Well hear from john thomas from dpw. Good morning. John thomas public manager with boks department of public works. I have a few slides to highlight the levels of work we have under way by the department. Focusing on the work demonstrated areas while coordinating with other city departments. These include sidewalk inspection, street resurfacing, curb ramp construction throughout the city and all of those while trying to implement the strategy and the better streets plan. In 2011 the road and pavement bond. The condition at that time was at 64 and we plan to make it 72 citywide and we have maintained streets at the Good Condition level. We have in the past year improved from 6465. That effort that the bond addressed was to provide 3 years of increased funding over our standard levels from 20042011. We have jump started that process. Its an overall 10year plan to bring us to that pci score of 70. We are in year two of the bond implementation. The next slide illustrates those projects. I
That we are expecting. Looking at the portfolio projects that parks and recreation opens and maintains in the eastern neighborhood. We came up with a list of priority projects based on feedback from the community and also our own understanding of the general condition of those cites and the extent to which they are also have been unable to generate funds for those projects and there are parks that need to be renovated and parks that weve been able to renovate with the trusted land and other partners and there is others that we have not been able to find other funding for providing. Some of those parks include jackson playground, mission recs, franklin square, and potrero hill, which is the name of the property but its the recs center that seems to be an outstanding place, the cal trans property maintains and the city wants us to integrate that sight further and make potential improvements. Here is a map of the eastern neighborhoods and where these sites are located. I think our main go
Chemical spill . Charleston. Health officials warning people not to drink, bathe, or even cook with the water. Jonathan thousands of people affected by the spill. What are they doing for water . Reporter well at this point, fema and the Emergency Management groups brought in 12 big tankers of water. But if you go into some of these Grocery Stores bottled water is hard to come by. We are told that some 300,000 people have been told not to use their tap water, only to flush or in an emergency situation like fire. But authorities are trying to figure out how big of an issue this is. This all came to light yesterday early in the day when this company, freedom industries, reported a leak into the elk river from their facility. No one really knew how serious it was, how bad it was, but people around here started reporting a strange smell. People said it smelled like licorice or candy or cough syrup, and officials got to the water and tested it and found it had leaked at the river, and had go
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And indirectly led to a tyranny of exports. Lets call it that technocratic approach to Economic Development it is the idea that poverty is really just a set of technical problems. For example, from malaria there are a variety of Technical Solutions. One of them is bring at chemical called pyrethrum on the walls of peoples houses, on the inside of walls. That is a solution. Helps fight malaria. Another technical solution might be to convert land to higher value uses like food scraps that have low value to the great products that have higher value. Now let me tell you why the technical approach seems so appealing, so straightforward, so uncontroversial, might in fact be not quite ready. Here is the story. This is not a happy story. This is not like do not think of this has the runup to the punch line to a joke. I will try to work some and later, but this is not the happy part of the talk im afraid. On the morning of that urey 28, 2010, the villagers of that the gun that district or in ch