Are there any current Adopt A Park stewards in the room right now? All right, I see. I just want to collect your vote and say thank you for all your hard work. We currently have 26 organizations enrolled in the program, stewarding 27 parks across the city. So for this past season, we've had over 100, cleanup events and cleanups and events in the parks. And I also just want to acknowledge the work you all do outside the adopt a park program. You know, you're promoting events throughout the year during cleanups throughout the year. And yeah, we just want to acknowledge that it goes beyond just the program itself. So thank you. So for quick little overview. Adopt a Park began in 1979 during the young administration. I know Cooper's date he said 1977 I don't think anyone adopted the park until 1979 though. But this was a way for the city to maintain its extensive parkland, through community partnership. And initially, it was focused on Park cleanups, upkeep, repairs, grass mowing, and even some summer programming they had summer youth programs that that stewards ran and there have been different iterations over the years. So for example, the adaptive Park program for a while that was only focused on knowing while the city was going through municipal bankruptcy and couldn't keep all that parkland mowed. fast forward to today, the city's a little bit better resourced. So now adopt a Park is focused on two cleanups and two Park activations per year. And so Detroit parks coalition DPC is partnering with the city going forward to help run adopt a Park. And again, that's going to be a lot of what my role is. We're building up the program with new benefits and opportunities for stewardship organizations. Some really exciting ones I'm happy to share with you in a little bit. So first, let's go over some of the program requirements and a little bit about the application. The program is open to Detroit based community organizations, so block clubs, parks friends, of groups, places of worship, neighborhood groups, nonprofits, any group that's really connected to the park, they're interested in stewarding. businesses and for profits are not eligible at this time. But if you're with a business and you're interested in stewarding, I'd be happy to play matchmaker and find a neighborhood organization operating in or around the park you're interested in. So just because you're a business doesn't mean you can help out in the parks. Also if multiple groups are applying for the same park, we encourage you all to submit a joint application. So if we see an application coming in for the same park for two different groups we'll contact you and help facilitate that process. So the application window is open Now, as of this moment, it is open. With these words, i just pushed the button. So it's open from December 6 through January 21. And this has a lot to do with the city's event permitting processes, which you just heard a lot about. We're calling this application window the priority permitting window. And the city is generously holding this window open exclusively for adapt a Park stewards for them to submit their event dates before event permitting is open to the public. So that's great that they're willing to do that. Applications will be accepted after this window will be approving those kind of on a rolling basis. But if your preferred event dates can't be guaranteed after this application window. So like John said, I'm sorry. GSD is permit fees will be waived for any adopt a Park events that you have on your application. So be sure to get those on there. But as John said, other fees might apply for other city departments like the special events management team. So for the cleanups we're asking that you do at least two preseason you're more than welcome to hold more and I'm sure most of you will. The sort of activities are open for it's trash pickup, light beautification, some invasive plant species removal. And we're also also asking that you complete your first clean up by May 1. This is to assist the grounds crews of the city. They'll still be like training and staffing at that point in the season. So it'll just help them get their their season off to a good start. There are some things the city does not want you to do. One big one is mowing the grass. I know a lot of people have questions about that. I believe it's because they're they're unionized are the mowers unionized john?