Well we do have potential.

No, you got work to do.

Don't mind all these people over here.

They're just they're working remote.

I'm gonna post this on Twitter.

Notice the meeting and see what people say.

No, everyone's gonna steal my idea now.

All right.

Yeah, yeah.

All right.

No, I just wanted to call the meeting to order.

Just wanna have a meeting, right?

And just and just um in casual sense and say um I'm obviously on a a path of leadership.

I wanna hopefully get there, but not only that, I just want to know what everyone's priorities are.

Sure.

And um as I think everyone's got a lot of good ideas, good priorities, and uh my view is council leadership should be helping everyone accomplish their priorities.

And I know I said that in my letter, but it's it's different to say it in a letter than actually sit down with someone you serve with and say what what are your short term and long term things.

Well, uh the focus for me right now and and the last year of my council, uh I I don't know what you know, whatever council president unlikes to do well how and asks for me, certainly I'll do.

Uh and I uh I but I I've got a my big focus right now going for this year is the development of our my version of uh SPAR same preservation system.

Mandarins?

Yeah.

Okay.

I've got uh half associates we've been retained and we're working putting together very comprehensive, it's called MAP Mandarin Area Pri uh preservation project.

Are you all doing a neighborhood action plan?

Uh we're gonna be working on creating to see if we go on if we have the capacity and interest on the part of the community as a whole to stand up an organization like St.

Marco.

Right.

To say uh for like everything else, preservation, restoration, and beautification.

Uh the challenge is it's a big district like yours and diverse district like yours.

San Marco is focused on a particular area.

Yeah, well, I'm looking at the areas larger.

I'm looking big, I'm looking bigger.

I want to there be an overlay type of version.

There isn't there are certain a couple of overlays already in there.

It really is to see how can we get the community to come together and speak as one voice.

Yeah.

It's so when we have zoning issues.

That's really critical.

Yeah, we don't have we're gonna see some in fill.

I mean the town home development is a happy population thing that it was is a sore thumb, but the uh I don't think we're gonna see a lot of that kind of development in Mandarin going forward.

But at the same time, I don't want to sort of d see it devolve into a an only take aspersions at Arlington or others to say I want to make sure it it maintains its quality and character.

And when we say preservation, it's really about preserving the character and the quality of the neighborhoods and the thoroughfares in that area.

That's what we're focusing on.

So that's gonna be a lot of my uh uh focus.

You're on are you're not the are you on the doge committee?

No.

Okay.

Oh, right, right, right, right.

Yeah, I guess I've avoided those.

Yeah, I'd be glad.

But I don't know, essentially that I I do appreciate, although I think it was a little skewed this year, uh, in terms of the uh Kevin's uh council carico decision kind of people that's fine.

Uh I have to say I was a little maybe I don't know, we could speak to this if you want.

His decision to put you uh as a finance is there a rush to judgment here in terms of getting you into a leadership position and and who's who's making that decision.

Is that just you or others?

I don't know what else all I'll say to that is um I had absolutely zero interest in doing that.

Um I didn't angle for that at all.

I got a phone call out of the blue from Kevin and he said, Hey rolls stepping down, and I said, what?

Well it would stand a reason why he wouldn't just turn to the vice chair and say, Hey, why don't you do this?

I told that was my recommendation.

Okay.