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Analysis: Staff Clarifies Street Selection Process

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 31, 2020
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Analysis: Staff Clarifies Street Selection Process

Last Tuesday, on consent, council was asked to approve a list of streets that the city would be funded by ...

Last Tuesday, on consent, council was asked to approve a list of streets that the city would be funded by the state to repair. On Friday, Alan Pryor submitted a guest commentary objecting to what he ...

March 31, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Council Risks Squandering SB1 Gas Tax Monies on ‘Nice-to-Have’ Neighborhood Street Projects

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 27, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Council Risks Squandering SB1 Gas Tax Monies on ‘Nice-to-Have’ Neighborhood Street Projects

Meanwhile our Major Arterial Roadways Deteriorate into 3rd-World Condition by Alan Pryor The following em ...

Meanwhile our Major Arterial Roadways Deteriorate into 3rd-World Condition by Alan Pryor The following email was sent to the Davis City Council prior to last Tuesday's Council tele-meeting requesting ...

March 27, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Guest Commentary: Staff Wants Council to Approve Two Fire Station Kitchen Remodel Projects for a Minimum of $422,000

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 24, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Staff Wants Council to Approve Two Fire Station Kitchen Remodel Projects for a Minimum of $422,000

Over $200,000 each for Kitchen Remodels During these Disastrous Times? - You Have Got to be Kidding Me ...

Over $200,000 each for Kitchen Remodels During these Disastrous Times? - You Have Got to be Kidding Me !!! by Alan Pryor Davis and the entire world are in the midst of an economic meltdown for which ...

March 24, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Carson Discusses Measure Q, City Financial Outlook

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 06, 2020
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Carson Discusses Measure Q, City Financial Outlook

The ballot measure that went as expected was Measure Q—in fact, overwhelmingly so. Measure Q kept the cu ...

The ballot measure that went as expected was Measure Q—in fact, overwhelmingly so. Measure Q kept the current one percent sales tax in place, and made it so that the tax did not expire. The measure ...

March 06, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Local Election Results: Measure Q Passes, Measure G Trails, Provenza Could Be Heading for Runoff in November

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 04, 2020
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Local Election Results: Measure Q Passes, Measure G Trails, Provenza Could Be Heading for Runoff in November

One big question after Tuesday night is how many votes remain to be counted in Yolo County. Just under 1 ...

One big question after Tuesday night is how many votes remain to be counted in Yolo County. Just under 12,000 votes were counted in the city of Davis for Measure Q and just under 13,000 in the DJUSD ...

March 04, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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City Names New Finance Director

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 20, 2020
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City Names New Finance Director

(From Press Release) - The City of Davis announced today that City Manager Mike Webb has named Elena Adai ...

(From Press Release) - The City of Davis announced today that City Manager Mike Webb has named Elena Adair, as the City’s new Finance Director. Ms. Adair is currently the Director of Finance for the c ...

February 20, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Analysis: Costly Public Records Requests – 5G Requests Cost the City Nearly $50K

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 19, 2020
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Analysis: Costly Public Records Requests – 5G Requests Cost the City Nearly $50K

A few weeks ago, the Davis City Council approved a new wireless ordinance. The city was warned by City A ...

A few weeks ago, the Davis City Council approved a new wireless ordinance. The city was warned by City Attorney Inder Khalsa that they had limited room for maneuver and any effort to attempt to block ...

February 19, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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FBC Chair: We Need to Make the Citizens of Davis Very Aware of Exactly How Large These Liabilities Are

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 05, 2020
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FBC Chair: We Need to Make the Citizens of Davis Very Aware of Exactly How Large These Liabilities Are

Commission Talks about How to Address City Deficit, among Other Topics, in Joint Meeting with Council The ...

Commission Talks about How to Address City Deficit, among Other Topics, in Joint Meeting with Council The Finance and Budget Commission met jointly with the council last week, and one of the big topic ...

February 05, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Missed Opportunities for City on Sales Tax

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 27, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Missed Opportunities for City on Sales Tax

All indications are that Measure Q will cruise to victory on March 3. There is not even token opposition ...

All indications are that Measure Q will cruise to victory on March 3. There is not even token opposition to the measure that would permanently renew the one percent sales tax that generates about $8. ...

January 27, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Chickens Have Come Home on Our Roads

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 20, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Chickens Have Come Home on Our Roads

I was driving someone from out of the area a few weeks ago – a guest who was coming to Davis for the firs ...

I was driving someone from out of the area a few weeks ago – a guest who was coming to Davis for the first time to speak at our event. I’m driving down Covell and the van is literally bouncing on the ...

January 20, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sales Tax Measure Lacks Real Discussion of City’s Fiscal Realities

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sales Tax Measure Lacks Real Discussion of City’s Fiscal Realities

If the polling is correct on the sales tax – and we have no reason to believe otherwise – the measure sho ...

If the polling is correct on the sales tax – and we have no reason to believe otherwise – the measure should cruise to an easy victory. Truth be told, the city and council have had an uncommon nervou ...

January 06, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Ballot Arguments for Measure Q – the Sales Tax Extension

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 05, 2020
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Ballot Arguments for Measure Q – the Sales Tax Extension

Measure Q will use the existing full cent sales tax – combined from the 2004 Measure and the 2014 Measure ...

Measure Q will use the existing full cent sales tax – combined from the 2004 Measure and the 2014 Measure, both of which added half a cent to the sales tax. Measure Q would extend the existing tax, w ...

January 05, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Good Progress made by City Finance Director Nitish Sharma in One Year Tenure

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 17, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Good Progress made by City Finance Director Nitish Sharma in One Year Tenure

By Bob Fung Nitish Sharma, the finance director for the City of Davis resigned from his position in Octob ...

By Bob Fung Nitish Sharma, the finance director for the City of Davis resigned from his position in October and took the position of Chief Administrative Officer of the Cosumnes Water District. Mr. ...

December 17, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: When to Renew Isn’t Enough

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 10, 2019
| (24) Comments

Sunday Commentary: When to Renew Isn’t Enough

I worry about the future of Davis. I have expressed this many times, but what has made Davis great is the ...

I worry about the future of Davis. I have expressed this many times, but what has made Davis great is the ability for this city to offer an unparalleled quality of life. And that is in the balance as ...

November 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sales Tax Campaign – Measure Q – Kicks Off with a Press Conference in the Park

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 09, 2019
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Sales Tax Campaign – Measure Q – Kicks Off with a Press Conference in the Park

Mayor Brett Lee, Former Senator Lois Wolk, Councilmember Dan Carson and many others gathered in Central P ...

Mayor Brett Lee, Former Senator Lois Wolk, Councilmember Dan Carson and many others gathered in Central Park on Friday afternoon as they held a press conference to support Measure Q, the renewal to th ...

November 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Davis City Council Approves Four-Year Labor Agreement with Police

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 07, 2019
| (2) Comments

Davis City Council Approves Four-Year Labor Agreement with Police

(From Press Release – City of Davis) – The City of Davis announced today that the Davis City Council ap ...

(From Press Release – City of Davis) – The City of Davis announced today that the Davis City Council approved a four-year labor contract with the Davis Police Officers Association at its Nov. 5 City ...

November 07, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Council Declares Fiscal Emergency, but Have They Done Enough on the Fiscal Front?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 17, 2019
| (37) Comments

Commentary: Council Declares Fiscal Emergency, but Have They Done Enough on the Fiscal Front?

Last week the council drew rare regional headlines by declaring a fiscal emergency. But for the most par ...

Last week the council drew rare regional headlines by declaring a fiscal emergency. But for the most part that was a pro forma move, designed to allow the council to hold a special election next Marc ...

September 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Views: The Need for Balance in Economic Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 16, 2019
| (19) Comments

Monday Morning Views: The Need for Balance in Economic Development

I caught an interesting side discussion over the weekend between two of our commenters. One of them comm ...

I caught an interesting side discussion over the weekend between two of our commenters. One of them commented that while San Francisco, for example, has generated a tremendous amount of wealth, one r ...

September 16, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Davis’ Fiscal Emergency

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 01, 2019
| (20) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Davis’ Fiscal Emergency

When the city polled residents, the vast majority of those residents were willing to back a renewal on th ...

When the city polled residents, the vast majority of those residents were willing to back a renewal on the city’s sales tax measure, but at the same time most did not seem to recognize just how bad th ...

September 01, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Needs to Declare Fiscal Emergency in Order to Place Sales Tax on the March Ballot

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 30, 2019
| (15) Comments

City Needs to Declare Fiscal Emergency in Order to Place Sales Tax on the March Ballot

One of the unintended consequences of moving the date of the city election is that the city’s sales tax r ...

One of the unintended consequences of moving the date of the city election is that the city’s sales tax renewal would have a gap if it is placed on the November 2020 ballot – a gap that could cost the ...

August 30, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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