at this pime, we hav timing, wee the privilege and the honor of have commander phil buckley and the members know, commander buckley, you have served the department really well and strongly. i believe it has been a 20-year relationship that you have had with this department in your fire reserve. >> thank you, president coshio and vice president covington. i would like to thank you for letting me come here before you today. we would like to take this time to honor chief hayes white for her commitment to the fire reserves over her years. starting as chief in training, and up through her years as chief of the departmentment her department. her commitment to the reserve program has been in valuable to our program. it has let us grow to where we are today. as you can see behind us, the numbers that we have. she has helped us out with getting all our training, equipment, all of the shirts you see on us -- i got a little bit of money that i was able to purchase shirts with, but it wasn't quite enough, and the chief said she matched it, and we were able to buy 50 long-sleeve dress shirts and ties fo