The England Rugby team. And remember you can get in touch with us, about any of the stories were covering this morning. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. It isa it is a busy show, so lets get started with news that. London city airport has been closed after a World War Two bomb was found nearby in the river thames. The royal navy are removing the device. The airport will be shut all day and all flights have been cancelled, affecting up to 16,000 passengers. Last year, more than 4. 5 Million People used london city airport, which is close to londons financial district. Our news correspondent andy moorejoins me now. Welcome. This is the closest airport to the city of london. 16,000 people use it everyday. Tell us about how many will be affected. 16,000 people will be affected today. Something like 200 flights. The airport is used a lot by the business community. A lot of people would have been flying to go to work at ca nary wharf have been flying to go
Focus around land use and alternatives to lawns and do workshops to teach people how to cheat mulch and they have done great programs in the spring last year. As steve mentioned, weve seen a continued reduction in water use. That has been phenomenal, every week when those reports come out we get very excited in our office. But its important that that is sustained so we are taking this opportunity to create this message as much as possible to talk about this is a great opportunity for everybody to be weary about what they are doing about landscaping. I got calls about droughts and water and they say why do we want to save water today, isnt it going to agriculture . I said no, absolutely not. You are in a Single Source system in a system that these customers have paid for and used and San Francisco owns and operates for you and every drop of water that you save today is available for you later. I think its a perception that not Everybody Knows and sometimes gets confused by the media. Wi
Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All in favor say, aye. Aye. The ayes have it. Next item 14. City clerk item 14 14. Approve modification no. 2 to the agreement between the United States Forest Service and the city and county of San Francisco regarding acquisition of 25. 2 acres of land at camp mather, tuolumne county; and authorize the general manager to execute an amendment extending the duration of the agreement up to one year, for a total duration of threeyears and six months. The time extension reflects the reevaluation of the original timber appraisal as a result of the rim fire. 1 year, for a total duration of threeyears and six months. The time extension reflects the reevaluation of the original timber appraisal as a result of the rim fire. 1234 president Vince Courtney 6 months. The time extension reflects the reevaluation of the original timber appraisal as a result of the rim fire. 1234 president Vince Courtney thank you, jasmine, commissioners. So moved. Second. Public
Item 13 approve an increase in the construction contract cost contingency for contract no. Wd2685, with cal state contractors inc. , for reservoir and tanks improvement 20133, in the amount of 682,000; and authorize the general manager to approve future modifications to the contract for a total revised contract amount up to 9,997,900. The requested increase is due to new Water Conservation work requested for twin peaks reservoir. The work includes preparing and installing new water barriers along all submerged concrete slab joints to inhibit water leakage from the reservoir to its underdrains. There will be no change in contract duration due to this joint sealing work1234 thank you, jasmine. Commissioners . So move. Second. Its been moved and second. Is there any Public Comment on item no. 13. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All in favor say, aye. Aye. The ayes have it. Next item 14. City clerk item 14 14. Approve modification no. 2 to the agreement between the United States For
On my way into the building with commissioner moran about the fact on my way to the Football Game on sunday i drove down sunset boulevard. There was an article once again about the lawn in front of city hall. So, you know, i know who maintains sunset blvd, for example, thats the men and women of local 261 on behalf of the public works department. Its basically dead. I mean, it looks dead and we talked about that earlier. If available, i would like a copy of the book you have there on the landscape because believe it or not there are labor issues. We have a measure coming up at the november election related to proposition h and its about synthetic you in you turf field and everyone has their opinion to grass and what the percentage is and so i would like that information because it looks like you have done a lot of great work about those alternative landscapes because irrigation is something we have to look into. The plumbers will be interested in that and all of the other, actually its