Other disasters would be less expensive and others were looking at, are we driving trends down . Are we seeing overall we contain overtime costs are we not, you know, doing things just because people always did it that way to really drive down the costs of every dollar we administer. I can give you things we work towards, case studies of disasters where we have done reductions versus what we would have spent before and show you trend. Youll show us metrics on outcomes . Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you, i look forward to hearing those. Back to the conversation with senator baldwin. You talked about grant programs, preparedness, and local First Responders and local agencies, and i certainly agree with that as governor after september 11th i can tell you directly what a difference the department of Homeland Security grants have made to our preparedness, and thats why i was concerned when i saw in the budget that you were proposing an 18 cut to preparedness grants, cut to training, and 1 prepond
And maintaining old systems that we think we can do a better job by modernizing the system and reducing our costs. In many cases we think we can have substantial reductions by upgrading to newer systems than to pay legacy costs. This becomes a Cyber Security concern as well. When you have systems running on old, old systems including the fact that microsoft is no longer supporting serving 2003, but your systems are built on that, if youre not upgrading them youre going to increase your signer vulnerabilities. Weve done a lot of work on that end. We were not a poster child at all for that. We cleaned up the systems documenting the systems, eliminating systems no longer needed, but we have reached a point where if we do not start upgrading the systems, not only are they more expensive to maintain, they do not achieve the purpose of being transparent and sharing information with the stake holders, and well spend more time responding to the request by creating a spread sheet in excel to ta