well, hey, thank you all so much for being here. I mean, this is a packed house. This is a packed room. I want to thank all of our community partners who reached out to their networks and invited people to come. DSP, SBA, BOMA, ABC, I know that I'm forgetting a few off the top my head, and I forget, and I apologize if I did. GSI, but thank you all for doing so, because today, what we're talking about is is an incredibly important topic, something you know, probably the greatest challenge facing our city today. And so first off, good afternoon. Thank you all for being here. And I just want to take a moment to address the real concerns that so many of you, our business owners, our residents, our families, have raised about the challenges that we face in this city. And first and foremost, I want to acknowledge the frustration and the hardship and the worry that many of you have been experiencing for far too long. We have watched our city drift toward disorder, and for that, I want to apologize we as your elected leaders, have not done enough to enforce and support the laws that are meant to protect the community and maintain order that allows Spokane to thrive. And again, for that, I am deeply sorry. It is the cultivation of lawlessness that gave me the desire to run for city council in the first place. And make no mistake about it, lawlessness is what we're cultivating, and by continued, by supporting continued bad policies that have been authored, not only here, but around the state and around the country, It's unacceptable, and we cannot allow it to continue.