 Columbia, South Carolina. Welcome. Thank you for the spirit and entry. Are you ready? Yes! Let's begin. It started like those things. Slow. One drop at a time. This time is different. Wings and waters. Every time. Oh, my feet! Water! Columbia had its own flood in the pie. A wave of good kindness, we let it cry. Service is word. Perfect coordination. And that gave our town. Good morning. I am Theresa Wilson, Columbia City Manager. Back in October 2015, our city was hit with a 1,000 year rain that resulted in a flood of a proportion we had never known. As city manager, I worked with our mayor. Our 2,300 employees, our city council, to reassure our citizens and the public that service delivery would not be impacted, but most importantly, to reassure them of hope. The little did we know, the people of Columbia reassured us and supported our efforts. We began a process of healing, an equitable and inclusionary process of relief and recovery that included all. The process of rebuilding more than 5,000 homes, we had to restore our canal to still in process to this day that provides regional water services to over 1,400,000 citizens and businesses. We have committed ourselves to make sure that the needs of all of our citizens during the disaster and since are met, and we have included them in the recovery process. Together, resilience and Columbia strong. Rescuing elderly men and going back to save this dog, checking on residents in my apartment complex and giving shelter to strangers. Well, as you can see, Columbia or the people of as we like to say, they something else. What she said, but we also have our jobs, just like everyone else. I protect you. How do we build our trust? How do we serve? How do we do it? Good morning. My name is Noah and Kelly. I'm the Deputy Chief of Police in the city of Columbia. We have seven programs that will help build community. Beyond the bag is a services emergency program that our newly sworn officers, before they hit streets of Columbia, they do a week of community service and homeless shelters, soup kitchens and children's hospital. We also have front porch road calls where we take our road calls on the roads to our neighbor's front porches. We have daily shift briefings there and we talk about crime trends and data emissions. We also have a young ambassador for justice. We bring youth in from across Columbia to discuss topics that are relevant to them. We also find that we have more in common than we do in contrast. Oh yeah, how could I forget? So we bought an ice cream truck last year. We go throughout the city of Columbia giving out ice cream to our friends and neighbors. We even like to eat ice cream too. Thank you. Now as you probably guessed right now, we in Columbia, South Carolina, like to do a lot of things together. What's together is Spirit Communications Park, home of a Columbia Columbia Firefly Baseball Team, home of a Columbia Firefly Baseball Team, Spirit Communications Park, or any ball to be played in the noise studies, in the traffic studies, in the stenchers, in politics, in any city. Take a breath. Take a breath. I've got this. I'm Gregory Tepin, project manager for Spirit Communications Park. We built this park with over 50% local subcontractors involved over 28% disadvantaged businesses. We finished it on time and on budget. Now we're open. Mo's Mondays gets under 12v3, $2 Tuesdays, $2 hot dogs and soft drinks, lagging on Wednesday, bringing dogs to the ballpark. Thirsty Thursdays who can't exist, Friday and Saturday, best fireworks in the southeast. Splash Sunday, bring your kids a cool off between any. 2016 ballpark of the year, running up over 300,000 fans. And yes, we have Tim Tebow, too. I'm Steve Benjamin, and I have the honor of being the mayor of the city of Columbia. Austin was born on the March 17th, 1786 in an imperfect nation on a plantation on the banks of the Congaree River in the middle of the South Carolina. It was then that Senator John DeVay uttered the prescient words that he prayed that the oppressed of all lands might find refuge under the wings of Columbia. We've come a long way since then. We now have those citizens from 200 different countries who speak 90 different languages. Because of many women who came before us and those leaders behind me today, we built a city that's one Columbia and open to all. We work to build a police department that does believe in justice for all. It works every day to reflect the values of our community. We work to build a stadium that not only understood that we needed this for our community and the public realm, but that indeed we could get you to the minutiae of procurement. Include everyone in this process, including our homeless citizens, who trained and gave them a tool belt. They built this stadium and now are still working on construction jobs in the American economic system. And yes, in our darkest times, the floods of 2015, we lost 19 of our citizens. We work together, together across ethnic lines, across racialized, across religious lines, to prove that we are indeed one Columbia. As we prepare in 2036 to be a world-class city, we know that all the way we're going to be in all American cities as well. Thank you. We want y'all to jump, Karen, a little bit, and cut this Columbia city in all American cities. Thank you.