i have a question that i will call "the pothole question." and it's the question that everybody always wants to know about when they drive through san francisco and they are hitting potholes and they are getting all shaken up whether they are on a bicycle, scooter or motorcycle, they say please speed up the repaving of my roads so i can ride around town without getting my teeth getting torn up in the mayhem. this comes from kyle parks >> kyle, thank you. you join a chorous of people who want roads focused on and i would encourage you to follow-up on your email and give us the route that you have and we can espond back to you directly about the priorities of those routes. because we have had a disinvestment of roads to many years. i used to be the public works director and i would scream at the board saying give us resources and it was not as high priority as i am making it. i want to first of all thank the public, because a couple of years ago they passed, with the leadership of supervisors wiener and supervisor chiu and others. many of you s

as peter clarke terms it, you may encounter unexpected "potholes." peter clarke: well, the first pothole is being able to communicate effectively with a physician. we were in the examining room with an older woman who was coming to her physician for a routine post-adjuvant chemotherapy session. and she came in in a bright green jumpsuit, and she was vivacious and energetic, and her physician asked what she'd been doing. she said well, you know, i've just come from my jazzercise class. and he exploded in indignation that she, in her physical condition would do jazzercise. well, she fled the examination in tears and, as we learned, never again visited the physician. and, a number of months later, finally succumbed to her condition. that's such a pointless and needless... expression of deference to a physician, rather than standing your ground and saying, "this is why i'm doing this. this is keeping me alive emotiolly. this is providing the energy that i need to continue my life." barbara korsch: everett koop has made statements that 90% of the errors i

. >>> people who live in va low hay can notify the city about potholes. officials are asking you to report potholes, burnt out street lights with an app call the see, click, fix. they can provide a gps location of the problem and up load a problem. so far 43 complaints have been reported on the site. >>> right now it's 4:49. let's check back in with sal. any problems? >> nothing major right now. traffic does look pretty good around the bay. you can get a decent drive almost anywhere. there is road work out there being picked up. on the east shore freeway it looks pretty good. one of our earliest commutes is this east shore commute. there is a lot of people out there but there are no fender benders on the way. toll plaza looks the same but it's backed up for a short distance. only for the cash payers. very short. if you are driving in san jose northbound 280 and 101 are off to a good start. now let's go to steve. >>> you n seize hoofing is dive -- you can see how everything is diving down. next week could be a much different story. stronger area of low pre

pushing a button make sure to report potholes. >>> good morning. a little breezy for some.thers. temperatures cool. 60s or low 70s. >>> cooler this morning but warm weather in the bay area is blamed for a rise in rattlesnake bites. the sonoma county reptile center is getting a lot of rattlesnake calls this time of year. most of the victims are dogs. they say if you are bitten the best thing to do is wash the area with soap and water and head for the closest hospital. >>> richmond is getting a new full service grocer this week. grocery outlet will open a new 14,000 square foot store tomorrow. it's located right off of interstate 80 through the intersection with mcdonald avenue. this will be the second grocery store in the city of richmond. >>> people who live in vallejo can notify the city about potholes with their smart phones. vallejo officials are asking users to report potholes, burned out streetlights, and graffiti. users can provide a gps location and up load a photo. but don't do that while you are living. >>> i will help you out as much as i can. we do have an injury

just be an ordinary citizen with a good eye for potholes. san francisco is adopting an app called civic hero. >> when you're walking down the street and you see a problem you want to report it. >> whether it's a graffiti or utility outage you can snap a picture and init in. the next thing the city hopes to take paperless is getting a business license. >> it's challenging to start a business on its own, we need to roll out the red carpet. >> there's one more day to get free dental work from california dental association volunteers in san jose. the free clinic at the convention center ban this morning at 5:00, and there were already hundreds of people in line. 800 den tests, high hygienists and assistants provided the services. doors open at 5 tomorrow morning. >>> find out what the weather will be like tomorrow. >> it's going to get warmer tomorrow. todays temperatures up a few degrees, tomorrow and monday, even warmer weather is coming. so enjoy the outdoors no matter your plans. as you look at live doppler 7hd, if you were with us earlier t

just be an ordinary citizen with a good eye for potholes. san francisco is adopting an app called civic hero. >> when you're walking down the street and you see a problem you want to report it. >> whether it's a graffiti or utility outage you can snap a picture and init in. the next thing the city hopes to take paperless is getting a business license. >> it's challenging to start a business on its own, we need to roll out the red carpet. >> there's one more day to get free dental work from california dental association volunteers in san jose. the free clinic at the convention center ban this morning at 5:00, and there were already hundreds of people in line. 800 den tests, high hygienists and assistants provided the services. doors open at 5 tomorrow morning. >>> find out what the weather will be like tomorrow. >> it's going to get warmer tomorrow. todays temperatures up a few degrees, tomorrow and monday, even warmer weather is coming. so enjoy the outdoors no matter your plans. as you look at live doppler 7hd, if you were with us earlier t

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one of the biggest risks of cycling , on the street is the need to avoid all the obstacles, potholes, which causes erratic byciclists, which makes the motorists to be more contentious. they are all breaking the laws in the city. the infrastructures of decrepit that it is causing problems with everybody and if they would simply improve the surface and repaint

. >> if you have driven over a pothole and thought, i immediate to tell the city about this, if vallejohere is an app for that and the city has joined a website and app that lets people report nonemergency problems that include potholes, graffiti, or damaged streetlights. the app lets you publicly pinpoint what is wrong on a map so the city can respond. >> our meteorologist, mike nicco, with the accweather forecast. what is going on? >> it is quiet. we have a breeze along the peninsula and, also, at coast but everyone else is running quiet and you can see on live doppler 7 hd exactly what i am talking about and the lack of radar runs and there is more moisture in the air this morning so it looks hazy from time to time but the best chance of rain is not today, it is probably monday into tuesday. that the biggest change in the forecast. here we are looking from mount tamalpais back across san pablo bay and it is gorgeous at 2,600' and we get a few breezes and it will be sunny with temperatures below average and a slight warming trend, ever so slight warming and our temperatures will be kn

functionally obsolete meaning the structure is safe but design features are outdated frp the number of potholes the lower the score. a score of 50 or below qualifies the bridge for money to get it replaced. >> alameda has bridges that cover -- one of them is the bridge that scored a 68 out of 100 sufficiency rating. caltrans didn't have the rating for our local bridges but said the brijsz are safe. >> it gist you an idea of what you have to do to keep the bridge in operating condition. >> reporter: now, inspectors look for obvious signs of wear and tear from corrosion to cracks in the deck and foundation of the bridge and that's what happened october 2010 back on the san mateo hayward bridge. the caltrans inspectors found a crack in the girders and immediately closed the section and did emergency repair. now coming up tonight at 6:00 what one national group of experts says the u.s. has to spend to keep up with our aging bridges. >> thank you were stephanie. we did some digging of our own and found that the state's annual bridge inspection budget is $450 million. that's what it takes to inspect

click, fix," an app that lets you report nonemergency problems including damaged streetlights or potholes and lets you publicly pinpoint what is wrong on a map so the city can respond >> our meteorologist has the accweather forecast. >> good morning, everyone. dry start this morning on live doppler 7 hd but a little breezy. higher elevations, the peninsula, the coast, san francisco, here we are at mount tamalpais, sausalito, and san francisco here, and the bay bridge. it is breezy at 2,600' but we don't live up there. sunny today, below average temperatures. the breezes will pick up and spread across the neighborhoods with showers possible monday and tuesday. we talked about that yesterday. now it is looking more formidable. from the roof camera, at the ferry building and the embarcardero center, temperatures are three degrees cooler-than-average in oakland at 66. san francisco is 61. napa is 71. that is six degrees cooler-than-average. san jose is 69. we will only get to 66 in redwood city, ten degrees cooler-than-average. we have the area of low pressure counterclockwise flow with the a

eastbound richmond san rafael bridges are considered structurally deficient because of problems with potholes and corrosion. >> pg&e calls it its $2.25 billion fine illegally excessive. eight people died and dozens hurt and 38 homes destroyed when a natural gas pipeline exploded. the utility agrees a financial penalty is just, but they argue the cost of improvements and upgrades to the pipeline should be deducted from the penalty. >>> and new at 11:00, the santa clara county board of supervisors may decide to include new homes to be wired for electric car charges. northern california ranks first in electric car ownership, but fourth in the number of charging stations. the board is drafting an ordinance to require all new homes to be built in santa clara county to be wired to accept a charger of 240 volts. >> there is a demand as gas prices continue to increase and they are concerned about the environment. we know more bay area people are going to buy electric vehicles and i think everyone will appreciate when they drive into the new home that they can put in a charger. >> the ordinance could

elected officials, learn about their neighborhood, everything from crime statistics to how to report a pothole or graffiti. but if we spend more and more on technological innovation without funding the training to help people, we just have a wider digital divide that we had before. so, we would ask you today if you're prepared to support continued funding for the now called s.f. connected program, and enjoin us in being a part of the campaign. some of you have computers in your pocket and you know how to do this. so, please like the community keep us connected campaign, and join efforts to get more folks involved in technology. thank you. (applause) >> we're going to call up the next five speakers here. amber carol. rariko ruby he espinosa. [speaker not understood]. and one more, vera hale. >>> hi, everybody. it's really nice to see such a good turnout of community members and community collaboraters. my name is amber carol. i'm here representing the aging and disability resource center as part of a community services of san francisco. i'm here on behalf of both district 1 and 4. we provide in

eastbound richmond san rafael bridges are considered structurally deficient because of problems with potholes and corrosion >> pg& >> pg&e calls it its $2.25 billion fine illegally excessive. eight people died and dozens hurt and 38 homes destroyed when a natural gas pipeline exploded. the utility agrees a financial penalty is just, but they argue the cost of improvements and upgrades to the pipeline should be deducted from the penalty. >>> and new at 11:00, the santa clara county board of supervisors may decide to include new homes to be wired for electric car charges. northern california ranks first in electric car ownership, but fourth in the number of charging stations. the board is drafting an ordinance to require all new homes to be built in santa clara county to be wired to accept a charger of 240 >> there is a demand as gas prices continue to increase and they are concerned about the environment. we know more bay area people are going to buy electric vehicles and i think everyone will appreciate when they drive into the new home that they can put in a charger. >> the ordinance could b

. >> the potholes. >> reporter: for other it's park improvements. >> my children going into restrooms right now. extremely extremely disgusting. >> reporter: vallejo is the first city in the country to do this at a cost of $200,000. they've been narrowing down the choices for months all leading up to this week of voting. >> we're coming out of bankruptcy. we're trying to reinvent our image. >> reporter: the decisions being made today are only advisory to the city council. the council has to make the final decision and they have some tough choices on their hands. they have now a projected $5.5 million budget deficit for the next year. >> i think we're expecting that the council will honor the will of the voters. >> no it's not going to be binding. but it's like -- a yes with a maybe. >> we live in this town, they need to start listening. if they want a better community. >> reporter: but even if the most popular plans don't happen, there are still positives here from teenagers feeling empowered. >> like i'm actually a part of something because you know i can't really vote for anything e

eastbound richmond san rafael bridges are considered structurally deficient because of problems with potholes and corrosion. >> pg&e calls it its $2.25 billion fine illegally excessive. eight people died and dozens hurt and 38 homes destroyed when a natural gas pipeline exploded. the utility agrees a financial penalty is just, but they argue the cost of improvements and upgrades to the pipeline should be deducted from the penalty. >>> and new at 11:00, the santa clara county board of supervisors may decide to include new homes to be wired for electric car charges. northern california ranks first in electric car ownership, but fourth in the number of charging stations. the board is drafting an ordinance to require all new homes to be built in santa clara county to be wired to accept a charger of 240 volts. >> there is a demand as gas prices continue to increase and they are concerned about the environment. we know more bay area people are going to buy electric vehicles and i think everyone will appreciate when they drive into the new home that they can put in a charger. >> the ordinance could

one of the biggest risks of cycling , on the street is the need to avoid all the obstacles, potholes, which causes erratic byciclists, which makes the motorists to be more contentious. they are all breaking the laws in the city. the infrastructures of decrepit that it is causing problems with everybody and if they would simply improve the surface and repaint the line so we could tell where the road is and where the bike lanes are, and which part is shared and which is not we would do away with 80 percent of the problems and 80 percent of the conflict. i'm hoping that being involved in the task force and continuing to engage with you all and other merchants associations that we can make that much better known to the mta. we could actually make their dollars go a lot further and solve 80 percent of the problem right off the bat. hopefully the this continued dialogue we can impress that upon them and i will take that to the transportation task force as well, which is in the mayor's office. thank again. >> chair adams: let's take public comment on item seven. do we have any members of the

kids whose names begin like, the kid called pothole; the kid called education; the kid called muny which cries a lot; the kid called public health. if the spouses are not working really strongly in the beginning we are going to be arguing over which kid we want to favor every single year. you are here to let us know what those priorities are. .will be listening very carefully i want to thank you and get on with less features and more about listening to you. thank you. (applause) >> welcome, good morning, buenos dias. welcome to district 9. let's give the mayor a big round of applause. apl (applause) i thank my colleagues, supervisor scott wiener - apl (applause)and of course our budget chair from district two, supervisor mark farrell. also want to acknowledge all the department heads and their staff who are here; they work for all of us. they work for you. it is important to see the faces of the people who make the city run. out also want to acknowledge in my office -- where is she -- stephanie ashley. where is stephanie? i want to identify her because if there are specific issues you wa

a lot of the calls we get involved fixing alights, replacing a pothole. think it is really important to make sure we get those things right and we try to work very closely with the city agency to make sure government is responsive. if we do not do those things right, those little things, which are big things in life of a neighborhood. >> how you reconcile the needs of your district with the needs of the city? supervisor campos: i think it is possible to do that. even though we have these great districtwide elections, i think district election still allow you to deal with larger issues. we feel that we certainly have demonstrated that as a board. individual supervisors have demonstrated that. one of the pieces of legislation we worked on last year that we are very proud of is the health services master plan, which is legislation that for the first time has a city like san francisco thinking about the health needs of the city of seoul. -- cities as all whole. it is good for us to know what the health care needs of the city are going to be in the next couple

they're taking 3 in 1 data, pothole request and crime report and matching it up with social media. they're getting this really deep and rich picture of what is going on in the city. and you can do that with data when you think about it creatively. philadelphia as i mentioned, they are really active in open data. and new york, again with 3 in 1 is doing smart analytics. i think that's what you'll see happening as well, government starts to become smarter, make better decisions, better policies. this term algorithmic regulation, which means you can have laws and policies in the cities determined by data and not just what we think is best, but what's actually best. so, as cities keep catching on and more and more with the data, you're going to see some really interesting things coming out. >> cool. while we're talking about data, another part of the announcement today was also motion loft making private data available within sort of that initiative and that website wrieri'd like to hear a little more, john, about kind of deciding to share that data with the city and also a lot of time

with this coordinating council, we're figuring out how to fix the potholes, how to deal with the literally million people who are going to descend on our neighborhood this weekend, how to take care of the needs that we have, not just in the future after the big one, but today in 2012. and by bringing us together today, by tackling and talking about the problems we'll deal with tomorrow, we're actually achieving many things here at this moment in october. and, so, i want to ask you to think about how it is that you can help us to build these infrastructures, how you can help us to build community so that we're keeping ourselves safe today, this month, this year, and for many, many years to come. so, with that, again, i want to thank you for being here. and we as a civilian leadership of the city and county of san francisco look forward to hosting hopefully many seminars like this into the future so we can all work together to keep our city, our state, our country, and our world much safer. thank you for being here. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor chiu. on wednesday we had an lcac or big

think ed is the only mayor in city history that can carry tlau on the campaign promise to fill the potholes because he actually knows how and he's the only mayor in city history that can say he actually knows every single city street because his crews probably paved them. i have had the privilege of working alongside ed for many years in city government. he has always been a cherished colleague and friend to everyone in city hall. he's done the job, he gets the job done, never wanting credit, just the satisfaction of doing the right thing for the people he serves in the city and county of san francisco. i was thinking about the introduction of mayor ed lee lastity and we'll taking the time to think about ed as mayor and ed as leader. i've been lucky to know every single mayor in san francisco since my birth and mayor lee is quickly taking his place among the very best. i've seen ed grow into the mayor's role with great ease and aplomb and there's no surprise there. mayor lee is focusing on young people and guiding a rebust economic rebirth in san francisco. his interest in young people is q