 We're here today to support the renewal of the sales tax 1% that provides about $9 million to our general fund. It is essential that we renew this tax so that we can preserve the character and quality of life in our community. Davis is a wonderful place to live, to study, to work, to recreate. Bruce and I came here to Davis. We moved here. We chose to live here over 40 years ago and we chose it because it was an extraordinary place we thought to raise a family. We brought our boys here and it was in fact a welcoming community and a community that provided an extraordinary array of services and opportunities for all of us in the community. It's that kind of welcoming community and that kind of community that I want my grandchildren, our grandchildren to continue to enjoy and for that we need to renew this existing tax. Remember it's not a new tax. It's a continuation of the same tax that was passed in 2014. I have the honor of serving this community for many, many years. I know that time and time again we have asked the community, the community has come forward and agreed to make an investment in our future and that's exactly what we want to ask them to do again and I'm convinced that they will. Let me give you one example. The General Fund is sort of a budgetary name but the fact is I want to tell you what it does just in one area. Let's talk about the department we know is the Parks and Community Services. The numbers of activities and classes and programs that the General Fund has some impact on is rather large. Think about the facilities that we have in the city. We have pools, we have fields, we have an art gallery, we have a museum, we have a number of different things that frankly without the General Fund wouldn't be able to support all of the activities that take place within those wonderful facilities. One thing that is not visible however are the subsidies. When there are children who cannot afford to do some of the activities that are available in the community we make sure that they can and that's one of the things that the General Fund can use. Now we know all of the sales tax probably won't be easy. No tax ever is but frankly we need to mobilize our friends, our neighbors and tell them how important it is to continue the kind of Davis that we've enjoyed and that we want our grandchildren and future generations to enjoy. So we're all going to support Measure Q, Q's for quality of life. Let's go out there and win this. So I'm going to repeat a little bit about what Lois just spoke about and I think it is worth repeating. What Davis, there are several things that make Davis a nice place to live. It's the involvement of the community but it's also the ability of the city to help sponsor and create opportunities where the community can be involved. And where we are today if we sort of look around we see kids playing in a nice playground, we see people playing and you know hanging out in a nice park. We're very fortunate to have these things. Measure Q is supporting the existing sales tax that we already have. It's not a new tax, it just continues the sales tax level that we have had for the past years. And as Lois mentioned no tax is necessarily going to be easy to either pass or renew. So it is important that we don't just assume that the public knows all the nice things that this sales tax does for the city. The important aspect of the sales tax is that it cannot be taken away by the state. All this money remains in the community of Davis. And this sales tax, the 1% increment represents about 15% of our general fund. And our general fund covers about two-thirds of the costs of maintaining our park system and our recreation programs. So this is a very important component of what makes Davis nice. Also importantly is the majority of our public safety personnel, their expense, their costs come out of our general fund. It's our general fund that allows us to have a first rate fire department, a first rate police department, and other public safety officials. In the news recently we've heard a couple, unfortunately a couple things that frankly were a little bit shocking in terms of crime in Davis. And we need those types of things to be shocking to us. We do not want to be the community that just goes oh well just another crime here in Davis. These types of things should be extraordinary, out of the ordinary, and we should not accept them as the status quo. So recently the city council has been working to retain and also recruit additional police officers. In order to do that we have to have the funds to do so. It's important that we work hard to maintain the high quality of life that we've come to expect here. And a good supporting piece of that is the ability to have this sales tax removal. So in my mind it's essential. This sales tax renewal, the support of the existing sales tax, is essential if we wish to keep Davis a nice community to live in. Thank you. Great. Who are you calling from? I'm very pleased to be here with my colleague, council member Dan Carson and so many others. My name is Jordan Anzio and I am the incoming chair of the Davis Chamber of Commerce. And I'm very pleased to report that we have the chamber, our board in September unanimously passed an endorsement of measure Q. We feel very strongly that this is critical for our community. As you can imagine our ability to retract and retain businesses is focused on Davis having a high quality of life. Having good police, good fire protection, having good streets and a safe environment for people to conduct business. Measure Q is critical for our ability to do that. And we have a high degree of confidence in our partnership with the city that the city's finances are very well managed and that this is our only option to move forward to have those adequate services. And at the end of the day a healthy business community with jobs and services are important to a healthy community overall. It provides for our tax base, provides to help support for our schools and makes us a higher quality of life. Measure Q is critical to our ability to do that. And we at the chamber are very strong supporters. We've endorsed this measure and individual board members will be working with the city in support of this effort as we go door to door to convince our community. This 1% sales tax that is a renewal of tax that already exists is critical for our ability to maintain Davis as a wonderful place to live and a wonderful place to do business. Thank you very much. Full board member. And a member of just about every organization in town. The full gambit across the whole lifespan. Okay so I'm Sheila Allen. I'm here as a citizen and a member of the Measure Q campaign committee and I am so happy to be a part of this. You know when you start one of these campaigns you always cross your fingers about what letter you're going to get and when they assigned Q we could not have been more excited because really as Lois started out with it speaks to what this part what the sorry not part of tax not the school anymore what this sales tax is all about. It's about maintaining the quality of life in Davis. So it is not much and it is a little bit that everyone kicks in for but what it does is pay for some of the very basic things that help to improve and enhance and continue the quality of life in Davis. I know that it's been mentioned a few times but I'm just going to hit some of the things that it covers so that we can be clear on it. It covers for police and fire for a very important part of safety for all of us in the community. It pays for parks. Here we are in beautiful central parks. Central park. It pays for recreation. So for everything from all the kids programs and the camps to our very great senior center and all the programs that happen there. It pays for there's one more area the road roads thank you roads and bike lanes. I had an opportunity to go to the Davis Futures presentation a couple days ago and the person presenting from another city said I'm not sure what I can tell you because I go to other cities and tell them to do what you are already doing in Davis. You should have common spaces safe common spaces for people to come together such as our parks. You should have you should have bike lanes and we were we of course invented the bike lanes so we are way ahead of the rest of the country on that. So we have been looking to the to the our past of what we've done right in order to maintain that. I want to reiterate that this is a renewal. It is not a new tax. We are renewing what we have now but that allows us to continue to maintain our quality of life here in Davis. So I really think everyone who came out today it's always amazing to me that people just show up with these kind of things but I really impress upon you to go talk to your friends and neighbors to make sure that they know that there are ways that they can help with this. It's already been mentioned it's never easy to pass a tax so what it's going to take is all of us talking more friends and neighbors. You can sign up to be a part of the campaign committee. You can be you can help with the with endorsements. We have an endorsement process. We have a website which is the aptly named renew davis.com or you can measure you can google measure q davis you can find it that way because I find it that way too. We're now on facebook you can like us. You can you can donate to the campaign because it does take money in order to get the word out. So there are many ways that you can help and we thank you all for being here today and are happy to answer any questions. Does anybody have any questions? So let us come back up and Joe and Brett we'll see if they ask questions. Yeah we'll have questions but they never stick around because we're going to take another picture at the end. All right does anybody have any questions? Are there any questions? It's a smart group you can come up with a question. Brian do you have a question? Yes sometimes the time goes back sometimes the time goes forward but the clock will continue to run and we'll continue to have the great services that we have in place. Are there any news media questions? All right hold on. When is the next public meeting that you will have where people can come and ask questions? When's the next public meeting? You know we're waiting to see for example of legal women voters or some of the other organizations schedule some events. We've been reaching out to all of them to see what their schedule will be and they're not quite there yet I think. Oh we'll definitely have a regular presence at the farmers market on Saturday morning. And we're available to speak to any group who would like we've been out speaking to some groups already who requested it we'd be happy to if you can get a group of people together we'll come talk to them. Any other questions? All right can we have one more picture since we've had some new people since we took our first one anyone would come up here and join us.