No discussion.

All in favor.

It's approved on a 6-0 vote.

Thank you.

Again, note that Mr.

Nail is out of the room.

All right.

We're uh going to cover a couple of departments and then we uh Mr.

Marshall has uh a presentation.

We'll proceed in this order.

Uh we'll cover the legal department first, then the port division next, and then the fire department in that order.

Uh with that being said, we'll start with the legal department.

If anybody Mr.

Lekich, we rarely see you here.

I recognize you from uh your high school annual picture.

Brought out the big guns.

We did.

All right, Mr.

Lekage, we're all yours.

We're all yours.

We if you have an opening comment or nothing.

Okay.

Mr.

Creel has a question.

Uh 6636.

Um that 24,000.

Was that a grant?

That was a grant.

Did we not apply for it or is it not available again?

It's for the center through nine violence.

And they put it on the agenda, I think a couple of weeks ago, and then again this week.

And it's as funds are available.

Okay.

So we didn't budget for it because we don't know if it will be available next year.

Okay, so that's at that point in time we would recognize it if it is.

So that would go through the non-departmental and then be no.

No.

It it's where they are reaching out to us to help police the people that they are protecting.

Oh.

Right.

Got it.

So if if it is available next year, at that time, we would do a budget amendment to bring it in.

So then it would be an addition to correct.

And it'd be in addition to revenue as well, because there's no revenue for it in the budget either.

Even better.

I like revenue opportunities.

Thank you.

That's it.

All right.

Are there any other questions?

The legal department.

I have a question, Mr.

Lakich, if you don't mind.

I noticed that uh in comparing the proposed budget for 27, um, comparing that to the 26th budget, there's a roughly a little over a three percent increase, and it appears to be in services and charges.

Um I'm assuming there's just an increase in some of those services and charges, or is it new software or it's actually in legal?

Um your current budget is showing six twenty-four for legal.

But a couple of weeks ago we did a 200,000 dollar amendment.

So legal is actually at 824.

This just hasn't been updated because this was the date it was pulled back in June.

Okay, so so there's a net a net decrease or net increase.

It's probably a wash.

I mean, because that that's 624 really needs to be 824 now.

Okay.

So it'd be about the same.

All right.

So it's a roughly a wash.

Okay.

Any other questions of the legal department?

Any concerns?

Now's your opportunity.

Speak with Mr.

Lekich.

We he's like Christmas.

He comes around once a year.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you, Mr.

Lekich.

Appreciate that.

Everybody wants to be.

Everybody wants to be Mr.

Lekich today.

All right.

That brings us to the next to be the port division.

Ms.

Johnson, another another Christmas arrival.

We only see you once a year.

Good afternoon.

You're welcome to open with a presentation, or if you just want to go right to questions with whatever is your preference.

Questions?

Okay.

Any questions of the port division?

If I can, Councilman Tisdale, I would one like to start out with again telling her and her staff how great of a job they did with the bill fish and everything else down there as well.

And I know Councilman Gray was down there with me a lot.

I think Councilman Glavin, uh Councilman Creel, Dave that you were down there as well.

So I think all of y'all hit down there during that time period.

But uh her and her staff do an outstanding job for all the different ports in which they oversee.

All right, thank you.

Mr.

Weaver.

Question, Mr.

Gray.

You're doing a fantastic job down there.

I've seen a big difference and how much cleaner everything is, all the ports, not just small craft or the point cadet.

Everything is looking good.

You and your team has been doing a fantastic job.

Thank y'all.

Keep up the work.

Like I said, when I walked around with Bill Fish, people from all over was bragging on y'all, not even knowing that I was a councilman in Florida City, just talking to them.

They was talking how great of a job y'all, how big of a difference it has gotten over the last couple years, and they can't wait to come back.

You know, have no control over the weather, but anyway.

Doing a great job, you and your team.

Thank you.

That's all I have.

Any other questions or comments, Mr.

Creel?

Um so on your 6830 and 6899, the transportation equipment in reserved.

Is that just is that vehicles?

Is that is that um mowers uh equipment or is ordered track somewhere last year?

If I'm a Chris, do you mind turning your microphone on, please?

Thank you.

No.

There you go.

Sorry about that.

All right.

And then on uh 60 10 the increase in salaries, your increase.

So that is we are proposing to transfer the bridge tenders from public works to us.

It's a better fit.

And um so that's what that is.

That would put the bridge tenders under the port and out of general fund uh from public works.

And I'm assuming then we will see that reflected in in in your public works as well.

Okay, and then the um the decrease in your salary and wages and personnel services.

Is that temps part-time sort?

Um it's uh 84, or I'm sorry, 60 10.

Uh and um uh 456.

Oh, um we had someone retire, and the person we replaced him with, it just went back to the beginning salary.

Okay, perfect.

Thank you very much.

No problem.

Any other questions?

Any other comments?

The big garbage.

What's the difference in the garbage adjustment here in the budget?

What is that representing?

Currently, when HCUA bill comes in, all trash and dumpsters are coded to the general fund, and we are now splitting the ports dumpsters out to the port.

So that's another transfer in and out or whatever, okay.

All right.

No other questions.

One other comment.

Mr.

Creel.

I I'd want to concur with with Rick and the rest of the council, I'm sure, on um the the um outstanding job that you're doing over there with them.

Uh the people that you service and the people that interact with your employees down there have nothing but good things to say.

So thank you for that.

I know y'all are concerned with this upcoming storm.

Appreciate your preparedness for that as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Final comments.

Very nice job.

Thank you, Ms.

Johnson.

Thank you.

Painless is a trip to the dentist, uh.

Exactly.

All right.

Uh that brings us to the fire department.

Chief Geyser.

All right, Councilman Tisday.

You know, you used to be the police, so I probably don't have a nice comments to say about Chief Geyser, but he's done a great job as well, too.

I appreciate it.

Chief Chief, did you want to open with a comment or two?

Or uh nah, we can go right into questioning.

You'll be very similar to what the uh uh Chief D back opened.

I mean Chief Everett.

D back ever opened with last week.

We're we're in much of the same boat.

In fact, they're taking quite quite a bit of hit just like us.

Uh chief will entertain questions, Mr.

Creel.

Um 6610, your your um vehicle outside force.

Is that the decrease is so that is reflecting we had a uh well, a couple recks.

One of them was uh an insurance claim.

That money was received from the insurance company of the the person that that caused the incident.

That money's put in there and then reversed back.

So um it it kind of washes out.

And then your software are you you losing upgraded.

So um uh just to kind of clarify, so software for the fire department, we have a fire rebate fund uh that comes in every year around September.

Um we can utilize that fund for uh fire fighting operations.

Uh we're trying to be as creative as possible.

So we reduced the the operational budget and moved about $35,000 worth of software that we can incur on that side, the fire rebate fund.

Um so we're just gonna run it over there.

Typically, where would where where would you use that last year?

Um so typically when like fire rebate fund this year we have a brush truck on order, that's about 250,000.

We've accumulated some of the uh excess uh over about two or three years we work with Diana, and so we're not having to you know do any kind of lease purchase on that one.

Um a lot of times we'll use that fund for uh new turnout gear that continually rises.

Uh things unexpected occurrences, like we can replace an engine in one of our fire engines.

We can't repair it without special permission.

We can replace um HVAC systems.

We can't repair them out of that fund.

So it's generally the operation towards fire suppression.

You got you a night uh a rainy day fund.

It it comes in handy from time to time, yes, sir.

Um so your um I I notice on this this report here it you're down three positions, but then on your is that reflected on your salary and wages, is that what the Yes it should be.

The the 102681 is that the three positions that Yes, it should be.

I'm pretty sure.

Those those are not firefighters, those are civilian.

No, those would be firefighters.

Firefighters.

So yes, so we would drop, so currently we are operating with about 162 firefighters on the shift work, basically a battalion chief down, those that work 2448.

Uh just to give you reference, in 2017, we hunter had 172 positions uh allocated towards those those same things, and that was operating nine stations.

So, and that was us being actually a fire rating three, a class three.

Uh fast forward from twenty seventeen at 172, 2026, we're at 162.

And if we reduce um those three positions, we'll be at 159, which will leave roughly, you know, what is that, divided by three, uh, about 53 53-ish.

Um right there, just above 50.

Well, our minimum staffing per day is 46.

So we're starting to kind of cut it real close in regards to staffing the trucks adequately and filling those seats because we have to fill those 46 seats every day, 365, 24-7.

So it's getting to the point where military leaves, FMLAs, um, sick leave, vacation, annual leave, anything like that.

You don't have much cushion.

Um, so a lot of overtime is being incurred.

So so this one's 78 that's here, that's that's everyone that's that's from me down.

Yes.

Okay.

So on the three positions or you know, whatever we want to call it, the reductions or is that also fairly to say these are maybe unfilled positions that historically we haven't filled, and we're we're just making that adjustment a little bit tighter to the vest here.

Is that part of this?

Are we actually reduced?

I just want to clarify that.

You know, as fast as we can get uh guys tested, um, we can fill the positions.

We have enough.

We're about to hire four, I think August.

We've got seven or eight positions right now open.

We're gonna hire four.

We're trying to hire smaller classes, so our training division doesn't necessarily have to continually do this this 20 weeks training.

So let me ask it another way.

Last year at this same time, when we were sitting here looking at the uh budget and the salaries and the positions.

How many positions did you have this last year at this time versus right now today at this time?

Open, open positions?

Yeah.

Probably about the filled positions.

We were at 160.

So you were at the 160?

We were we were now we're proposing at the 157 or whatever.

Yes, and I can tell you every year, um, I think since I've been chief, I've been asking for 18 positions on top of that to adequately staff the shifts.

We should be at around 60 per shift, and we've done some measures to keep our numbers low at that 46 minimum staffing, but we really should be at around 48, 49, 50 some somewhere in there, depending on how we would like to staff, because the the fire service NFPA requires us for every fire alarm, fire, structure fire, anything, we gotta have a minimum of 17 on scene at any given time.

Well, you start sending three men per truck, send four trucks, you can do simple math there, and then you send a couple command staff and you start getting there, but it's it's cutting it close.

Okay.

So the um the the difference in your in your FICA would be the the three positions?

Yes.

Yeah, it should be.

Um you say you have four in in in in training now that are that are coming up.

We are hiring.

We're in the process of getting them brought on, I think August 12th is the date that we've targeted to have them start.

Now just make sure if I if I remember this correctly last year, the way you explained it to me is you do all the training up front, you make sure they have all their training rather than do intermittent training.

Yes, sir.

So and that takes how many weeks?

Roughly about 20.

20 weeks of training.

So those four people you won't have in a station once you hire them in for another 20 weeks.

Correct.

It'll be done the same way.

Now we have started talking about once we make them firefighters, putting them on shift to at least have that person on the trucks, but then you will have to pull them off daily to do their EMT basic training for about six or so weeks.

The training there at the at Sedar Lake?

Uh yes, yes.

And then you're are you doing outside training as well?

Yes, sir.

Other agencies.

Yes, sir.

All right, perfect.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Yes, I got one.

Mr.

Gray.

How many calls do y'all run to the to the casinos?

Uh total calls uh per year is around 8500 to 9,000 and casinos probably count medicals, fire alarms, those sort of things account for over 50 percent.

So do do y'all have to send a truck every time y'all have a medical?

I know a fire alarm, yes, but if that's a medical.

Yes.

Um it essentially we're gonna at least get toned down.

Now with our partnership with Pafford, uh, you know, which is kind of a recent occurrence, two, two and a half years, uh, and them embedding in the station, for instance, if a call comes in to uh the hard rock and it's at Central, we have a PAFR unit that sits there.

They have actually kind of helped caught cut down on some of our call volume, because if it's a medical that they can handle, they'll just tell our crews, hey, we've got it, we're headed there now, we'll call you if we need you.

So that's been a great uh partnership.

Uh now Station two doesn't have that same luxury station three because they don't have a ambulance sitting right there.

But um, yes, we respond to all medical fire alarms.

Uh and if a fire alarm comes in, we're sending three engines, one ladder truck, and a battalion wagon, regardless of how it comes in reported.

If it's confirmed fire, we're sending an additional engine and a couple more staff.

Right.

So PAFR's been holding up to their stuff that's a very important thing.

Oh, absolutely.

Yes.

Good.

I like I said, I'm just wondering if we can use PAFRET more than trying to send our Yes.

And we are our call volume has kind of flattened out over the past two years, but that's because they are taking a good load of the medical calls off of our our units and our crews.

Okay.

That's all I have.

Um couple of things, Chief.

Yes, sir.

Um first of all, Diana, you you may be the best one to ask this question on overtime, um, which would be under 01552.

6014.

I chose an overtime budget of 750,000.

And this year it was 700,000.

And does it look like we're gonna end up at about 700,000, your best estimate at this point?

Are we gonna be a little over that?

Do you think?

We'll be over that, but the offset will be in 6010.

I'm sorry, Teddy.

6014 over time, it's gonna be more than the 700,000.

Right.

But six zero one zero, which is salaries will be under in between the two, it should wash.

Calculated the other day, and we actually said we were probably gonna have three hundred thousand dollars to the favorable.

Gotcha.

Okay, thank you.

Um the next thing, Chief, you're losing three firefighters.

Uh potentially.

Potentially.

Okay.

And I would assume if you lose firefighters that there would likely be an increase in overtime, because if firefighter Creel is not here, somebody's gotta work overtime to cover for him somewhere, correct?

Yes, sir.

Theoretically.

So that's a factor in there.

Um the other thing you had mentioned is you would like to have 18 more firefighters.

And I'm thinking roughly, uh, let's say they're all newbies.

Maybe some will be transfers.

18 firefighters.

I don't know what it costs per firefighter.

61,000.

610.

Accounting training or gearing thousand.

So going with 61,000, I was using a figure of 80,000.

But with 60.

I would go with more of 71,000.

Yeah.

Somewhere in between.

And that's just salary.

That doesn't cost that's not does not include the cost to outfit them.

Right.

Because turnout gear is not cheap.

All right.

Just let me do a little math real quick.

No.

So an additional roughly an additional 18 firefighters would add another 1.2 million to the cost of the fire department or what it takes to run a fire department in the city of Biloxi.

Yes, sir.

On the other hand, we we we tend to forget that when we add a station, when you add a new station, you gotta have three crews, right?

Three shifts.

So you're gonna add how many people and we've added a couple.

I'm I mentioned this for a reason, just for some context.

We opened Station 7 and Station 10, and uh Station 7 was a really prior was a crummy location.

I I guess it was fully staffed in, may not have had as many.

So so Station 7, when it was running out of the uh the trailer.

Right.

Uh that was uh a single engine crew with three men on it.

Okay.

We had the ladder truck down the street at Station 6.

When Station 7, the big station came online, we moved the ladder truck out of six, moved, you know, of course, the engine there.

So we moved that around.

But yes, when we opened up 10, you typically it takes you nine, so three guys to run that engine, and you really want to kind of hire maybe one extra just in case somebody calls in six, something along those lines.

We tend to lose track of those things over time, that they are additional costs, but they're they're fully justified.

Okay, I don't have any more questions.

Any other questions?

There being none, thank you, Chief.

Um, I would like to state y'all y'all brought out a significant point as we continue to develop, especially up north.

Right now, you know, we've been discussing with Ward 6, Ward 7, several things that we want to do on the peninsula as well in Ward 2 and Ward 1.

That's going to require more bodies, more law, more law enforcement, and more firefighters, especially up north and the Bel Aviv area, those things.

Then that's new trucks, new cars, all of those things as well.

The projections that we gave were projections that were added into some of those as well, too.

So now not these drafts that you've got currently in front of you, but the initial drafts that I gave to you, Councilman Tisdale, Glavin, and Marshall that y'all initially saw, those were also taking the taking in look of what does the future hold for us in the next couple years.

So those are going to be things that we really have got to take a hard look at as the leaders of the city.

How do we move forward with our growth and development by still maintaining the top-notch law enforcement and firefighters that we have?

Because it's not going to be a big of an effect if we go from a two to a three on the residential side, but it's going to be huge on the commercial side to go from a two to a three.

You're talking anywhere up to 10 percent difference in your premiums from the fire side.

And uh same thing on the law enforcement.

Right now, Chief Everett and them do a wonderful job.

If you take a look at a surrounding areas and take a look at what we've got going on here, they're on top of it.

The majority of them.

But we've got to be able to, how do we continue to do that?

And those are gonna be the tough decisions that the leadership of the city has got to make.

So we've got other tough decisions as we went.

As you can see, these directors and managers have really skinned back as much as possible.

And uh we've got to take a hard look at where do we move forward on this one.

I think Ms.

Thornton will tell you it it's this is as low as it it could possibly go from our side.

And uh I I do have concerns about where we're at, but that will be discussions that we'll have later on as well, because I've got multiple other departments to show you too.

Right.

And uh I would love to tell you that the doom and gloom was up front, but it's it's across to every one of them.

And those are things that I really want y'all to, as you take a look, please feel free to talk to these directors, see what they're looking at, talk to these managers, and uh I just don't see a another way that we're gonna be moved forward from where we're able to do any type of reductions.

Right.

Mr.

Creel, I think, had a comment or is there any way we uh the other four uh can get a copy of those uh projections?

Yes, sir.

That'd be nice.

Thank you.

Any other comments?

Yeah, uh go ahead, Mr.

Gray.

So so you're saying that looking forward, does this mean that the grass cutting is not gonna get cut as much?

Trash pick up is not gonna be picked up as much as I will along with numerous other things.

I mean, we'll provide you with the best schedule that we can, Councilman Gray, and the decisions at the end are gonna be up to you seven plus one.

And uh, but I'm gonna give you everything that we possibly can based upon the revenues that we have coming in.

And where our expenses meet our revenues, I'm gonna give you all the opportunities of that.

Again, these are drafts at this point in time.

And it will, that's why we have those discussions here and also with the committee.

Uh how do we move forward on here?

I think in we've given you the best look that we can based off revenue and expenses from this area.

And uh as we move forward with the parks, public works, those are all going to be things that we take a look at, and then we make decisions of what's going to be the way the city moves forward.

And hopefully that answered your question.

It does.

Thank you.

All right.

Do we is there is with these coming up?

I know right now we're on expenses and and I know we've had one revenue meeting.

Do we are we forecasting a flat revenue, or are we not tasking our revenue generating departments to increase revenue or decrease efforts to to increase revenue?

We've had those discussions with the committee, and we're doing the best that we can.

Yeah, the committee thing is that's what's bothering me.

As far as our revenue generating, uh I've discussed with Director Creel, and our rates are about the same as the rest of the city.

So as far as our permits and all of those, so we the last time we had a discussion, we wanted to, as long as we remain the same as everyone else, that's what we wanted to do.

So we do have some that are going up, some that are going down.

Uh our I think our Evalorum tax, is it about the same, Diana?

It's up a little bit.

So we're going to have a little tick, but I think Ms.

Thornton is kind of projected that into the revenue already.

So what we've got to be able to do is take a look at where is the next steps that we've got to be able to take a look at.

I'll provide you whatever you want.

And uh, but we've already I've given majority of it to the committee, and but I will make sure that I share that with all four.

If President Tisdale, you're good with those.

Well, if we could go on forward, if the committee could provide it, that'd be great too.

Um that that'd be good if once y'all discuss in the committee, if we if there was a brief synoptus that could be passed out amongst us so that we're not sitting here asking these questions and we we can be in the know as well.

Right.

And we've been doing that except for the last meeting we we've had, and I've been busy since then, honestly.

But uh any documents such as that, I'll be sure to get to the other members of the council.

What we've tried to do with the committee, um the uh call it the Council Finance Committee, is Mr.

Glab and myself and Mr.

Marshall, is is really try and streamline this process so that we didn't get off into the weeds and questions and uh cross-examining directors on uh I don't know the price of eggs in China and their egg department or whatever, things of that nature.

And uh so far I think it's worked pretty good.

Um we've had a few questions, and you're welcome to ask questions, but really we we wanted to get a good first look, a good presentation.

We've got some decisions to make.

I when people ask me, you know, what kind of budget are we looking at?

I just tell them it's gonna be a challenging year.

It's going to be a challenging year.

I think what Councilman Creel is, I think what I hear you're saying, we so we had a revenue uh workshop, and we went over the revenues and we said this is a beginning point for the revenues.

That isn't the it's a beginning point.

So I think what if I'm hearing you uh Councilman Creel, we we need to revisit possibly the revenue part at some point and make sure that we look through it and say, okay, did we think about this and increasing our uh what we pay for uh facilities or what we charge or what we discount or whatever that maybe those revenues can go up a little bit, and that's that's what I hear you're saying.

So our revenue opportunities.

I know according to the calendar, there was a subsequent revenue meeting that that we we didn't hold.

So that's why I was just wondering if there was another one coming or have we addressed the revenue opportunities.

Um vote both commercial and I know we have residential uh coming on board, but at the same time, I I think there's there's commercial development that I don't know if if we have someone out there soliciting these.

I'll tell you another thing for revenue, and uh and I know it's it is we need a grant writer, a full-time grant writer.

I mean, you got a neighboring city that is just killing it with the with with a full-time grant writer that we don't have.

I think we missed the vote on a lot of uh uh grants um that that could that could help with uh, for example, uh chief efforts uh of camera system at downtown uh in at Lopez.

I I truly think that there are hometown grants or there's grants out there, and if we had someone that was focused on them full time, even if we looked at it from a commission basis structure instead of a full-time person where you say you're under contract and we we pay them on a commission basis on how much money they bring in per grant.

Uh uh, but that's not up for me to decide.

That's up for legal and administration to.

I just think we're missing the boat on some revenue opportunities that we can increase.

I appreciate you have no idea.

I appreciate the efforts of where you got us to in these numbers right here.

We're still two million and some change away.

And and I don't think that we have increased our revenue to is as much as we have decreased our expenses.

You guys got in there and skinned the cat and got us from 84 to 79.

But we're at 76 year over year, where I think it's it it we should task revenue generating departments and revenue opportunities to increase, and I I know I'm it it it's it's probably far out for me to say we need to do it as much as you've cut, but if we met in the middle, if if you met in the middle with increasing revenue and tasking those departments to meet in the middle, when you brought it down to 80 and you went up to 80, that's we were eight, eight million apart from our initial numbers, and now we're two and two and some change left.

If you increase the revenue to meet right there and then task the the those it those revenue opportunities, I I think that's where we're we're missing.

I appreciate what you guys did because I know it wasn't easy, and it and it's not uh for y'all to sit up here and and sit right here and tell us you're you're gonna do more with less is a huge undertaking and and on your backs, and and we appreciate it.

We truly do.

I do.

But I think the other side of it is we need to look at possibly trying to figure out where we can raise revenue as well.

That's that's simple.

Thank you, Mr.

Creel.

Ms.

Thornton, any comments before we adjourn?

Any other closing comments?

All right, is there a motion to adjourn?

So move.

Okay.

Motion to comment.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That's right.

Um go ahead.

I can do it now with that.

No, no, no, no.

I just I just forgot we've done the departments.

All right.

Next, we're gonna have uh presentation by Mr.

Marshall.

Thank you, Diana.

Is is the mayor gonna sit in?

He's not present.

Okay.

Again, thank you, Ms.

Thornton.

I want to thank the directors, Mr.

Lakich, uh, Mrs.

Johnson, and Mr.

Geyser.

Thank you so much for being here.

No, well, we have, but we still have a presentation from Mr.

Marshall.

So that's what we yeah.

Can we withdraw the motion?

We hey if they want to go.

No, no.

How can we do it?

Uh I withdraw my motion.

With withdrew the motion to adjourn.

To adjourn.

All right.

That's good.

So you're up, Mr.

Marshall.

Would you prefer to do it another day?

We could, whatever your preference is at your presentation.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm good.

We'll do that.

All right.

Now we'll entertain that Marshall motion to I give you back my motion.

Indian Gibber, thank you.

Wait, before we do go, let them make a comment.

Sure, Mr.

Marshall.

Go ahead.

Uh each of the council members have before you're working document.

It's a live document, meaning it changes based on what you say, what you think you're in.

The whole purpose of the document before you is we're establishing, we're proposing the establishment of a resort uh development style development in East Biloxi.

The purpose of that is that we're we know that what has been happening in East Balexi has not worked for the last 20, 30 years.

So if there's a walkthrough guideline, look at it.

When you come next time, we're doing this.

You have any questions, outline what you your questions are.

Uh Mr.

Wayne and I'll be glad to address them.

We'll work ourselves through it.

It doesn't answer all of the questions.

It is a working document.

It's the framework of what we plan to do, what we're proposing to do.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

There's a motion by Mr.

Creel's there.

Second.

Second.

Thank you, Mr.

Glavin.

All in favor of adjourning.

It's approved on a 7 0 vote.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Weaver.

Thank you, Ms.

Thornton.

Thank all of you who stuck around today to listen to this.

Thank you.