 I want to welcome everybody to five points. Of course, it's five points with the fountain behind us. City Council today took some steps to clarify a lot of questions that we were getting from our residents about the appropriateness of timing and location for wearing masks. Simply put, it's important to wear masks when you can't properly social distance. So we know the three inputs the CDC says to follow. Wash your hands, wear a mask and socially distance. So we want to focus on the mask and social distance, not just here in five points, but in all of our hospitality and retail areas throughout the city. So we're here today to talk about that. We are a unique city that we are a state capital. We are a university town with many wonderful universities and colleges. And with that, we see we have very vibrant hospitality districts. And so the optics that people have been seeing the lack of social distancing in some of these areas is something that we take serious and that we are going to make a special effort of push as we move forward. It is a football weekend. We are very fortunate to have the fighting game cox playing at home this weekend. So it's a great weekend for us to put these initiatives into place. Can't thank our ambassadors are our Columbia Fire Department enough for everything they are doing for us educating, getting getting the masks out. And so we're here today to talk more about that. Chief Jenkins is gonna come up in a minute and tell you about our initiative moving forward. What we've done in the past, how the small businesses in our hospitality districts are helping out with this issue. But first and foremost, I want to thank the University of South Carolina. James Smith is here from USC. They made a wonderful mask donation to the city's efforts. We've got the first donation behind us in a nice brown box. But I wanted to invite James up Mr. Mr Smith from the University of South Carolina to talk about this partnership that we've we've been forging with the university as we as we all as we all move forward together in this. So Mr. Smith, thank you so much, Councilman Brennan. It is wonderful to be here today. I'm privileged to be here on behalf of President Bob Caslin and the University of South Carolina. And to continue what has been a very strong partnership between the members of city council who are here and others who are not present also the mayor and working together to pass ordinances and help us limit and not allow the spread of COVID-19. It is a partnership. And we're all in this together. And key to that partnership has been the ordinances have been have been passed. We are very supportive of what the city did today to extend the face covering ordinance and to raise the fine. We appreciate so much the work of Chief Jenkins and he's done to help enforce those ordinances. We appreciate the work of the local businesses here in five points and others who are helping to reinforce that and their efforts. We all are in this together and we win when we work together to make sure that we protect public health and continue to ensure a good quality of life for the citizens and the one being for our students, faculty and staff. So we're we're proud to be a part of this to partner with Chief Jenkins and to making sure that that everyone covers up. And it's a simple step, but it shows the care and consideration that you have for others. It shows a commitment that we're going to look out for our fellow Gamecocks. So thank you very much. It's a privilege to be with you today. Well, thank you all for being here today. Certainly where I have because we want to keep everybody safe. We want to thank all council members for passing this ordinance and also allowing us to get out here and enforce it. Thank you to the university for this partnership. We also couldn't do our work without all said, imagine Mr. Wilson, so we thank her as well. But we also want to thank all our firefighters and especially our fire marshals who are out here beating ground every day to try to make sure that this ordinance is it works and in effect. Basically what we'll be doing is we'll be going around to some businesses. We're gonna be educating them on the new ordinance. We're also gonna be passing out mass free mass that were donated by USC. And I tell you it's a great partnership because the key to it is not so much the punitive part the key to it just keep everybody safe. And that's what we're gonna be doing. We're gonna be educating people want people to stay safe. All of our young folks are our future. Our old folks is our future as well. So we want to make sure that everybody stays safe and we don't want you to go anyplace and catch it. Take it home to you to your relatives. It's not this is not just a five points effort. This is a whole city effort. I do also want to thank the businesses down in some of them. They have really partnered with us to make sure that folks that are in the line. They remind them to keep your mask on, keep your mask on. And that's the the posture that we're gonna be preaching here on out. But you know, smoky bear teach you about keeping your forest fires down. That's what you preach about. Sparky talks about fires, but Sparky gonna be fulfilling a new role now. So what are we doing? Even sparky wants to get the message out. So we're gonna be using using sparky to educate people on getting mad showcasing him. Let him walk around. Let people see even sparky don't have a mask on. So he's parking you do it. So can you. So again, this is what we're gonna be doing. And we appreciate you all coming out. And we'll walk around and start giving some mass up.