time we are never without hope. and so you know we've been indeed indoors for a night, but joy always comes in the morning. so the commitment of the membership passed to reverend john taylor is to move forward, and i want to thank the county supervisor stanley paisley, who has already indicated they will help in providing us a temporary worship site until we can move forward. so again we continue to lift up the mt. zion church family and pray that things will work out. thank you. at this time i want to present state representative caesar mcknight who serves in this area. representative mcknight. >> good morning, and thank you,al deryou, al alder parrott.