and now we're here with the sheriff again thank you very much sheriff for being on the t v show thank you sheriff i have to thank you and i want to talk about the helicopters and the diving team that you were really wonderful about making sure that it got funding again well as you know the king county is isn't isn't a real funding problem because of the tap the tax structure for counties cities have more taxing authority than a county does and they can only raise their or their tax one percent every year while expenses of course are going up with inflation by two to three percent a year so we're always falling behind criminal justice not just the sheriff's office but jail prosecutor probably defense the courts and the sheriff's office take up about seventy five percent of the money that comes in from tax revenue straight to the street undedicated tax revenue or about ninety percent of that so we're under a tremendous amount of pressure every single year to cut our budget in the sheriff's office at the point now where i have nothing more to cut so the executive office suggests that we cut the marine unit in the helicopter you so our dive rescue team and our helicopter rescue team and i really had no other choice so i put that on the chopping  block and it was up to the county council to restore that and of course i argued against cutting it but i had nothing else to cut if that's what it came down to so luckily when they passed a budget for a ninety year for twenty seventeen twenty eighteen they were stored with units so i'm very pleased that the county council saw fit to do that and hopefully by arguments help sway them i think you did a wonderful job and the public contacted me and they want to thank you for a wonderful resorting those units they're very important they're both very very important and primarily from a search and rescue standpoint now you know king county has two point two million people in for the most part it's a very urban population they live in big cities and what people in big cities do is they were to get out of the city and we are very very fortunate in this part of the country because people can go up into the mountains they can go hiking they can they can go boating they can go on rivers and streams kayaking and innertube all those kinds of things that people like to do and that's wonderful but occasionally they get into trouble they get sick they get hurt and they need to be rescued and that's where the sheriff's office comes in because under state law only a sheriff's office is responsible for search and rescue both urban and rural and so when somebody gets hurt up in the mountains when they are kayaking and get into trouble would people die it's our job the sheriff's office job to rescue them or to do that recovery that body recovery and we are required to do that and we need the equipment and the training and the personnel to be able to do that and you just had a video on that kind of thing we did we did some training here just recently just in the last couple of weeks every year in western washington we have flooding situations and people and property are placed her put at risk and it's the responsibility of our marine unit and our helicopter unit to go out and to rescue those people and occasionally we even rescue animals that's our job so we did some training a couple of weeks ago to be ready for the flooding season that upon us now do we look at that video with you sure a lot of these photos are off or we're going  reagan i was instrumental in getting the funding back along with other council members as well for the helicopter unit and the marine unit these photos are on our facebook page king county sheriff's office if anybody wants to take a look and  legs bring their leg they could have a medical emergency and we're the ones who go in there and pull them out and oftentimes we use our helicopter but that's always in conjunction with the volunteer search and rescue people that go up there as well all right here there's a car the river and we placed out there so we can practice the marine unit can practice use doing rescues from people that are trapped inside a car probably during a flood of us didn't injure you do all you for being so involved in making sure that this rescue unit state funded yup i think it's exceedingly important that we do stay funded now looks here they may be putting the dog on a harness i'm not really sure about that but there are certainly practicing here that the people up thank you very very much for being on my show tell you about and thank you for having this that's a great shot isn't it oh it's a beautiful beautiful dog yes yes and thanks for being on my zero glad to be here thank you so much for for doing it thank you and next time we're going to have more questions for the sheriff on the next thank you sheriff show very good thank you so much thank you