start my report, i did want to introduce and welcome our new deputy chief of administration, janine nicholson and as you know, chief ramona williams retired on december 29th and i promoted chief nicholson to her new role, she left battalion one working as a battalion chief, 24 years of service with the department and started downtown january 2nd. she's off to a great start and being well supported by the divisions who report to her. i wanted to give her the opportunity to say hello and she will have her first report on the 24th. >> welcome chief nicholson and congratulations. >> thank you commissioners and thank you chief hayes-white. i'm honored and humbled to serve in this position. and i would like to thank deputy chief mark gonzalez for helping to ease the transition and my deputy chiefs who have been wonderful in passing information on to me. i have met most of you, not all of you. thank you for all the work that you do. i do look forward to carrying out the mission and vision of our department. while i have hit the ground running, i appreciate your patience with me while i grow into thi

because they work very closely with the p.u.c., i'm joined today by newly appointed deputy chief janine nicholson here, and also our water expert in the fire department, captain james ready. so, without further ado, p.u.c. findings, from mr. scarpulo. >> thanks very much, chief. >> good morning, supervisors, john scarpulu with the p.u.c. pleasure to be here and report out to you. with me, obviously are several experts from the p.u.c. and fire department as well as professor charles kauthorn, international recognized in the field and completed the independent third party report. however, before i get into the report, i want to speak a little more, more details on the partnership that both director kelly and chief hayes white discussed. and 2010 then mayor transferred responsibility of fire suppression over to the p.u.c., and the year the first emergency, earthquake emergency bond was passed, one in 2010 and 1 in 2014. in the partnership, improvements and expansion in the maintenance we do must meet the quality standards required by the san francisco fire department. sfpuc, design and construction