thank you. >> president cleaveland: vice president nakajo. >> vice president nakajo: chief hayes-white evening. i want to get clarification. class 125, 126, 127 will all occur in the year of 2019? hayes-white owe >> chief hayes-white: through june of 2020. >> vice president nakajo: we've been doing two per year. those two might be projected for 2019 and 127 will be 2020? >> chief hayes-white: correct. >> vice president nakajo: how far would you think that projection would go. >> chief hayes-white: i would anticipate that we would similarly ask for two classes per fiscal year. we need tolled -- we need to do more analysis. there was accelerated hiring he would need to keep up with that pace. >> vice president nakajo: , part of that 2019-2020 is because we do two year projections? that's how we're going start to look at the classes that we're projecting? >> chief hayes-white: with mayor lee, we did a five-year plan. we will be open to projecting out even further. we began the hiring in 2012. it was a five years through 2017. we extended three years. two years would be in my mind, very mi

. >> vice president nakajo: thank you very much. cleaveland.evening chief gonzalez. >> i know commissioners made reference to your report. our report seems to get thicker by each commission meeting. which is good. >> all delegation. >> vice president nakajo: i understand that. as commissioner enjoyed reports and identification of all the command post that is sitting there as we get the reports from the various units. which is a lot. it shows you how much we're doing in this fire department. i do appreciate the photos. i have two questions. one in terms of -- i appreciate the video in terms of the jaws of identification again. >> jaws of life. >> vice president nakajo: which brought me to this question. are we the department into a different training technique when it comes to cars that are electrical versus the traditional -- >> electrical there's concern getting shocked. you have to be cognizant of that. the higher -- some of the main philosophy, whatever kind of car it is, you will security scar first. you would need to block it and don't let

vice president nakajo? >> commissioner nakajo: thank you. >>commissioner cleaveland: i should look at my monitor. >> commissioner nakajo: thank you very much, president cleaveland. just a short comment on this item number 6, commissioners' report. i just personally want to congratulate you, chief baker, in your appointment this evening. looking forward to working with you, as well. thank you, mr. president. >>commissioner cleaveland: thank you. commissioners, any other commissioners would like to report on anything. >> i just personally -- oh, there it went. >>commissioner cleaveland: commissioner hardeman? >> commissioner hardeman: thank you, mr. president. just getting back to the ceremony, well done. huge crowd just so happy that i got to be there. very moving, very sad, but again, very upbeat. his family did a good job, his brother did a good job, and i thought the chief did a great job. so very, very moving. great tribute. a huge crowd. i was so happy to see so many people turn out for him. and then i saw, talking to the maintenance guy

vice president nakajo. you had comments. >> vice president nakajo: thank you very much mr. president. commissioner veronese, i appreciate this resolution. i think in terms of your statements and in terms of the reasons why you want to promote and advance this resolution. i don't have a problem in terms of many of the things that you said. the majority of the things you mentioned, i don't have a problem with them. i'm concerned about the details that are part of this resolution. this resolution from my workings, it didn't have a number on it. there's seven pages on here. i didn't know how much you want to go into it. for myself, i have a questions on every page. i have some detailed question on every page. i know this is a planning document but i did not know if you likely to make a reference to those questions at this particular time or basically i didn't know highway long o -- hw long or how far you want to go in terms of this resolution if you are moving towards discussion, questions or ultimately are you looking for an acceptance of this resolution. i'm not quite sure we

richard: well, it started in 1973 in may, and actually, it was originated from steve nakajo, a well-knownerson in japantown, and primarily, when they developed it, they wanted to have a different festival outside of the cherry blossom, and mainly to focus more on the nonprofit organizations and promote more nonprofits and their services, and they can send out their information, but also to display more of the local talent, the asian talent. robert: mm-hmm, and it really was more. i mean, street fairs were obviously for fun, and this one really did a nice job of mixing in sort of-- kinda fostering more community bonds, as well as kind of--wayne, you've seen it, right? young people kinda starting to take over leadership by getting involved first, right? wayne yoshida: pretty much, yeah, you know, 'cause, you know, we're more about the community leadership, being positive role models. i think both of our kids have been involved in the street fair, mine since they have been born. they have been volunteering ever since, and my girls are now 16 and 18, and they really look up to it, and they ju

my name is steve nakajo. i'm the executive director of the japantown task force whose job is to maintain and preserve the history in san francisco, our san francisco japantown, one of three in the united states, the other two being in los angeles and san jose. our goal is to have japantown thrive as a cultural economic and vibrant neighborhood which will serve as a heart of the japanese american and japanese speaking communities for generations to come. we support the goal of this proposed ballot initiative to have a dedicated mechanism of funding for culture and arts in the city. since japantown is a designated cultural district and has developed a cultural heritage and sustained economic strategy, there needs to be a funding source to support the strategy. we urge you to support this proposed ballot initiative. i'm a san francisco fire commissioner, 24 years. before that, i was a san francisco art commissioner, vice president. at the time, in the years, what occurred was we had these concepts called cultura

. >> vice president nakajo. >> commissioner veronese, i want to thank you for the hard work and the passion. about a year ago when you came, one of the first statements you stressed with your fundraiser was in this regard of stress of the members in terms of the regard. at this particular time i would like to acknowledge and appreciate the commissioners on this commission as well as the chief and everyone of you command staff, and every member in this audience that has been with us for the last three hours. i totally agree with commissioner covington, a good, healthy, robust discussion. and i appreciate you being in it at the forefront so we could discuss it. for me, in terms as well, with the contract question that came about for individuals, it's about options. and it's about options to be able to have the options. and of course, within our own family and our own house, i think we want to reach out to our members in terms of our own, but i also share the feeling that sometimes i like to go to someone who doesn't know me at all. because sometimes self esteem and guilt is tough enough when