president of danville pennsylvania county chamber of commerce, a position she held 10 years. she is currently chair of the national association of workforce boards and has served on their board of directors for the past eight years. a leader in that organization. thank you for being with us today, laurie, tell us what is going on there. [ applause ] >> thank you, after listening to dallas i think we should have renamed this to something like a tale of two cities and my other observation is why am i from virginia and my accent is more southern than those from dallas? so let me tell you what we are doing, even though we are very different, you'll hear a lot of common themes my guess is throughout the entire afternoon so i want to share with you a little bit about what is happening in our community and why it's so important as we talk about business engagement in the public workforce sector. before i joined the chamber of commerce, i worked for the tire company in the danville community. it is a small community, the city of danville is 42,000 people. we have an msa of 110,000 pe