mr. minarde. we're fortunate to have you and look forward to working with you. the first item on the agenda are minutes of the board of directors meeting of march 20, 2013~ [speaker not understood]. >> commissioners, my name is harlan kelly and i am the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. thank you for allowing me to come before you. i have a previously scheduled engagement, so, i'm going to have to dash off right after my comments. but i want to talk about an item that you have, item 5 on your agenda. ~ first of all, due to personal and confidential rules, i'm not here to talk about any specific as it relates to any disciplinary actions related to ms. ellis that were taken in august of 2013. however, i want the commission to know and understand that all actions were based on exhaustive and independent puc investigation where we carefully weighed the facts and the mitigating circumstances. recently, in january 2014 with your commission and the fppc, reached a joint settlement agreement with ms. ellis. your investigation did not pres