some special guests visiting us from the district of west vancouver including the mayor, mayor mark saiger who is joining us today. welcome mayor. as well as your delegation from the meto vancouver transportation agency. can you all please stand. [applause] >> i want to acknowledge some of the elected leaders who are joining us here today starting with supervisor rafael mandelman, matt dorsey and joel engardio. [applause] >> . our assessor recorder jaking torres. our school board members please stand. our treasurer jose cisneros. [applause] >> and jenny lam are you still president or -- okay. lanie is the president of the school board. all right. i am getting all my name exercise thingsed up but i think i took care of everything and we have some amazing department heads joining us here today and can you please stand, michael lambert from the library. greg colfax and mary and joe and thank you all for being here. if i didn't call your name raise your hand. just kidding. anyway again thank you so much for joining us and as i said we're kicking off the year of the dragon and prosperity, abund