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So. Yes. Yeah. Yes, thank you. Yeah. Yeah, just hm Yes. Thank you so much for coming out and thank you to the heavens for making it possible for us to be here at this wonderful

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community bench donated by so many of the people who are here as well as by heritage salvage, who donated the bench itself and built it of old growth redwood. And um all the bricks of all the donors and um, some of the bricks represent loved ones

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of donors who have passed away. So we have with us, of course, Lucy Corum here because the, because this bench honors Bill Kham as well as it's a double sided bench. So it does double duty. The one side honors Bill Kham and the other side honors

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the community that stood together and fought. It's now been eight years. We stand out here at Schuler Park and we look west and do we see an asphalt factory? And we look south as I stood here with Bill about five years ago with Mike mcguire who

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had just been elected and he brought Mike out here, Bill. Of course, he said, let's get Mike out here and let him see how beautiful it is and then he'll fight for us. So we met Mike and we came out here and we stood and we

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looked south and Bill said, Lookie there, look out there, Mike, what do you see? And Mike said, I don't see anything. He said that's just it, the beautiful view. If you don't see big box development, you see the open space. So I want to introduce now,

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Mayor Dave Glass, who is going to read the proclamation and say a few words, thank you. It's good to be here with so many friends. We started this journey together and we met a lot of folks along the way, Sherry Kowski from moms for clean air.

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And of course, I've known David Keller for a long time. Heidi Rhimes, we got to know each other during the course of this and so many more of you and just what a battle, you know. And so like Yogi Berra said, thank you for making this

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day necessary all of you the work that you did and we don't see an asphalt plant. And Lucy, I've got a proclamation here to commemorate today. And it's my pleasure as mayor to declare today March 6th 2017 as Bill Forum Day. Yeah. And whereas Bill Kum

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is recognized as the father of the environmental movement in Sonoma County and his work has preserved many of the view corridors, open space, agricultural character and water features of Sonoma County. And whereas Bill dedicated his lifetime to coastal and county environmental issues and mentored generations of

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environmental activists, inspiring and educating them about preservation and protecting the environment through political action and grassroots community organizing. And whereas some of his many accomplishments include protecting Bode Head from BG and plan to build a nuclear power plant near the San Andreas, initiated the purchase and

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preservation of land now known as Salt Point State Park. You, this is not City Hall, so you can applaud all your hand created a statewide coalition of 110 organizations to support the creation of the California Coastal Commission. And the coastal Conservancy initiated the first coastal in

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1983 which led to the formation of the California coastal and its vision of 1200 miles of unbroken trail access. A section of which is now named the Corum trail located south of Jenner, whereas served 25 years on the board of the Sonoma Land Trust, which was

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a springboard and model for the agricultural preservation of open space district. The first in the nation that is dedicated to preserving the agricultural quality and open space of Sonoma County and funded by a voter approved tax. And as a charter member of the league of conservation

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voters, he founded the Sonoma County Conservation Action whose mission was to educate voters on environmental issues with that and so much more. It's my pleasure, Lucy to resolve that I David Glass mayor of Petaluma along with the members of the Petaluma City Council hereby due declare

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March 6th 2017 as Bill Kum Day in honor of his many accomplishments for the benefits of all of the citizens and residents of Sonoma County. And thank you so much, Lucy. It's nice to see you here today on this wonderful bench and present you with this

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proclamation. Thank you really appreciate it. Thank you. And with me also is council member Theresa Barrett and Theresa and I both have a council meeting to get to Theresa wants to say a few words and then we're going to go on our way. She gets five

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bucks a meeting. I get 10. So there's big bucks at stake for us and we don't want to miss the roll call. We certainly don't want to be late. They'll do our pay, maybe we need a union. But anyhow, uh, I am so excited to be

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here, um, especially with all of you guys. And you know, I am the person whose bladder is right behind my eyes. So I'm clearly gonna cry. II, I apologize already. But, um, you know, I had the really good luck to be sitting on the Park Commission

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when Melissa Abercrombie brought up the idea that perhaps the Park commission should write a letter saying that we did not want an asphalt plant to the county who was doing the environmental impact report. And I hadn't heard about it before that. And our city had really

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pretty much missed the boat in terms of putting in a comment about why this wasn't where we wanted to have something done like an asphalt plant. Most of those people are all gone now, which is really good. So when Melissa brought it up, I said, well,

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you know, that the commission can't really do that, but we could do that, you know, at the city council and we did do that at the city council. And in that way, we were able to join together with a very grassroots group of people called the

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Monster Clean Air. Who were, I think about five women or so who met at the Pedal in the mother's club and said, hey, you know, we don't want this, this isn't what we want for our families. And, you know, a group of inspiring women who showed

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people that you can make a change. And this is really important now, right? But, and then, so then from that, we had the friends of the Schoenberger Park join together and this group just kept getting bigger and they just didn't give up. And that is just

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such an incredible message because I think for a while, we all thought we lost this one. And guess what? Because that, you know, the Senger and Dave Keller and his friends of the river rule, people just kept dogging this fight and you know, it really is.

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So rewarding to see that you can make a difference if you just don't give up and you stay at it. So thank every single one of you here and lots of people who aren't here today, it's just wonderful and we have to keep going at it.

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So thank you and thank you for organizing and I'm sorry, thank you. Thank you for coming. Ok. And um now we have Janelle Wetstein from uh Mark Levine's office and she is here. Come on out Janelle to uh present a special certificate to both Lucy and

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Bill. You get your own certificate. Hi, everyone. I don't wanna take up too much time. Um Assembly member Levine regrets that he can't be here today. But um I remember this project, I used to be a reporter at the Petaluma Argus Courier and um I remember

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kind of feeling the same way that it was kind of just a lost cause uh along the reporting path. So I feel really lucky to be able to be here to today and present um Lucy Bill and friends for as well with a certificate, just congratulating

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you guys on all of your wonderful work and thanking you. Um You guys are what make communities really beautiful and I think today out here you can just look around and be really grateful for everything you guys have done. So, on behalf of assembly member Levine,

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thank you guys so much. Thank you. You just so thank you so much. Thank you, Janelle and tell Mark to keep fighting the good fight. Um Lucy, would you like to say anything? No. Well, well, look at this. So I had faith and here's this. Um

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and, and this, this fight still goes on just like all the others. They lafferty, everything and we keep on going. Don't, don't forget lafferty and we have Bill motto and don't give up. We have a few words first from David Keller, our leader, true story. Thanks

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to everybody in this fabulous community. Of course, thank you, Lucy for continuing to work for doing your own work as well, which is so much unsung in this community, but it has really been important. And of course, thanks to Bill through so many of us, Bill

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touched us, touched his community and continues to touch his community. So of course, you're invited at any time the park is open more or less, sit, enjoy, enjoy the views north, south and 360 degrees. We don't have an asphalt plant. We're hoping not to have one.

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We're assuming the Federal Clean Water Act continues. There is no rest. We have not gotten any response. Just a quick update, have no response from the Corps of Engineers. No response from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board to our objections to Du's application

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for wetlands permit and for water quality permits. So things are on hold until they ever decide that we can do something. And that's really kind of the long term arc of what we have to do. Things don't happen overnight, things don't happen in a couple of

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months or a couple of years. Sometimes they take many years. It's one of the things that Bill gave us. Thank you Rain and his inspiration to keep going. And it was not for nothing that he founded along with Dick Day and several other people in the

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County, Sonoma County Conservation Action as the political arm of the county's environmental movement and getting people elected, getting them in office, keeping their toes nailed down to what we want is really important. It's important in Petaluma. It's important in the county. It's important in every city

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in this county. So don't give up, have fun, enjoy it and stay with it. So, thank you so much for being here and thank you again. Here you are. And here I am again. And um we would like to present Lucy with a little gift and

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Margie Helms is gonna bring it out and it's a framed version of this, the plaque. And I noticed on your stairs when I went up to use the bathroom in your house yesterday, it's going to join a lot of plaques and a lot of honors that

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bill has received. So, yes, thank you so much Lucy for everything you've done. And um so that concludes our event, but um I hope many of you will join us at the pub Republic to knock down, knock back a few. And we're wondering if you would

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be willing to gather around Lucy for a group photo. And so anyway, how about three cheers for Lucy there? I Yes.