 So hi, I'm John Mirad. I'm the acting chief of police with the Burlington Police Department and I'm here with retiring Sergeant Brian DeFranco who is leaving us and the city after 20 years of exemplary service. Service that actually began on September 10th 2001 so you can imagine what his first few days on the job were like. In the 20 years that followed he became a school resource officer or SRO and worked in the Burlington school districts for a very long time, touched innumerable lives, made a huge impact on the young men and women who ultimately become our citizens and our neighbors here in Burlington. So Brian do you have anything you want to say on this great occasion? First of all I just want to thank both you and the community for just allowing me to be a police officer here in Burlington. I started my career in Raleigh, North Carolina but I wanted to come up to a smaller community to be closer to family and to be able to do community policing and you guys gave me that opportunity and so I really thankful for that and I'm really thankful to be part of the school system and working with the school and the kids and the community and it was just a great experience for me personally and to be able to get myself and be able to get to learn and be able to spend time with the just the great people and the great kids and the great families in this community. So but it is time's change, it's time to move on and we're excited to move on to a new thing. So thank you for everything. I think Brian's got plans to actually cross the country in an RV but really we can't stress enough here at the department, neighbors who have appeared for this event today and the folks who knew him and got to work with him how important his style, your style of community policing has been. You really do exemplify the idea of taking care of a community, of investing in it, of being involved in it and of caring for every single part of it, especially the kids who are the foundation of it. So thank you. Oh thank you. Thank you again. This is a new t-shirt. Who gave you the t-shirt? My wife. So obviously this is our new career, this is my new uniform and if I put on this morning, my wife was very happy for me to be wearing this uniform instead of the uniform moving forward. It's a lot less stressful for her. She's hiding around here somewhere but she's got also has a matching uniform for me. So as we move on in our new careers and new adventures, that's what we're going to be doing. All right, thank you.