nakajo. vice president francee covington. >> commissioner joe alioto verone veronese, chief of department janine nicholson. >> members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes on any matter within the jurisdiction and does not appear in the agenda. speakers shall address the remarks as a whole and not to any personnel. commissioners are not to enter into debate with the speaker. a lack of response by the commissioners or department personnel does not constitute agreement with statements made during public comment. >> thank you madam secretary. in terms of general public comments, is there any member of the public that wishes to give a public comment at this time? seeing none, the item is closed madam secretary. >> discussion of the minutes, approving minutes of the regular meeting on april 24th, 2019. >> is there any member of the public that wish to give public comment at this time, in terms of the approval of the minutes, please approach the podium. seeing none, public c

nakajo. vice president francee covington. >> commissioner joe alioto verone veronese, chief of department janine nicholson. >> members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes on any mr

nakajo. vice president francee covington. >> commissioner joe alioto veronese

. >> thank you president nakajo, commissioners. first i like to thank chief nicholson for appointing me her deputy chief of operations, thank you. i like to -- >> thank for saying yes. it would have been trouble if you hadn't. >> i had to sleep on it. also, i wanted to take a chance to thank former chief of the department joanne, herself and the commission at a time in my career where i need add lot of support and help, they were there for me 100%. for that, i have my unconditional loyalty to both you and to her, and i want to thank you all. also, i want to thank deputy chief of operations mark gonzales who has helped me in my transition, and at lot of my former c.d.1, 2, and 3 who reached out to me. thank you. we had several fires in april, but because of our quick response and aggressivics ting wishment, there were no major injuri injuries to report on those. i like to quickly state that on april 19th, i was on my very last call and i was dispointed because it was just a building alarm. i didn't want to end my career that way. wh