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Utilities Commission: Water Fund Update

Posted by Ibrahim Dagher
|Date: May 25, 2023
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Utilities Commission: Water Fund Update

By Lucero Castañeda DAVIS, CA––As part of a regular status report on the city’s utility funds, the ...

By Lucero Castañeda DAVIS, CA––As part of a regular status report on the city’s utility funds, the Davis Utilities Commission presented an update on the water fund for the 2021-2022 fiscal year ...

May 25, 2023
| by Ibrahim Dagher

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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Future of Davis Is on the Line This Week, Stay Tuned

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 03, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Future of Davis Is on the Line This Week, Stay Tuned

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It seems like, since the pandemic, the council has lar ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It seems like, since the pandemic, the council has largely put off some of the tougher conversations until later. But in the last month, we have see ...

April 03, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: City Revenue Problems Aren’t Going Away

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 02, 2023
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Sunday Commentary: City Revenue Problems Aren’t Going Away

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Over the last decade, the biggest failure of leadershi ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Over the last decade, the biggest failure of leadership by the council has been the failure to address the city’s ongoing revenue shortfalls on a lon ...

April 02, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 09, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation

Part 2 – The Rich Get Richer! Compensation to the Top 10% Highest Paid City of Davis Employees has Increa ...

Part 2 – The Rich Get Richer! Compensation to the Top 10% Highest Paid City of Davis Employees has Increased at a Far Faster Rate then Increases to the Lowest Paid City Employees and, for Upper Manage ...

October 09, 2022
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation from 2011 to 2021 on the City’s Ongoing Budget Crisis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 01, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation from 2011 to 2021 on the City’s Ongoing Budget Crisis

Part 1 – Our City Councilmembers are Drinking Like Sailors Again...And They’re Spending your Money! by Al ...

Part 1 – Our City Councilmembers are Drinking Like Sailors Again...And They’re Spending your Money! by Alan Pryor FORWARD – In a recent article in the Davis Enterprise (9/27/22), Councilmember Dan Car ...

October 01, 2022
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: The Public Thinks City Is Headed in the Right Direction – Is That a Good Thing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 10, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: The Public Thinks City Is Headed in the Right Direction – Is That a Good Thing?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Normally it would be good news for the city that the v ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Normally it would be good news for the city that the vast majority of residents think the city is headed in the right direction. According to the mo ...

July 10, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Why San Francisco May Not Be the Best Test Case for Progressivism

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 21, 2022
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Commentary: Why San Francisco May Not Be the Best Test Case for Progressivism

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – There were a lot of bad media takes coming out o ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – There were a lot of bad media takes coming out of the primary election two weeks ago—and a lot of them were due to a rush to judgment because t ...

June 21, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Davis City Council To Consider 2022 Legislative Agenda – Including Infrastructure, Affordable Housing and Crisis Now Funding

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 19, 2022
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Davis City Council To Consider 2022 Legislative Agenda – Including Infrastructure, Affordable Housing and Crisis Now Funding

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Back in 2019, the Davis City Council adopted its first ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Back in 2019, the Davis City Council adopted its first legislative platform recognizing the need to more actively lobby the state legislature for fun ...

April 19, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Fiscal Benefits of the Proposed DiSC Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 04, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Fiscal Benefits of the Proposed DiSC Project

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city of Davis has long faced a revenue shortfall t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city of Davis has long faced a revenue shortfall that has largely been placed off budget in the form of deferred maintenance and unmet needs. Ov ...

April 04, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Davis City Council and Yolo County Partner in Climate Initiatives and Yolo Adult Day Health Center Expansion

Posted by Jordan
|Date: February 12, 2022
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Davis City Council and Yolo County Partner in Climate Initiatives and Yolo Adult Day Health Center Expansion

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels By Melanie Johnson DAVIS, CA – On Wednesday, members of the Davis Ci ...

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels By Melanie Johnson DAVIS, CA – On Wednesday, members of the Davis City Council met with representatives from the Yolo County Board of Supervisors to discuss their ...

February 12, 2022
| by Jordan

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Social Services Commission Asks Council to Help Pacifico, Supports Funding for Exercise Circuit and Senior Center Improvements

Posted by Jordan
|Date: January 26, 2022
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Social Services Commission Asks Council to Help Pacifico, Supports Funding for Exercise Circuit and Senior Center Improvements

By Melanie Johnson DAVIS, CA - On Monday night, the Davis Social Services Commission weighe ...

By Melanie Johnson DAVIS, CA - On Monday night, the Davis Social Services Commission weighed in on the reallocation of existing Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, federal gr ...

January 26, 2022
| by Jordan

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Davis’ Water Fund Spends Less Than Expected, New Water Standards To Be Enacted

Posted by Jordan
|Date: January 22, 2022
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Davis’ Water Fund Spends Less Than Expected, New Water Standards To Be Enacted

By Aleeza Khan DAVIS, CA - The Davis Utilities Commission met on Wednesday Jan. 19 t ...

By Aleeza Khan DAVIS, CA - The Davis Utilities Commission met on Wednesday Jan. 19 to discuss updates on the city of Davis’ Water Utility Fund and Water Use Efficiency Legislation ...

January 22, 2022
| by Jordan

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My View: Appalling Decision by Council on Ladder Truck – Lack of Fiscal Restraint on a Nice-to-Have Expenditure

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 15, 2022
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My View: Appalling Decision by Council on Ladder Truck – Lack of Fiscal Restraint on a Nice-to-Have Expenditure

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It has been more than a decade since we first laid out ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It has been more than a decade since we first laid out the case that the city of Davis, mainly through their own policies, put the city at grave fisc ...

January 15, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Council Goes with Option 3 on the Ladder Truck, but with Concerns

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 13, 2022
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Council Goes with Option 3 on the Ladder Truck, but with Concerns

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The Davis City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The Davis City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve the purchase of the ladder truck and the staffing Option 3, but many council members d ...

January 13, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Davis Council Asked to Approve Purchase, Staffing for Ladder Truck

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 11, 2022
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Davis Council Asked to Approve Purchase, Staffing for Ladder Truck

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The Davis City Council will be asked to approve the pu ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The Davis City Council will be asked to approve the purchase of a fire department ladder truck and associated equipment for $2.15 million at tonight’ ...

January 11, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation from 2011 to 2020 on the City’s Ongoing Budget Crisis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 09, 2022
| (30) Comments

Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation from 2011 to 2020 on the City’s Ongoing Budget Crisis

by Alan Pryor This author previously published an analysis of annual compensation and raises given to Cit ...

by Alan Pryor This author previously published an analysis of annual compensation and raises given to City of Davis employees from 2011-2018 and compared them to a government-calculated inflation rate ...

January 09, 2022
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: A Look Ahead to Some Burning Issues in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 02, 2022
| (1) Comment

Sunday Commentary: A Look Ahead to Some Burning Issues in Davis

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – A I head into my 16th year of doing this, I have often ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – A I head into my 16th year of doing this, I have often believed that the new year doesn’t really start until we have our first big controversial loca ...

January 02, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: ‘But Davis Is a Great Place, I Don’t Want It to Change’

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 31, 2021
| (28) Comments

Commentary: ‘But Davis Is a Great Place, I Don’t Want It to Change’

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – I hear it a lot, people love the Davis community as it ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – I hear it a lot, people love the Davis community as it is and do not want it to change. I get it, it’s still a relatively small community, it has ni ...

December 31, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Leland Recommends Using the 75% Variable Cost Assumption for Development Impact Models

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 10, 2021
| (18) Comments

Analysis: Leland Recommends Using the 75% Variable Cost Assumption for Development Impact Models

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It is a highly contentious issue, however, when EPS (E ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It is a highly contentious issue, however, when EPS (Economic & Planning Systems, Inc.) issued its projection that DiSC 2022 would generate just ...

December 10, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The City Is Still in Fiscal Peril, but It Can Make Changes to Public Safety Fairly Easily

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 26, 2021
| (27) Comments

Commentary: The City Is Still in Fiscal Peril, but It Can Make Changes to Public Safety Fairly Easily

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – As we have reported in the past, the city of Davis has ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – As we have reported in the past, the city of Davis has been running somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 to $10 million in the hole in terms of the di ...

October 26, 2021
| by David Greenwald

| (27) Comments

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