Now a lot of the attention is going toward the debt ceiling and raising that. The government is starting to default on its loans. Delia goncalves is live on capitol hill. Reporter we were here friday and were hopeful as talks condition over the weekend. We could see an end for this debate. The good news . The work will continue later today when the Senate Reconvenes at 2 00 this afternoon. Main republican senator Susan Collyns leading a group of bipartisan senators toward striking a deal that is acceptable to both sides. The Senate Majority leader collins plans to reopen the government as a quote concession. They are meeting with Top Republican leaders to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling before default october 17th. It is the height of irresponsibility to not pay our bills. Americans Want Congress to compromise. I think we finally have gotten to a pretty good place. I really do. And now, beth sides are a little bit at fault both sides are a little bit at fault. Now it is
Thank you and thank you to the world bank are hosting me today. I do feel the need to start a saying i am not an economist. Im a food writer. Im a culinary historian. Justice explained how the book came about, when ice first started my career but about financial topics. I worked with a small Consulting Company that was acquired by a much larger conglomerate and i was tasked with creating content about the equities market and the one that completely changed my life, the commodities market. So how did that change my life . When i started learning about commodities, of course i realized that there are certain products such as oil and gold but there are also products that fall into the Agricultural Commodities segment and those products like cattle, soybeans, coffee, cocoa. This was a sign that everything came together for me. He was advising people to purchase frozen orange juice futures and pork belly futures which no longer. Now but he was essentially saying by orange juice and byebye b
Example, they asked all their gardeners to reduce watering times by 10 . Turned off a lot of fountains and youll see a lot of dry fountains around the city and the only ones running is the ones to keep the mechanisms from falling apart. Were working with them. Were going to try to work with them to get fixtures replaced in the Recreation Center that will reduce water usage. I started producing a report for rec and park that shows by individual meter, their water use. Currently its all rolled up into one and they pay their bill, but were working with them to turn their meeting into a management tool in terms of water use reduction. If i may, so i also took note of the letter. The letter come from, i believe its a board president of one of the hoas at one i guess its a cooperative housing unit and its pointed, but i think its important because im also talking to rec and park, and what we wouldnt want to see is we wouldnt want to see the neighborhoods not have input. What i think would be
And so when we start working together as part of the cbot committee, we actually we really worked well together and when i became president , she was the Vice President and she managed me well. And at the event, we started together started with 13 folks, was it, bj . And it was over 500 people going to the event, and ill tell you, bj has taken the responsibility of organizing that people and talking to people getting people excited. She has been an inspiration to me and to the whole cbot committee and were going miss her greatly. I always tell her youre not going to far. Were going to always have you participate in events that you help create. Im going to miss you personally, and i wish you the best and i really love you, so i want to give you a plaque so that you can remember us by, so let me come down there and give it to you. Can i have the representative from supervisor cohens office. Thank you for being here. Congratulations. Thank you. So my name is moli here representing supervi
Direction thats going to go, but whats likely is a state wide percent reduction and thats something to come up in the regulations. I think theyll focus on recommended actions that they would try to put in place as requirements for all users of water. But well see as those come out on july 9. So in summary, the drought is still on. Well continue with 10 conservation through calendar 2014 and were working closely with the customers to achieve that demand and were doing better. We need to keep on track on conservations and im happy to answer any questions. I have a question. So speaking about serving, i think it got a lot of press that the sacramento capital has let their lawn go brown, and weve received a letter in our packet about the greenness of our lawn here at city hall and it made me think about the water use that we do as a city or agency, and whether theres savings there and some potential to draw some attention to this important issue throughout the public you curtailing our own