 Good morning and thank you all for being here for our Thanksgiving dinner packing and distribution event you know today's been a very uplifting day where our community partners and our business partners have all come together you know they all showed up today to help stuff a thousand bags with sites to go along with either turkey or Cornish hen and then later our amazing community resource officers are going to deliver those meals to a thousand families that have been identified in the communities that they serve you know Thanksgiving is of course a time you know where we want to reflect on what we're thankful for and I'm certainly thankful for our great partners at the Denver Police Foundation AT&T we don't waste as well as Walmart I'm also thankful for our volunteers our Denver police officers who all showed up today to help us stuff these thousand bags and lastly I'm thankful to those in our community who share with us their lived experience and let us know opportunities where we can where we can help them when they're in need particularly in the holiday season so at this time I'd like to specifically recognize Guillermo Lombari the director of external affairs at external at AT&T Colorado Guillermo. Thank you Chief. Wow so yes definitely an uplifting morning it's really incredible to see the partnership and how those bags came together I mean it was a thousand bags and they put them together in an hour and we have some wonderful AT&T volunteers here as well that helped with that so very exciting it's the fourth year AT&T has partnered with the Denver Police Foundation to help provide these meals and it's something that we're extremely proud of as the Chief said Thanksgiving is such a special holiday all about being with family and community and these meals will allow for the officers to connect with those families and communities and in addition allow those families to have a proper Thanksgiving meal to sit down you know that night and enjoy together so we're really really grateful to be able to provide that you know we know that families continue to rely on AT&T in our networks to stay closer to home for safety for learning for business and relying on our technology and network more than ever before before to stay connected to families and friends at AT&T we build networks that help connect both families businesses as well as first responders with our through our first net network which is a nationwide build network dedicated to to first responders across the country through the AT&T foundation we support local nonprofits to drive economic empowerment and equity including our digital divide efforts across Colorado and AT&T employee volunteer efforts across the state so we hope today that our $15,000 contribution to the Denver Police Foundation and our volunteer efforts around this Thanksgiving outreach event with the department truly make a difference they have created many wonderful outreach programs the foundation has and are helping build bridges in the Denver community at a time when it's truly needed the Denver Police Department sees the challenges families face every single day the distribution of this of these meals can be shared by families is a sincere act of kindness especially as many as many families are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet we're very thankful for the work of the police department the foundation for all you guys do for our communities keeping us safe we're extremely grateful for that so at this time I want to hand it over to Megan Pletcher who's the executive director of the foundation and wish you all a happy holiday thank you thank you Guillermo the Denver Police Foundation is pleased to support Chief Thomas and the Denver Police Department's mission to support our community in creating trust through our programming this event is absolutely one of our favorite to sponsor as it does as Guillermo said helps to meet our community where they're at in their time of need and not their time of crisis that truly is important and critical in making sure that we as law enforcement and our police department are meeting our community in their time of need we're so grateful to Walmart as well and we don't waste further support in this event as we would not be able to source a thousand turkeys and full meals without their support so again we are grateful to our community partners all of our volunteers and our law enforcement officers for what you do on a daily base thank you curious you mentioned this a little bit before about the distribution can you go to a little bit more detail how are these families found and was the process going to be like yeah so you know every district has community resource officers they also have a homeless outreach teams that literally connect with families every day and understand their challenges understand their needs and quite frequently they actually come across families that have various needs whether it's you know connection to services to help pay rent or purchase food or things like that and so I'm really grateful to the work that they do every single day you know connecting with the community and particularly identifying families that have specific needs and so they found like I said a thousand families that have these specific needs that we're going to be able to meet for Thanksgiving and so you know we've stepped those thousand bags and pretty soon we're going to get to work to delivering all those meals how does that how does that affect the relationship well I think that you know it shows a couple of things one I think it shows that we're part of that community we certainly care about that community and and you know we're not just here to you know police the community and force rules we really want to see the community be supported yes so you know again we you know we take donations from Walmart from AT&T certainly the different police foundation has been a significant partner in all of our endeavors and so we all come together you know and donate these particular funds for this event and then you know and then the officers go and make the distribution