Good morning everybody. Thanks for being here. This is where we're here getting ready to embark and celebrate our relationship with the Irish-American caucus who has generously provided us a flag from Ireland. One of the senators sent that over to Representative Bauer and we're going to have it hang in here on City Hall all week and then it's going to participate in and thank Paddy's Day celebration and five points on Saturday morning in the parade but with that, you know, this flag has got 175 year history and I'm going to kick it to our Representative Heather Bauer kind of talk a little bit more about their relationship and why the flag is so significant and important for us to embrace here in Colombia. Representative Bauer. Thank you Mayor. Hi everybody. I'm Representative Heather Bauer. I represent the southeast part of the city of Colombia in House District 75. First of all, I love the city and when I was elected, which I'm humbled to be doing so, I would do my best to make Colombia as prosperous as possible. So I am humbled and excited to work with the city in the state of South Carolina. It's no doubt that our no surprise that Ireland wants to work with South Carolina in the city of Colombia after the week of scout motor is being announced. We just passed a major workforce development bill in the House as well. This has been a bipartisan effort to bring the Irish-American caucus and a trade commission to South Carolina to work on bringing investments and working with Ireland to grow economic development in South Carolina. I have a very keen interest in working with our state. We've been working with Senator Mark Dalley in the several months. We've been going to Ireland in August to have discussions with their legislators and economic developers. So I am part Irish so I'm very excited about the about this and I'll be carrying the flag as the mayor mentions. But most importantly, I want Jim Lossary who is the president of the South Carolina State Board, ancient order of high variance. This is the oldest and largest representation of Irish folks in the state. Thank you, Representative Bowers. As she said, it's Jim Larisi and I represent a group of Irishmen around the state and around the country that came here in 1836. But we go back all the way to the late 1500s in Ireland. And I was a member of the staff of the city of Columbia back from 90 to 2010. And I'm very proud to be representing the Irish community here this morning. And we've done some things actually. If you, some of you may have even seen it, we have an Irish memorial down at the canal dedicated to those who, the Irish who brought here to build the canal back in 1820. So I'm very grateful to be part of this this morning and go Irish. I want to commend the city of Columbia, the mayor, Councilman. And, have there for making this effort. You know, we and the legislature sometimes lose sight that it's the folks that engage on a grassroots level with local government and their neighborhoods that get things done. So I'm excited about this. I'm excited about being here this morning. And while we vote on the Scout project in the Senate this week, which I think will pass, those mega projects are important. But so are the small ones and so are relationships with other countries. Thank you.