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Stand approved. And so now for our new business. We will have Miss Key. Okay. Good afternoon. I'm just filling in today. We just have one. Um it is an ABC application for Downtown Entertainment LLC. There have applied for a special events retail less than seven days. The event is uh Delta Kai AM, and it will be at 511 Jefferson Avenue. And the event will be on the 23rd and 24th of October. There is the aerial view. I'm gonna be honest, I have not something we're supposed to recognize. No, it is okay. Any questions from Miss Key? All right, if not, thank you, Miss Key. Mayor. Uh yes, ma'am. Uh first I want to thank um Mike Gardner. I know that Ms. Howard, you and Ms. were there this morning for his presentation on the transportation summit. So Mike, thank you. I know that as an engineer you love nothing more than getting up in front of a couple hundred people. Thank you for the job you did, and this Gilmore, thank you for the job that we did and preparing it. Um the second thing that I want to do is thank our A and E team and all the support staff around it that makes it work, all our other departments. Um this past weekend we had a sold-out concert breaking Benjamin, um, one of our largest crowds we've ever had at the Tuscaloosa or Mercedes Benz Amphitheater. The next day our team was working out in supporting Kentuck. So well over 10,000 people will be interested to see the final number there. Um this week we have John Perlite Friday night. We have about 200 tickets left, Kay was telling me this morning. So we'll have a another uh close if not another sellout concert, and then we have Tech Retreat on Thursday, which A is also doing, and in the meantime they're putting up an ice skate rink. So an ice skating rink in the meantime. So um and as Kay reminded me, I handed her six new parks to go ahead and uh you know dealing with those issues surrounding that in terms of permitting and things of that nature. But um, I told Kay, well, I can give you a pat on the back. So um I wanted to I do want to thank her and her team, and I want to thank the different departments of the city, whether it's PD, fire, rescue, CFG, environmental services. I know I'm leaving out IT, AF, all the other departments that also work in that environment to help make those things successful. Can I can I say Kentuck was great, but I was really impressed with Mr. Meg's folks. That place was clean, spick and span, and it really made Tuscaloosa look good.