 Good morning everyone. Thank you for tuning in to Straight Talk Vermont. My name is Lauren Tebow, Executive Assistant for Service Rendered. We're here today with Honorable Mayor Christine Lott of Winooski. Thank you Christine for joining us. Thanks for having me. Thank you. And Bruce Wilson, of course. Thanks. And just to, just to, um, this is the afternoon. Oh Yes. Good afternoon. Who knows when they'll be watching it? Good afternoon, morning and night. Anyway, go ahead, Hager. All right, so we are joined here by Mayor Christine. She is the mayor of Winooski. The first women elected as mayor as well. It's amazing making history right from day one. Super exciting. Very exciting. Um, so I wanted to start kind of from the beginning. Did a little bit of researching on your Biography and I noticed that you were born and raised and went to school in Michigan. That's right. I grew up in Michigan. You know, I was in a, in a small town in Southwest Michigan, went to Michigan State University, and it was probably a year after college that I actually moved out to Vermont initially. Right. So how did you kind of, what brought you here? How did you find out about, you know, wanting to move to Vermont? I actually had some friends who had moved out here, a friend came out here for a teaching job at a school and after college, I didn't really know what I was doing, what I wanted to do, and they had offered I could come stay with them and check it out. And so I was like, oh, I've never been to the Northeast. Let me just see what this is about. Drove out here. I actually remember specifically when I drove, when I first drove from Michigan, it was like a, I don't know, 15-hour drive. At the end of the night, I was coming through Winooski through the rotary, and I was like, what is up with the roads here? This is crazy. And then I was staying with these friends out in Jericho for a couple of months and getting to know the area and immediately, when I was ready to, you know, find my own place, Winooski was the spot. That's where I chose. And in the year since then, I ended up meeting my husband who actually grew up in Winooski and, you know, owned a home there. And so here I am still. You know, it's so funny, you know, you from Michigan, you know, I'm from Chicago, so we were right around a curve from each other. That's right. But you know what, it takes me like 19 hours to drive from Chicago. Everybody say 15. And I'm like, hey, come on, can't get it in 15. I can't get it in 15. A little more traffic by you. That's awesome. So you lived in Winooski kind of once you settled and you've been here ever since. It's awesome connection with your husband growing up here. How did you get your foot into the politics aspect? What were you like? What was your job and role before leading up? It's actually, I saw a listing in the School and Community Newsletter looking for folks to join a housing commission having rented for years and really struggled with, you know, finding decent quality housing that, you know, rent prices even worse now, but being high as they were then. I thought here's an opportunity. I have an interest in here. Here's an opportunity to give back but also be more connected to my community. So having my spouse who grew up in the area he knew so many people, knew a lot of the history and I felt like I didn't have that. Like I hadn't made a ton of friends. I didn't know a ton of people here. And so I actually started as a way to just be more connected. And then clearly it escalated. I went from, excuse me, I went from serving on our housing commission to then I ran for a seat on the city council after two counselors, you know, their terms completed, there were these two open seats. And again, it was like I have the time and interest. Somebody needs to do this. So I thought like I'll volunteer for that. There really wasn't like a planned trajectory. Right. That's awesome. Jumping into it. Did you have any background interest in politics, like growing up? Did you kind of have this vision or is it something that came to you once you got to Vermont? I've always been interested. Like I would follow things in the news. I'm interested in how politics and policy, you know, trickle down into our day to day lives. I did, I think for one semester in college, I was like a poly science major. I wasn't really into it. So I didn't. I never actually saw myself in like this forward facing role, you know, being the mayor is very much out in the community, like the face of that work. I really have always been more interested in like behind the scenes and how are things happening. But in this role, I feel like I'm able to be involved in like strategy and facilitating conversations and connecting people and you know, Bruce is a great connector. Here, when I hear about a need or an idea and I know somebody else is also interested in that or has resources or something, like being able to find those connections is really rewarding. Right, exactly. Well, so your honor, man, you're incredible doing everything you just said, you know, and I'm just so happy that, you know, you're my mayor in the mayor of Winooski because, you know, it's been a lot of changes, you know, I mean, a lot of changes since you've been married and in a lot of changes just because of the times, the times, you know, of reliving, you know, COVID and all kinds of stuff. But but for us, the infrastructure and everything about Winooski, you know, and housing and, you know, schools and everything, everything is really raised up, you know what I'm saying. And I know that's that's you, you know, you continue to do that. And like, and I get on these things, these boards, the commission, whatever for the city of Winooski because I know that I get to work for a mayor like you and that and I know what your goal is. You want to get to see it done, you're a great listener, listener as well. I know, I mean, like, you know, you would want to be in the back. I see the city council meetings and you just, you know, you were a great listener, you know, I mean, and how important is that, you know? So I just want to thank you, you know, thank you. Well, it's so important in local government that like, I don't I don't want to be driving all the decisions like it's about like lifting up the voices of the community. And how do we get towards what people need and people want? And so having great volunteers like like you and folks who join on commissions, like how I started or the committee that helped with the reason Centennial celebration and the folks who run for city council and put themselves out there for that. Like being willing to get engaged there, share your perspectives is really key. And then also what you hear from others and help sharing information out to have as many people as we can be involved. Right. I love the hands-on approach is really important when, you know, you're making a community stronger, of course. When you were running for mayor, how did you represent yourself to the community and portray what you stand for going in as mayor? One piece was about that engagement, like I want to make sure that decision-making is happening with community members and that like government is not separate and just doing whatever back here behind the scenes. And that important decisions have a lot of outreach. You know, we've been working to increase connections in New American and non-English primary speaking communities who we haven't been as connected to. Lower income residents like trying to make sure we can reach more people as we make important decisions. So that was important to me in something that I talked about. And then I'm having a bit of a moment. Well, I know this for a fact. Just like, I don't know this. Oh, the vision. So we have a master plan, right? And there's already been a lot of community vision building that I wanted to help carry that forward. Like I don't want us to create something new. We kind of know where we want to be in the future. And so through engagement, through supporting staff and working with partners, like how do we get towards that shared vision? Well, I know for a fact that I don't know no city to have like commissions like going for safe and healthy and connected people. How big is that? And then like the Winooski plan, I don't know cities to have Winooski plan. So it's a plan that I helped, you know, and I was part of, you know, and like that's to be building a whole daggone city and we're from sidewalks to youth centers to trees and all kind of cool stuff. Yeah, it's it's like a list of goals that reflects community values and what people find important. And my point is that, you know, people in the community, you know, help create that plan, you know, everybody everybody was welcome to help be a part of the plan. Absolutely. You know, and so, so that's what I'm trying to say. I'm just going with what you're saying about you need everybody to help you with the goals and aspects of what things that's happened in Winooski. And so, you know, I'm a witness for, you know, especially that plan is incredible, you know, it was nice. It's a nice plan. And Winooski is an engaged community. Like people do turn out, people do want to be involved. I hear it when like consultants or folks from state agencies come into a meeting or an event that we have more people show up and speak out than than in other areas. So that's a really nice thing about living where we do. We're all three of us happen to. Woohoo! That's our mayor right there. So if people wanted to pick up that plan, what could they do? Was it a link or something? Yeah, so WinooskiVT.gov is the city website. There's a series of tabs across the top. Cameron Moetit says, but like our strategy, it includes the master plan and all of the relevant documents. So there's like the list of goals we're working towards. We have a transportation master plan, which shows where we're trying to like add sidewalks, add bike lanes over time. You know, a lot of these changes take a long time, but we do have at least these guiding documents to help us continue moving forward. And I told my team, I told Lauren that that's why they want to do some type of event at the skate park, is that I had a team of people we met, you know, from the people who used the park. We met like four or five times, and then they presented and they had like Google Maps and how kind of cool stuff of the skate park, how they wanted to improve it or whatever. And at the time, the people from, who was the name of those people who helped put together our plan, our vision of. Oh, the parks and open space plan? Yeah. I mean, those people that came, the consultants that, you know. The regional planning commission? They were there, but it was somebody. There was another specific, and I can't remember their company. Yeah, but that's okay. But the whole thing about, so what, when we presented our plan to them, so they adopted it. And so it's in the master plan, the skate part of what we created. So I'm, so I'm happy about that because that came from people who used the park, you know, said, wow, how wonderful is that? You know, can't wait till we break that out. But are we, is it actually, so what's gonna, I mean, it's all about, there's a wonderful plan. We still need to raise the money. We still need to raise money to actually do it. But is anything being done now? Like anything within the master plan? On the skate park, specific? No, no, no. Oh, just in general? Anything. Yeah. A lot. We are, so we have the Main Street Violization Project, which carries out some of that vision, right? Improves bike and pedestrian along Main Street. More trees. Improved economic activity. So that's something that was voted on a couple years ago. Voter supported a bond for that. Hopefully we can start this summer. The pandemic has been an issue. There is a hotel and new parking garage development project downtown in the Dirtlot, kind of by Cassavent in the river. That's also been slowed down. We are hopefully close to launching a housing trust fund, which will give community members access to, you know, there's a down payment assistance program, program to get funds to rehab housing and then to create affordable housing. So that drives towards some goals. We're launching a new Wienewski Inclusion and Belonging Commission, which we just appointed Bruce to, which we are hoping to use to work towards one of our goals of having these bodies be more representative of the community and making government more inviting and inclusive. We have some funding for a park improvement plan at the West Allen Park. So there's like a dog park and then like basketball court and stuff. I want to make some improvements to the youth side of that. So we got a grant to do like a, essentially get to construction documents, not actually do the work. There's a lot of that where we have to get the plans in place, like the actual like here's how you could build or engineer this. And then we have to seek funding again from there to do the actual construction. And so like East Allen Street, there's going to be some, the state, V-Trans is doing some work over the summer out there. That's going to do some lane changes, crosswalk improvements that will upgrade that corridor and make it more safe. But then there's like a longer term plan, even more with once more funding is available that could make further improvements down there. There's a lot, a lot going on. I feel like it's, we're very active. You know, there's a lot of people involved, a lot of projects that are underway. And again, like driving towards that shared community vision, we have something to focus on and we're just trying to figure out how can we get closer to it over time. Right. Yeah. So, you know, me, like you know, we've been blessed. We have a culture diverse community in New Americas and we just keep probably more than many, many cities at least. In Vermont. In Vermont. And so, you know, I'm always wanting to make sure that, you know, those individuals, people who look like me or color doesn't look like mines are a part of everything that we do. You know, I know I see a lot when we do vote on things, when we have meetings on until Bryan Center, a lot of people of New Americans and people are 10. And that's sponsored by the city. And so I like that. And the ideas and the objectives of the meeting is very important agenda items are very important. Just like like talking to the new city manager candidates, and see who's kind of like on your platform of how you like to see a city manager. And so a lot of people were there, New Americans were there, the candidates were there. And I thought that was real good too. And then I think, and then we did something about talking about equity and inclusion, you know, we had some consultants come and help us decide on what it feels like, what it looks like, what they think, what we think, how can we get better, you know, what's our ideas and suggestions. And so that was awesome, you know. And plus, we got, I think they gave me some money. They gave me a stipend. Oh, everybody in there. Yeah. I think I don't know, it could have been 50 bucks. I didn't even know about that. Could have been 50 dollars, you know, but I didn't know about that when I, because I came. I think we are trying a lot of things, you know, and thanks to staff ideas to having an equity director or working with a consultant or the voices of community members recommendations, we are trying a lot of new things to try to make sure we are including everybody in the discussion and making things inviting. And it does take like different forms of outreach. Not everybody is going to come to a scheduled evening meeting. Not everyone's going to go to a community center event. Like you have to do many forms of outreach to reach many different people when it comes to important topics. I think the two that you need, the city needs to come up. I don't know if you've got any technology grants, you know, so we can build on our social media because most people who looks like me or people of color, they're not necessarily going to tune into it. Now, we've been telling mayors, mayors, there's a couple of mayors and city managers and that people who looks like me are not going to tune in to City Hall's website. Let's see, trying to figure out where they're going to pay their something. Park and take it. Park and take it. It's the same with the police, I told Rick the same thing. Chief, our good chief in the Winnowsky. And they'd be like, you guys be like, yeah, we got it on social media, we got this, everything is locked down. I'm like, who's looking at that? Nobody's looking at, maybe they're looking at now, hopefully, I don't know how many hits we got on all the cool events we've been doing in Winnowsky, incredible events that we pull off. So they might look only now and see what kind of events what we're doing. We just had to hunt for one Saturday, which was incredible. I kind of was there was not. But I know I saw the people, I know it was a lot, it was a good big turn out. So one point is that, so they might look at it that, but people, I've been saying this from from day one, is that we need to do boots on the ground. I mean, I know there's, there is no more AmeriCorps vistas, or do we have any interns? Somebody just can go do it. We're seeking one right now to fill an AmeriCorps VISTA position. You need like two. We had two at one point. Yeah, I mean, it does take staff and time to do that. Well, I mean, we still need like two people, two people like a male and a female, you know what I mean, to go out together. I mean, not just one, you know, in a male, you know, he don't get much hits like a lady would, I mean, when you're talking to people, you know, so you need both. And so, and then they can do a survey to everybody and sit there and figure out three, three surveys, get along with some Winooski Strong shirt or something, you know, and and learn from them what they like about their commune, their Winooski. Because a lot of people, let me say they don't believe that they're, like the police serve them. They say that they only serve the white people, and the police are always at the people who look like me. And they don't feel comfortable. They don't feel a part of anything, because there's nothing there for them. And this, and I've been knowing that for years, that's why I've always been trying to, trying to do something, you know what I mean. And we, and we are, we are, because they need to be a part of it, they need to feel it, boots on the ground is, that's the most important thing. And you have to get the people, like one thing I didn't like about the O'Brien city, the underground youth center, which I'm a founding member of, at the, that the city would hire American VISTAs that were white people, and then people they were serving, was people of New Americans. And then there was no interpreters really. It was, we'd finally kind of getting it right right now. We still ain't got it right. But we're trying to get it right, you know what I mean? We are getting it right. It's getting better, a lot better. But that's why I believe the center didn't work, because you know, you had nobody who looked like them, you know, to actually hang out with them, you know, as a VISTA or intern. It was pitiful. And I said that, like, I was on the board of directors for Parks and Rights for some years, and then I said it many times, and two rounds of VISTAs, they still, you guys still, well, the city of New Ski came out with this white people, for people who, you know, who are African-American, I mean, people of color. Well, that don't make no sense. Yeah. I mean, that's one of the focuses now is like, how do we do better with staff reflecting the community? We've made some headway, not a lot, and that is also one of the things that came out of the consultant's equity audit recommendation, so that we need to look at our HR policies, how we recruit, how we support staff. We have seen some improvements on our police force, hired some community members. I met one African-American. Yeah. Did he used to be a state police? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know the background. That's all right, but that was awesome to see that person. Yeah, but so there's definitely a need there, and that we do need to focus on and continue to make improvement on. That was awesome. He was at night time. He was being trained, you know, so I met him, you know, and he's like, I know you. I'm like, what do I do? Did I pay the ticket? Oh, it's funny, but so it was cool, you know what I mean? I'm happy about that. That's a start, you know, and, you know, I work with the chiefs around the county, and then I'm also sitting, from what I say, police, fair and partial police, and all of them are looking for people. Yeah. They're looking for, I think, that's what I said, they don't, Ryan's the whole chief, I don't think he's, I think he said they're good, they don't need nobody, but. Staffing's been a challenge for police and fire for a while, and lately in public works as well, you know, there's a general staffing challenge like post pandemic, but there already were some issues there. Yeah, for years. Yeah, so it is hiring is hard, and we, you know, we've been talking about with the new city manager, like, how do we do more cultivation within our community to find local folks who are already here that want to, you know, work in city services, and to the extent we can do that, we can have stronger connections between what we're doing, have folks who reflect the community, so I think that's an important aspect as well. No doubt about it, and, you know, Elaine Wang is your new city manager, and, you know, I had some, I had a choice of candidates that, well, a couple, two I had didn't, didn't win, but I mean, didn't get, move on or whatever, but, but after meeting Elaine, and talking with her, and hearing her ideas, and what, you know, her goals, and, and she always taught my community, community work with the people, you know, that's where she was down on that, right, and she, you know, she, so she volunteered for a lot of stuff, you know, fight the kids foundation, you know, she was down on that, you know, and that's, and, and so, you know, I like her a lot, you know, I like it, I like that you asked her, you know, for her to talk to me about UFO boards, you know, I mean, and we did, you know, we got a meeting coming up when we got to meet, to talk about specifically, UFO boards, but it ain't like that. You don't need to share your schedule on here. Okay, sure. That's right. Sorry, man. Thank you. Yes, so anyways, the good thing is that we're going to be talking about UFO boards, you know, getting UFO boards, like, you know, we've created UFO boards for the city of Burlington and, and city of South Brunner adopted UFO boards, which I won't, you know, I, you know, I'm about it, but, so we're excited to get some UFO boards in Winooski, man. You said bring them on, so you told me, sign them up. Yeah, yeah. We're seeking, seeking right now. Any, yeah, so we actually, for the existing commissions, we are seeking new members right now. If anyone's interested in getting involved, you can also just contact me at klott at WinooskiVT.gov, and 766-1988 is also my, my phone number. I think working with youth in the community is a really important strategy as well. Like, here's how you can build up folks to serve in the future, um, to, you know, if they're seeking careers, like, let them know what we have here. I think also for, like, first-generation immigrant families, it can be really, really good to establish that connection with kids who are new here, so that as they grow up, they feel really a part of the community. So, yeah, I hope you and Aline have a good conversation on that. Yeah, awesome, you know, and like, um, as she knows, yet we, um, kind of went over everything, history of what, you know, how we work with the city and, you know, who we are. She's really excited about, um, like, our arts program and working, doing some art stuff, for our own self. And, um, just, um, I talked about the mural that we're going to be revamping it, you know, and she's excited to be a part of it. I told her, I said, Honorable Mayor, it was out there, you know, without paid rest stroking on that mural. And so, um, you know, so she's excited to be a part of when we, we kind of just touched up, we, we created, I think, I think Elizabeth, kind of, we create, want to recreate it, um, blame her, but, um. Aline was a really excellent hire. Um, you know, we had a really strong city manager previously, big shoes to fill, and I think Aline Wong is a great person to fill those shoes. No doubt about it. And she does have a really collaborative community focus, which I think is what we need right now, um, to try to make sure that we can bring in everybody. And I think she's done a good job already of putting herself out there, trying to meet folks and saying, hey, I'm your point of contact if you need something from the city of Winooski. So you said it because, you know, what exactly is her role? I mean, I should look up. Oh yeah. So this is actually worth sharing. Um, the form of government in Winooski is called, um, council manager. And so the city council, myself and the four members, I chair that as the mayor, we are there for policy decision making. And then the city manager is like the chief executive of the staff, um, in charge of operations and how we carry out those policies. So that's, you know, she's got a full-time gig overseeing all of the staff and then interfaces with us. Um, I'm, I'm like, I'm a part-time mayor, um, and our council is part-time, right? Then these aren't full-time jobs. And so we work together collaboratively to, it's our role to kind of, to represent the community and bring in that community vision. So there's also, there's onus on us to be getting out there and talking to different people and making sure we're not bringing solely our own perspective. Um, and so through, through that work, you know, we set sort of a vision of here's where we're trying to go. And then it's her job to figure out with staff, you know, how are we going to do that? Um, how do we operationalize a language access plan, for example, which we don't have yet. Um, how do we support these commissions and meetings? Um, who's in charge of supporting this community event? So sort of in those more nitty-gritty details. Hmm. That's cool, because like, you know, it's so important to, like you, like you, um, I don't remember, it's to be out, like, boots on the ground, you know, it's so important to be out in the community. People see you, oh, there's a mayor, you know, like, well, like, let me take a picture of the mayor, you know, and, um, people like doing that, and they should be able to do it. And, um, you should be in, in, um, wherever you can be at. I mean, you can be like a hundred of you, but, you know. I do have a limit of the amount of time I have, but I am looking forward to, there's a lot of summer events happening in Winooski this year. You know, as things have shifted with the pandemic, being able to gather outdoors in larger groups is wonderful. It's been a thing that we have missed for quite a while now and has, for me personally, has been a detriment to my ability to connect in the community. So I'm looking forward to getting out there more now. The centennial celebration on Saturday was a really exciting event. A lot of different, different people there, old, new. Just, I saw tons of folks. You know, we have the Winooski Wednesdays events twice a month in the Rotary. We have a Juneteenth celebration planned, French Heritage Day, and then I'm strategizing with counselors on other targeted outreach. You know, we're doing some listening sessions with interpreters to hear from members of our non-English speaking community or, you know, English is not a primary language. Make sure we're hearing how they've been impacted by the pandemic and what their priorities will be going forward because, you know, we have that great community vision, but we have new situations to respond to and maybe some priorities have shifted, so we want to hear all of that. Right. How do you get in touch with and advertise that to those communities? We have, we do some work through the community, the cultural liaisons at the school district and then AALV we work with and USCRI, you know, they have, they have folks in the community that they work with, that they serve. The housing authority is sometimes a partner. You know, we have our website where we put out information, Facebook and Instagram, but Walewski has the authority. Yeah, yeah. And then, but like leaning on these other partners that are very connected in the community is important as well. There's more to be done there. There's definitely, that's something that we want to focus on in the future, too, is like, how are we getting information out there? Is it the, it's obviously not the best. There's definitely room for improvement, so that's something that we need to, to look at as well. So do you have a set date for when those listening in sessions are going to take place? Yeah, but they're, they're being coordinated right now. They're not, I can't say they're final. We're finishing that up to make sure we have what the interpretation availability is. Right. And then when that day is finalized, it'll be on the website and then yeah and elsewhere. Yeah, and we'll be working with those interpreters and the, you know, the liaisons and the organization serving new American community members to try to make sure they're all aware. Important. That's good. Awesome. Yeah, I'm just, you know, I'm just hoping, you know, it's all wonderful, so I'm sure it's gonna work out just fine. I just want to let you know that whatever I can help you with, you know, I mean, let me know, you know, boots on the ground for you or whatever. Well, thank you. And I did want to also mention, like, how important it is to work with community partners. You know, you mentioned the Fight for Kids Foundation, working towards creating a youth center. I think that is an excellent strategy to address the problem that you surfaced earlier of not staffing in a way that supports the audience you want to serve, right? And so, you know, finding folks in the community already doing great work and trying to lift that up and support it is also really important. No doubt about it. And I want to thank you and the City Council for sponsoring the Fight for Kids Foundation. I should have wore the t-shirt today. It's okay. Honorable Mayor, it's all you anyways, you know, just like, whatever is good, that's what you're going to support. I mean, like, you know, that's what you support. I mean, the best you can, you know. And so, that's what we want and we're missing whatever's good, you know what I'm saying? So, why not, you know, why not support it, you know, be a part of it and try to make it meet the goals. So, what else you got? Well, I was actually wondering, you'd mentioned a Juneteenth event. What do you guys have going on for that? There's going to be a celebration in the Rotary. What is it? Sunday the 19th. Music, activities, speakers. It's going to be like a celebration of Blackjoy. We're working with community partners on that as well. Something that downtown Winooski and our equity director and some other folks have been involved in, you know, we had our first one last year and so hopefully we're bigger and better this year. I hope people come out for that. You know, you had Craig Mitchell out there. I've been working with Craig for many years. Oh yeah, Craig's very involved as well. He's great. And we've done events together for many years. Winooski Strong. Another great partner. Yeah, in downtown Winooski, right? They, they are, uh-huh. Yeah, so that's, I mean, that's, that's what I'm talking about. I mean, the events that, you know, things that were the new things we're doing, all the different types of people that's coming. People from around, at least around the county, is understanding what, um, Winooski have to offer. And so, um, and then we want that, we want them to come to our restaurants. We got a lot of great new restaurants. There we have that. The Serbs Cafe just opened, Vietnamese place. There's a kebab shop opening downtown soon. I like those. Mourning Light. Hong Kong Bakery is expanding their outdoor seating. Fusion Cafe and Wicked Wings just opened on Main Street. There's another spot that's gonna fill soon, so there's a lot to check out. That's awesome. Wow, so that's what I'm talking about, you know? Yeah. So much cool stuff, you know, in a lot of cultural, these restaurants are like, God, you know, it's like, you know, all around the world restaurants. Yeah. Isn't that cool? You know, you can be like almost anywhere in the world and you can have a, go to the restaurant right downtown or around town and have a great meal, you know, from people who, who's born and raised with the cultures of types of foods that they are cooking. That's the best thing about it, you know what I mean? Of course. So I can't wait to get to some of those restaurants. Jesus Christ. Then there's Tiny Thai, they still, is that the name, is that their name? Tiny Thai. Yeah, Tiny Thai. They're up on Main Street. They move to a new space. They're very affordable as well. Yeah, Fodang is good too. Street across the street. Fodang, yeah. Wow. Well, we're going to wrap it up here. Awesome. Give it a, anything else you'd like to mention coming up? I don't know. We covered a good amount, yeah. And you'd mentioned, you know, sources and places to check that all out. You want to give your contact information one more time? Yeah, so it's K-L-O-T-T at Winooski-VT.gov, 802-766-1988. You can call and text me, you can send an email, whatever, whatever works. I'm on WhatsApp as well, so. Hey, I know. So, all right. Well, thank you so much, Christine. It was a pleasure to have you here today. Thank you everyone for tuning in to Straight Talk Vermont. My name is Lauren Tebow. Bruce Wilson and my dear Honorable Mayor Christine Lott and my friend, and I'm so happy I live Winooski. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to serve as well on the commissioners and things that we do in Winooski. Well, thanks for having me and thanks for your engagement in our community as well.