 My name is Leigh Deforath, I'm the City's Comprehensive Planner and I'm here to talk to you about National Community Planning Month. National Community Planning Month is a nationwide celebration sponsored by the American Planning Association and it's a time for planners throughout the country to really highlight what planning does in our communities. The City of Columbia is in a huge planning process right now. We are working our way through the Comprehensive Plan called Columbia Compass, I hope you've heard of it. We are at the tail end of that planning process and we're really working on drafting the plan at this point now and hope to have that plan to y'all in early 2020. Throughout planning month we will be trying to highlight planning on our social media feed so if you follow us at COLA Compass on Facebook or Twitter we'll be trying to highlight not only the basics of planning but this year's theme is infrastructure that benefits all. So we'll be talking a little bit about the infrastructure throughout the city that's really a result of some great planning efforts and that's really become a benefit to the community as a whole. So planning is by its very nature something that we really want the public to be engaged with and involved in. So if you haven't already make sure to check out columbiacompus.org to stay up to date on our Comprehensive Planning process, again that will be wrapping up in early 2020 but we have an email list there you can sign up for updates we're sending out informative newsletters you can follow us on Facebook or Twitter at COLA Compass and really we just ask that you continue to stay engaged with planning issues. A lot of what we talk about as citizens of Columbia it's really tied to what planning can do for us or has the opportunity to do for us so whether you're talking about congestion or you're talking about whether or not you have a safe place to walk or ride those are all planning issues and we want to make sure that you're thinking about those in a planning mindset and engaging and learning more about how we can make things better in Columbia.