of the survey and their next steps we invited executive director for the lawrence partnership derek mitchell. thank you for coming in. let's begin with just telling us more about the lawrence partnership and how you describe it to people. what it is. >> sure, the lawrence idea that we have a shared interest in the success of lawrence. you know whether you are a business owner or a community member, an institutional leader and we all will suffer, if lawrence suffers we will benefit when they prosper tp it is a mechanism for people to work together and we recognize that a lot of institutional leaders that they can leverage ideas to get things done. >> byron: for those the negative stories about lawrence, why is lawrence so important to the commonwealth? the people who are thinking of negative things? >> lawrence isn't just important to the commonwealth but the story of america. spri started in communities like lawrence and industry has since left but communities like lawrence, it is where the mill woker starts and immigrants got their start. city. >> that's right, and 74% is latino and a hard