 All right, good afternoon to everyone. My name is Henry Simons. I am the assistant city manager for operations for the city of Columbia. Of course, we would like to welcome you and thank you for your presence today as we celebrate the new amenities here at Marshall Park. Thank you, Mayor Benjamin, our city council members present with us today, Councilman Davis, Councilwoman Devine. Thank you so much for your presence on today. Of course, we would also like to acknowledge our city manager, Teresa Wilson, of course, for her continued leadership and guidance on our initiatives in parks and recreation. We're so excited to be with you today for this ribbon cutting ceremony. This would not be possible without our partnership with Wells Fargo. Through their neighborhood lift grant program, we are awarded $100,000 to fund this project. The playground features an innovative climbing, play components and swings that blend well with the natural landscape that you see behind me. The playground innovation provides children play features to explore and play creativity, balance, and coordination. It also helps with development of mobility, strength, and coordination of their abilities as they play. The playground presents opportunities to enable free movement, which also contributes to health and wellness. With these amenities in our community, available to our citizens, we believe this enhances the quality of life for the entire family. So we are sincerely grateful that we are able to provide the resources to our children for this great community. Now at this time, I will have our mayor, Steve Benjamin, to provide some remarks. Those remarks will be followed by Councilman Sam Davis, along with Emily Byrne, who is our president of the Earl Will Community Citizens Organization. Mayor. Thank you, Henry. Thank you to you and our incredible team at Parks and Rec, Randy, and the whole crew that you lead there. It's always great to come to a ribbon cutting. It's, I think, that much more important when you're recognizing a wonderful investment in our parks. Our parks play a key role vital to the health of our community. And as we went through the master planning process, there are a number of existing parks. Very few, like Marshall's, beautiful silver environment, natural, but some investment need to be made. And this wonderful partnership with Wells Fargo through their Neighborhood Lift grant on behalf of another quarter of a million employees across the world, we gladly accept their support. We know that investing in our parks not only improves property values, but obviously improves quality of life, the health of our families and our children, and certainly our overall economic and environmental well-being. I certainly want to thank Councilman Davis, and I'm not sure if Councilwoman Devine is speaking or not, but this is her neighborhood. So I know this is particularly important to her and her family. I want to thank them for supporting our staff and the continuous investment in our city parks, particularly here in North Columbia. Again, a very special thanks to the folks at Wells Fargo. They've been incredible partners to the city on a number of different efforts, and some big things we're working on together in other parts of the city right now as well. These new playground structures, outdoor gyms, and these other amenities will go a long way in making sure that our children are healthy and strong and competitive as they step into the world that awaits them. Thank you. God bless you. You know, I guess the mayor has said it all, that today is a culmination of years of working with this neighborhood, working with staff, and carrying out our commitment to make sure that every neighborhood, every area has the amenities and the place where they can recreate and get together. One of the things about the parks in Columbia is that the neighborhoods embrace the parks, and they sort of set the tone for what really goes on in the park. And this is the culmination of some years of trying to make something happen here in an area that's really almost untouched. It's natural, and the artistry of the staff, I think, sort of demonstrated that with this particular design. And we are trying to make sure that there's more to come to compliment what we've already had. So the staff also, as the mayor has indicated, has played a major role in developing partnerships. Partnerships from others who invest in the city and at the same time, they're in the background, but they make sure that their partnership also makes a statement. And so we wouldn't be here without that. We wouldn't be here without the staff. We wouldn't be here without the cooperation among council members. And so that is the family. And we hope that that family has done a good job in making sure that the families here make best use of this space. And at the same time, stay with us. We've made a commitment here, and we intend to follow through with that. And you'll also notice throughout the city that neighborhoods tend to reflect really the personality of the park that's here. And they tend to be first in line and assuming the care, treatment, and again, the personality of the area. And this design makes sense. It blends in with what's already here. Thank you. Hello, my name is Emily Byrne. I'm the president of the Earlwood Neighborhood Association and also the mother of a high energy toddler who's going to love this when he gets a little bit bigger. On behalf of our neighborhood association, our Earlwood neighbors, and all of the Earlwood kids, we have quite a number of kids living in the neighborhood now which is fun to see. We would like to thank Mayor Benjamin, city council members, and Wells Fargo for our beautiful new playground equipment. We lost our aging playground equipment here about two years ago and I have to say we would have never ever expected it to be this beautiful replacement. Over the past few weeks since the playground was first installed, it has been covered in climbing children and adults on a daily basis and we are just thrilled to see this park thriving. It's the center of our neighborhood. It's a beautiful, beautiful environment and we just cannot be more thrilled. Again, thank you all so much for providing our neighborhood in Marshall Park with this wonderful and innovative new playground. Just a word of thanks again to our Parks and Recreation Leadership Team under the leadership of Mr. Rainey Davis, our director of Parks and Recreation. I see Kenya, our deputy directors with us today. Todd Martin, project manager, he's here today. I see Karen, crucifix there, our park rangers. Ray Williams, Mr. Kidd. Just thanks to our entire team for the work that's being done. We sincerely appreciate your commitment to the citizens of this community. I also want to acknowledge Parks and Recreation Board members who help us in partnering with those organizations in the community. Much thanks to Fred Monk, our chair, and his entire board. Again, final thanks to our mayor, Steve Benjamin, of course, Councilman Sam Davis, Councilwoman Devine, and all of our council for their support and guidance throughout this process. At this time, we're gonna move from here to do our ribbon cutting. So if you all will move with us and then we'll have an opportunity after the ribbon cutting is done for time's sake to take any interviews at that particular time. So thank you all so much for being here. So we'll transition to the ribbon cutting at this time.