The Labour Run Council is still struggling to pay off a huge equal pay claim that dates back more than a decade ago. It has also had major issues with a new it system. Our Midlands Correspondent navteonhal is there. The pressure on the citys finances has been rising and rising. Europes biggest Local Authority is now in biggest Local Authority is now in big trouble. Its problems began more than a decade ago, when a Landmark Case was brought against the council, which led to it having to pay out more than £1 billion so far in equal pay claims to mostly female staff. But with the authoritys revenue budget, the money it spends on recurrent costs like wages, at £750 million, the announcement of this summer but it had up to £760 million still to find to settle the equal pay claims was a huge blow. And that is on top of the botched roll out of a new it system which has set up back and about £100 million. The City Council Leader who is currently abroad, he says, is part of a long standing
Going straight up the dow is up a little bit as well. Not far away from 23,500 now is it . One more thing despite the hurricanes in september, the economy is still expanding at a 3 rate. Who would have thought . Add it up please, technology surges profits across the border really strong and trump budget win to growth and trump rally rolls on this friday morning. Varney company about to again. All right lets start with overall market dow futures showing a gain of maybe 20 points, hello. We have a bell for you a little later. Looked a nasdaq way over 6h100 well because technology is very strong. Look at this. Amazon microsoft alphabet promise to show their preMarket Performance. Will you look at that. A. M. Son premarket up 80 i cant read 87 dollars per share. Google is up 44 dollars a share. And microsoft is closing in on a 6 per share gain. Jeff is with us with circle square alternative investment dont comment on three stocks. Comment on the overall market. Is the performance of Techno
Public access. Over 2,000 pages of the documents the eir never addresses the impact of confining the public to trails. There are lots of comments about this during consultation on the draft but no response from planning. Eve inen in the response memoes they never address this ground of our appeal. Small. Rpd smalled the signs in the natural areas in 2015. Do they mean we cant walk off trail . The ramp says off trail access isnt allowed in ma 1 and 2. The signs indicate this applies to all the natural areas and last weekend i had the opportunity to watch lisa wayne leading a Walking Group in mclaren park and fielding questions from a grup of 30 people. When asked of the intent of the sign the least sensitive areas will be off limits. This means the plan asks us to give a quarter of our park land in the city to this program instead of parks wealver a few trails to walk through the areas where we used to play, picnic and explore. These maps show two things, they show trail closures and fe
Quality of life issue. I urge you not to allow the forest to be destroyed by mismanagement, dont allow trail tooz be closeed restricting access to parks stop the use of poison in the parks and vote to snd the eir back to planning deparchlt. Thank you. Thank you for the comments. Next speaker, please. Commissioners, my name is vick malhone a resident of mera loma park and want to underlying concepts that might be influencing how this whole remodeling of the eco system is going on. The conspt of restructuring a ekey system to a prior time may appeal to personal vanity but challenges realty. Applying the label Invasive Species sumes there is a no baseline or eco system populated by non native species. Is this realty . Who defines what constitute said a eco system. What date was choseen. 10 million or 5 thousand years ago or yesterday . We are dealing with a artificial contruckt here and obvious the definition of a native habitat is artificial construct and simply a guess. It also implies
Bay. Winds will be increasing up to 40 miles an hour. We could be talking about that big rain for the coastal hims. This is just for friday. Another system will be move into the region on sunday. Here we go today. 4 00 this afternoon. The chance of a few popup showers and sprinkles up in the north bay, and then a better bet. Look what happens. This moves in in the north and so south. 8 00 a. M. Friday morning just in time for the morning commute. So try to give you a lot of heads up for morning time tomorrow morning. Significant rainfall. Lots of ponding on the roadways and still a chance for a few scattered showers by friday afternoon. Temperatures this afternoon. 60s and 70s. Increasing high clouds throughout the afternoon hours. Well take a closer look at your weekend forecast in a few minutes. Sal is standing by and has an update. Already a busy morning. Westable 08 connector ramp. An investigation. 08 is the freeway you see. People are saiding over heading over to highway 101. Tha