okay, we can see the results and the population weighted vote the motion carries. Thank you. Moving on to my report today, one I want to thank the speakers. We had a lot of good content today, and I think we all learned a lot. We'll see if people are interested in a tour, sometimes, maybe that's something to help with as well. So we're going to talk first about the state. There's many opportunities that we have to share our priorities that we just talked about. One is at the Governor's State of the State Address on February 26 a number of us as staff and our officers will be going with Midwest to be able to talk before and after the event, to share those priorities. Here's also, we're in the early stages of planning a legislative reception in Lansing on april 15, if you remember, we do that every at the beginning of every session as well. And one of the things we might be reaching out to some of you individually, because it's nice to get coverage right. Like our officers don't necessarily cover the entire breadth of the region. So keep an eye out for that in the consent agenda. As we mentioned, you did approve, again, us working in things like the acts my tax and educating about that issue. I also wanted to mention the Governor's speech at the Auto Show. I know a few of you were there as well. I thought that that was very timely, and the issues that she brought up are the issues largely a lot of times that we have things like the importance of place making and certain economic development activities, transit and roads funding. And we talked a lot about that already. At the federal level, there's been a few things going on. One is, I just wanted to let you know that I traveled down to Atlanta and met with the fellow executive directors of the major organizations of the major cities across the country to be able to talk about opportunities, looking at the federal initiatives going On, and also with three design the recertification and the need for us to reauthorize our federal transportation program, so an opportunity for us to all get on the same page. And it really was worthwhile. I think it really set the stage for the fact that we, as some of our staff, as well as the officers, will be going to the National Conference in February, visiting with our congressional delegates to have some conversations about our priorities there, but also being able to work with our peers. And an example of that is, I think there's no better time than now to talk about how important regions are across the country, and very grateful that Trevor Layton last minute has agreed to join us and be the head of our communications and work with other communication staff from across the country to be able to help put that message forward. So one of the things I wanted to mention on the next slide was just to give you an idea, and not to go into detail, but to show you the amount of work and items that we've been reviewing over the last week or so, and you know, just to show you, these are the ones that are really more impacting some COVID the organization, you know, and there's more that's impacting our view, as well as local governments. I would say the primary one impacting us is the executive order on unleashing American energy, which specifically was talking about funds that were in the infrastructure and jobs act as well as the inflation Reduction Act. And we were happy to see the memorandum that came out the next day that clarified things a little bit not as much as I think we'd like, but basically said that you can move forward with certain reimbursements of funding under those programs. The things that we will not be reimbursing in our fold are things that are climate related, largely and so that does impact a number of our projects. We are doing the Healthy Climate Plan for the region just kicked off, and you accepted those pro tax funds to be able to do that flooding study. And we also have dollars under inflation reduction to put in green infrastructure. It's called The under the GLRI environmental justice fund. So there's a lot of things that impact us, but not largely as much as we originally thought. So what we have done as organization is paused our funds when it came to the spending of those dollars for our contractors. We've asked our contractors to pause working on those projects for right now. Out, as you know, in the meantime, there were other memorandums that came out that talked about impacting funds beyond, beyond that, basically, most federal funds to be reviewed, and what was the impact of that? And that memo has since been rescinded. Well, the rescission of the memo was good for a lot of people to be able to move forward. We are still under that original issue, so we're still moving as forward as planned. We have received, and I would encourage you to keep an eye out for things like memorandums and guidance coming out of the federal administration. We've received 2d O T memos and orders that talk specifically about some of the programs and definitions and words that they want to see. So we're going to be working on that. We're taking a prudent approach, I think, and I think our staff is doing an amazing job and inadaptable. Any questions? If not, we'll move forward to the next slide that just talks about Interestingly, though, we had a very successful recertification of our federal transportation program, and the report is out. We had a number of commendations and a few recommendations, so I'll briefly go over those. So some of the combinations were about how we did our long range transportation plan, really one of the bread and butters of the work. So that's awesome to hear. And also our tip our Transportation Improvement Program, which is a little unique in this region, and how we do it with our fed related committees. So that's very good to see as well. They also like things like our flood risk tool, our building footprints and all of the direct technical assistance that we are giving to the communities. We also received a commendation on our equity work and our civil rights work, and also on things like that multimodal tool, and as you all are familiar with in our safety work, that we take that safe systems approach, we have a few recommendations, and I think they're pretty nuanced about you know, when it comes to some of our public participation, we have a pretty quick public comment period of the tip at times when we need it, because we need to turn Those projects around quickly, and they want us to monitor that, and they want us to integrate RTA into our work a little bit more, which is something we definitely want to do. And then finally, I think we need to develop an ADA transition plan for our offices here, which we know we're ADA compliant, but we need to actually write it down and submit that, and that actually will likely come in front of this committee. And when is that? In July. In July, in July. So for regional review, we just had it. That was an exciting meeting. Many of you are here. You approved $110 million in projects. It included C back carbon reduction, a couple of transportation alternatives program and some regional safety audits. I would say what's a little different is we have really successfully picked up pictures in here of, uh, giving out of doing check presentations to try to show, like, when we should have these formula funds, there's real benefit to them. And they've been, we've done a couple of them. They've done very well. So as you all get awards, we might be doing more of that. We are putting a little caveat on the distribution, at least award notices, to just let them know that there's a number of things going on right now federally, including things that I just talked about, but also the whole program, you know, does end at some point. And you know, usually it doesn't, it ends, but it gets reauthorized, or you have continuing resolutions, but we do need to put some caveats, so we're working with our our lawyers about what to what to put on those but the decisions haven't decided by regional review. So one of the things we try to say is, what does the data say every meeting? Because you guys love our data, and tomorrow is national Wetlands Day, which is awesome. You know, I love Love me some wetlands. So one of the things that we worked at was a new wetland story map that tells the story about the importance of wetlands. But even cooler, I think, is this a wetland mapper, and you can see a little screenshot of the wetland map. And what's neat about it is it talks about, you know, not just the location of the wetland, but how it functions. What does it function for Is it, is it functioning for ecological value, for flooding, for other things. And I think that's really helpful for all of us to know. So we're doing a press release. At the end of the day today announcing this. Oh, now it's already out.