 Today's meeting will hopefully be the first of several meetings leading up to our summit on connectivity in Arkansas that Farm Bureau will be hosting and will be the main sponsor. Today's meeting was to bring people together in a room and to discuss what needs to be discussed, what are the important issues regarding bar ban assets in the state. A lot of the people in the meeting today state legislatures and and asked us they were very passionate about getting their constituents bar ban assets. I think it's connectivity I think we have seen is critically important all over the United States both urban and rural areas and COVID showed that up how important it is for education and health care and for businesses and jobs but I think we have opportunity for a lot of dollars coming into the state and I think our goal is to figure out how we plan well and we have some strategic thinking and don't just spend the money but at the end of the day that we can say that we have actually done some things for people who live here in the state of Arkansas made it make connectivity a lot easier. I appreciate the Farm Bureau doing this because sometimes we need to have a catalyst someone to bring folks together to start the discussion in the process. Obviously as I say with the pandemic it came to the forefront to show that in rural areas but in urban areas people had hard time connecting and we've seen that with health care how critically important we never have really had a whole lot of telemedicine before but now the legislature has passed bills that allow telemedicine and for insurance companies to pay for it because those are critical critical health care things so many of our our senior citizens who live in rural areas can't get to doctors it's just too hard. I want to thank Farm Bureau for hosting the Connectivity Summit. I think it's important because right now it is instrumental and we're at a crossroads in Arkansas. What are we going to be what are we going to do to ensure that we have the economy of the 21st century and one of the vital pieces is broadband. Broadband connectivity impacts everybody not only rural but it impacts urban and we see that both in in in every in every corner of the state broadband or the lack of broadband is impacting our constituency and so therefore you know it's important that we have this summit to lay out the groundwork to figure out a plan on connecting Arkansas. If you were to tell me a year ago that we would have this opportunity the funding would be there the wheel the political will would be there the pieces are just coming together and I think now it's just critical I mean there's never been a time where we're going to have the financial piece there's never been a time that we're going to have the political wheel and then we're going to have the major players like Farm Bureau to come to the table to talk about hey what do we need to do in order to make not only you know people in Little Rock or people in in Northwest Arkansas to make their lives better and their connectivity better but what about the little town of Murphursboro you know what about the student in Blackfish, Arkansas and so we're we're putting together a a symposium of people to come in to discuss this idea and to say this is where Arkansas needs to be in five years and ten years but we have to have a roadmap and so with the American Rescue Plan money coming in from Washington D.C. this is a great opportunity for us to take that funding and finally modernize our infrastructure in broadband.