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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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City and County Agree on Tax Sharing Agreement, MOU with County on DiSC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 07, 2022
| (16) Comments

City and County Agree on Tax Sharing Agreement, MOU with County on DiSC

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city and county have reached a tentative agreement ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city and county have reached a tentative agreement on a tax-sharing agreement and an MOU between the city, county, and developer regarding transp ...

May 07, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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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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Monday Morning Thoughts: Davis Remains Stuck in Drive To Find Sustainable Revenue

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 23, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Davis Remains Stuck in Drive To Find Sustainable Revenue

By David M. Greenwald It was 2010 when I watched Bob Clarke of Public Works give a staff presentation for ...

By David M. Greenwald It was 2010 when I watched Bob Clarke of Public Works give a staff presentation for the city of Davis that the city of Davis was allocating no general fund money toward road repa ...

November 23, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Toward More Balance in the City

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 11, 2020
| (35) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Toward More Balance in the City

Even before COVID the Vanguard for years has been warning that Davis was in a precarious position and ult ...

Even before COVID the Vanguard for years has been warning that Davis was in a precarious position and ultimately unsustainable. For years we were carrying deficits in the ability to meet basic infras ...

May 11, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: ARC Fiscal Analysis is Solid, But Probably Still on the Conservative Side

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 04, 2020
| (25) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: ARC Fiscal Analysis is Solid, But Probably Still on the Conservative Side

I have been a bit surprised that the fiscal analysis by EPS is not generating more pushback. However, wh ...

I have been a bit surprised that the fiscal analysis by EPS is not generating more pushback. However, what becomes pretty clear is that the reason that the numbers shift from a $2.2 million revenue g ...

May 04, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Carson Discusses Measure Q, City Financial Outlook

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 06, 2020
| (2) Comments

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
| (34) Comments

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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Monday Morning Thoughts: Missed Opportunities for City on Sales Tax

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 27, 2020
| (7) Comments

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
| (61) Comments

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
| (37) Comments

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
| (8) Comments

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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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
| (6) Comments

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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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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My View: Why Would the Council Not Even Consider a Sales Tax Increase?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 03, 2019
| (12) Comments

My View: Why Would the Council Not Even Consider a Sales Tax Increase?

While the council did not take any action on Tuesday, as Mayor Brett Lee noted, “We are not formally say ...

While the council did not take any action on Tuesday, as Mayor Brett Lee noted, “We are not formally saying anything specific to the language,” nor were they “formally placing anything on the March b ...

August 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (12) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: Given the Polling, Should the City Consider Raising the Sales Tax?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 28, 2019
| (15) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Given the Polling, Should the City Consider Raising the Sales Tax?

On Tuesday, the Davis City Council will get a chance to review draft ordinance language for the renewal o ...

On Tuesday, the Davis City Council will get a chance to review draft ordinance language for the renewal of the sales tax. As it stands, the sales tax is one of the most important initiatives that the ...

July 28, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (15) Comments

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