Heavenly Father, we come before you today with grateful hearts for our city we call home.

We thank you for the beauty of our nation and the great state of Georgia.

We ask your favor would continue to rest upon us from our coastlines to our mountains.

We ask you to continue to shine your favor upon us.

As we convene today, we ask for your divine wisdom, greatest clarity of mind and spirit of cooperation.

Keep our city under your watchful care.

We ask that you would continue to bless us, keep us, and make your face shine upon us.

In your name I pray, amen.

Please stand for the pledge.

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And you're now gonna use Bobby.

Um not only help but just involve welcome people like you brought it, who was the first difficulty like one by the city council.

But uh also mentioned that they are significantly seen based on the history of uh not taught in the schools.

So this is one time it's taught in the homes of special.

Dr.

Charles Drew, Martin Blood Bank developed large scale blood plasma and storage.

Uh Lonnie Johnson, who was a NASA engineer, developed the filter water gun, Syria Good, developed the Fold and B, and then Frederick McKinney Jones refrigerated trucks, one of the uh developed mobile refrigerated units critical for World War II, food and medical supply and transmutation.

Alexander Miles, the automatic elevator door, Dr.

Daniel Hale, Williams, Open Heart Surgery, modern music, Jazz, just hip hop created JS Blues, Rock and Roll, RB, like these are just a legacy that it is improved safety, medicine, culture, and technology, develop despite systematic systematic barriers.

Black creativity continues to change the mayor of the asking that fits perfectly with what we just said, and that is that our distance center is going to be on February the 21st, and 4 p.m.

We have what we call pop-in for family fund days, and the one that's gonna take place on February 21st is gonna explore the stories and inventions of African American innovators, who ideas to say everyday life.

So we would like to encourage everybody to come out to the museum.

Please enjoy all the great stories on which desert following from the gospel can't take a world to you all time reaching up to event on the 22nd of February.

Is that correct?

No, we have the back.

And then there are we also have married at the gathering coming up on that first day in March, March 7th.

And the second legislative stuff trim now at the next council meeting.

The beginning of the month of Ramadan for the for Muslim community and uh poor for the Jewish community.

18th February and 3rd of March.

So to those who celebrate or recognize those holidays, we have a meaningful holiday as it's kind of appropriate in a solitary tour meeting.

Oh yeah, yeah, we should have advertising no doubt about this, but there is going to be uh informational meeting pop in basically on the 5th of March, and that'll be different swaps.

Um there'll be information about the projects that the mayor's city council is putting forward and also what the county is putting forward.

Um there'll be an opportunity to comment on those to get information, and then the state council after that will be having a couple of meetings later uh where we can interactive uh set up where the public can let the council know what they think about the different projects and the question.

Um group 68 and then 4 to 7, so I need to check that.

Okay, thank you.

So that's Adam City Center.

There we go on the 5th of March.

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Yeah, too.

Good evening, everyone.

Uh my name is Rich Stackman on the Arborist of the City of Mariana.

And tonight I'm here to accept on behalf of the uh Arborist community uh and the uh uh Arbor Day Foundation a proclamation from the city um for Arbor Day.

Uh this is something that we do every year.

Uh the city of Marietta has been part of Tree City USA for uh this is our 42nd year.

We are the second oldest tree city in the state of Georgia.

And um, in order to get that designation, there's several criteria that the city you know must maintain.

Uh one of the criteria is that we need to have a tree board or a department that uh facilitates tree care, tree removal, things like that.

And that is uh uh in this city here, it's the accommodation area to tree keepers or an advocacy group.

Um with the city, we do tree planting uh and um uh tree education.

Um and then throughout our board of lights and water, and through uh the the parks and recreation staff, we uh manage the trees.

Sometimes we have to remove them, a lot of times we're planting them and normally taking care of them.

Um one of the other criteria is that the city must uh um uh or actually uh collect our pay two dollars, what is it here?

Two dollars per capita per year uh on planting and uh tree maintenance, and we actually um exceed that well well exceed that.

Um we also must uh observe the Arbor Day uh events or Arbor Day uh um holiday, which is basically in about two weeks, and uh tree keepers get involved in that as well.

We'll be at the uh farmers market uh getting away free trees if anyone's interested.

Um we also must do a proclamation once uh once a year, which is what we're doing tonight.

Um there is 183 uh tree cities in Georgia, and like I said, we're number two, and um we're uh uh happy to do this on an ongoing basis uh kind of continuous year after yeah.

Before Jason presents, uh just want to recognize where Jackie branches are, uh the city he has an exceptional job, uh usually same all the beautiful trees and our parks, or doesn't handle all of that, and just want to thank you for all you need.

All right, so on behalf of Mayor and Council, uh honored to join this proclamation.

So I'll read this all out.