commissioner hartiman?>> thank you, president nanacaccio. >> this is sort of a nos nos not nostalgic day. if this is something that you want to double check on -- you've just been great. i hope i don't see you often on the weekends. if i go by the headquarters, there is chief gonzales going in on a saturday or sunday as i'm going to a ballgame. one time, two weeks in a row, you were pulling in, as i hollered, chief, what are you doing here again this weekend. you're very dedicated. i know in your case, you have no children, and in some respects, more than maybe most others, this really is your family. i know your parents are just wonderful people. your father was a firefighter. you developed a great rereport. thireport. this is fantastic. over the years of being number two in charge, and often you had to stand in for the chief. and this is sort of -- i hope that we see you around here and that you -- that whatever happens in the fire department, i hope chief nicholson decides to keep you around, but that's

and commissioner hartiman wanted to see a video on five.i had to edit the video for time constraints because one of the dheefs chiefs that put the video together put a lot of pictures in it of station 7, and they had nothing to do with it, so i edited them out, but i left the chief in. >> thank you. >> this building is 62 years old. >> can we go to the laptop. >> with this being an essential facility, this needed to meet that building code, and it was less expensive to demolish and rebuild than to do a seismic upgrade. [sirens] >> san francisco approved 2010 eser general bond that included improvements or replacement to fire station and police stations and other projects. fire station 5, located in the western edition, is very important to the san francisco fire department. not only do we house an engine and a ladder truck there, but we also have or division chief. >> demolition to start in april of 2017, and the completion is scheduled by the end of this year, 2018. >> fire station 5's first floor is mainly going to be the apparatus, as we

behalf of the fire commission, and cleveland commissioner, and covington commission, and commissioner hartiman, express our support. congratulations, chief nicholson. at this point, as well, we want to thank and appreciate the 15 years of service that joanne hayes white has served this great city. we are looking forward to working together to accomplish what we need to do. we are the fire department, we save lives, we respond to emergencies. we ensure that the buildings in san francisco are safe, and we make sure that our duties and staff are well-kept. thank you very much, mayor breed, for this. congratulations, and as we say, let's get working. thank you. [applause] >> all right. that concludes our press conference. there will be a swearing in at a later date. you all will be invited. i'm really excited about this, along with so many other incredible things happening in san francisco. thank you all for taking your morning to be here. and, again, congratulations to our new fire chief. and we will be happy to take questions on the side from the press. that concludes the press conference today.