thank you for joining us today, mayor hancock. [applause] >> thank you, mayor rawlings and mayor strickland. thank you as well for the thorough presentation. to all of you, thank you so much. it's a pleasure to be here. i went to letter direct or come forward. i'm going to let you run the sides so i asked her to. we all know a little something about that, don't we? is a pleasure to participate in this forum. on a topic that i think quite frankly is timely as the president and our secretary of labor, held as the lease has pointed out and as the president has talked about for the past two, it is about creating jobs. and you know, i am excited to be here to talk about ways we are using sick or strategies to stimulate the economy and growth and provide job opportunities for current and future workers. and denver, we consider workforce development to be an integral part of economic development, our overall strategy. we are very aware of the fact that when choosing a site to relocate and expand the company, businesses first consider of