The national broadcasting company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. In the midst of the fury of the world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on even greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and its peoples whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Pacific Story presented by the national broadcasting company and dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific basin. This broadcast series comes to you as another public service. The drama of the past and the present of the millions of people who live around the world's greatest sea where the east at last meets the west. Hawaii, melting pot of the Pacific. In the 166 years since Captain Cook discovered the Hawaiian islands, men of all creeds and colors and races have migrated to this melting pot of the Pacific. In 1778 there were 300,000 Hawaiians in the islands. Today there are less than 15,000 pure Hawaiians. Today the islands have a complex race situation with a polyglot population of 425,000, the biggest percentage of which are Japanese. Missionaries, whaling ships, industry, commerce, brought this change. In 1820 the English and French advisors to the Hawaiian king, Leho Leho, were concerned about the arrival of a ship with a company of missionaries. But you can see, King Leho Leho, that these people have come from America not to help your people but to try to change them. That's quite right, Your Highness. All they have done is ask for permission to live here in the islands and carry on their work. Ah, their work, yes. But they are meddlers. They brought their credentials as missionaries. Oh, they are missionaries, all right, Your Highness. But what need do you or your people have of missionaries? They were courteous and thoughtful when they were here three days ago. They even brought gifts. Yes, but if I may be permitted an observation, King Leho Leho, if they came here merely for missionary purposes, why did they bring such a complete organization? To ministers and a doctor and a few others. Reverend Bingham and Reverend Thurston, yes, and Dr. Oldman, the physician and two school masters and a printer and a farmer. And they brought three Hawaiian youths back with them to help them in their work here. Now, these youths attended the foreign mission school in America and now these missionaries plan to use them for... Then they have brought quite a company with them. Indeed. As your advisors, we must point out that it is not to the prophet of your majesty that these missionaries have come here. Your Highness, King Leho Leho. Yes? The leaders of the missionary group are here. Do you wish us to go, Your Highness? No, you may remain. Bring them in. Yes, Your Highness. We know the nature of these missionaries well, Your Highness. And it is our wish that you best save future difficulties with them. This can be easily accomplished by sending them back to America. Your Highness, the Reverend Hiram Bingham and Reverend Asia Thurston. Reverend Bingham? Reverend Thurston. We have come, Your Highness, for your word. My advisors have just been discussing your company with me. We are, of course, eager to start our work as the first mission in the Hawaiian Islands. Yes. Your ship is in the harbor Kailua. Yes, Your Highness, and all our company is still aboard. We ask permission to land. Reverend Bingham, we've considered your request quite thoroughly.  Seventeen. We shall have need of every one of them. Dr. Holman, our physician, Elijah Loomis, the printer, Samuel Whitney. You need all these millies to convert the people of King Leho Leho to your religion. We have come here to help them as well as teach them. You may land. Thank you, King Leho Leho. You have our greatest gratitude, Your Highness. Could we also establish a station at Honolulu? At Honolulu? Why do you need two stations, Reverend Bingham? Why, we will then be able to... Two stations will be better than one. Yes. You may have them. This is the beginning of a great effort. In 1920, and the first missionaries had come to this crossroads of the Pacific. The trail had been broken. And in the next 35 years, more and more missionary companies came. Ministers, teachers, doctors, printers, farmers. They learned the Hawaiian language, wrote in it, began printing textbooks, publishing newspapers. But for years, the missionaries were to face the opposition of the whites and were to survive only by perseverance. The Hawaiian islands had begun to change. And now, another factor hastened its change. Whaling. New whaling grounds were discovered off the coast of Japan. Within a few years, the ports of Honolulu and Lahaina were crowded with square rigged sailing ships. Ah, this place has changed since the last time I was ashore here, Captain Cogslaw. Yes, from being a place hardly known, it's become a center of commerce. Look at that. A ship's chandelier. Yes, you can buy just about everything here that you can buy a new bedfoot, Mr. Martin. This place is busier than new bedfoot. Yes, I should say so. Look at this tree. Look at the traders. They come from everywhere. Yes. And look at the new stores. And warehouses. We'll have no trouble getting suppliers here. But we need captains, deckheads. And we can get them. These Hawaiians are the equal of any seaman you ever had. I've heard that said, yes. You'll find Hawaiian seaman in Sag Harbor, Nantucket, New London, everywhere. They're all over the world. There must be as many ships bringing supplies into the islands here as taking them out. They're all. Oh, here we are, Mr. Martin. Here's the place. Supply house? Yes. Come on in. Man, look at this place. What can I do for you? Well, Captain Cogslaw. Well, how are you, Martin? Fine. Fine. I'm glad to see you back. This is my mate, Mr. Martin. Hello, sir. Mr. Martin. Well, it looks like you've built up quite a business for yourself here, Martin. Yeah, I can't take care of it. The whaling fleet is made, Honolulu. Why, the fleets are getting bigger every year. Yes. Now with the new whaling grounds discovered off Siberia and those in the Arctic Ocean and burying straight. You made out all right this time, did you? Yes. We came around the horn from New Bedford last spring. Spent the summer on the whaling grounds around Alaska. Made a big haul. Taking your oil and whale bones back to New Bedford now, huh? No. No, not this time. No, we've sent our oil and bone back in a merchant vessel. No. We're going to refit and repair right here in the islands and go back up north to the grounds. Good. Many of you are doing that now. They tell me that 85% of all the whaling ships in the world are operating right out here in the island. Mm-hmm. Well, a great thing for you businessmen handling supplies here. Can't complain. Can't complain. Tell me, what can I do for you? You got that list there, Mr. Martin? Yeah, sir. Right here, Captain. See, we got to get some rope, cables, tar, rosin, some canvas for sales into pollens, flour, rice. Oh, let's see. We need some sugar, potatoes, coffee, beans. Well, we can take care of this. Now, let's see. Let's start with the cables and rope. The harbors of the port of Hawaii were a forest of masts and yards. Vessels bringing merchandise to the islands. Other vessels buying it before starting on long voyages. The whaling industry brought commerce to the Hawaiian islands, but likewise it brought ills. It changed the population. It spread disease. Boosted the death rate. Reduced the birth rate. It took away thousands more Hawaiians who were destined never to return. It brought in thousands of persons of other races. For 40 years, the whaling industry thrived out of Hawaii. Then, with the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, it suffered a vital blow. It's a fair win, sir. Yeah, I'll be glad to get back to Bedford.  No, sir, I haven't, Captain. Well, that's why you were anxious to get out of Hawaii, was it? Yes, sir. Well, you're coming back from probably your last whaling cruise out here. You mean because of the war that's broken out in the States? Well, than that, Mr. Griffin. Nearly all the whalers have been withdrawn from the Pacific because of the war. But the big reason is they've struck oil. What do you mean, sir? They're getting it out of the ground. It comes up like water out of a well. Oil out of the ground? Yes, yes, barrels of it, hundreds of barrels, thousands. Well, I heard them talking about it in Honolulu, but I didn't think... Mr. Griffin, I have an idea that our whaling days are over. The whaling industry had come to Hawaii and had gone. It left its mark, but meantime, another industry had come. And this one had come to stay. This one was to cause radical changes in the population. This was the sugar industry. In 1835, an American firm leased a tract of land at Kaloa, Kaui. This event was to signalize changes. How would it be if in your land that the chiefs would need a rent and no sell land for sugar-raising? Well, it finally leased at this tract of 50 acres. Think you can sell your sugar, lad? California ought to be a good market. What about the competition from the Philippine sugar and the sugar tariff? We are a great deal closer to California than the Philippines. You still have the tariff? Yes, but look at this. There's the tract down below there. Hmm. Native? Pulling your plows? Well, there are no draft animals, and those plows are only makeshifts. You can't make out this way, lad. Well, I'm paying these laborers 12 and a half cents a day and furnishing them with food. 12 and a half cents a day. What does the food cost? We feed them fish and poi, one cent a day for each man. Well, paying these people for their work is an incentive to thrift. An enterprise. I'm in favor of it. Now, if your mill doesn't cost you more... This was the start in 1835. This was the industry which, more than anything else, was to change the population of Hawaii. At first, the mills were run by animal power. Then by water power. The first sugar produced was so poor that it could scarcely be used. Not until 1842 was even sugar of fair quality produced. But to produce sugar, labor is needed. And labor was scarce. Yeah, what did you find out, Watkins? Well, the greatest factor, Mr. Lad, is that the native population is shrinking. What's happening to the Hawaiians? There were plenty of them when we started in business 17 years ago. Well, even at that time, sir, there weren't as many as there had been. That's right, Mr. Lad. Well, what's happening to them? That's what I want to know, Hardy. Well, some of them are dying. Many of them are intermarrying. Some of them are going away. Yeah, what does your report say there, Watkins? Well, so far as I've been able to determine, there were 300,000 Hawaiians here in 1778. Yes, yes, but that's 74 years ago. I just wanted to show you what's been happening. Yeah, yeah. In 1823, there were only 142,000. Less than half, you see, Mr. Lad. Yeah, go on, Watkins. Well, in 1832, there were 130,000 Hawaiians, and now there are only 70,000. Only 70,000 Hawaiians left? That's all, sir. Well, then I say bring in laborers. From where, sir? Anywhere, anywhere, but bring them in. We can't run our sugar plantations without help. Hardy, I want you to take charge of this matter. The rich lands of the islands were henceforth to be worked not by Hawaiians alone, but by laborers brought in from many parts of the world. Hawaii was to become a melting part of the races. 200 Chinese from Hong Kong were brought in in the first contingent. Months later, another hundred brought in. These would have been followed by thousands, tens of thousands more. The Hawaiians were becoming a minority. Their ranks were reduced still more in 1853 by a deadly scourge with swept through the islands. There's another in this house. Stop the horses. Whoa, whoa there, whoa. All right, let's go in and get him. Yes. Take the other end of the litter. We'll come to my house next. How many are dead at your place? One. My little boy. Yes. We've got to pick up two here first. Mother and her little girl. Man, it's in there with them. We'll get yours next. Come on, Harley. We're not going to have room from anymore on the wagon. The death wagon. The yellow-covered death wagon. They came in in such overwhelming numbers that the Hawaiian government suddenly became aware. Well, here it is. The protest from the Japanese government. What they say. Well, in effect, they say that we have no right to refuse admission to the Japanese. Thousands Japanese that we refuse to admit to Hawaii are able to meet the requirements of law. The Japanese government considers that merely a smokescreen to keep out the Japanese. If the rate they're coming in, we'll have nothing but Japanese. That's why we have an immigration law. They're demanding indemnity from the Hawaiian government. Indemnity for protecting ourselves if it isn't already too late. Well, this much is certain. A great many Japanese are coming into Hawaii in violation of our immigration restrictions. They point out that we're discriminating against them. There's a great deal of difference between the psychology of the Japanese and the other immigrants. The Chinese come in here to earn a living, to fit in with the other people here, to intermarry and to make some money if they can. But the Japanese come in here with the idea of taking advantage of everything possible. They're ambitious and aggressive. And instead of trying to fit in, they tend to keep their race pure. They stay to themselves. They don't intermarry, but instead they get their wives by the picture bride system from Japan. The Japanese are now the largest group in the island. Unless we halt this influx, Hawaii stands well to become one day a Japanese colony. We must remember, gentlemen, that we are alone. And that Japan is strong. It is my considerate opinion that Hawaii should seek annexation to the United States. And that we should... Now again, the matter of annexation of Hawaii to the United States came up. The United States had declined the appeal of Hawaii for annexation in the 50s. And again in 1893. But now, in 1897, once more, it became an issue in the Congress of the United States. At the very time Japan was protesting the immigration issue in Hawaii, the Japanese lodged another protest against American annexation of Hawaii. And in Washington, D.C., Japan protests to the proposed annexation of Hawaii on two grounds. First, that the proposed annexation would change the existing condition of affairs in the Pacific. And might thereby cause international difficulty. Mr. Minister... Yes, please. What international difficulty does your government see? Gentlemen, the state of Baran, in the Pacific, is very delicate. And nothing should be done to disturb it. And the second ground for protest of the Japanese government is that the annexation might interfere with the rights of Japanese citizens in Hawaii. You are aware, Mr. Minister, of the discussions that are now going on in Hawaii relative to immigration of Japanese? Yes, we are informed. That is another reason for our protest. Mr. Minister, Japan made no protest when annexation was considered four years ago in 1893. No, no. There was no need at that time. But since then, the situation in the Pacific has changed. Now, if you would excuse me, please, gentlemen. Goodbye, Mr. Minister. He's right. The situation has changed in the Pacific. Since 1893, Japan has defeated China. We might as well face it. Japan is now the most powerful nation in Asia. More than that, Senator. Japan has emerged as a world power. That being the case, it might be distinctly to the advantage of the United States to accept the annexation of Hawaii because... In spite of the importance of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States, the opponents of the annexation in Congress fought the proposed treaty. It was signed by the Senate in 1897. But the next year, the Spanish-American war broke out. Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Philippines, took Manila. Now, the value of Hawaii became apparent. And on August 12, 1898... That's the Hawaiian national anthem they're playing. Hawaii Panoi. Yes. This is a day to remember here in Honolulu. I should say. Look. They're lowering the Hawaiian flag. Yes, sir. A transfer of sovereignty to the United States. Yes. And there goes the American flag up to the top of the flagpole. Yeah. This marks a new day for the United States in the Pacific. This is the salute of the shore batteries. Well, a 21-gun salute. Yeah. Yeah, there go the guns on the ships in the harbor. They're saluting, too. Well, Hawaii is now a part of the United States. I have an idea. This is going to be one of the most important dates in our history. More than ever before, America looked to the west toward the vast Pacific. Now it was the turn of the century. The sugar industry had been going for 65 years and had changed completely the population of the islands. Now another great industry was to rise to make the island still more industrial, to change the island still more. Come on.   We will be there in a minute now, Mr. Sim. Sort of a plateau in this country here, isn't it? Yes. This is Wahiawa, where the pineapples are grown. Say, that's some of them right out there, huh? Yes. Yes, that is the field. We'll turn right in here to the cannery. Come on. Get up there.  Quite a place. Quite a place they have here. There is the boss right there. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Hello there. Hello. Is this the pineapple plantation? Yep. This is the place. Well, I just came over from the mainland. Heard about your plantation here?  That's all. My name's Sim. It's New York World. I heard on the ship that you were actually growing pineapples out here. Yep. That's what we're doing. Got the first crop in cans already. See the cases stacked up over there? Good Lord. That's the first crop? Yep. 1,893 cases. Well, you don't realize it out here, but most of the people in the world have never seen a pineapple. Heh. Don't know what it is. Well, we figure we can grow them here commercially. Instead of growing sugarcane? Oh, you see, we can grow pineapples at a higher elevation. We can grow sugarcane. You mean by that that you can use land where you can't grow cane? That's it. Uh-huh. Pineapples have been growing out here for about 100 years. Back in the whaling days, the ships used to stock up with them. No, we never did much with the idea of raising pineapples for the trade until now. I mean a sort of experimental thing. You irrigate them then, huh? Yes, and we're planting them in places where they never grew before. Well, I don't know anything about pineapples, but one thing's sure, there's a great story here in these pineapples, and I want to get it because I believe that I can. In the 40-odd years since then, Honolulu has built the largest fruit cannery in the world. And while this industry was growing, it was helping to create the Hawaii of today. In the 10 years after annexation, 40,000 more Japanese came to the islands. Then, by law, assisted immigration was prohibited. The Hawaiian industries, with their ever-growing need for workers, turned to the Filipinos. In the passing years, the Filipinos were to become the largest racial group in the plantations. Today, the lines between the races are breaking down. My work has kept me over here in the islands for a good many years, gentlemen, studying these races. Now, you see that girl walking there. Yes. What extraction is she, Dr. Welling? She's probably pure Japanese. Pretty much like any average American girl. The whites here in the islands have Americanized more than 15 times their own number. That is the result of it. But haven't the Japanese fairly well-held their racial purity? In a large sense, yes. There are more Japanese in Hawaii than in the other race. I would say 160,000, 38% of the population. And they are progressive and ambitious. What's that young woman over there? She's Chinese, probably with some Hawaiian blood. As far as dressing manners are concerned, she might well be a girl from some Midwest town in the States. You mentioned Hawaiian blood, Dr. Welling. In your research, what have you found out about the number of pure Hawaiians? Well, there are probably now less than 15,000. Are they likely to disappear entirely? Yes, they probably will. Not through death, but through intermarriage. You see, while pure Hawaiians are decreasing, part Hawaiians are increasing. I thought I recognized Hawaiian features and a good many of these people passing here. Yes, all the races have come here to the islands have intermarried with the Hawaiians. We estimate that there's native Hawaiian blood in some 50,000 per person here in the islands today. Well, that's something to be proud of. Well, it's regarded highly. You'll find Hawaiians are part Hawaiians in every walk of life, from laborer to executive. There are some warm, pleasant personalities, and they're particularly well-fitted for work with the public. What is that fellow right there? He's a Chinese-American. You find many of them here. Merchants, jobbers, businessmen, garden cultivators. But not many of them are field workers now. And you see that man? Which one is that, Dr. Welling? The dark fellow there, to the right. Oh, yes. He has Portuguese blood, probably mixed with Korean, probably more Portuguese than Korean. He's really part of the Caucasian group. But as you can see in his case, the racial lines are disappearing. Dr. Welling, how many Caucasians do you estimate that there are in the islands? Well, I'd say something less than 115,000. And there are 160,000 Japanese. That's right. But slowly, these many people who have come here to Hawaii are being melted into one people. But until that time, what of the 160,000 Japanese? Well, that is a problem. And gradually, there will be a fusion of people here, American born and American culture. But different from any other people anywhere. But before the Japanese will be fused with the others, it will take decades, or possibly generations. 124 years have passed since the first missionaries came to Hawaii. With them began the influence of America upon the islands. Commerce and industry have brought people of many races. Today, these peoples, Orientals and Occidentals alike, are blending into a new people influenced in all their life by the handful of enterprising whites who adventure 2,000 miles westward into the sea to found this melting pot of the Pacific. You have been listening to the Pacific story presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations as a public service to clarify events in the Pacific and to make understandable the cross currents of life in the Pacific Basin. A reprint of this Pacific story program is available at the cost of 10 cents. Send 10 cents in stamps or coin to University of California Press, Berkeley, California. The Pacific story is written and directed by Arnold Marquess. The original musical score was composed and conducted by Thomas Paluso. Your narrator, Gaine Whitman. This program came to you from Hollywood. This is the National Broadcasting Company. Thank you.


Hello, let's continue to talk about supply and demand and today we are going to talk about So consumer surplus and a producer surplus our desire in economy is Greater than our resources So that's called a scarcity and that's the general way way of saying what economics is about Yet, we haven't really talked about how firms and consumers respond to those scarcity When they have series of choices So now in this video, we're gonna move on to that question What do Participants get from by participating in the market. This can be presented in the simply supply and demand curves here Okay in this graph We've got price on the vertical axis Quantity on the horizontal axis and there is a market equilibrium price, right? Haven't changed any numbers yet. So 25 is the market equilibrium price 500 is market equilibrium quantity where supply and demand Intercepts each other. So this is the point On day three when we had a function of forms We set the prices equal to each other, right? Price for demanders and price for suppliers equal then we solve it for two, which is a quantity then Then you get the market equilibrium price and market equilibrium quantity. So now let's focus on the graph Let's first focus on the demand graph demand curve One interpretation of demand curve is how much consumers are willing to pay for that product so 100 units people are willing to pay this much and for 200 units people are willing to pay this much and For 300 people are willing to pay $35 Okay, so that's how you read the demand curve When you look at the height of demand curve when quantities are less than 500 Right. Okay. So here is a quantity less than 500. So we are only looking at this part So this part the willing needs to pay For consumer the demand curve is a higher than the market price Right. There's a whole thing mm-hmm Then we call We call that area Consumer surplus Why do we call it consumer surplus? Because the height of the demand curve is what you would be willing to pay and suppose you go to the store with a cutoff Price in mind and when you find out that you only pay the market price, which is 25 Which is the just fraction of the value then that's a surplus to you So that's why we call it consumer surplus here so that this area Triangle above the market price the equilibrium market price up to the demand curve this ADB is The consumer surplus Okay, let's look at this supply side another way to find defined So search supply curve is the marginal cost. So this is a supply curve It's a marginal cost of Producing a unit of product. So marginal cost to produce a 100 unit is this much and Marginal produce the marginal cost of a producing 300 units is This and the marginal cost of producing 500 unit is units are $25 so again This is the cost for product producer The supply curve is the cost of producing the units but Since we know that $25 is the market price then people are willing to pay $25 So therefore this area above supply curve up to the market price Equilibrium market price is called producer Surplus Okay We have a situation here. So we only have looked at the market equilibrium price and then quantity situation, but here, let's say the price is No longer $25 price here is $15 So that's the market price. Let's say and when The price is only $15 suppliers don't want to produce much More, right? So they only they used to produce 500 units, but now they are producing only 300 units and at this level So this is a new price line. That's $15 Horizontal line at $15 is the new price line. So therefore The area above supply curve up to the new price line is called producer surplus and the consumer surplus on the other hand is above Market price line, right, which is a $15 and Up to the demand curve. So this whole thing is Now the consumer surplus And there is a this triangle here It's called the dead weight loss may have heard about it already and This is a dead weight loss We call it loss because we are comparing the situation where there is this Equilibrium situation, which is the most efficient situation But compared to that producer Only produce a 300 units instead of 500 units. So there is this loss to society and loss to consumers and loss to producer. So I hope you can calculate all these areas If you are given all these numbers, I mean the precise numbers Okay, that was This was a market shortage case. The price was below The market price Market equilibrium price and now here is another situation It is called the market surplus because the price the new price is now greater Than the equilibrium price, which is now $35 so again at $35 if people a lot of Producers, of course, they want to they are willing to produce a lot more So they are willing to produce a 700 units instead of 500 units Which were in the market equilibrium quantity Yet The demanders to consumers they only want to buy 300 units at The price is equal to 35 so therefore the Consumer surplus, so if you're calculating consumer surplus the the area above Market price, which is now set as 35 up to the demand curve So this little triangle. It's a purple little triangle is called the consumer surplus on the other hand the producer now gains Sir surplus Some parts of consumer surplus is now Given to producers because the area above supply curve up to the new price line, which is a $35 is The producer surplus, so there's a whole thin entire this Part is now producer surplus again There is a loss that way loss because this market is not efficient and When the market is not efficient that means when the price is not at the market equilibrium price and The quantity is not at the market equilibrium quantity. Then There is going to be always loss to the society So from consumer surplus since producer surplus does some of consumer surplus and producer surplus is the value of this market Participating in this market leaves surplus correct So therefore we called the sum of consumer and producer surplus is top total surplus Okay, and we have looked at the consumer surplus and then producer surplus and also that way loss


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Community Development Block Grant 50th as well as CD week that we are celebrating community development and we are going to start. First, we have Community Development Director Felicia Kilgore. Thank you, Charmaine. Yes, I am Felicia Kilgore, Director of Community Development and welcome. It is a beautiful day today. April 1st, 2024 coming right off the Easter. So we're here today to kick off National Community Development Week and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Community Development Block Grant. What an amazing grant. Wonderful milestone. So we're here to honor each and every one of you here this afternoon this morning as we commemorate this milestone to renew our community of community development. This week, let's celebrate the success of our collective endeavors under the dedicated individuals and organizations driving positive change and inspire new ideas and innovation for the future. Before we delve into today's program this morning, please take a moment to connect with your fellow attendees, exchange ideas, celebrate the achievements that we have brought together. Once again, I want to welcome all of you to the kickoff of Community Development Week and the 50th anniversary of Community Development Block Grant. At this time, I want to recognize our speakers that we have today. Also want to recognize the members from CCN members. If you raise your hand. Thank you. Thank you. Our speakers for this morning. We will have Miss Councilwoman Tina Herbert. She's a representative of our Council District One. Also the chairperson of the Community Development Task Force. Secondly, we will have Mayor Rickerman, the mayor of City of Columbia. Also want to recognize Councilman Tyler Bailey. We'll also have words from Ms. Diane Moll. She's the vice president of the Alumni Advancement and University Communication with the Columbia International University. Then of course, at the very end, we'll have closing and I'll come back for that. Okay, so I'm going to turn things over to Councilwoman Miss Herbert. Good morning and thank you, Ms. Felicia. Welcome to District One and Hyatt Park. We're glad to see everyone here. And I'm really excited about Community Development Week. National Community Development Week was created in 1986 and elected officials began to bring national attention to the CDBG program through grassroots support at the time when the program was facing real scrutiny. The main objective of National Community Development Week is the education of congressional members on the importance of CDBG dollars and its impact on our communities and the need for more funding. National Community Development Week is intentionally held during the congressional appropriations process. I just learned that so that the significance of CDBG can be imparted to congressional members through local activities conducted by grantees and program partners at a grassroots level. This year, National Community Development Week will be held April 1st today through April the 5th. This is a crucial time for appropriations work coming up for the FY 2025 year will be in its initial stages right now. National Community Development Week provides the perfect opportunity to cement the importance of CDBG in the minds of those in Washington and to increase our CDBG funding. And I'm going to welcome Mayor Rickerman. Good afternoon, everyone. It's good to see you. I want to take a moment first of all to recognize obviously you heard Councilwoman Herbert but she's also the chair of our community development and as we continue to move and be creative and think about it but I also want the community development staff would y'all stand up to be recognized y'all work so hard every day for the city. I just want y'all to be recognized and we appreciate y'all being here and being part of it. You know, as we celebrate National Community Development Week it makes us realize is that we're continuing to invest. As you know, housing is a big part of it. This last couple weekends I've had an opportunity to ride around our community and see all the opportunities that we have and really focus on how do we create more single family? How do we create more multifamily? How do we have townhomes and quadruplexes and duplexes? The things that are needed in our community that are focused across spectrums not only for our young families but also for our seniors who may want to stay in their neighborhood but don't want to stay in their house and have to deal with a lot of long term maintenance and all of that is important because as we leverage these dollars how do we take those dollars stretch it and partner and use other resources to actually grow our community? We have so much opportunity as we ride around our city to fill it with families, mothers, seniors and others to have a place of living inside the city limits. But I want to take a minute to talk a little bit about the CDB. I always want to say CB first. It's CDBG history. You know, this was enacted in 1974 under the Housing and Community Development Act signed into law by President Ford and it provides necessary funding to communities across the country to address not only infrastructure, economic development, housing, disaster recovery but other community needs and it's so important for us to be able to leverage that and you know for years we've done a lot of of of safe investing and looking at things and and now we're getting away a little bit from traditional and figuring out how do we compete with these other cities in the southeast? How do we use those dollars really to leverage with partnerships to create the housing and make sure that we don't lose any more population and we have to be real about that conversation. We've lost population in our community and a lot of it is around housing so let's return that let's build up those fabrics of our neighborhood one block at a time and as we leverage our lots, our funding resources, our talent from our community development office along with our council and our city manager who has really invested for us and as we move forward in our next budget year really to focus on community development and how do we make it a more stronger intricate part of our community because we got to be the seed planners and we need to be planting more seeds and we're going to continue to do that but it's very important for us as we look at this history and understand that cities and counties that receive this direct program allocation, small rural communities receive assistance through their state, non-profit organizations, contractors, other local partners serve as sub recipients to to deliver local. How do we embrace that? How do we at the same time take this money, build it into our community, rebuild our housing fabric but also help us grow the small businesses and that's what excites me because the more money we can spend locally that means people are hired here but the better than that they're part of our community and they give back and it's so important for us to embrace that. So I'm very excited that we kick off this and that we look forward to the new year as we continue to use innovative ways to deliver housing needs, infrastructure needs at the same time allow us to grow our economic development. So the more density we get the more opportunity we have to get grocery stores, neighborhood retail, keep up those neighborhood businesses that we all want to go back to who doesn't want a corner market in their neighborhood, who doesn't want to be able to walk to grab their dry clean and their banking or whatever needs they need. So let's continue to work together because the only way we're going to do this is do this together. That means the city, our community, our business community forged together. Thank you. Thank you so much mayor. That was a wonderful overview and and outlined the importance of CDBG as well as some of the activities that these funds can be applied towards. I'm going to bring it home just a little bit to kind of outline some of the projects that we have been involved in here at the city within the city to assist the residents and communities right here in our area. Standing behind me is Hyatt Park. We have invested a large sum of funds to assist in rehabilitation. We've helped with the mirror out there. We've also invested many of the other parks in the city. As a matter of fact we have working right now with Hyatt making additional phase with them to improve and to develop and expand as well as T.S. Martin. We are involved in assisting with more development with that particular park as well as we've assisted with Fairwall, Lord Park, E.B. Sessions. Not only with the community just as the mayor mentioned affordable housing which is near and dear to my heart assisting low to moderate income individuals to get into home ownership. We work with them, get them prepared for home ownership so they can buy a home within the city of Columbia. We also have a program that we've supported for many years to provide housing rehab upon our maintenance assistance program, upon our shine program, providing those dollars to help low income homeowners to improve their homes to make them safe decent so they can remain in those houses. Also ultimately improve the neighborhood as we move forward to make those improvements on those homes. Also we've supported our affordable housing loan program. You know we have our C.L.L. in the ones, our C.L.L. in the twos as well as the affordable housing to help those folks purchase those houses. And so we, that is near and dear to my heart. We have that and we certainly want to encourage anyone interested in purchasing a house in the city. Please feel free to reach out to us so we can move their process forward for you. As you go through some of the neighborhoods, you know we have been involved heavily in improving the roads particularly in the Booker Washington Heights and we improved a lot of the roads in that neighborhoods to improve the look to to go through the re-violation of those particular areas as well as the colony community. We also have worked closely with public works to improve other roads in those in our various neighborhoods to improve those areas. So if you have noticed, CDBG touches a lot of different things as relates to improving our neighbors, improving our communities, and that's one of the reasons why we're here today to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the use of those dollars and that particular program. Now with all that said, I'm going to turn things over to Ms. Diane Moll. She's with the Columbia International, International University. Thank you director Felicia and it is so good to be here today and thank you to each one of you for all you do for Columbia and thank you out here also and you know may I recommend offered the thought about leveraging resources and at Columbia International University we have resources our students are our resources that are ready to work and this is an exciting week for us. It's our fourth annual RAMSERV. Now our mascot at Columbia International University and we just celebrated 100 years for a CIU right down the road here. Our mascot, yeah, so thankful. Our mascot is the RAM but I bring greetings to you on behalf of the board, our president Jones. The RAM today and this week means reaching around the Midlands. So it is our mascot but when I'm bringing greetings today it is about the Midlands and reaching across and around the Midlands and I also just want to recognize Professor James McCall. He's our assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and many other titles if you get an email from him Charmaine and Felicia I know that that fall underneath his name but really the heartbeat behind our RAMSERV day. It is tomorrow we will be working in about 25 to 30 areas around the community and like I said I have had the privilege of working alongside students probably about 90 percent of our students participate. That many of our faculty and staff and administration I know our whole executive and cabinet of our president's committee is going to be serving tomorrow. I've served at the areas that we've worked at churches, worked at parks. We've also worked in communities and neighborhoods and and it's just so exciting to be a part of it this year on the 50th anniversary and so I just want to thank Columbia for the opportunity for what we get to do as a university, Columbia International University because it is special to partner along, it is special to be working together and to have this opportunity and we need each other right. We need each other and for our students and we know that some of them will stay in South Carolina some of them will go to the uttermost parts of the earth as we say but we are so thankful why they are here at CIU at Columbia International University. They can learn the importance of community development and what it means to come alongside your community and so thank you director Felicia. Thank you to each one of you. Thank you for all that you do for Columbia and it is just a privilege to be here today. Thank you. Mr. McCall would you like to get up and say a few words sir? Sure. Okay. Well thank you for the opportunity to taller sorry. Thank you for the opportunity to come and serve our community. One of the heartbeats of CIU is our mission is to know him and to make him known and the value of making him known as as our students go out and just serve selflessly. I love the fact that for Ram serve one of the things our students are passionate about is not necessarily going and serving the way they feel like they should serve. They're actually going and serve we're contacting the community and seeing how can we serve them in a way that they need and I think that's a shift and there's beauty and there's power and just see and just coming a little alongside and helping. So once again I just want to thank you. Thank you all for for allowing us to partner with you each and every year for the last four years. We look forward to many more years of partnering and just working around our community just to continue to bless and serve our community. Thank you so much Mr. McCall. So I'm going to circle back around to Councilman Bailey. See if you'd like to come and say a few words. They don't want me standing up there like I'm on a choir pew and not saying anything but thanks everybody for coming. Please just know the importance of the block grant so important. I think it's a valuable mechanism as the mayor said and bringing housing and density back to the community. It's a way to combat gentrification so not only do we need the robust funding to continue but we need more funding. So just know the importance of the block grant and the great work that we do through it and continue to support the community development committee and the work that we're doing. Thank you. Thank you so much Councilman Bailey. So this brings us to the end.