 All right. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Good to see everybody this morning. My name is Henry Simons. I'm the Assistant City Manager for Operations, of course, for the City of Columbia. And of course, we would like to welcome you and thank everyone for your presence on today as we gather for our river cutting ceremony for the beautiful restroom facility that you see behind me, not only the restroom facility, but the collective body of work that you see all around you, the baseball field, the lighting, just a beautiful space that we've worked very hard on. I want to thank our Mayor, Daniel Rickman, our Mayor Pro Tem, Councilman Ed McDowell, who represents District 2 and our entire Council for their obvious support. I also want to acknowledge our City Manager, Teresa Wilson, in her absence for her continued leadership and support for all of the Parks and Recreation initiatives. We are very proud of what we have collectively done here at All Star Field, and we will continue to work to improve the quality of life for this community and across the City of Columbia as a whole. We feel strongly that providing these amenities in a safe environment allows families to come together, rest, relax while their children enjoy the activities that these amenities provide. This portion of the project would not be possible without our partnership through the South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism. We were awarded a grant through their Parks and Recreation Development Fund to complete this portion of the project. We are forever grateful for their ongoing support. Now at this time, I'm going to move out of the way. We will begin with remarks from our Mayor, Daniel Rickerman, provided here just a moment followed by our Mayor Pro Tem, Councilman Ed McDowell. So help me welcome our Mayor, Mayor Daniel Rickerman. Good morning everybody. I'm excited to be here today as you know this is the beginning of multiple phases as we invest in this community and create collaborative partnerships, serve and connect our Police Department. Thank you all for being here, everyone from our Police Department. Thank you for what y'all do in our community. Thank you for being part of what we're trying to do to improve communities here in Columbia. As you know, we're close to about $800,000 investment here partnering to go after grants in every level so that we can continue to build up our community in every aspect. As we said and mentioned, this is phase one. We're excited about being able to get forth hopefully starting soon as you'll start to see some of the clearing to go on so that we can start on our community center and our gymnasium here to really build up this side of the track, as some people would like to say and improve the quality of life of all our folks here as we continue to work to improve not only our housing but our investment and our infrastructure, investing in our people and investing in our communities. We want Columbia to be the number one city. We want people to come here and ride through every district and when they look at our community, they go, I want to emulate that. I want to be Columbia, South Carolina. So we're excited to be here today. We're excited for this second phase. But you're going to continue to see investment. So, you know, hopefully we'll have about five more of these to celebrate as we move forward. But thank you all for being here. Good morning. Isn't it good that the rain is not coming and someone asked me, say, we've got a beautiful day today. Do you have inside information? No. What I do know is that we're here in this place just a little history and I do want to make one or two introductions. I want to thank our mayor and I want to thank CPD for being here today. You all are constantly and always with us. I want to thank our president, President Regina Williams of the Book of Washington Homeowners Association. Thank you so very, very much. I want to give you a little history initially. Almost eight years ago, I visited this field and there was nothing on this field, nothing, nothing. The residents came together, both residents out of North Point and the colony, and several other folk gathered in this field, surrounded me and said to me, we need something for our children. We need activities for our children that will continue to enhance their lives and the lives of the city. Now it's taken almost eight years for all of this to take place. It started with a dusty field, nothing, nothing was there, but just a field and dreams began to take place. It's almost like into a corner phrase that was made some years ago, this has become a field of dreams. Dreams are being actualized in this place and the cutting of the ribbon of our bathroom facilities, of course, completes our project. Some will say that it's completed, but it's not because there are things we need to do here on the West, on the South Bethel line side and things on Lester Drive. We've got a championship baseball and somebody just clap your hands because it's not only going to enhance this community, but it enhances our city. Close to $800,000 has been invested in this facility and for that we are grateful. So we're glad you're here, we're glad some of our friends, some of our residents are here, is that right? Serving Connect, glad you're here because we're going to be swinging some baseball and hopefully I can throw out the first pitch when the scheduling is done. I can't do it all the way, but I can throw it to the mid. Thank you all for being here. Thank you for continuing to invest in our children and thank you so much for investing in our city. Thank you very much. Thank you Mayor Rickerman. Thank you Mayor Pro Tem, Councilor McDowell for your remarks. My job is to do some brief acknowledgments. Of course again we want to thank our Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem that's with us today, but our entire Council for their continuous support of this project. We also want to acknowledge our Parks and Recreation Leadership Team led by Director Randy Davis, our Deputy Director Kenyan Bryant who is with us today, Todd Martin, I think Todd is not here today, our Project Manager in Parks and Recreation, Taurus Lewis, our Superintendent over at Athletics is here and a special recognition to our Parks Division through the leadership of Tom Beasley. They have been doing some amazing work with maintaining this field. As you know we started this process several years ago and they've maintained such a beautiful space and want to acknowledge them, serve and connect. Of course Erica Staley also Cassidy is not here today but we want to acknowledge them for their support. Our Columbia Police Department which is all around us who have the ice cream truck with us today. Thank you all for being here as well and as Councilor McDowell has already acknowledged our Book of Washington Heights Neighborhood Association President Miss Regina Williams is with us on today. I omitted her the last time that was my fault but I want to make sure that we acknowledge her and her support from the community as well. This is a great day. This is a great day for the City of Columbia. This is a great day for this community and we are grateful that you all are here today.