 good morning. Good afternoon. I am Mayor Eric Adams and I am really proud today to talk about the hearings on seven child care bills that provide support for working parents, mothers, and caregivers, and families. These bills are so important. It's something that we have been advocating for for so many years and we see that there are real possibilities to finally make inroads. COVID-19 has hit so many working families hard and we see it every day with the outcomes. They have lost wages and child care while their costs of living have increased throughout this entire city. They are struggling to balance caring for their children and holding down a job. Raising a family in the city shouldn't be hard and it should provide the support that's needed from our agencies that are part of the entire village of raising our children. We know that nothing holds back opportunities or success to employment more than lack of child care in this city. I know how difficult that is being raised. My mother raised six children and child care was a major issue in her advancements. Thousands of New Yorkers experience this every day. We are here today to say to working mothers and families that you are not alone. These bills seek to support mothers and make children more accessible and child care, I should say, more accessible to New Yorkers. Intro 242. This bill requires a recreation or marshal plan for moms task force to study and develop recommendation regarding how to support working mothers, parents, and caregivers. If we're going to get it right, we need to know the right questions to give the right answers and this bill will allow us to do so. Intro 477A. This bill will establish a child care task force to study how to make child care more affordable, how to make it more accessible for families in the city and how to provide support and funding to child care. Intro 485-A. This bill will require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to coordinate the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to create and maintain an online website on portal with a directory of child care programs in the city. The average parent, when you ask them about where child care locations are, they have a struggle of identifying the right locations. We seek to change that. Intro 486-A. This bill would establish a child care advisory board which would be responsible for conducting studies on and issuing reports related to child care in the city. Intro 487-A. This bill would require an agency or office designated by the mayor in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication and any other relevant agency or office to create and maintain a publicity accessible online portable regarding child care subsidy and that should have been publicly accessible. Intro 488-A. This bill would require an administering agency designated by the mayor to establish a three-year child care grant pilot program by July 1st, 2023. And finally, Intro 489-A. This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop guidance for owners of real property regarding the facility requirements for a child care program and make such guidance available on its website. And so I want to thank the Speaker, Adrienne Adams, Council Member Hudson, Council Member Julie Menon, Council Member I'm Public Advocate, Jomani Williams. And now I invite the public to comment. If there are any comments from the public, seeing none, I want to thank all who have participated in these bills and I will sign these bills at a later date. Thank you very much.