yes, commissioner nakajo. >> vice president nakajo: thank you very much, madam president, and thank you very much, fire marshal and thank you for your patience and your comprehensive report. i just have comments. i get it in terms of the pandemic and covid-related. i understand shared spaces in terms of the restaurants. i understand the importance of that for economic vitality for them. i just want to make sure and it sounds like that any shared space falls into our compliances. i also concern myself with the length of the pace that various shared spaces take up, but i also understand that it's an mta jurisdiction. my other comment is that, again, covid-related pandemic, i understand that the concept of slow streets and do share the same kinds of concerns that my fellow commissioners, particularly commissioner covington talks about, in terms of allowing our vehicles to respond. and i would also be interested in terms of the response time and what kinds of detrimental effects it has in terms of time, allowance of our vehicles within those various streets. so i just wanted to be able to s

i think you just beat vice president nakajo by one slip of your pen. sorry, vice president nakajo. >> i'm fast on the pen. thank you, madam president and thank you, mr. corso for your report. there are so many good things happening in terms of being able to garner the support that we need and that we have from the city: i don't know if all of the members of the department are aware that at one time the mayor was the fire commission and i think that her care and notice of our needs is reflected in the kinds of fiscal support that we have been able to get. i did have just a couple of questions on page three. goodness, i have so much paper here. on page three, there was mention of the budget surplus of $108 million is such good news and just music to my ears and then there is a phrase that i love on page five. no mandatory reductions are being requested. i just love the sound of that. so many years it's been reduce your budget by 5% or reduce your budget by 3% and we just had no place to cut and so now we don't have to worry about that for this cycle whic

i think you just beat vice president nakajo by one slip of your pen. sorry, vice president nakajo. >> i'm fast on the pen. thank you, madam president and thank you, mr. corso for your report. there are so many good things happening in terms of being able to garner the support that we need and that we have from the city: i don't know if all of the members of the department are aware that at one time the mayor was the fire commission and i think that her care and notice of our needs is reflected in the kinds of fiscal support that we have been able to get. i did have just a couple of questions on page three. goodness, i have so much paper here. on page three, there was mention of the budget surplus of $108 million is such good news and just music to my ears and then there is a phrase that i love on page five. no mandatory reductions are being requested. i just love the sound of that. so many years it's been reduce your budget by 5% or reduce your budget by 3% and we just had no place to cut and so now we don't have to worry about that for this cycle whic

i think you just beat vice president nakajo by one slip of