without further ado i'd like to introduce someone i'm honored to introduce them you know someone who was at the helm when vermont was going through some difficult times with irene and i can think of three  occurrences just with recreation trails one i read in general the impact that it had on vast governor shumlin was very much behind helping  vast out trying to find the funds to combat having ninety plus bridges impacted by irene the war over half a million dollars in debt from from that event  also the support he's shown to the moral valley rail trail as well as endorsing the wreck trails program that since a new change that just starts this year where the governor has the ability to the power of that as well also there's a northern borders regional commission and the governor of new york vermont new hampshire and maine they all have to vote on endorsing projects and i know there was a project that went through this and to be here with us to thank you not only the authorities but all the folks who are working so hard you are the nucleus that keeps what i believe is the best trail network anywhere in america together growing and serving the mox future so i'm incredibly grateful we know the work you're doing is doing a lot of things one it gets kids in young and gives an appreciation for the most extraordinary up to natural resources in a state to be blessed with and the second thing it does is bring together communities to get them out doing what we know we should all be doing stand healthy hiking cross country skiing biking running walking learning about extraordinary natural resources that we have in this state i see randy major here from west mr west and my appreciation of the work that you do that's come to me as an academic exercise on the first it comes from and we have an extraordinary network of trails that i grew up helping to maintain started out as pony mountain and pony mountain so c h and then randy and a bunch of visionaries from west mr west and little bit more of the funny i came up with the notion of tying together the party mountain association and pinnacles r c a sure we all got together with the land trust that is you know i'm a big advocate of funding fully and keeping them alive and strong and buying up the development rights and land that now has so many miles of trail randi tied together about twenty two miles of trail how many acres on two thousand acres in the regions where i was born and raised so all i can tell you is that's an example i know what you're doing all over the state  i want to mention a couple of things that i think are important terms of expanding your work and then i want to answer your questions first a couple of developments that ever really get the radar screen we the last year in the legislature the first working farm working landscape program in america what it means is that we're taking resources one roughly a million bucks in the first year we're going to continue to fund it to ensure that we can continue to grow the most aggressive form the plate farm to fork farmers markets locally grown food keep in our farm strong effort in the country that's actually tied to the work you do because when we give up and lose our farms and they get developed we all know that that precludes the kind of recreational environment that we need driving to new growth that's an important piece and high hope that you'll support it point forward what it does is give grants for infrastructure so that our farmers can actually afford to get the value added price for their work what does that mean it means up in waitsfield there's example we just opened a credible processing facility where a farmer can come and bring in their goods make jams and jellies cheese any kind of biota product label it and get it out the door if the individual farmer i do invest in the infrastructure make that happen we all know they couldn't afford it what else does it mean if you have a farm project that's going to help you get the value added income built up a map farm you can apply for a grant now right grant to help you have the resources to bridge the gap to make it an affordable investment for your own so that's really important in terms of maintaining our agricultural heritage if we we know all know that our crystal dairy farmers have been in trouble that the drought the other climate change induced price pressures that one is climate change induced and i was amazed to listen to the national press and here you know them debating was this the worst drought ever to hit the food belt america this year yes or no then maybe you'll hear them debating in the next story was this the worst forest fire season to hit western united states in history america yes or no and it's so rare that you hear anyone collect the dots well the answer is probably yes to both that's driving feed prices for dairy farmers they can't afford to produce milk with those kind of prices and any objective scientist has been predicting for the last twenty years and scientists that's not subsidized by the gas companies that the food belts going to dry up that we're going to have more forest fires that vermont is going to see more deluge of rain ten or twelve inches dumped on us in a few hours i can tell you when you get storms like i mean when i was a kid this is been predicted for a long time to the point has been from our we believe we've got to continue to invest call heritage so that we can maintain our real body of life and keep our trail system recreational systems alive one last point i want to make when we think about the work that you're doing and it's absolutely critical the volunteer hours you put in getting other people motivated get out there the parkfield system open and doing all the good work that you do and we don't have to connect the dots to the biggest challenge that we face to both job growth and a prosperous future which is our health right now in vermont  no different than the other fifty states we have an unsustainable health care system we can't afford to continue to have health care spending rising ten to twenty to thirty percent of our income this is our challenge  those are our her that's what i heard tells us that that's not right with our heads simple arithmetic going to bring bill clinton in for a second of this one matters if we continue to spend on health care for the next three years at the same rate that we did for the last ten years we're going to be spending twenty five hundred bucks for every living for minor on health care by twenty fifteen that we're not spending today or even simpler math today together we spent five billion dollars on health care as a model roughly by twenty twenty that's eight years from now by my math we'll be spending ten billion dollars the current rates of growth what's driving a lot of things to drive but i say that junk food we're going to be the first generation of americans and for minors who will live less minor parents because of obesity so when you think about the extraordinary contribution you're making to price environment outdoor recreation to maintain our natural resources i hope you'll never forget that you're also making an incredible contribution to a sensible affordable healthy family and that tied together with our brighter i feature gives me a lot of hope that we're on difference actually the other problems just talking about which is getting kids to be active we should too i want to say a word about generally the important thing that's they send you a bill for every service what we're trying to do with me my health care board design the first outcomes based payment system in america where i providers get paid for keeping you healthy but that certainly means is that we all have an interest in the recreation of recreation because that's going to reduce health care costs and save us dollars and our providers will get rewarded for their success so every health care provider every teacher every mom and every person in vermont will have an interest in the recreation part of our health care system they don't and by the way that's how they do in the rest of the world which is why they spend three hundred let's talk health care than we do with better they are healthier than we are and they spend less money that's kept secret in america good you'd want to look at it pretty carefully because i'm very protective of the current use program i think it's one of the most effective programs we have in a state of mind to keep  recreational trails open and vibrant and you've got to be careful that you don't make it so expansive that it starts to get all that it could be  that there be so many loopholes in the program that the public would turn against it was put down so that's the challenge and you know is there such a thing as a recreational piece of land that isn't eligible for the  or obviously a working farm and i guess my question be what would you pick up a few expanded that doesn't come under that umbrella i'd be cautious with because the current year's program is really working and if you expand it without a good reason you could lose the public support because you've got to stand the pain of lower property tax rates you know we've been good about remodeling very support of the program but i think we want to be careful we want to tread lightly but if