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35:52 Simultaneously, the Washington state legislature was also discussing new revenue tools through House Bill 2015, which provided the public safety sales tax and this grant fund that we'll discuss further later on. With those in mind, the police community advisory committee and the context of Proposition 4 narrowly failing recommended a smaller proposition, Proposition 5, which was successfully passed in November of 2025. And it supplies us with funding for 13 officers and about 10 non-sworn professional staff. A bit short of the 80 officers and 36 non-sworn professional staff from Proposition 4, but it was really, Proposition 5 is meant to be a component of a triad of funding sources in tandem with House Bill 2015, which will leverage that sales tax, which wasn't available to us

36:50 when we went through the Proposition 4 process and then leveraging the state grant funds. So that leads us to where we are today to discuss House Bill 2015. Again, it was passed in by the legislature in 2025. Governor Ferguson promoted this throughout his campaign and coined it as the $100 million statewide grant program. It also created, in addition to the grant program, it created the 1/10th of 1% local public safety sales and use tax that can be councilmanically adopted via ordinance. It's intended to address Washington's public safety staffing shortage. As we know, Washington State is the least, on a per capita basis, the least staffed state among the 51 states, including the District of Columbia for law enforcement professionals.

37:49 And so he was really trying to focus on how we can right size public safety staffing through this mechanism. It requires agencies to meet specific policy training and reporting standards before qualifying. I will say that this has almost been like a quasi-accreditation process for the police department