mr. tony lowry, the director of the lunar new year parade. let me go. thank you. thanks and good morning everyone. good morning, mayor larry. good morning president donald good morning everybody. i just want to say thank you for all the support that you guys giving us. this was a very successful event in terms of the chinese new year celebration. we have our chinese new year parade. we have our festival chinese the history fair. we also have our basketball team growing and we are having our ymca ones coming over for this weekend. so we cannot do it without all the support from different city agency, different leadership, upper management from from our city. so i really appreciate it. couple of things i want to share with you guys is that for the parade itself this year we have actually precise we have more than 1250 volunteers. is that truly a community event? this is an event for our community and of course we have approximately 134 units. we have about 5000 participants all over the bay area. we have different marching band. we have a total of 21 float and of co