first aaron lay is here are angela jenkins is here, robert mansfield is here, rick huffman is here, and miguel pen is here. if you can all stand as well as patricia mitchell she is also here tonight. [ applause ] >> our members of our advisory committees, they are not appointed. they volunteer. they leave work and school and the rest of their lives to come in the evenings and work with our staff and our commission to advance the welfare of the community. so i want to express my heartfelt thanks to you for all the work that you do outside of the spotlight. commissioner davis? >> i want to be able to move the program along but i do want to mention that having been born in texas and both of my parents lived in the segregated south and i remember spending my summers there and really understanding the impact of the civil rights movement from things as basic as which side of the street to walk on even though jim crow had been abolished. it was still alive and well and to understand the need for even though laws have changed but mind sets hasn't. the fact that there has been no movement, no re