 Hello and welcome to City Talk. My name is Gloria Said and I am the Community Development Director for the City of Columbia. This week I'm here to talk to you about our upcoming events during City Week. City Week is important for community development because this is the one time of the year that we get to highlight all the wonderful things that we do with our federal entitlement dollars, our community development block grant dollars, as well as our home funds. Oftentimes the community, they aren't aware of how these funds are spent. We restart the beginning of the week with a day of service where the CD staff will volunteer services at Harvest Hope Food Bank. We are excited about that opportunity. If you're working in community development that's one of the things that's the most important and that's giving back to the community. So while our job is to work in community development, we also want as a team as a group to give back to the community and that's the way that we decided to do it this year. We're really excited about holding our first City Week luncheon. We are going to begin around 11.30. We'll have a keynote speaker, Dr. Akil Ross, who is the 2018 Principal of the Year. Also during this luncheon we will have a speakout session where we will have a topic, poor credit history, and debt preventing economic opportunities. Also we're going to end the week with a block party that's going to take place on April the 26th. It'll be held at 1225 Lady Street, which is the parking lot where our office is located. We've got a lot of events planned, games, we'll have several different departments from the city that will be in attendance. We will talk about a lot of the services that we provide through the City of Columbia. We'll have food of course. We'll have music and we're inviting everybody to come out and join us for lunch and a lot of fun on that Friday that will end the City Week events. People should come out that day because it's downright just a lot of fun. We'll have music as I stated. Lunch is on the city. So it's really just an opportunity to connect with citizens, those people who are just walking by, or you can just plan to come join us and bring your children. We'll have games for them as well. A lot of trivia to see how much you really know about the city and it's just a lot of fun. So thank you all very much and we look forward to seeing you as we celebrate City Week.