Good afternoon everybody. It is good to see you all here in person today. So thank you all for coming. President of the city Council Pete Fester Seuin and council members that are here today uh and guests and citizens of Omaha. It's really a privilege to be with you today and to honor uh and and present the annual state of the City address. This is I, I always say I give a lot of speeches during the year, but my two most important ones are this one and the budget and so I really appreciate you all. Being here. The state of Omaha's is strong and resilient and it's focused on the future. For the last two years, the citizens of Omaha have endured health, financial, employment, educational and family struggles that are without comparison in recent history. Getting to this point has been filled with hardship due to COVID-19 we navigated through the pandemic to protect public health, our economy and of course our citizens, we developed a series of actions necessary for the city's recovery. Prioritized financial assistance for our citizens. City support for community programs, resources to restart our important tourism and event industry and protecting our first responders and maintaining essential services And we achieved all of these goals. We are now well into 2022. The year of recovery reinvestment in rebuilding. Oh, Maha is positioned for unprecedented growth in population employment reputation and world class initiatives. We are hopeful that the worst is behind us. There are encouraging signs the following number of covid cases, effective vaccines now and are improved responses. I know I speak for our community. When I say we are ready and prepared for life as we knew it. With the help of significant state and federal funding. We are committed to successful recovery. When Congress passed the Cares Act in 2020, Omaha did not receive direct funding. Working with Douglas County in the state of Nebraska. We secured $60 million American rescue plan act, or DARPA. Oh mahal will receive $112 million dollars and half came last May. We will receive the remaining half this next spring. The primary use of these federal funds is to help local governments replace lost revenue caused by the pandemic. Unlike many cities and countries or counties that focused on their own financial recovery, most of Omaha's DARPA money will go directly into our community where the need is great and the need is urgent. We have partnered with the United Way in Omaha Community Foundation To administer $15 million dollars to nonprofit organizations. We will prioritize basic needs such as food, housing services for our homeless and mental health services. We will also fund violence prevention and intervention programs and job training programs by july. We intend to be distributing money to qualifying organizations. We created a stimulus program to help our hotel industry prepare for the return of our convention and tourism business, dozens of hotels have qualified for this program. We will send a funding request to the City Council for approval in 4-6 weeks, totaling more than $4 million. We will also make a substantial investment in affordable housing with our partner front porch investments. This program will be funded with $20 million $20 million $20 million dollars to this program, making it our largest program funded with our dollars. Our community partners make these opportunities all possible. So thank you to United Way President and Ceo Shawna Forsberg. Oh, Maha Community Foundation President, Ceo Donna kush and front porch Executive director MEREDITH Dylan. I know you are all three here. So could you please stand and so we could recognize our partnerships.