Richard Meeusen | Chairman, President & CEO |
Richard Johnson | SVP, Finance, CFO & Treasurer |
Kenneth Bockhorst | SVP & COO |
Richard Eastman | Baird |
Brian Rafn | Morgan Dempsey Capital |
Nathan Jones | Stifel |
Richard Verdi | Atwater Thornton |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Second Quarter 2018 Badger Meter Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question and answer session and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today’s conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr.