the commendation for dispatcher of the year is a district 1 resident kaley hillcode and i would ask -- and i know her family and people that really understand the critical role that her and the hundred dispatchers play in the city but i would ask if she could come forward and anyone else that wants to join her. we're pleased that our department of emergency management has this amazing group of people that work everyday protecting our city often invisible from sight. i wanted to say this is i national day, a national public safety telecommunications week where around the country many other major u.s. cities are honoring heroic that 911 dispatch -- dispatchers do everyday and we have hundreds of folks in the department and on the job 24 hours a day, seven days a week and answering 911 calls and coordinating police officers and firefighters and the first responders and paramedics and they're the ones that go often unacknowledged often and unlike the police officers and firefighters and medics they're the ones that we don't see and work hard everyday and provide help and reassurance to pe