You are a financial consultant. A potential client offers to pay you a retainer of $$20,000$ today, and to engage you for a project which will pay you annual cash inflows of $$8,000,$ $$9,000,$ and $$10,000$ at the end of each of the next three years, respectively. What is the present value of this business proposition, given a $5\%$ discount rate?

A$.$ $$22,907$

B$.$ $$28,719$

$($C$.)$ $$32,573$

D$.$ $$44,420$

E$.$ $$52,195$