetime expense or rather a transfer to different savings accounts. Once fully funded the trust will carry itself and not be any future budget. Full funding would show that in wyoming, we do not just talk about balancing conservation and development, we actually do it. With us today is the bowsman family. Theyve been ranching for over a century. The ranch has several thousand acres of private land and also uses federal grazing allotments. Brad bowsman was the first to sign a canada Conservation Agreement with assurances for sage grouse and the first asked about a similar agreement used for federal lands. We congratulate him for these firsts. Brad and his family represent the commitment of private landowners to take voluntary actions. Brad, we thank you for your commitment to conservation and please stand. [applause] like the conservation efforts of private landowners, the Wildlife Trust is a powerful force. It benefits ag, tourism, energy, wildlife and recreation. It preserves our rich heritage. We can secure the trust in perpetuityy by fully funding the corpus. In addition to addressing items on the list, we must also address our states fiscal policy. Wyoming has billions of dollars in various savings accounts. The Rainy Day Fund alone during my time in office, which is a liquid account, is almost has almost doubled. It has 2 billion in it. And the permanent minnow trust fund has gloun by 55 in my time in office. Last year 1 billion flowed into liquid and permanent savings accounts. The estimates as we now know do not tell the whole story. And it does not provide a fiscal policy. There are questions to be asked and there are questions to be answered. For example, how much should we have in savings . What is the purpose of the rainy day account . Can we count earned Investment Income for planning purposes . In answering these questions, we need to recognize the stock markets can go up and down. But infrastructure has inherent value. We need a sensible fiscal policy Going Forward so we can continue to save and also continue to invest in the future. We need transparency, we need predictability, we need clarity. Only then, in good times and in lean, can we provide the best future for wyoming. These discussions have already begun with leadership. Theyve got some great ideas. We must continue this conversation with the entire legislature. As we go about our work, we continue never way to be inspired by people around us and i want to recognize a few of them today. Wyomings 11,000 family farms and ranches give our state its special look and its special feel. Open spaces, beautiful views historic buildings, growing crops, grazing livestock, we have these things and more thanks to wyoming ag. The working hands on our ag lands make these operations tick and keep rodeo our state sport. Russell pinky walter started in rodeo as a bull rider and served as a backup man for bare back riders. Today he managed a ranch north of fort laramie. He still steer ropes. He spent his entire life on horseback. The people he met on the rodeo circuit and while ranching got walter think being a wyoming cowboy hall of fame. He and others interested in the idea carried it through. A hall of fame board, and pinky as vice chairman, established high standards to qualify for induction, a person has to be more than 45 years old and have spent the majority of their life working on horseback on wyoming ranches. The first induction ceremony was last fall. Pinky, we recognize you, all wyoming cowboys and cow girls and initial inductees in the wyoming cowboy hall of fame. Pinky, you helped keep wyoming forever west. Thank you, picy thank you pinky. [applause] pinky, i used to rodeo in high school, and theres no chance ill ever be in that cowboy hall of fame. [laughter] we think always about the importance of education in our state and what it means for our kids and for our future. Walt represents our education system. Beyond k12. Hes been president of Casper College for the past 10 years. With leaders like walt, our university and Community College system is getting stronger and stronger. U. W. And our seven great Community Colleges, and they are great are on the same page. They want to provide the posthigh School Education in our state, including what i believe is so important, career and technical education. Focused on students success, a team effort, not competition. Walt will retire in june and leaves impressive achievements a dozen new programs and five new buildings. Walt, we all thank you for your work. You will be missed. Please stand so we can recognize you today. [applause] our predecessors made decisions that put wyoming in an envyable position and its our position to preserve and improve upon it. We are a leader in energy and many other areas. We are happy to take on these responsibilities that go with leadership now and in the future. Since i took office, the constant in all my messages and besides wyomings strength has been putting wyoming first believing in our people, local government, our small businesses, to invest in our state and its future. We are small in number, but we have kept independence,. We must keep this in mind when we invest in the future of wyoming. So as we go forward, with courage, with respect with civility, with motivation, not for ourselves, but for wyoming we make the future bright. May god grant us the wisdom. May god bless our state, our country and all who live in our wonderful land. May god bless you. Thank you very much. [cheers and applause] the Virginia Governor gave his state of the commonwealth address and is in his first term in office. This is about one hour. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you everybody. Men and women of the General Assembly, distinguish guest thank you for inviting me here tonight. I want to thank my wife, who is here with us tonight. [applause] i especially want to thank dorothy for her compassion, her energy, her commitment to making sure that not one single child sits in a classroom too hungry to learn. [applause] thank you. And finally i want to thank my cabinet and the thousands of virginia employees that they represent for the hard work and dedication. To making sure this commonwealth is a worldclass to live, work, and raise a family. Thank you for all the work you do. [applause] folks just one year ago i stood at this very desk and shared my vision for a stronger, more independent virginia economy. In that speech, i expressed optimism that we in this chamber could find Common Ground and advance the causes that virginians care most about, job creation, Economic Development education, and health care. One year later, i am proud to say that optimism was wellfounded. I want to first thank chairman jones, stosch, and colgan and for working with me in a bipartisan fashion to balance our budget responsibly. Thank you, gentlemen. [applause] we also worked with a Bipartisan Coalition to reform the standards of learning. We took the first step in reforming Workforce Development, and we began tackling the challenges that we face in our Mental Health system. And mr. Speaker i want to thank you for working with me and my team to make our Transportation Planning process more about economic good than political maneuvering. Thank you, mr. Speaker. [applause] we built on our commonwealths world class business environment, helping more businesses expand and bringing companies here to create jobs and grow and create wealth for everyone in the commonwealth of virginia. Those efforts im led to their paying off. In the years that we have been working together, i am proud to announce that virginia has closed 267 economic deals resulting in 5. 58 million and Capital Investments which is more than twice any administration has done in their first year in office in virginia history. [applause] as you know new jobs and building a stronger and more diverse virginia economy has been the primary focus of my time in office. Im proud of the success that we have had winning individual projects, like the 2000 jobs that we are bringing to Chesterfield County with Tranlin Paper Company or the unitao pharmaceutical project which will create 376 new jobs by keeping a plant in petersburg open that was closing and adding 100 more jobs than were slated to be lost at that plant had closed and i want to thank the representatives from tranlin who traveled here in Unitao Pharmaceuticals for joining us this evening and for your kind continued partnership with our great commonwealth. Now if we can stand and give them applause. [applause] i am appreciative but i have got one more quest. Now lets bring your Corporate Headquarters to virginia as well. [applause] i was proud to help close the first Economic Development deal in the appomattox in more than 12 years, and the largest deal that they have done and over 44 years. We brought a Chinese Company back that took over a shuttered plant. We have reopened that plant with millions of dollars in new investment, and guess what . We are now manufacturing in that plant pollution control devices that will be manufactured now in virginia, shipped to our port and those manufactured products are now going to be sold back to china folks, that is a new virginia economy. [applause] last year i stood in this chamber and announced my goal to make virginia the east Coast Capital for agriculture and forrestry exports. That wasnt empty rhetoric. We got right to work. I have posted over 20 ambassadors to the Governors Mansion to discuss trade opportunities for virginia. We have traveled the globe selling virginia agricultural products, everything from apples to whine to soybeans to peanuts. I have even eaten my fair share of fried cicadas and chicken paws. Folks, i will e anything if it brings investment to the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] and im so pleased to announce that our efforts are paying off. For the first time in the history of the commonwealth of virginia agriculture and forest tree exports for the First Time Ever last year exceeded over 3 billion in exports. [applause] we outcompeted 200 cities across the nation to bring stone brewery to virginia and we beat out mexico for continental automotives major expansion in newport news. And i was just there the other day with a 100 Million Investment from canon for newport news. As you all may know by now i love my job. Attracting new Business Investment to virginia is an essential part of being governor and we are having unprecedented success. But if we are going to continue our momentum we must invest in smart incentive funds like the Governors Opportunity Fund and the agriculture and for restry Industries Development fund. These tools make virginia competitive in a Global Economy and they provide a real return on investment both in terms of Economic Activity and revenue to our budget. For every dollar we invest in the virginia Economic Development partnership, we receive 9 back in budget revenue in return. Folks, this is simply too good of a deal for taxpayers. And in this session i look forward to working with you in a bipartisan way to preserve and expand these important investments for virginia. [applause] given that virtually all of the current Governors Opportunity Fund balance is obl