Our neighborhood offered a "First Responders Appreciation Day". Answer was 'unexpected'.

We wanted to thank fire and police personnel for what they do in our smallish south Alabama town.
Here's the invitation and the reply I got from the police chief.
Please let me know what you think.
Thanks.

To: (fire chief) and (police chief)

The residents of XXXX would like to hold a First Responders Appreciation Day for all of XXXX’s fire and police personnel.
It would be held at the XXXX clubhouse at (location) Drive and we would provide a hot dog/hamburger lunch (eat in or carry out) with side dishes and tea, cold drinks, etc.
We invite on and off duty personnel.

If you both think this is a workable idea, please let me know what day would be best and how many participants we could expect and we’ll work out the details.
Sometime in the latter half of September or later?
Thank you.

'trof'
On behalf of the officers and board members of the XXXX Property Owners’ Association
'email and phone'

From the police chief:
Hello trof, thank you for such a kind offer. We are truly blessed in this area with quite a few invites like this. We have had more invites than we have employees that can attend which is a great problem to have.

We have been inundated with the gifts and cards and food brought up to the Police Department during this time.

It means a lot to us that you offered to do this. It really is not necessary and we appreciate you thinking of us.

It has actually gotten hard to get our officers to come back out on their off-duty time because they work such long hours and they enjoy their time off.

And we had so many invites like this that we had to start saying no thank you and extend a heart felt thank you for thinking of us. I will let the officers know y'all were thinking of us. It is our pleasure to serve you. (police chief).