ms. russell and to all of the other members of the civil grand jury that worked on this important report. and came up with the findings and recommendations. next, i would like to invite kelly kirkpatrick from the mayor's budget office to provide the departmental's responses. >> good morning, supervisors. 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 appreciat

ms. jada russell, a trusted friend and colleague and supporter and due to inclement weather last night my flight was canceled so i couldn't go. mr. mcnerney graciously agreed to sit in the chair for me last night when i wasn't going to be here this morning, but i'm here now and so i want to thank mr. mcnerney personally to be willing to sit in the chair with me in my absence, but as you can see i'm here. thank you. >> i appreciate the sentiment and i also appreciate the confidence that you've shown in me, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. the chair now recognizes mr. upton, the ranking member of the subcommittee, for five minutes for the purposes of an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i'm sorry to hear about your friend and i'm grateful that you didn't get on that plane because i drove home through that storm last night and i don't think that plane would have had a lot of -- yeah. smart. today's hearing continues the subcommittee's ongoing oversight of cyber security threats to the electric grid, a priority that all of us have had. while this is the first hearing specifi