 So, let me thank all of the commissioners and then now turn it over to Lourdes Castro-Ramirez, the CEO, and really one of the driving forces for the choice neighborhood application and planning process which has taken place, and for being sort of the inspirational head as well as the authoritative head for getting things done. She knows communities. She has led other communities outside of San Antonio. The experience is vast and the opportunities which she is providing for San Antonio Housing Authority and the communities within which we all reside is significant to say the very least. Lourdes. Commissioner Agamit, thank you very much for that warm introduction and good afternoon to everyone. I'm Lourdes Castro-Ramirez and it's my pleasure to serve as the presidency of the San Antonio Housing Authority. I'd like to take just a moment also to recognize and thank the leadership of the Housing Authority with, you know, the chairperson, Mr. Ramiro Cabazos and our vice chair, Brian Herman. And I also would like to acknowledge Commissioner Muñoz, who has been on our board for just over a year and also serves in the capacity of principal of Edison High School. And as, you know, Commissioner Agamit mentioned earlier, the work of choice builds upon the work of promise. And the work of promise is to transform and to significantly improve the educational outcomes of youth in the SAISD school system. And so having Commissioner Muñoz on our board is extremely valuable because he's giving us sort of his perspective from, you know, from being a high school principal. And really, you know, I would say that we have one of the most committed dynamic groups of leaders that are responsible for providing leadership oversight and policymaking decisions at the board level. I would also like to thank the staff. We have a number of staff with us today that are here, both that are involved, that are drivers of the choice. As mentioned earlier, Ari Porter, Lorraine Robles, Kathy McCormick. But there's a number of other people that work at the Housing Authority that in their own way support this initiative. This is a priority for us. Choice neighborhoods is a priority for the Housing Authority. And it's a priority for the Housing Authority because we are committed to work in partnership with all of you around the table and others that could not be with us today to transform the housing of the weekly courts, community, to transform the neighborhood and to transform the people. And so what does that mean? We know based on whether you're from the city or whether you have come across this through the data that has been collected both through promise or through choice that there has been tremendous disinvestment in this neighborhood. And it's not a disinvestment that occurred in a decade, it's years and years of disinvestment. So to be able to transform and to be able to invest, it takes really a collaboration, it takes everyone committed to doing their part to create better schools, to increase and provide quality housing opportunities, to connect to resources in the community, to have better connections to our community colleges. And the synergy, the commitment, the resources, we know they're there. And we know they're there because for the last three years, and maybe even more than that, the collaborative, the collective we, we have been successful in getting committed resources to ensure that the city is addressing some of the infrastructure needs on the east side. Promise through United Way or United Way through Promise has been able to secure about a 25 million grant that's going directly into the schools and into creating early childhood opportunities for youth. Last week, the chairman, Ramiro Cavazos, myself, Mayor Castro, Councilwoman Taylor, the CEO of the San Antonio Growth on the east side, we all had an opportunity to be in DC and had an opportunity to meet with Secretary Donovan. He is the secretary over the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And it was, I think one of the messages that we carried from San Antonio to DC was that we're ready. We're ready to see this neighborhood transform itself. And it's not just Saha saying that or it's not just the political leaders saying that or the elected officials, it's the community, it's the residents of Wheatley Courts, it's the children of Wheatley in San Houston, it's the neighborhood that is saying we're ready to see changes in our neighborhood. And we were asked why we accelerated the, basically the planning as I think many of you all know that the Housing Authority secured a planning grant, a choice planning grant about a year ago. And Secretary Donovan asked, these planning grants are two-year planning grants. And he asked the question, how is it that you got planning done in one year? And we said, well, the planning didn't start just one year ago. It started with the east side summits that were championed by Mayor Castro and Councilwoman Taylor. It was also led by United Way and Trinity University and the various partners that were involved with conducting the planning efforts around education. And so choice built upon that. So today really, for us, the purpose of today's luncheon is, one, to say thank you to each of you that have been part of this process. And two, to begin to talk about our next steps. To ensure that that commitment that was there leading up to the April 10th submission of our $30 million application to HUD, that that commitment is still there and we know that it's still there. But I'm sure that you're all eager to hear, so what's next? What are we doing? How do we get this ball rolling? Now on the housing piece, I'd like to mention that while the Housing Authority will focus its efforts primarily in terms of housing and redeveloping the public housing site called Wheatley Courts, 248 units. We understand that it's important to develop a good mix of housing units across the neighborhood. And so we're looking to work closely with both the for-profit and the non-profit community in terms of developing units. So at this time, I'd like to acknowledge Merced Housing, who's a partner and also, thank you, and Neighborhood Housing Services, also a partner of ours on the housing piece. And I see Dr. Drennan there in the back, Dr. Drennan works for Trinity University. We are indebted to Trinity University for many reasons. One of them is really Dr. Drennan has been just fabulous at working with us in terms of gathering data to better understand the demographics, the changes of the neighborhood, but also beyond the data that often comes from census and from the government. She's also been very instrumental in creating instruments that allow us to get first-hand information from the residents of Wheatley Courts and the neighborhood. And so she and her students developed a survey. We've received, of course, some input from others, including Commissioner Gamera. But that instrument was very helpful because as we transform, when we talk about transformation, we want to ensure that we're not just transforming the physical built environment, but that we're also creating opportunities for individuals to transform themselves. And the only way to do that is by understanding what their aspirations are, understanding both their strengths and their weaknesses. And that survey instrument was very helpful in shaping the set of programs that we looked to implement. So at this time, I'd like to go ahead and hand this over to Kathy McCormick. Again, I thank you all for being here, for being part of this very important initiative, and look forward to continuing to provide you all with updates as we get closer to the end of the summer, which is when we expect HUD to make announcements of the Choice Grant. Again, we have an application to HUD. It's for $30 million. And this is one part of what it would take. The total cost of transforming the neighborhood is estimated at $190 million. And that $190 million, $30 million is one piece. I know I'm actually, I would be remiss if I didn't also acknowledge our development partner on Sudden Oaks. Sudden was a public housing community that is also going through transformation. We are getting ready to start construction on phase two. I know Ryan is here from Franklin. So I'd like to acknowledge Franklin Development. Yes, thank you. And with that, I'm going to go ahead and hand this over to Kathy. Thank you all for being here. And I think lunch hopefully will be here shortly. Here we go. It's walking through the door as we speak. Thank you.