we have been together about five months and this is our recording secretary firefighter, jacob pale. this is our sergeant of arms, john smith and our secretory -- secretary secretary, antoine davis. at the other members, a couple of them are on vacation at one took his mother out to dinner. so they could not be here. [laughter] >> by the other thing i would like to point out about these three young gentlemen is all three of them first started out as what we call executives at large. just getting to know how things are run and the way, -- of the new rebirth at the black firefighters will be. now they all have positions in executive -- not just a starting spot, but they all have -- he's like third in charge and everybody gets all up there, just because the work they have been doing. i cannot express how happy i am to be working with these young men. it has really been a godsend, to be honest. so we have a short video that we will show because videos speak a lot louder than words. actions speak louder than words and then we will answer any questions and go from there. [♪] [♪] [♪] [♪] [♪