i have to say i've never been on a panel where there's been too female mayors let alone named stephanie sali no baltimore has great voters and visions to elect a mayor named stephanie because i know the voters of syracuse did the same. by way of just sort of starting off where we find the city of syracuse, it is a distillation of everything that we have heard this morning and this afternoon. we in the city of syracuse suffered with an overwhelming job rate, unsatisfactory educational achievement test scores, a graduation rates and about three years ago when i was on the common council started delving into the problem and realizing there were no easy solutions and it wasn't as simple as our economy transition from a place where a loan it could give you a job and help to support your family to a place where now it's the great idea that would help open up people's individual accomplishments. we were beneficiaries of having perhaps the ultimate in public-private partnerships read the chancellor of syracuse university met with a graduate of the university of pennsylvania who started a graduate of