This week, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to consolidate the elected Yolo County Clerk-Recorder's office with the Yolo County Assessor's office.  The majority of three believed that th ...

Board of Supervisors Also Votes to Combine Assessor with Clerk-Recorder - It has been 20 years that Mike McGowan has served on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, but he announced on Tuesday that he ...

Supervisor Don Saylor introduced a resolution on Tuesday that called for the Yolo County Board of Supervisors to support water fluoridation in Davis and Woodland.  The resolution would pass by a 4-1 v ...

LAFCO (Local Agency Formation Commission) has an initiative to explore alternative models of animal sheltering for Yolo County, following reports and complaints about problems with the current state o ...

Yolo County Public Works staff recommended raising the speed limits in 14 unincorporated areas including Russell Blvd to the west of Davis out near Pedrick Road. The Board of Supervisors held off incr ...

Last week, the Vanguard expressed concern that redistricting would result in the loss of commitment for Ag Preservation, as the Board shifted the traditionally rural district represented by Duane Cham ...

Under a plan approved on Tuesday, the City of Davis most likely will retain two representatives on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, but that result comes at a cost of the district that is traditi ...

Senator Lois Wolk must have been stunned when she attempted to meet with county staffers, in advance of Tuesday's meeting that would first rescind the actions of December 17 that approved an agreement ...

Back in December, one of the more complex agreements about local water issues was literally rammed through by the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, literally at the last minute.  According to the Coun ...

It looks like Supervisor Jim Provenza will prevail in his efforts to get the Board of Supervisors to comply with the Brown Act after all.  On February 8, the Board of Supervisor will consider an item ...

A group calling themselves Citizens Alliance for Regional Environmental Sustainability (CARES) sent a letter through Davis Attorney Donald Mooney* Thursday alleging a Brown Act violation occurred at t ...

Currently the County Board of Supervisors, like the Davis School Board, rotates its presiding officer in order to share the bounty and the experience.  This arrangement produces equity at the expense ...

As Saylor is Sworn In, He's Already Talking About Developing on Davis' Periphery - On the local front, the Vanguard watched county officials who were sworn in on Monday morning.  It was a relatively u ...

A war of words is brewing in the County Government over the water deal signed a week and a half ago by Yolo County with Angelo Tsakopoulos.  County Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis is accusing the cou ...

People keep asking me if I think this is a good deal for Davis and Yolo County.  Quite frankly I do not know the answer to that.  It may be a good deal, it may not be a good deal.  We may not know the ...

Back in June we ran an article on the problems that Yolo County had in responding to public records requests in a timely matter.There is a good article this morning in the Woodland Daily Democrat on t ...