>> commissioner veronese: yes, i have a couple questions from mr. corso. mr. corso, how did you get this grant? how did this come about? >> so this is a grant through fema that comes up every year, and we submitted our application. this is how we funded our new fireboat in the past, our new rescue fire and dive boat. this is an annual grant that the department regularly applies for. >> commissioner veronese: okay. so this is something that we know comes up every year and the department applies for it. >> correct. >> commissioner veronese: i'm wondering if we have a grant writer, if ten of these come up. do you think we'll have a grant writer by the end of the year at least. >> by the end of the year, that's our goal. >> commissioner veronese: and so i know that there are marine drones that exist, as well. are we looking at those capablities? >> at this point, no. i think to chief wyrsch's point, we want to nail down our program with this pilot and see all the impacts on training and deployment before we expand but that's something that'll definitely be on our r

the grant for 2019, is mr. corso going to talk more about that -- or no, that's on page -- i think it's on page 44. >> the grants under homeland security? >> commissioner covington: yes. >> yeah. we're currently working on them now. i think we just got an e-mail that they're extending it because of the power shutdown. >> good morning mr. president, commissioners, chief nicholson. mike cartwright, director of home lan security. by the 11 -- homeland security. >> we're goithose got extended of the shutoffs, and we're going to meet today. >> commissioner covington: thank you. great. and i wonder, the photograph that accompanied the text, was that photograph taken by a member of the department, the fireboat in full bloom and everything, still on page 40? >> oh, that, probably our p.i.o. >> commissioner covington: oh, it's a fantastic photo. i think we need to make as much use of that as possible. >> we had a nice display behind the mayor when they did a press -- she did a press conference the other day. very dramatic. >>