sotomayor applegarth has been on city -- sotomayor applegarth has been a city council, these an educatore. excuse me a doctorate from byu. he is a congressional committee spent his entire career in the educational system. he does have a children and 30 grandchildren. he is a leader in our community. he is a virtual every transportation community. our relationship as a transit opposition and the npo the best i know in the country and kudos to mayor applegarth and thinks it is there. so without i'm going to ask the mayors to talk old about their cities and what they're doing so they can paint the picture for you of what's going on indices ended will move on to even more transportation agenda. so we can start with either one of you. spent hopefully our mic swore not on on. we are a. talking. i've been caught doing that a few times. we are not capitol steps and we know you waiting to see capitol steps, although mayor giles said he would tap dance for you. in addition to running marathons he's a tap dancing and i guess we'll stand behind them. i understand that you are coming to countdown, to

from my community, mayor applegarth served as the mayor, he's been there since 2006. this year they're celebrating their 150th birthday. it is a high energy, high growth community. the population has exploded. he'll tell you about that. it was listed by cnn as one of the top places to live in the united states. it also has a rich transit history in 1913 and has the salt lake and utah railways and urban life that went right through its community there. so mayor applegarth has been on city council, he's worked as an educator, he has a law degree, excuse me a doctorate from byu, is a cougar, as well, and he spent his entire career in the educational system. he does have eight children, and 30 grandchildren. and he is a leader in our community. he is on virtually every transportation community. our relationship with the transit organization and the npo, the best i know of in the country and kudos to mayor applegarth and the things that he does there. so with that i'm going to ask the mayors to talk a little bit about their cities, and what they're doing so they can paint

from my community, mayor applegarth serves as the mayor, he's been there since 2006. this year they're celebrating their 150th birthday. it is a high energy, high growth community. the population has exploded. he'll tell you about that. it was listed by cnn as one of the top places to live in the united states. it also has a rich transit history in 1913 and has the salt lake and utah railways and urban line that went right through its community there. so mayor applegarth has been on city council, he's worked as an educator, he has a law degree, excuse me, a doctorate from byu, is a cougar, as well, and he spent his entire career in the educational system. he does have eight children, and 30 grandchildren. and he is a leader in our community. he is on virtually every transportation community. our relationship with the transit organization and the npo, the best i know of in the country and kudos to mayor applegarth and the things that he does there. so with that i'm going to ask the mayors to talk a little bit about their cities, and what they're doing so they can paint

transportation committee our relationship with the organization is the best in the country so with mayor applegarthwhat he does there's a lot will ask them to talk about there city's so they can paint the picture for you about what is going on then we will move to more transportation and agenda. we will start with either one of you. >> hopefully they're not on. we have spent appear talking. weighed no we're not capitol steps although we will tap dance for you. in addition into running marathons. i understand you were coming to fort worth in may. you will love it. actually we are the 17th largest city now we were beat out by 150 - - 105 people in charlotte. i think it is a statistical error. [laughter] one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation about 1,000 people per day come to texas and 350 land in dallas or four words so rears huge with 800,000 citizens and in the next years will be more than 1 million. and we'll raise say we are a big spread out city is 352 square miles and 344 square miles so ultimately we are a big land mass. we're obviously behind on mass transit because we love our subu