and i moved to riverton in 1975.where 20 miles south of salt lake city, so we're in the metropolitan area. when i moved there, there were 3,000 people in 1975. in 2015, we have 42,000 people approximately and by 2030, i believe we'll be built out by then, we'll have 60,000 people. we're 12.6 square miles. i didn't leave a zero off of there. we're 12.6 square miles and we have a general fund budget of $9.2 million to kind of give you a feel for our city. as i became mayor, i wrote down some goals that i wanted to -- accomplish, some emphasis. i wrote down some of my philosophy and what i wanted to do that way and one of the things i wrote down that wasn't in my campaign, but as i took office, my major job was to spend money. not to save money. but to spend money, but to spend it in the right way. that has allowed me to do that in that way. philosophically for my goals, my overarching goal or principle is if it doesn't improve the quality of life for our citizens, why do it? my job is to spend money to improve the qual

we now have two roads out of riverton. one is bangalar highway, a road that carries about 45,000 people a day and so, we've widened our other roads so that we have roads, our other road we had in riverton handles 30,000 people a day. we have bangular highway, which goes north and south and east and west. it circles because we're against the foothills where you can't go directly out. we've had those kinds of things and mobility going forth, and we'll talk about that a little later. but it's important for us to include all aspects of transportation. public transportation is an important part, rail, a very important part. which we'll talk about a little later. as i mentioned, i grew up in los angeles, california. grew up in the smog era. grew up where you can't see the beautiful mountains because they were hidden a lot of the year by what we call smog in those times. grew up with a healthy young man, but when you're too involved with athletics, your chest would hurt because of the air pollution that was in the area. moved to

lastly and not least the mayor of riverton city, utah.m my community, mayor applegarth served as the mayor, he's been there since 2006. this year they're celebrating their 150th birthday. it is a high energy, high growth community. the population has exploded. he'll tell you about that. it was listed by cnn as one of the top places to live in the united states. it also has a rich transit history in 1913 and has the salt lake and utah railways and urban life that went right through its community there. so mayor applegarth has been on city council, he's worked as an educator, he has a law degree, excuse me a doctorate from byu, is a cougar, as well, and he spent his entire career in the educational system. he does have eight children, and 30 grandchildren. and he is a leader in our community. he is on virtually every transportation community. our relationship with the transit organization and the npo, the best i know of in the country and kudos to mayor applegarth and the things that he does there. so with that i'm going to ask the mayors t