[applause] and anyone we may have left out, we have hodges mendosa from the mayor's office on education. i knew it. and also our cool board commissioner. thank you so much for being -- i've got to pass this on to our emcee shaman walton and is now the district 11 resident as well. shaman. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i'm going to try this again. good morning, everybody. thank you. it's a privilege and honor to be here to moderate this great discussion. i have the privilege of living in district 11 and working in district 10. so these priorities are important to me. and as a leader of the community, i'm going to be very objective today. so i need you all to stay focused on the task at hand so we can have a great and productive conversation while we're here this morning. can everybody do that? all right. so a couple of housekeeping things. when we get to the open mike part and i'm going to stay urn my two minutes during my conversation as well. just to be a good model for what we want to see in the conversation. but when we get so the open mike part of the conversation, we're go