up next we have ann crone enberg, our director of our department of emergency management. ~ >> it is? okay, thank you. i appreciate the opportunity to come and present to you today. dem has been working very hard with the police department, the fire department, mta, department of technology and others to bring our communications systems up to the 21st century. i think there's been some -- not i think, i know there's been a lot of confusion about what i believe president chiu referred to as the multiple radio projects. and i want to -- i hope i can dispel those misconceptions today. i'm going to try to keep it very simple because this is really complex issues. and i have my technical people here with me so that if, in fact, i can't answer a question, they certainly can for you. so, we are, you know, from our perspective, we are not duplicating efforts. we have separate projects that are occurring that are all very necessary. the four that i'm going to talk about today, and i see that it looks like ed rifkin who has been here since 1:30, had to leave for another meeting. so, it's unfort