 Hi everyone, I'm Pelin Kon, I'm a City Councilor for District 2 and I want to run again for two year term and to represent District 2 people at the City Council. I moved here from Turkey in 2017, since then Montpelier provided me a home, lots of new friendships and great support. That's why I want to decide to run for the City Council and I start collecting my signatures and I've talked so many people in my district and some people told me our biggest issues are infrastructure, affordable housing and also renewable energy. And I agree with them, yes we need to work on these issues and we need to solve them and my work ethic, my passion to give back to my community and also my global perspective will help me and other City Councilor to work on these issues because I believe solving these issues require collective leadership. Another thing people in District 2 mentioned that why we cannot make Montpelier more inclusive and it is also another issue and I agree with them because 2010 census shows that 60% of Montpelier population is minorities, immigrants like me and other minorities and when I talk about and ask questions to people in District 2, what can we do about it? And then I checked the fact and recently this number is 3%, 3% of Montpelier population is minorities and we have to ask ourselves what's happening, why it is like that and representation is a key to work on this issue. That's why I want to run for City Council, I want to represent this 3% and also I want to work on our community issues.