i don't want to tell you out by trying to describe the horrifying course hi i'm david keyes i'm the community technology manager for the city of seattle in the department of information technology and i've had the opportunity to work with m m r t i for for all ten of its years and in fact even before that when boonie and ethiopian community mutual association started their computer lab many fourteen years ago i think to begin to get the message out to be going to train community members and m m r t i has been a great organization and a really valuable one and we're really glad at the city of seattle and the department of information technology to have a chance to have partnered with m m r to see them grow and get them to this point ten years later and still growing and still building community i think that m m r has been a great a great leader in the community in bringing the voice of the east african community sometimes to the city government bringing the community together to be able to hear from each other it's can't take it for granted that places like him r t i that are training kids and adults how to do video and and getting the messages out we can't take it for granted that they'll be here so it does require us to support it to keep it going you know it's a without it i think we don't necessarily get a chance to see what are people in the east african community the having to say about taxicabs about health about youth violence and and the programs here bring that to life so it brings it to life or for us at the city for other community members and i think it's also having people stories told in people's issues come to light and being able to see that  brings community together and it lets people feel like they're more a part of the community and when they get to hear and see other stories in each other's concerns and then the training programs here are have just been great i think the m m r t i brings together they teach kids how to work together they teach them video skills they teach them story writing skills in so that that i think it gives them a greater sense of success a greater sense of their voice being strong and gives them skills and working together collaborating gives them technical skills and i know they get a chance to not only do the camera work but to do sound to create graphics and that's all part of things that industry needs it's part of of what brings the stories to life and so i look forward  to continuing our partnership with them r t i i'm really glad that the community is stepping forward to support them and keeping these important community media centers going in these important training programs going it certainly enables the city of seattle to be able to distribute information that we have about essential services utility discounts opportunities for lower cost cable for low income  up thanks to all those who have contributed produce programmes just made things behind the scenes work and let's keep going just as you did this property and this building so i think that's the thing that we need to do hold to that is that the details of the of the design par still crystallizing but part thereof the renter's to percival's such races while a court because history matters in the context in which we find ourselves today are directly t i center and the central district of seattle might matter of fact right now heart of the central district at twenty third in jackson i do love the six parrots it's a great experience i even though i'm the one being interview i noticed the kind of enthusiasm from all of the students who are here i notice as well that all of these students will be trained for great work that being trained for the media and the media is extremely important i try to do what i can in terms of african american history in terms of writing african american history but it's really up to the media to try to spread that story and so that's why i think what you guys are doing is so vitally important in terms of the future  but seattle and it is just an incredible privilege to be on m m r t i it is an opportunity for politicians like myself and community leaders and every day people to express he views and learning new information about different cultures certainly in riches our media world so that we just don't have you know the stations that we see on t v on cable but we have a variety of ways of learning information about our very very diversity so my thanks to m m r t i for for being pioneers in this very important work thank you