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Were always looking for new and innovative ways to try to tell the story of what goes on in city government and services and projects that were working on and I think this is a great opportunity to do that to have a monthly podcast with various departments and economic can highlight things that people don't know about that our city government. Mayor Tim Kabat why electing the mayor of city of La Crosse. It's really about our people here we have such an incredible community and I think there's a lot of folks that point out the natural beauty in the river and the bluffs in the Martian and just being able to get outside. Here is particularly special for me it's all about the people in the hospitality and just the friendliness and and what it means to live and work and play in the La Crosse area. I think you know when I hear stories all the time and and get to experience it firsthand of just how nice people are here and that just have so much to offer not only the outdoor recreation. We got a great downtown that has a lot of just wonderful restaurants and bars and music in your looking for that nightlife. It's it's here. You've got great employers send place to work, so they just all in all of course I'm perhaps a little bit biased, but I just happen to think that this is a wonderful community and it's because of the people that live here and work here that really make a huge difference there. Tim Kabat talking about the city of La Crosse was the vision for 2020s we got a number of exciting projects in the works. I think for us. It's all about focus on these essential services. So are our street repairs and working on our infrastructure and trying to get caught up with getting potholes fixed and in those types of things the public safety aspect were looking at, you know, additional opportunities for expanding our neighborhood policing program, which is been very successful and I'm hoping to be able to break ground on a new Northside fire station this year. I think that's in the works. So from that those essential services the streets and police and fire. I think we do that is good as anybody. But what really makes a community special is how we take care of our most vulnerable citizens. So working on things like our homeless challenges are affordable housing needs were part of the B alliance to heal, which is a multi partner group that's been working and will be working over the course the next couple years to really focus on improving our treatment for people that are experiencing substance abuse and mental health issues when were able to do those things and and then of course obviously beautiful parks in our libraries and just our quality of life when were able to do that then were really, I think exceeding our expectations of the community. The other projects like the La Crosse center in me. That's under construction. Now that's a very significant regional project that is going to mean a lot when it comes to concerts and events and conventions in bringing community together. So I look forward to 2020 think there's a lot of excellent things in the works I think so to just from hearing you talk about it and things I've seen on the do's and read in the paper as well. When it comes to being a newbie or somebody just moved La Crosse or just visited La Crosse for the first time. What are some of the things that you would definitely tell people that you have to see light think that again. If you're looking at getting outside so getting to Hickson forest and hiking the trails they are getting in the La Crosse River marsh having opportunities on the river that's what it means to live here in this community and have the natural resources that we do. But then it is really to kind of experience the things downtown amine Lake everybody's got their favorites is the mayor. All of them are my favorites. I can't just say I can't pick one, but I know it's the ice cream shop since the restaurants as the bars. I think you know we still have a number of of neighborhood taverns that are part of our culture. I think the things like the loggers games in the summertime. Any and all of those if I if I was new to La Crosse I that's what I would be looking to experience because it gives you kind of the sense of what it means to be part of this community. Being a La Crosse resident for the last 29 years myself. I didn't realize it there's 46 parks in the cross. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty amazing for community. Again, our size and they really range a menu got large open spaces. You've got kind of small neighborhood parks. You got the trail connections and then everything in between and were really working hard to try to know, take care of those improvements, and sometimes there's your people wonder like what we should be spending all of the cities monies on roads and fixing nose and wiry spending money on parks while parks are definitely a part of this infrastructure as a community and our quality-of-life and were working hard to try to make sure that you know keeping them well-maintained and fixing them up when we need to.