All right, well, thank you very much. Bastion, thank you for thank you to the trademarks Coalition for inviting me to also want to say before I start, this is this is my take on the system. So I'm not speaking for the different parts coalition, I'm not speaking for the city. Speaking for me, it's also incomplete even though the stories of your own organizations much better than I do. So I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback, and really having a conversation. So there's a lot of history to cover. I'm gonna, for the sake of brevity, I'm going to talk about three periods. In talking about some organizations and initiatives. So to start, I'm going to talk about the period in the late 1960s, after the riot uprising, ended up organizing the initial demand for racially equitable system, because that really helps lead in to what happened in the young entrepreneurs, which I'll talk about next. Sorry, 20, a period in which to trade increasingly as a payment or budgetary pressure also opened up to the idea that sustaining a vibrant Parks and Recreation system was going to require working with nations working with community members soliciting governmental aid. But in that period, there was also a kind of concerted effort to keep municipal control over the whole system. In the 2000s, which I'll talk about at the end, you know, it's sort of splinters, where you have really severe budget cuts. But then that's kind of a flowering of organizations, both at the grassroots level and the corporate and foundation funded groups that actually took over management. And then I'm going to talk a little bit about where we are today, where we might be going, and hopefully we have some time for questions. So I would argue, the history of our stewardship, and you try, it really goes all the way back to 1966. And a woman named Olga AR, she was the first woman to serve on the executive board. And she was also a member of the Detroit recreation department. And she proposed in 1966, the form an organization, city wide organizing initiative, to demand a more equitable distribution of resources amongst the city's parks. And that effort of hers that idea of her is really gathered steam after the 1960s government values intuitive attention to the back in subsequent surveys, interviews with residents, that many people felt like the Parks and Recreation Department was not serving the inner city adequately. They were not hiring a sufficient number of African Americans. It just generally were viewed as an agency that sort of problematic and didn't have a good relationship with the community. And so you know, if you report after 1967 I'm trying to like diagnose what are some of the issues number one is police brutality. But number four on that list one, what are the communities they call the fire department and quote engross agencies with hostility by large standards in the community. This is not something you would expect at the parks and recreation. And so after the new Detroit committee joined with the UAW to form an organization, called the private areas recreation team worked hard, and inquired a black community organizer, Eric, and dark brought together 53 community based organizations in Detroit, mostly neighborhood representative organizations. And they formed a coalition to demand better workshops in our system. One of their major asks when they got this initiative at Waffle Brown, was that a city created pocket parks, and what were then very densely populated neighborhoods in the inner city. And they kept on ministration applied for federal funds. And they actually got money to build 10 of these parks, and gardens and work with the landscape architecture firm to meet with you on the blocks where these parks are going to be built. And to come up with a community based upon all of which we're going to include really nice features. Pools, like like small like reflecting pools, or splash pads, etc. Well, unfortunately, the director of the Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation agency at that time, manager may was entirely decided he didn't matter to build these marks because he was required to by the terms of the federal grant, but he did not follow the designs generated by the youth. He did not hire any any. And he said at the beginning, that the Parks and Recreation Department recreation would not maintain these marks with my directors and these marks. And so community members try that kind of their best to maintain these marks themselves. But as you would expect, they fall into disrepair relatively. Today on these 10 Best pocket marks, the only one that there's still any trace is actually that anyone's mentioned the word project. As part of the project, there's a little bit of playground equipment. That's one of these firearms. So after meeting with this resistance from the Parks and Rec Department starts next move was to go back to this landscape architecture that they were working in, they decided that they were going to create their own master plan for the city's parks. And it's really a remarkable documents include this, for example, this is a picture from a vision for a greenway running from the Detroit River, which is of course, you know, what, you know what the city ultimately pursued, but at the time, they were just met with resistance. In 1973, academic publishers in new Detroit decided to stop funding the initiative. And afterwards, this is a quote from a newspaper article after dark disbanded. This is one of the city's parks planners that most professionals in the department do not incur intrusions, which often demand partner that particular person is more money for recreation. Basically, we are the experts are not important that things change. And what is that voters pass a new charter, which turns the Parks and Recreation Department into just the renovating department. And it gave it a commission. So rather than being an agency dedicated to like maintaining landscape spaces as its primary purpose mean, that was supposed to serve the philosophy of the other thing that happened and I think, for voters and Americans. And one of the first things that Coleman Young did was he is he hired the director of DARPA to be the first director of recreation. Now, Americans did not actually stay in that role very long was kind of a whole history there. But the changes that she initiated for last thing and risk assessors to follow. So immediately, you know, she proposed holding meetings working with community groups. She hired grant writers in pursuit On many nations operations from other levels of government, she also expanded programs like mobiles, and mobiles to bring resources into underserved neighborhoods. The kind of priority for this appointment of Sarah Coleman Young in this administration, they came in with a racial equity agenda. But what they actually had to contend with was a never ending series of financial crisis. So they have these goals of integrating government and certainly more accurately, but they were doing it with less money. And so, one of the things that took place in the 70s is that the recreation department is rapidly turning more and more to external health operations in the late 1960s. recreation department actually has many as 2000 workers. By the time the youngest mayor was about 1500, and a third of those were funded through federal revenue sharing and provided temporary public workers. Young also negotiated with government and Milliken for what was called the state equity grant. It started with $35 million a year. And these were funds that compensated Detroit for providing regional amendments like the Detroit R, which was 100 City control.