to thank you for and the hard work of the planning, the legacy business program and as well as nikki yoshikawa, who really kept pushing me to apply for the legacy business, japan town, as you all know, has, i believe, 14 legacy businesses. and hopefully with us it will be 15. but the street fair itself very important organization to celebrate aapi communities, it you know, this year again, it is our 50th. so we're planning to have a big, celebration, but not only at the street fair, but we do have pop up events. we have concerts, you know, at the peace plaza, and those include our community, our pride, which brings all the aapi cultural performances. we have kokoro. so which brings together the western edition connection with japantown, and this year, for the first time, we're going to do a love is love, which will bring in the lgbtq plus community. so again, thank you so much for hearing and listening to us, and we look forward to going to the second commission hearing. thank you. good afternoon, commissioners, my name is melissa bailey nihei, and i'm speaking in support of the approval of le

first and foremost, huge thank you to rick, and to nikki yoshikawa, who has, you know, really nudged us forward, to applying for the legacy business. it's a great program. and in japantown, we have 14, two businesses have closed, but we have 14. so if approved, today will be the 15th legacy business in japantown, street fair means a lot to me. you know, i grew up going to the street fair as a kid, so the mission statement that we, you know, really hold dear to our heart to mentor young people. i am a reflection of what we are able to achieve and this year is our 50th year. so if we are approved for the legacy business, i'm going to blast that thing on our website and on our social media too. so i have a lot of folks here with us today that wants to speak from their heart as well. so thank you for, you know, hearing from us. and thank you. just thank you for everything. thank you. thank you. welcome. hello, commissioners. my name is nick footracer and i proudly serve on the nihonmachi street fair board of directors. and i'd like to thank the commission for consideration of nihonmachi

to thank you for and the hard work of the planning, the legacy business program and as well as nikki yoshikawa, who really kept pushing me to apply for the legacy business, japan town, as you all know, has, i believe, 14 legacy businesses. and hopefully with us it will be 15. but the street fair itself very important organization to celebrate aapi communities, it you know, this year again, it is our 50th. so we're planning to have a big, celebration, but not only at the street fair, but we do have pop up events. we have concerts, you know, at the peace plaza, and those include our community, our pride, which brings all the aapi cultural performances. we have kokoro. so which brings together the western edition connection with japantown, and this year, for the first time, we're going to do a love is love, which will bring in the lgbtq plus community. so again, thank you so much for hearing and listening to us, and we look forward to going to the second commission hearing. thank you. good afternoon, commissioners, my name is melissa bailey nihei, and i'm speaking in support of the approval of le