i'm kelly kirkpatrick. thank you so much for having us this morning. first and foremost, thank you to the members of the civil grand jury for all of your hard work and contributions towards investigating important matters, as it relates to san francisco. especially in this term public safety. we really recognize that the civil grand jury spent a lot of time and were very thoughtful in their analysis on evaluating critical public safety matters, including the emergency water supply system, the city's interest in rejoining the joint terrorism task force and pedestrian safety, of which i know you'll hold hearings on all of those. on behalf of the mayor's office, the city administrator's office and the police department, we submitted a letter in response to the report expressing our appreciation and interest in working with the jury on ensuring timely and responsive feedback to civil grand jury reports. the grand jury clearly put a lot of time into their analysis, reviewing responses since fiscal year 2014-2017. and noting over 70 instances in which timefr

i also would like to thank our budget team and kelly kirkpatrick who is the director of the budget. [applause] kelly, stand up, we can't see you. [cheers and applause]. >> her countless hours and worker work to get this budget done. harvey rose and his team from the budget and legislative analyst. usually the mayor doesn't think them, but as someone who served on the board of supervisors and has a lot of love for the work that they do to really analyse the budget within a short time period, i just want to thank them for their hard work to get this job done was pause -- [applause]. >> thank you to brendan rosenfield for crunching the numbers, him and his team. all the department heads, the ones that were grilled hard-core and were able to fight for their resources and get what we needed for the public. i mean, the budget was a battle, but it was a good battle. it was one of the best budget processes i've seen in a really long time, and i'm not just saying that because this is my first budget as mayor, i am saying it because everyone had an opportunity to make a request and have their