the grants go from the fed's to our state, cal ema, to local law enforcement to enhance security around critical infrastructure. examples include power plants, dams, stadiums, financial institutions. part of homeland security works with law-enforcement to identify the site that may have some risks associated with it and to identify specific threats and vulnerability. they grant money to the local un force the agency to enhance planning, equipment, and training in the to mitigate the risk to the side. for this grant, the department of homeland security is given approximately $200,000 off to the san francisco police department for equipment. specifically, equipment used by the bomb squad and four interoperable radio equipment. department of medicine management is a fiscal agent for this grant, which is why i am here. there is no local match to this funding. free money for the city and county of san francisco. the opposition's funded and no grant funds have yet been encumber or expanded. happy to answer any questions you have. >> supervisor chu: we do not have a general fund impact, so the

our deputy and nancy ward representing region nine of fema and mike dayton, acting secretary for cal ema, very experienced people to talk about the importance of preparedness, the response and then the recovery. and to follow up with a panel of experts, it will also be very interesting. i'd also like to pay particular acknowledgement to the department of emergency management for all they do for our city when it comes to putting all our pieces together and departments together. under mayor lee we've worked collectively and collaboratively and there are a number of department heads i would like to thank for your being here. just on saturday there were five neighborhoods. i didn't get to all five. but there were five who all held neighborhood emergency response drills representing over 60 neighborhoods, and the nert program which the fire department is so proud of was in response to loma prieta. about 21 years ago nert became a program, because what we saw during loma prieta was that we had a very willing community but what we didn't have was a trained and well-prepared community. so we had

data early and get the damage assessments early, we're able to make that determination and work with cal ema to determine whether or not it's going to hit their thrish hold so we don't miss these opportunities and i think it's going to be critical as we move forward and the economy can continue to do what it does and government budgets can do what they do. i think it's important and sometimes it's the small events, all it takes is working together. the one before that we did was the n.f.c. championship game which, again, people say, well, nothing really happened. that's because we didn't win. let's be honest. i'm very sorry for that. >> chief, sir, is still crying. >> he's all broke up. but the reality is, in today's environment, we see, you know, all over the country, where you have big professional sport event games, when people win and you have what i've been calling celebratory chaos so the point was getting everybody in the e.o.c. ahead of time working together to solve problems before they're big problems and we learn from every one of these things so we went home disappointed that nig