and now we have a resolution in honor of the fraternal order of police and that will be presented by mayor mccarthy you that don't know sergeant foti the guards the courts here and his enthusiasm and just overall excitement about life is just one of those great things that we have in this community and he's run a program in the summer here some softball games in is our baseball season is coming to a close this year start to lay the groundwork for next year's event which will be bigger and better but under just started off with a proclamation whereas sergeant christopher foti of the new york state courts who has been supervising schenectady civil courts and city hall since two thousand and seven for the past five years has run a charity softball tournament in our city's central park and whereas this terminal terminal tournaments has benefited the order of police lodge number thirty five as well as the various local charities such as hope for vision in two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine to help a local boy who is losing his sight schenectady inner city ministries in two thousand and ten whose programs help feed hundreds of local children each summer in things of my very own in two thousand and eleven in two thousand and twelve a program that trend tradition that transitionally aids thousands of local children each year in whereas this year's event city hall try shooters these teams together helped raise a five year total of just under twelve thousand dollars and whereas the city of schenectady served as host of the fraternal order of police softball tournaments since two thousand and eight and have proudly sent there were representatives of the city hall try shooters this group of men comprised of city workers and their families team came together to represent the city and have won the championship in two thousand and eight two thousand and ten and again michiru in two thousand and twelve and he council members would like to sign up and still do they represent all city employees with their ideals and belief in participating in charity events in doing so with integrity now therefore i carry mccarthy mare of the city of schenectady do hereby proclaim the third week in august of two thousand and thirteen as for turn all order of police softball tournament we can the city of schenectady and urge all residents of schenectady to come support this worthy event sergeant thank you  that was very very nice let me just say i very rarely get awarded anything but i love taking pleasure in and helping as i'm sure everybody here knows i just want to say thank you to the council for giving me the time here  philly thank you without your support of things like this without your help from the buildings and grounds department which is run by that man right there mr caldwell said everybody please give  not those parts and those employees secondly i'd like to have to thank my wife and my kids that are sitting in the book that she read a rocky road none of this would have been possible without your support as well or their support you know the countless trips i take to the stores they're always in the car the participation they do it every event for another teaches them something it teaches them benefit the fraternal order police which we have so you feel rozza from the new york state courts with us today he is the vice president of the memorial lodge in thirty five as well as we have rain bands say here from the things of my very own which was the local well since i've been up running the lodge upstate where a satellite lodge of a court office a lodge in manhattan because we're so spread out we can't really have our own logic here we just don't have enough people enough people to show up but since i came up and we started to try to figure out a way to raise money so we can foad he just jumped right up and said let's run a softball contest we'll do a tournament i'll take care of it i have to worry about it and every year we go to before he gives me a call and says well can you get a volunteer or two and everything is done by foti and i'm actually very surprised that the first thing the mayor said was an introduction of sergeant foti because i've joked with him endlessly that i'd bet him that i could walk up to any house in schenectady knock on the door they would open the door see sorting foti and say chris what are you doing here he is invaluable he's and i know the mayor mentioned it but he's so positive which is directly opposite of also fun things with the large we've given that we have a scholarship every year we give to the sons or daughters of court officers we also have we've done several ten thir 's in the past with the flooding last year and an officer a sergeant who got hurt an accident we have benefits for them we have recently done a  marrow testing for a in offices on who has leukemia and that's just some of the things we do but none of it would be possible that sergeant foti and none of what sergeant foti does would be possible without the mayor and the people here and i have to say i don't live anywhere near schenectady i'm over by the vermont border i work in glens falls i know no one here but i have to tell you that in the five years we've been doing this the people who work for the city have been fantastic they are they're so giving nothing is too my name is rain band see i am c e o and founder of things of my very own incorporated we incorporated in two thousand and eight to bridge the gap between what social service entities and provided and what children needed  biggest services are when children are fleeing an abusive or neglectful situation often times they leave the emergency situation urgency situation wearing nothing but a towel were pretty much the red cross of abused children within four hours of contact on a referral basis we provide and deliver up to seven days of everything they could need and do programs to increase self esteem and promote self confidence we serve approximately five thousand children a year this past may we found out our biggest funder eliminated the grant program and we lost our funding so all of our employees decided to give up their salary to make sure the children didn't suffer so currently we are a one hundred percent volunteer run corporation that operates three hundred sixty five days a year twenty four hours a day the fraternal order of police has been very good to us financially it's been very difficult for families other larger nonprofit organizations have cut and or eliminated funding and we've picked up their clients i he's reminding me to give the internet address which is w w w t o m v dot org i can't say what what this means to us and what this means to the community to have the financial support of the fraternal order of police it's not the children that we work with are not and never will be case files they're individuals they're not people of tomorrow they're people of today and so thank you because i think because of your generosity we're able to provide emergency food clothing and services and we will continue to teach these children that what they've endured does not define who they are