 All right. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Henry Simons and I'm the assistant city manager for operations for the city of Columbia. Thank you all so much for your for your presence on today. Of course, we would like to welcome you and thank you for being here today as we celebrate the new amenities here at Loric Park. Of course, we want to thank our mayor, Steve Benjamin, our city council members present with us today. Councilman McDowell, Councilman Davis is with us. We also want to always acknowledge our city manager, Miss Teresa Wilson, her continuous leadership and guidance and support, supporting the Parks and Recreation team. We're grateful. Today is our second actually our second ribbon cutting up today. And this again confirms our commitment to the citizens of this community and also the citizens across our great our great city. This portion of the project would not be possible, of course, without funding that's that's been provided through HUDs Community Development Block Grant program in which we were awarded almost $150,000 for this project. So we're certainly grateful for what has been provided. So the Loric Park renovations include two new playgrounds that you see behind me enhance walkways and updated splash pad and some additional side amenities. The actual side amenities include an assortment of climbing components, slides, bridges, musical elements and shaded nooks is included in what we've done. We're very proud, very proud of what we have done here at Loric Park. And we'll continue to work hard to improve the quality of life for the community and across the city of Columbia. We feel strongly, very strongly that providing these amenities in a safe environment allows families to come together to rest to relax while their children enjoy the activities that these amenities provide. So thank you again for your presence on today. Now at this time, I'm going to invite Councilman Davis to provide some remarks. Thank you, Councilman Davis. Our responsibility is to make sure that you have the best terms of equipment playgrounds. And that's just safe. And the project includes both both of those. We want you to feel safe when you're out here and your children are playing, but they're playing on the best equipment. You don't have to worry about accidents because the equipment has been supported by your tax dollars. And it's it's it is the best. And it there's nothing like being close to where you can go and play and recreate. When I was growing up in Charleston, my playground, huge playground was a half block from my house. So I've become used to that having certain things close by. And we want you to enjoy it. And we want you to let your friends know that you enjoy this, you want them to enjoy it. And when it's all said and done, these equipment will last for a long time. But it doesn't matter how long as last. The purpose is that you and you enjoy it. And you want to get crazy on the playground do that too. But but the bottom line is, is close by. And the staff have done an excellent job. And all they've done to make these facilities the state of the arts. They told us about the best. They convinced us to pay for the best. And it's it's considerate your neighborhood playground. And by all means, invite your friends. Thank you. Now, of course, thank thank you so much, Councilman Davis, we'll have our councilman and representatives district councilman in McDowell to come and now provide some remarks Councilman McDowell. What a wonderful day it is in the neighborhood. Thank you all so much for being here. Thank you for allowing us to be a partner with you as our community continues to expand and grow itself. I just met some friends here. And I think what I'm going to do is invite them when we cut this ribbon to help us cut this ribbon because a part of what we've done here is for you guys. A part of what we've done here in the city is to is of course, expanding our vision, making sure that the vision we have for this city of ours is continuous and continuing to expand itself. We are grateful to all of those partners who've helped us facilitate this facility, who helped us to maintain a vision that is children, family oriented. So we're glad you're here today. There's a walking park. There's a little bit of everything out there out here. So please. Thank you. Thank you for being who you are, who's you are. And just remember, we still got a lot of work to do. This is just a part of what we plan to do. Thank you all so much. Thank you. So we have had several ribbon cuttings within the last several months and and I know sometimes this may seem redundant, but it's absolutely essential that we recognize and acknowledge the people that do the work. So I just want to take a moment to acknowledge, of course, HUD, the field director Christian Foy for their support on this initiative. Cities very young Gloria Said, who's the director of community development in her entire team. We also have Miss Bristol here with us today. Thank you so much to our community development administrator. Of course, to our parks and recreation leadership team, led by Mr. Randy Davis, our director of parks and recreation, our deputy director, Kenya Bryant, our project manager, Todd Martin, and the host of other members of our team. This would not be possible without the work that they do behind the scenes, whether it be paperwork, whether it be meetings, will be ensuring that the application is submitted on time. It does take it takes a lot of work. And they're very detail oriented and I'm grateful for all the work that's been done with all the ribbon cutting that's that's taking place across the city. So we're happy and we're excited that you all are here today. So at this time, we're going to move into the actual ribbon cutting itself. At this moment in afterwards, we'll have time, of course, to take some additional interviews from our councilman. So thank you all so much for being here. And I know Councilman Middell would like some of our young people to come up and be a part of the ribbon cutting ceremony. Do I have any do I have any volunteers?