supervisor kate tang. i'm here with volunteers to say thank you. taunk for 2 reasons. first thank you for your continued support of the 93rd program which is celebrating the 25th year in existence and still the only organization in san francisco offering free on hands on emergency preparedness training to anyone who lives and works in the city. the instructors are san francisco fire fighters so the program can't exist without the support hof fire department and during a disaster we support the fire department as first responders in the neighborhood by being eyes and ears. the second thank you is for thetown r continued support of the fire department. thank you for recognizing the city and residence deserve a strong and well staffed department. u.s. census figures from 2014 show the sit eas over 850 thousand residence and the [inaudible] reaches 1.2 million continuing to grow. jun 1 of mayor lees plan to increase fire department budget to hire more fire fightersch i urge you to approve this increase to keep pace with the increase needs of a growing population who depend

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