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Guest Commentary: Rethinking Our Failing City Processes

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 19, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Rethinking Our Failing City Processes

How can we build more durable consensuses? By Alan Hirsch Davis has twice as many commissions compared t ...

How can we build more durable consensuses? By Alan Hirsch Davis has twice as many commissions compared to most cities our size, and more than the city of Sacramento with ten times the population. Wit ...

January 19, 2023
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Should We Stick with Online Meetings?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2021
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Commentary: Should We Stick with Online Meetings?

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Remember early in the pandemic, people worried about public participati ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Remember early in the pandemic, people worried about public participation during the pandemic. It was not a novel concern—we were headed into unprecedented times, on ...

July 08, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: What the HEC Is Going On?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 15, 2021
| (17) Comments

Guest Commentary: What the HEC Is Going On?

The City’s Denial of Brown Act Violations by the Housing Element Committee and Certain of Its Members I ...

The City’s Denial of Brown Act Violations by the Housing Element Committee and Certain of Its Members Is Not Credible nor Factually-Based by Alan Pryor and Rik Keller (Editor’s comment: The Vanguard ...

June 15, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: School Board’s Truncating Public Comment Looks Even Worse Now

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 08, 2021
| (1) Comment

Commentary: School Board’s Truncating Public Comment Looks Even Worse Now

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - On Tuesday night the Davis City Council listened to about 35 public com ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - On Tuesday night the Davis City Council listened to about 35 public comments. That ran somewhat over an hour overall. They were able to hear everyone out on the issue ...

April 08, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Davis City Attorney Issues Guidance to Commissioners on Brown Act and Social Media in Light of AB 992

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 02, 2021
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Davis City Attorney Issues Guidance to Commissioners on Brown Act and Social Media in Light of AB 992

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Last year the California legislature updated the Brown Act with AB 992 ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Last year the California legislature updated the Brown Act with AB 992 to create guidance for local legislative bodies with regard to the use of social media by their ...

April 02, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sudden Change, Truncated Public Process for DJUSD – School Board Cuts Off Public Comment After 20 Minutes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 29, 2021
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sudden Change, Truncated Public Process for DJUSD – School Board Cuts Off Public Comment After 20 Minutes

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Two weeks prior to students at DJUSD going back to a two-day per week i ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Two weeks prior to students at DJUSD going back to a two-day per week in-class schedule as part of a hybrid model, the school board decided to hold a special meeting ...

March 29, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Local Energy and Finance Experts Challenge Davis City Council on Legality of Solar Land Lease Deal

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 30, 2020
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Local Energy and Finance Experts Challenge Davis City Council on Legality of Solar Land Lease Deal

by Scott Steward On April 23, four local residents filed a formal “cure and correct" letter with the Davi ...

by Scott Steward On April 23, four local residents filed a formal “cure and correct" letter with the Davis City Clerk. A cure and correct calls for vacating decisions made under conditions that violat ...

April 30, 2020
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Council Lays Out Public Participation Process during COVID-19 Response

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 04, 2020
| (11) Comments

Council Lays Out Public Participation Process during COVID-19 Response

When the council met just under two weeks ago using a Zoom format, the meeting was disrupted by a series ...

When the council met just under two weeks ago using a Zoom format, the meeting was disrupted by a series of vulgar and at times racist comments and commenters, to the point where the city shut down ve ...

April 04, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: School District Needs to Be More Transparent in Posting of Documents Ahead of Meetings

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 05, 2019
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Commentary: School District Needs to Be More Transparent in Posting of Documents Ahead of Meetings

It was interesting watching the school board meeting last week. The proposal by the school district to m ...

It was interesting watching the school board meeting last week. The proposal by the school district to make changes to the Da Vinci program, including the potential movement of the preschool, was pla ...

June 05, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Community Files Complaint against Sac City Council Alleging Violations of California Open Meeting Law

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 26, 2018
| (1) Comment

Community Files Complaint against Sac City Council Alleging Violations of California Open Meeting Law

By Crescenzo Vellucci Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento City Council – its weekly meetings un ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento City Council – its weekly meetings under fire and under siege for more than a year by frustrated community members because of civili ...

July 26, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Will the City Get Sued over DWR Contract?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 12, 2018
| (14) Comments

Will the City Get Sued over DWR Contract?

On Tuesday night, the council went ahead with their plans for a Davis Waste Removal (DWR) transfer, despi ...

On Tuesday night, the council went ahead with their plans for a Davis Waste Removal (DWR) transfer, despite the Utility Rate Advisory Commission (URAC) recommendation “that the City Council defer acti ...

April 12, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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ACLU Sues Madera County for Violating Open Meetings Law

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 18, 2017
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ACLU Sues Madera County for Violating Open Meetings Law

County Secretly Made Invalid Changes, Entangling County Jail Operations with Federal Deportation Machine ...

County Secretly Made Invalid Changes, Entangling County Jail Operations with Federal Deportation Machine (From Press Release) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Monday sued th ...

July 18, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View: Board Majority Dances on the Brink of Trouble with AIM Decisions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2015
| (38) Comments

My View: Board Majority Dances on the Brink of Trouble with AIM Decisions

Last fall, every candidate for the school board vowed, in the aftermath of the volleyball scandal and the ...

Last fall, every candidate for the school board vowed, in the aftermath of the volleyball scandal and the resignation of Nancy Peterson, to restore the community’s trust in the integrity of the decisi ...

June 20, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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School Board Rejects VSA on Director for DJUSD AIM/ GATE Program

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 19, 2015
| (72) Comments

School Board Rejects VSA on Director for DJUSD AIM/ GATE Program

The DJUSD School Board voted 3-2 to reject the VSA (variable services agreement) of Deanne Quinn, who was ...

The DJUSD School Board voted 3-2 to reject the VSA (variable services agreement) of Deanne Quinn, who was the director of the DJUSD AIM/GATE program. A few years ago, Ms. Quinn had retired, and had be ...

June 19, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: DJUSD Board Makes a Bold Move, But Should They Have Waited?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 07, 2015
| (14) Comments

Sunday Commentary: DJUSD Board Makes a Bold Move, But Should They Have Waited?

The issue of the DJUSD GATE/AIM program has long been contentious and divisive in this community. The Van ...

The issue of the DJUSD GATE/AIM program has long been contentious and divisive in this community. The Vanguard is not going to weigh in on the merits of the program, as we believe both sides raise leg ...

June 07, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Did the School Board Violate Noticing Requirements When It Voted to Radically Alter GATE/AIM?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 06, 2015
| (50) Comments

Did the School Board Violate Noticing Requirements When It Voted to Radically Alter GATE/AIM?

The school board voted 4-1 to pass a motion, at nearly midnight Thursday, that one school board member sa ...

The school board voted 4-1 to pass a motion, at nearly midnight Thursday, that one school board member says “effectively eliminates our GATE program as we know it.” Board Vice President Madhavi Sunder ...

June 06, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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My View II: Will We Soon Know the New City Manager?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 20, 2014
| (3) Comments

My View II: Will We Soon Know the New City Manager?

Earlier this week, we lamented the secrecy of the city manager search process. However, all will soon be ...

Earlier this week, we lamented the secrecy of the city manager search process. However, all will soon be known, or so we suspect. On Monday at 5:15pm, the Davis City Council will have a closed session ...

September 20, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Why is Davis’ City Manager Hiring Process So Secret?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 16, 2014
| (12) Comments

Why is Davis’ City Manager Hiring Process So Secret?

We had some interesting reactions to yesterday’s article, in which we depicted the city manager hiring pr ...

We had some interesting reactions to yesterday’s article, in which we depicted the city manager hiring process as shrouded in secrecy. Many have defended the current process, arguing that this was the ...

September 16, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: City Manager Hiring Process Remains Shrouded In Secrecy

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 15, 2014
| (28) Comments

Commentary: City Manager Hiring Process Remains Shrouded In Secrecy

On September 6, we knew that the Davis City Council conducted interviews of potential city manager hires. ...

On September 6, we knew that the Davis City Council conducted interviews of potential city manager hires. The interview process was noticed through a meeting agenda, but we only know the identities of ...

September 15, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (28) Comments

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