(11:30 a.m. Time Certain) Commission on the Status of Women - 2024 Workplan

1:32:42Regular agenda. What do we have? R forty-three.

1:32:48Mm-hmm.

1:32:54Yes, you are free.

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1:33:04It's ele eleven thirty time certain. You're at eleven twenty eight.

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1:33:29Welcome ladies.

1:33:32Good morning.

1:33:33Good morning.

1:33:34How is everybody? As the Chair um for the Commission on the Status of Women, I'm Jenny Yingling and I'm gonna just bring you guys through what we've done over the last two years and update you. So we have this great PowerPoint. But first I'd like to introduce um the other ladies that are on the commission with me that have joined me today. So to my left is my co-chair. I'm Vanessa Hilton, co-chair. I also work for Pasco County Schools.

1:33:59Okay.

1:34:01I'm Michelle Chamberlain. I'm the career specialist at Mitchell High School. Long time friend of mine.

1:34:07Mine too.

1:34:08And so

1:34:11your

1:34:11discretion.

1:34:13Lauren Masselli, I'm the marketing and communications director for Pasco ADC.

1:34:19I'm Stephanie Pollett, CEO for Lighthouse for the Line, and thank you for appointing me to the commission today. Yeah.

1:34:27Leona Shu as secretary of CSW and representing the African American Republic.

1:34:35Denise Nicholas and

1:34:37thank you so much for having us here today.

1:34:39Okay. All right.

1:34:40Now that you know who all we are, we all know who you are. Um if I can direct everybody's attention to our amazing PowerPoint that our amazing um member Lauren put together. So obviously, this is us for the status uh of women. Um again, I'm Jenny, I'm the chair, Vanessa is our co-chair, this is our mission and our vision. Um next slide, please. Um This is us as a whole, so we do have some individuals that aren't here today. Um for those um in the room that don't know exactly everything the commission does, some of us are appointed, so

1:35:10each county commissioner has the opportunity to appoint um a woman um in the community to the commission. So I am appointed by um Seth Weightman. And then we also work to fulfill spots within the community through nonprofit minority groups and other interest groups, law enforcement, um to ensure that we're um evenly represented through the community for the needs that face the women in our community. Next slide please.

1:35:41Okay, so what do we do on the status of women? So um back in December we did um Our strategic planning session and what we did is through through our work plan is we worked to identify key areas in the community that were important to women in our community. So the first one as you can see is economic development, which I think we could all agree is on everybody's top, number one. The second was education and workforce development. The

1:36:13third was health care and wellness. And then the fourth was women in leadership. Now these four points are going to become really obvious when we share our survey a little later in this in the slideshow. So just remember those four points. So we meet monthly. We meet the first Monday of every month. It is always posted on the county website. Everybody is welcome to our meeting. And what we try to do is we try to find a group a guest speaker

1:36:43to come in and to share with the commission And we try to pick guest speakers that will provide um a little insight and then provide us or arm us with um information that we can push out to to our community. So some of our great speakers that we had over the twenty-three, twenty-four um year um war Bridging Freedom. So we had the CEO from Bridging Freedom come to speak with us. For those of you that don't know what Bridge and Freedom

1:37:13is, is it's an undisclosed location that provides safe haven for young women under the age of 18 that have been victims of human trafficking. and that is a local organization. In addition to that, we had the affordable housing panel come. We had the Pasco County Department of Health and Available Services come. That was really interesting to see what services were available across a

1:37:43spectrum, whether you had small children, you were middle-aged, or you were looking for senior programs. So that was very informative for us. In addition to having Bridging Freedom come. We also had Pasco County's Human Trafficking Commission come to speak with us. So that was also obviously human trafficking is a big issue and a concern in our community, and it is as well for the Commission. I think

1:38:13my one of my favorite hidden treasures was when Parks and Rex came and they shared with us about the Pasco Alcohol. outdoor adventures program. Um and so I recently ran into uh a dad in the neighborhood and he's like I'm off for a week with my kids, what do I do? And I was like, oh Do you know that just on the other side of the county you can go over and you can rent kayaks and you can write bikes? So it was really exciting to learn about affordable opportunities for us to get our families out and into the community. So those are

1:38:43just a couple of highlights. Do you have any questions so far?

1:38:47No, you've done a great

1:38:48job. Okay. Alrighty. So then let's talk about what we really did and how much fun we had this year on the commission. Um so when I first joined the commission, there was a lot of talk about we have to do something so that we could continue to grow and um bring awareness to the commission. So um just a couple of short weeks ago, we hosted our second annual Women Uplifting Women Luncheon. And you might recognize some people on the slide. We had this amazing keynote speaker. Um

1:39:19No other than Ms. Nikki Alvarez was our keynote speaker. We held an amazing event at the PHSC Porter Campus. Um The event very quickly became sold out. Now it was a free event, but it was still sold out within and I'm gonna look over to Lauren to give me some quick facts. We generated all all the attendance and hype for the event through our

1:39:49social media page and within the first 24 hours we were sitting at somewhere like 40, 50, 55 participants had registered within the first 24 hours. So Lauren gets on the phone with me, she's like, What's our capacity? And I'm like, well let's see if we can get a hundred. Well it didn't take us but a couple of days and she She calls on the phone. She goes, so we're sitting at a hundred, do we know the capacity for the room? And so what what what I will share with the commission and and your friends here with us today is that

1:40:19not only did we meet our goal, but um leading up the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday prior to the event were these phone calls from all sorts of people on on both sides of the county that wanted to know how they could get a ticket. Um and what a great problem to have, but not to have enough room tells us that we're doing something right. So um we hosted One hundred and forty-four. um women. with

1:40:49a would a wide variety of age, race, and interests in the community. at the at the Porter campus. Um it's a ninety minute presentation. Um there's an opportunity for women in our community to mingle and men. Men are welcome too. So um there were a couple. Um

1:41:09that's why we were right.

1:41:11Men

1:41:11are

1:41:11always welcome. We don't discriminate. Um this is our wild game dinner. Okay.

1:41:17Yeah, there you go.

1:41:21I can imagine the wow part in a

1:41:24Without the Crown Royals.

1:41:26So as you can see, as you can see from the pictures, we have a packed house. Um we had an amazing MC, which was Dr. Davita Jones, who's the provest at PHSC. She's a dynamic woman who was able to not only um facilitate for our keynote speaker, but our other three panelists. Can you go can you go back two slides so I can Highlight our other panelists real quick, one more. Okay, one more. I didn't realize there were so many pictures. There

1:41:56he is. Okay, I'm coming. So we were we were very strategic on how we picked um the amazing women that we were gonna have because the title for our event is Women Uplifting Women. So it was really important to us on the um on the commission that we had the right women in the room to help uplift, energize, and motivate other women in our community. Um so what we did is we looked at Some results from the survey from the first annual event, and we're able to kind of figure out

1:42:26where women in our community were looking for resources. So, of course, we had none other than Rosie. Rosie sits on the state commission for the status of women. She is inspirational. She shared with the group about some great opportunities for women to nominate other women. to be named um for the commission and for recognition for women in service and leadership in in the state of Florida. So she shared that. Um when we had um Ebony Perez, Ebony

1:42:57um came to us um from Saint Leo. She oversees the social work department and she handled our mental health um component that was um a big concern of women that wanted to attend the event. And then we had Rebecca and Rebecca is the CEO uh for Bay Care Wesley Chapel. So we kind of really focused on um on areas that were concern for the women in our community. And I will tell

1:43:27you that it was jam-packed. I know Nikki, when we're done, I'm hoping you'll you'll tell everybody what a great time you had and how you can't wait to come back next year. But it will go through the picture so everybody can just see it was a packed event. We had some great sponsors, so if we can get to that sponsor page, I'd like to recognize two very special people that are in the room with us Today. We were able to pull the event off and provide an event at no cost to the women attending because we had great sponsors. So I would like to thank Commissioner

1:43:57Oakley for always supporting us on the commission and Commissioner Starkey as well. Thank you so much for your sponsorship. Along with, as you can see, we have a plethora of other individuals in our community. Some big, some small that um that also felt important to support what we do on the commission.

1:44:15That's true.

1:44:20So I mentioned earlier in my presentation that we perform a survey. So we're gonna show you the comparisons. We'll just run through the slides. You guys have them there, you can look at them later. But we just did some surveys to kind of find out where we go from here. So on the top you can see it's our 2023, on the bottom it's our 2024. And ladies, if anybody wants wants to jump in you jump in. Um so w when it asks how you'd rate today's event, as

1:44:50you can see um our fives are very high. So we we were very excited to see that. Obviously for all of us on the commission, we're all just volunteers. So we were able to pull off a phenomenal event all volunteer because all of us on the panel do have our own full-time jobs as well. Next slide, please.

1:45:14This as you can see was, you know, would you attend again? You can see at 100% both both years they wanted again and they wanted to come back. So we're very excited.

1:45:27Um again here is some comparisons. Um age, so that's one of the um questions on the survey so we can get a good idea. Um I just want to point out one area where we saw a lot of growth and that was that um 35 to 44 years of age. If you compare the two years, you can see a significant amount of growth, which tells us that the new families moving to our community are looking as women for services and opportunities to connect.

1:45:59Um and this is our ethnicity breakdown. Um and then this is our household income breakdown. I will point out um that we really noticed Just women. Just women. This is not the husbands. This is just the women or or a partners. Um I wanted to point out the number of um women that attended our event um that were in that fifty a thousand to um seventy four nine nine nine. Um 'cause that's

1:46:29a big bracket and that's um That that's a a good medium income, so we wanted to share that with you. You can um obviously go through the survey and see where everybody fell according to income. Um this one was very interesting because in 2023 um number of people that had children under the age of eighteen was nine and then this year it's twenty-two and so um being able to see that that no that should shows us that that we we are truly reaching a broad spectrum

1:47:00of everybody in our community. Um And then this one talks about what challenges impact women in our community the most. So you can just go right down the line. Obviously finances are always high. Time management, energy, and motivation were important to them, along with mental health. And you can compare that to um twenty twenty three and you can see where they all kind of align

1:47:31as well. So the concerns or um impactful challenges that women see in our community really haven't shifted.

1:47:40Okay, so um this was what what are what are some challenges um that are impacting the women in our community. So the number one one was retirement. and then affordable housing and then self-care.

1:47:56And then these are health related challenges and how they impact you. And I would have to say the biggest one is accessibility to healthcare. And then these were just some other unrelated challenges that impact individuals in our community. Um

1:48:18Um this one went down. It did go down. Um sorry. I I am not responsible for the results, just sharing them. Um how responsive do you think your local government is to the needs of women in your um city s or county? Um and they did go down slightly. Um and so one of the things that we talked about is how do we add a probe question? Yeah. to to another survey. And a little further in our presentation

1:48:49you're gonna see where we're gonna we're gonna ask for a little more help and that'll be able to add some additional questions that would fall in so that we could get a little inf more information to find out why they feel this way. Um

1:49:08So these are positive impacts on women and again you can see

1:49:14Go back.

1:49:17It's okay.

1:49:20So this is the um what's like one thing that you can change that you think would make a positive impact? So this kind of is a little bit more of a probe into the government question I think prior to. So um you can see the majority of people answered employment and education and then you can follow and then it looks you kinda jump down and on both sides it's like the health care um sorry the child care and affordable housing. Those are like the two large areas. Got a plan

1:49:44coming.

1:49:45Yeah. We're ready

1:49:46for it. Um prior to today, how familiar were you with the status? Um and so you can kind of um see um we have a lot of work to do and I think um our our Women Uplifting Women event is a great way to to get the word out, but we know we need to do more. Um how would you rate the average price of child care? Um so you can see and you can look at twenty three and you can look at twenty-four and and you already know that in twenty-four we had um almost

1:50:17half as many with children under the age of eighteen attend the event. Um This is public education system and how it was rated.

1:50:31And then this is an interesting question because it asks how how we as women feel um about the opportunity to have leadership roles. Now as I look at the commission, um I I think we've got a pretty good split going on here. It got the um We got it, right? We got it. We've got it figured out. We're gonna bottle it and sell it. Um but you can see that um Out of the 47 women surveyed, 16 were onshore and 12 and 23, which tells us that um we have to do a better

1:51:01job of communicating opportunities that exist in our community. Um but In in in thirteen, seventeen people had no idea what roles um existed. But then when you come over and you look at twenty-four, some something has changed in our community um because the um knowledge is definitely leveled off when you look at the number of people that completed the surveys.

1:51:31Okay, so resources. Um obviously um we've talked about it throughout our presentation. Um employment and training and education are um pretty big priorities to the women in our community and the women that took the survey. Um public programs and assistance, um and then public policy and um political leadership. You can kind of see top-off child care assistance, um, affordable housing. Um Right. And then assistance

1:52:01for violence against women. So you can kind of see that it's a good um even slice of where um where we're looking for resources in our community. And you can compare the two years and um they they they're pretty steady um and um stay pretty consistent with each other.

1:52:22Okay, additional survey comments. So I'm not gonna read them all, but some of them are really good and um Where was my favorite one? I absolutely loved this event. The panel discussion and keynote speaker were excellent. Um and when when I read that um I just think that that's somebody who went to an event, they weren't quite sure what to um expect, and they left there and anybody that was at the event that day, um

1:52:52the energy that you can get in a room when you get that many women together. I can only imagine. And

1:53:00listen. I can only have one in my house and there's a therapist.

1:53:05But when when you get that many women of leadership together and the who's who's of women in in our community were in that room that day and to watch the room just collaborate and slide and go together um is is truly a work of art and we we were able to do that and provide the opportunity to allow other women to uplift other women. So what's next? I thought it was a good idea.

1:53:35Yeah, yes. So uh one thing the commission has really worked on um since I joined the commission was trying to create a uh woman um owned business directory. And so we are working on um on trying to figure out the best way to do that. We did have some um talks um with Mike Fasano's office and finding out uh how we could do um women owned business registries through taxes. Um and so there is some conversation. We would definitely have to be the pioneers

1:54:06for that if um if that's the avenue we're going to um Um to go down. The second piece that we'd really like to see and just from the surveys think would be helpful would obviously be a vis uh a digital um platform, but somewhere where we could store resources for women in our community. And so, how could we capture the data and the information when our guest speakers come and have

1:54:36it on a platform for others to access? How do we continue to grow our surveys to truly get the responses we need to provide an inspiring community for the women that live in our community? And then working with our current resources. Partners. So where does how how do we push that information out? Is it through nonprofit organizations? Who are going to be our key partners to make sure that people

1:55:06know that these resources are available? And then who creates that final project? So who who's going to create that publication? Who where is that going to live? Who's going to own it and obviously the publication would not be bound, it would definitely be something that was digital because as we all know as soon as you would print it it would be out of date. So that's kind of what we on the commission are looking forward to tackling this year.

1:55:37Any questions yet?

1:55:39I um I think Joanna might be able to help in getting some of that news out. I actually looking at your group And I know there's m I mean, how many total in your whole group membership? Well,

1:55:55eleven. We're at eleven now. We have a couple vacancies but we are working hard to fill them. Get get us the list of What the

1:56:03biggest

1:56:03thing was.

1:56:03But there's a there's I know for a fact there's a lot of women. that are in business or whatever that are not attending for some reason or other but would be very good groups for you to reach out to and I'll I'll use my um my social media page to put it out too and the county's social media page would be really great. uh to help, you know, get that word out. 'Cause y'all done a very good job. I mean this started from nearly nothing and I mean look what we got here. So

1:56:34and it's just bringing more and more smart women up up front where they belong. And uh I always put mine up front so I think that's what you have to do and and y'all have great ideas and we need to be sure we back And give you the support you need. So from my office I know I'll do that for you. So

1:56:53speaking of support.

1:56:54Ms. Starkey.

1:56:55Oh, sorry. Uh something that comes to mind when I started this, I uh it was because I found out about the one in Hillsborough County and I don't know if Penales County has started a commission on the status of women. Do we know?

1:57:08I do not see the other thing.

1:57:10Well, I think we'll talk to some of the commissioners over there and get one started. And then I think it would be really awesome to have a joint Tampa Bay meeting of all the commission on the staffs with one of a a big event. I

1:57:21know the first one we had here in Dade City with Jean and Matthews, my appointment. We had it over at Cochopelli's in the citrus room and I think it was twenty three uh total count was twenty three. So but it's grown from that. I mean we've done a great job. Yeah, great

1:57:38job. Very excited about the progress.

1:57:41Yeah some of the questions. So

1:57:43obviously we would not be able to pull off what we do from the commission if we didn't have great people that kept us organized, um, kept us in line with the rules. Um and so I I I think Derek's here. Um Poor Derek. I mean he got assigned to a group of us and and he helped he was instrumental in pulling off our first annual Wimming Uplifting Wimming event. So if it would not be inappropriate, I'd like

1:58:13to give Derek a huge round of applause for

1:58:21And We just we just get so lucky to get great people and so Derek comes to us and is like Well I got a new position You guys are really good at moving people really good at promoting very talented people and um so very quickly Derek introduced us to Sonia who's here and Sonia Sonia took the ball and and she didn't even dribble it she just ran with it and it's it's been such a joy to work with her, to work with Derek, and to work with the commissioners

1:58:51as well and your staff, because that's who we are constantly on the phone with trying to check schedules and make sure that we can pull off events like we pulled off just a couple of weeks ago. So we would be remiss if we didn't truly recognize the people that support us. So again to Derek and Sonia, thank you guys so much.

1:59:14Mr. Mayor I will speak.

1:59:16Oh I was wondering if we need to uh put put this report do we bring this in for the record or

1:59:23you can receive and file it.

1:59:24I think that let's do that. Make a part of the record. Um I move to receive this report and

1:59:28Second. Got a motion second to receive and file.

1:59:34All those in favor say aye. Aye.

1:59:36Aye.

1:59:37All right. Aye. Motion pass five zero. Thank you. And I I guarantee you along with that comes the support of this board to you. So We uh Very much appreciate all the hard work and it's hard work. It's not easy to put on a function. So it is hard work.

1:59:54Mr. Chairman Mariano. Mr. Mayor. So I'm sorry I missed the list of support. I would have been glad to step in. If you do another one coming up soon, I'm happy to do that for you. Um I'll remind you.

2:00:06Well I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna incentivize you to think about something a little bit quicker. Um, you know, my daughter Amber is very active in a lot of different things, retired state rep. to start her family, as well as helping her husband go to law school. We just graduated Magnicum Lot. They just had to move up to Pensacola. And to try to find childcare. Now they were lucky the first eleven months we helped raise our grandson. My wife was home, so she was able to do it and it was a great benefit for them getting started to take that burden off. Now

2:00:37she goes up and she's just in there and she's got some struggles with it. It's very difficult to get, it's very expensive to get, etc. to have a career to get started, to have to take that break is like tough to do, correct? So she mentioned to me, she says, I wish you'd bring it up and today's like the perfect time. uh about you're trying to improve our uh our uh woman's time off after after birth, right? And I think if you guys could get a group together, and I'd help sponsor that as well, I'm sure the others would as well, um I'd love to see some that discussion

2:01:07brought out. because it's so much of a struggle to have a career and to try to raise a family. It's just such a tough balance, especially with a newborn. So if you want to com commen some committee, do it s do it quick so we maybe even look it for this budget year, maybe we can look and lead in the county to try to improve the lives of our families coming forward. Because Others are doing it, maybe we should look at it too, but I think if you guys took a look, especially with your new uh demographics a little more balanced now especially, that maybe you can kinda help us lead

2:01:37the way uh to help with that time off.

2:01:40Yes, you can speak to that. I was gonna ask if you wanted to speak to that.

2:01:43The resident young ish mom of the group. So I just wanted to make note. Um In speaking when I drop my son off at VPK and talking to other parents, you know, I'm in the office three days of the week. So I'm in by eight, out by five, don't see his teachers and do drop off. Thursday and Fridays I get to do drop-off and hiccup. And I talk to other moms and um those especially who have two or three kids. Do not go back to work because they can't afford to because if you have two kids, I have a girlfriend, I think um she said she makes about four

2:02:13hundred dollars a month after she sends her kids to school. And she's so she's working putting her kids in school just so that's um she can work to make an extra four hundred dollars, but then the kids are sick and then she's having to take that time off. So it's very, very hard balance, it's very expensive to get your kids into these programs. So it's it's hard out there so it's definitely something that should uh be looked into further.

2:02:36Well and especially with a newborn because if you're at a certain point and you don't fit their parameters to what's going on, that kid can get bumped up too if it's not working. And now you got Two in, one out, and how do you how do you make that benefit?

2:02:49In the newborn sometimes there's like six month wait lists um to get into some of the schools to get your kids in there and then if they call you you have to be there in like thirty minutes to pick up your kid if they get a little bit of a fever or if anything's going on. Um so it's hard on both parents. It's not necessarily just the women, but obviously the women tend to be the ones who

2:03:06She did mention about with the with the dads take a little time off a little more time off too. And maybe maybe it's a partial of not just like full time with like uh extra time off, but maybe it's a balance of help having you work from home to do your job if you can.

2:03:19I I follow um quite a few different movements for n national things that they're working on right now um at the federal level for some of these things to be implemented and improved on for parents. But um I can't quote any of the numbers right now. But there's staggering numbers about certain parents not returning. Returning to work because of those costs or because of the burdens that it puts on the family. So and then you have one of the parents that's gonna have to overcompensate and overwork. And then they're missing their family time. So it's definitely a national issue, but it would be great for our commission to be able to do that.

2:03:47Yeah, we w we were lucky in my family where my wife was able to stay home, but she actually then when the kids were in school then she worked at the same school so it worked out perfect. When she was off, they were off. Everything was was good. But it's tough to find that situation. But now with the new technology we have that we learned from COVID, all these Zoom technologies the things we can do to work from home which so many are doing around the country. That's why a lot of people coming to Florida because you work from anywhere. I would like this have us look at take a look at that technology part, the time off part, and if you guys could lead the way, that'd be phenomenal.

2:04:15Yeah.

2:04:15Thank

2:04:16you.

2:04:16Nicky.

2:04:18Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um I just wanted to thank you for the opportunity to be part of the luncheon and um I'm so humbled to to been asked to be the keynote speaker for this amazing event. And um I was so stressed out because you I'm in a room with amazing women and um what am I gonna say to inspire them, right? Um but I have to tell you I felt so welcomed by everyone and um I

2:04:48felt connections. It's such a beautiful event. So I'm saying this because if you're listening and you're a woman or a man apparently too, you can come. This event is amazing. Please put it on your schedule to come to this event every year. And I was amazed at the turnout. You ladies do a fantastic job, and what you have planned for the future is wonderful, and I'm so excited. But thank you

2:05:18for inviting me in and letting me be part of just a beautiful program. And the other panelists are also amazing women. I learned so much from them being there. Um, you know, now I'm friends with them and we're gonna do lunch. I mean it's just that's how it works, right, at these things. So I just thank you for that opportunity. You do a wonderful job. Thank you for your volunteering on this important important effort. Ms.

2:05:43Yeager?

2:05:44I just wanna say that I look forward to your next event and I will definitely be there and help any way I can. And also I just wanted to add kind of to what uh Commissioner Mariano was saying too, when women have to take that gap. i you know, to stay home, there's a gap of employment, you know, and that that could be several years if they can't afford childcare. So um I'm all about trying to help in any way I can as well to come to a solution.

2:06:13Mr. Weightman, thank you. Best for last, huh? Uh you know, Jenny, it was interesting your statistics. Pasco, we mentioned we talked about this number of board meetings. We went from one of the oldest counties by age per capita in all Florida and post-COVID, we're now one of the youngest in average age of 46. So it was very telling when you were going through your stats that the new age bracket that was growing and that's fantastic. It's you know, folks in that AIDS bracket were working, raising kids, after school

2:06:43activities, and you know, fortunately for me have Denise and you and other folks, Stephanie out in the world who are you know, it's a big county, a lot going on and the feedback comes to us and we're very grateful to capture the information, but it's just kind of subjective, right? What you're seeing, what you're feeling. So how if we can help with the surveys to capture more dynamic information of where we can all do better maybe we should invest or look for resources. Um happy to to help and support there. And as far as, you know, with

2:07:14with working parents, i you know, it's true. Without my parents both just retired, we have three without them, my wife and I would be drowning, trying to figure out how to work and and everything that we juggle and uh that's a real that's a real challenge and especially now with labor shortages of qualified people in the workforce. you know, can't have people necessarily sitting out and who wants to kind of put their life on pause, right, if you have ambitions to be successful in in business but still be a

2:07:44good parent to your kid. So no solutions today but happy to help work with you all and whoever we need to to to figure out what a plan that that might work. So thank you for not just volunteering here, but in all the endeavors that you all volunteer in and spend your time investing in our community and glad you're here today.

2:08:02Mr. Cabal.

2:08:05Could we make one request? The girls would like a picture.

2:08:10Oh the girls want a picture? Well let me get about I got some on the wall there.

2:08:18Yes, we'll all come down for a picture. Mr. Cabal, you want to say anything you're good?

2:08:22No, I think I would just I would just add that your your work is phenomenal. It's it's great to hear the the great words about our team members that have kinda helped help guide this along and and just continue to do uh do the good work that you're doing. You're really doing a lot to to to elevate um things and we just we just love to see it. It's a fantastic work. Mr. Baumsteiner,

2:08:41you all absolutely a pleasure. You sure I'm giving you an opportunity. I've got to go down. All right.

2:09:08Yeah. Yeah.

2:09:52Yeah.