>> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco joint city & school district select committee occurring october 23, 2014, will begin shortly. >> >> we do. good afternoon. and welcome to our regularly schedule meeting of the joint city and school district and select committee for thursday, october 23rd, my name is jane kim and i serve as the chair and i am joined by my colleagues supervisor mark farrell and mendoza, and i want to recognize the clerk and cascoa as well as sfgtv who record the meetings and make them available to our public. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> there are none. >> could we please take roll call? >> okay, commissioner fewer? >> here. >> supervisor kim? >> here. >> miss mendoza-mcdonnell? >> thank you. >> and supervisor farrell? >> present. >> thank you. >> we have a quorum. >> okay. >> do you call the rest of the roll. >> this is new. >> we did last month. >> so sorry. >> and so the other members, i will call roll for, supervisor avalos? absent and commissioner wynns is also absent. >> thank you madam clerk. >> thank you. >> could we call th

the san francisco joints face the kansas city royals, in case you haven't heard, on tuesday.r tickets now $955, even those willing to stand. still have to pay $500 to stand the whole entire time! turns out this year's world series is the most expensive in at least the past five years. who knew? missing out on some serious cash, the music industry. 2014 is looking to be the first year that no album, no album will be certified platinum. that means no singer or band has hit the one million mark many sales. only two acts have even come close, beyonce and lorde. they both have 800,000 units roughly. on the other hand, oh! soundtrack for the animated movie frozen has sold over three million units so far making it more successful than any artist on the planet. please make it stop, i'm begging you. stop. ♪ please. they're still playing it. stop! [laughter] we've all been -- [inaudible] never seems to end. turns out the business is kind of saving themselves a lot of time and effort following the rule of 7. a new study shows that 7 is the ideal number of people to have in a meeting. it

san francisco side of the bridge, part of an expansion joint repair project. drivers were warned to slow down, and they did, and so did the drive into the city. sergio qntana is live in san francisco with the story. reporter: you can see that there are still signs up, warning drivers that onramps would be closed for a little more two months, until december 12th, for the overnight work, but because of that slowdown, right w caltrans is regrouping, trying to figure out how to get the project done without having such a huge iact on commuters. this is the backup on the top deck of the bay bridge this friday. crews were working on replacing expansiojoints but the plates crews laid over the area that would ray lou vehicles to drive over the work in progress started a backup on the top deck. en on friday, i dragged on into the lunch hour, this is not the first time caltrans crews used the plates but for so reason the drivers were not just slowing down. some were coming to nearly a complete stop before driving over and caused the big backup. so this weekend the plates were removed. >> we took a look at it and thought, let's go ahead and just suspend t

. >> and item 10 isdirecting the transbay joint powers authority to vote in favor of city and county of san francisco community facilities district no. 2014-1 (transbay transit center) (cfd), and take such other actions as may be necessary or expedient to the formation of the cfd. >> any questions. >> and i appreciate this resolution in favor of rcfd form nation and the action that was taken by board of supervisors two weeks ago and to support that approval and i also want to recognize the mayor's office because i know that the mayor particularly a very strong position and we were able to stick to the original formation and the city will be made whole by the district and so it remains to be seen what will occur in the next couple of months and i want to recognize the leadership for standing strong on making sure that we will be able to receive the funds from our private developers to fund this important work. and are there any other comments or questions? >> seeing none, we will open it up for public comment on this item? >> seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. do we have a motion on t

san francisco side of the bridge, part of an expansion joint repair project. drivers were warned to slow down, and they did, and so did the drive into the city. tana is live in san francisco with the story. reporter: you can see that there are still signs up, warning drivers that onramps would be closed for a little more two months, until december 12th, for the overnight work, but because of that slowdown, right now caltrans is regrouping, trying to figure out how to get the project done without having such a huge impact on commuters. this is the backup on the top deck of the bay bridge this friday. crews were working on replacing expansion joints but the plates crews laid over the area that would ray lou vehicles to drive over the work in progress started a backup on the top deck. en on friday, i dragged on into the lunch hour, this is not the first time caltrans crews used the plates but for some reason the drivers were not just slowing down. some

have been giving you advice on what to do with the taxi business in the city and county of san francisco and on a transbay, joint power authority and i am here to tell you that i have started an investigation with the civil service commission. and to how the sfmta hires for the taxi business, as well as their own personnel and i have asked for an investigation of the civil service hiring practices of san francisco and almost how every department in this city can bypass the merit system and the civil service system to pick the political and crony appointees in the department with no background checks whatsoever, i am not here to discuss that, i am here today to tell you and give you seven to 8 copy ts of the letter that i submitted to the civil service commission on this fact and here, on that that i am glad to hear, that there are veteran programs here to promote this project and work within this project because in the nine years that i have been speaking for the taxi agencies, i have never heard them talk about the veterans once. and i am a united states naval veteran and we have the wife of the president of th

san francisco is trying a new approach aimed at keeping the water running. the city's public utilities commission will test a brand of earthquake resistance iron pipe from japan. it has special joints that can flex and should allow water mays to move when the ground does. the first test will be at san francisco general hospital. >> we thought that was probably the most important facility in the city to make sure that they not only have fire protection, but they have continuous water supply. >> the city all spend nearly $2.5 million to test that pipeline. insulation is expected to start next spring but we won't know if it works if there is another big earthquake in san francisco. >>> oakland firefighters came to the rescue of two if window washers that were stuck on a building. the winch on their platform failed and they were stranded. it drew a crowd of anxious onlookers. >> imagine what in the world that felt like and praying to god that all would go well and he would make it over. >> a firefighter repelled down the side of the building, hooked each man up to a rope which pulled them to safety. the firefighter was the last to be brought back over the edge. the rescue went off with

san francisco has -- the cities public utilities commission will test a brand new earthquake resistance iron pipe from japan. the pipe has special joints that can flex and allow water mains to move when the ground moves. the first test will be at san francisco general hospital. >> i thought that was probably the most important facility in the city to make sure that they not only have fire protection but they have continuous water supply. >> the city will spend nearly $2.5 million to test the pipeline. installation is expected to start next spring. >>> time is 5:46. oakland firefighters rescued two window washers stranded 200 feet up in the air for more than two hours. scary stuff. their plot form got stuck outside of a building at 1111 broadway. the winch on the platform wouldn't work and they were stranded up there. the dramatic rescue attracted a crowd of very nervous onlookers. >> i knew in my heart was beating for the guy. >> firefighter actually repelled down the side of the building and hooked each man up to a rope and that rope pulled them to safety. the firefighter was the last to be brought back over the edge. the firefighter

of tour guides in the city, it is likely that the city will pay a lot more attention what tour guides are saying about san francisco. >> supervisor jointactivists and community members in china town to outrage their comments about the tour guide. they will sit down with the china town community leaders to talk about how to more fuffed. >> -- how to move forward. >> i have suggested to him that he considers doing a far better job of hiring locally, of hiring local tour bus guides and others because we have so many from our community who can tell the rest of the world what is special and amazing about san francisco's china town. >> he's calling on all tour bus companies to have a closer relationship with china town and the chinese community. >>> a san francisco man's quick actions helped nab suspects on the street. this man took photos of a get- away car when he saw a man get mugged. and the picks helped the police quickly track down the man and arrest the suspects. >> one of the police officers fold me it was in 20 seconds this pulled the car over in the tenderloin and apprehended all four suspects. it feels good to help out. and i was

joints that can flex and should allow water mains to move when the ground does. the first test will be at san francisco general hospital. >> we thought that was probably the most important facility in the city to make sure that they not only have fire protection but they have continuous water supply. >> the city will spend nearly two and a half million dollars to test the pipeline. installation is expected to start next spring but we won't know if it works until there is another big earthquake in san francisco. >>> time is 7:09. the latest effort to save water here in the bay area involves surfers and showers in pacifica. they're cutting back on the number of heads at the beaches. lindemor beach and shark park, the very popular spots for surfers. pacifica city leaders hope by reducing the number of shower heads will encourage them to take shorter showers and help to save water during the drought. >>> with our bay area heat wave continuing, you heard steve. this should be another busy day at ocean beach. while it might seem tempting, the beach patrol is advising everyone to stay out. ocean beach has notoriously strong rip currents and for visitors not used to them it can be a matter of life