 Hello and welcome to the City of Columbia City Talk. My name is Dolly Bristow, Community Development Administrator. And my name is Andalyn Nesbitt, Compliance Specialist with Community Development. And today we're here to talk about our quarterly conversation called Speak Out that we do. This quarter's issue is equality opportunity within the community. We're going to talk about today the conversation on the concentration of racial and ethnic segregation and disability discrimination. We hope to discuss to address the race and segregation issues in the city. Also, many of our citizens live with disabilities. I think in South Carolina, 13.9 percent of our population live with disabilities. And we want everyone to know how to report disability discrimination or discrimination based on race or ethnicity if they feel like they're being discriminated against. If they feel like people are not making those accommodations reasonable accommodations so that they can work, play and live in this great city then we want to open that conversation and make sure that people know who to contact and that it's not right and that that we can help them. Kids don't choose their zip codes. You know lots of things go into where you live and just because you live in a certain area you should still get access to all the opportunities that this great city has to offer. So we want to make sure that there's not concentration of income, of lower incomes in one area only or of race or ethnicity in one area only that everyone is spread out and has all the opportunities, has access to all the opportunities. We want to invite the public to speak out because everyone deserves safe, decent, affordable housing as well as equality regardless as Andalyn said of what zip code they live in. We want to offer their housing education. We want to make sure that everybody that lives in this city that lives in Columbia knows that they have every right that anyone else does and if you feel like you're being discriminated against we want to give you the information so that you know how to fight back and that we're here to help you. April 26th, 8 30 until about 9 30 there will be light refreshments and it's at Wood Forest National Bank 3730 North Main Street. Thank you for watching City Talk today. Community Development Department Dolly Bristow and Andalyn Rodriguez glad you were with us today. If you need additional information please contact the Community Development Office at 545-3373.