and also recognize susan parker and lynn valente members of the mccoppin neighborhood association and were persistently tenacious ensuring this happened. thises was more complicated than we thought it might be and i want to recognize kelly pressler who is here, ken rich, [speaker not understood], we had multiple agencies to work with and that always makes things complicated but i'm glad we were able to secure the funding that was needed in order to pay for the lease which actually had to match its current value and it's currently a parking lotv so, replacing this parking lot with open space i think is a huge victory for this neighborhood and also for the market octavia area plan. and lastly, i just want to recognize sunny who attended countless meetings in the neighborhood working to happen. [speaker not understood] lastly i want to recognize ~ -- i'm not sure if folks have seen the updates ayethctiontioner to their phones or the news, hugo chavez the president of convenient swale a did pass away today after his long battle with can certificatev he is 58 years old ~ and was the presid