I would like to say good morning to those of you who have come out for this morning's meeting and manage to find us in the church.

They're doing a lot of work and renovation in the church, and so we had to move around a little bit to accommodate that, but we would we really appreciate North United Methodist Church, making the meeting space available to us every month for literally decades.

I remember sitting in the basement of this church when McCannna was forming.

So that's been 30 some years ago.

But I want to welcome you to this morning's meeting of the Marion County Alliance of Neighborhood Associations.

My name is Kathy Burton, and I am the current president for McCannna.

I would like to, for those who may be visiting with us for the first time or who are viewing us on Channel 16, I want to give a very brief synopsis of what McCannna is.

We were formed in 1990 as a 501 C3, not for profit neighborhood organization.

And our purpose is to connect neighborhoods from all across Marion County with each other so that they can discuss issues that impact us both countywide as well as things that may be going on in their own individual neighborhoods to share resources, provide support for each other, and again try and start conversations so that we all understand that when we're talking about our neighbors in Marion County, we are not talking just about those people who live next door to us, but those people who may live the next block over, the next street over or clear across the county.

It is important for our neighborhoods to stand together to try and address some of the issues that impact Marion County, and that is what we hope McCannna can help you do.

We do have a general membership meeting on the third Saturday of every month, which is held at North United Methodist Church at 38th and Meridian on the northwest corner.

Those meetings are from 9 to 11.

And at our regular monthly meeting, except we do not meet in December.

I forgot that part.

At our regular monthly meeting, we have a speaker or speakers that's here to address issues that are important to neighborhoods and talk about things that might be coming up that would that would impact our neighborhoods.

We also provide that time to allow neighborhoods to announce upcoming events that may be going on in their neighborhoods.

And as we are going into a year when there are general elections, you may know that McCannna has a standing policy for people who are political candidates to come in and they can speak for five to ten minutes.

It's an informal process.

They do not have to let us know ahead of time if they're coming, although it does help.

And you're welcome to come and talk about your candidacy, the things that you hope for the area that you plan to represent and the things that you would like to see happen for Marion County neighborhoods.

We would also, in addition to the church, we would like to thank Channel 16 who tapes and airs our meetings on a monthly basis so that we have the opportunity to reach neighborhood advocates from all across the county, whether they are able to attend in person or if they have other events going on either in their neighborhoods, their family or with friends, they're still able to take advantage of the information that McCannna has to provide to neighborhoods.

So again, we thank Channel 16 for that.

They've been they've been taping our meeting again for um decades for quite some time, and we appreciate that service that they provide to all of Marion County as we approach the budget season for the City County.

We as always urge people to be sure and voice support for Channel 16 to your councilman so that they will understand that the funding that Channel 16 receives from the city is critical to the ability for neighborhoods to participate in the issues that are going on around Marion County.

I want to tell you that our next day, our next McCannna meeting will be held on Saturday, July the 20th.

Our current speaker is Marlo David, who is with Purdue.

And she's going to come and talk to us about how things are going to function now that IU and Purdue are separating in downtown Indianapolis, the services that they're going to provide, as well as their physical facilities and how those will be located throughout the county.

If you have an idea for a speaker that you would like to see or a topic that you would like to have addressed in Marion in by McCannna, you are welcome to contact us.

You can reach me by email at CB7801 at AOL.com by phone at 317-847-9959.

You can also reach us through our Facebook page.

So if it is a time-sensitive issue, I would suggest that you use mail or phone call or Facebook to contact us.

But our PO box is PO Box 1082, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46206.

I would like to now ask if there's anybody that wants to announce an upcoming event that's going on in their neighborhood.

If not, I'm going to tell you I am a hail from Franklin Township, and on Sunday, June the 30th, we will have our annual Old Settlers Street Fair.

It is a great day.

There is a classic car show that has somewhere around 150 classic cars that come in.

So for those of you that like looking at the old cars, everything from you know models, Model A's and Model Ts clear up to the current muscle cars, and we invite you to come out.

There are also craft booths, food booths, activities for the children.

There are booths from a lot of the community organizations, our Civic League, our Lions Club, our Historical Society, our Chamber of Commerce.

So it's a great day to come out and find out more about Franklin Township and also enjoy the day with the family.

Our program this morning is a little bit different than what we usually do.

In a few minutes, I'm going to welcome our speaker up here.

His name is Dr.

Jim Floyd.

He is with an organization called Mesh, and they coordinate the emergency services from all over the county whenever there is activity, a large activity where people are coming into the to the county, or if there is a disaster where emergency services have to be coordinated.

You may remember he came and spoke with us prior to the eclipse in April.

And we had had the opportunity for him to come back this morning and provide training for administering naloxone.

And I'm not going to try and go into the uses of it.

That's going to be his job.

But this is really the first time that we've ever had an in-person training at one of our McCannna meetings.

So we're kind of being guinea pigs to see if this is something that's useful to neighborhoods.

No fair cheating and cutting out the middle.

But then we're going to have a very short meeting for those of you that were elected to the board a couple of months ago to do a couple of organizational things.

So with that, I'm going to turn the floor over to Dr.

Floyd, who, by the way, is one of our new board members.

And let him take it from here and talk to us about what how we can use this very useful training in our neighborhood.

Oh, one other thing I forgot.

Jim with NESCO, whose last name I still can't.

What is it, Jim?

Spoholski.