Board to Reconsider Conaway Deal As Criticism Mounts About the Lack of Transparency in the Process
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 County Counsel’s office, however, they complied with Brown Act in noticing requirements.
However, Supervisor Jim Provenza did not agree. Supervisor Provenza told the Enterprise that he had received notice of the meeting at 4:52 p.m. Thursday, which the Enterprise reported was “the same time the county e-mailed The Davis Enterprise an agenda. Friday’s meeting started 20 1/2 hours later, at 1:30 p.m.”
The problem of soaring prison costs is nothing new in California government, even as the state faces largely unprecedented problems with its budget.
On Friday, the trial of four Yolo County residents charged with assault and accused of being, at the very least, sympathizers of the Taliban, wrapped up and went to the jury. A Yolo County jury will have to sort through the four-week long trial and determine whether the three men accused of assault started the fight and were not provoked.
There is one good reason that I see to oppose Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies, and that is growth on Davis’ periphery. Every year the City of Davis passes through a little over two million dollars from its redevelopment agency to the county, in order to get the county to agree not to develop on Davis’ periphery.
Back in 2009, according to the Sacramento Bee’s report, Richard Harden “chased the woman down at the Home Depot on Folsom Boulevard and bashed her three times with a hammer, sending her to the hospital with injuries to her back, neck and shoulder.”
Judge Timothy Fall on Friday agreed to reduce the bail for UC Davis student Nicholas Benson, from one million dollars to 100,000 dollars, in order to enable the family to seek mental health support for Mr. Benson while his case is pending trial.
In a statement not likely to quell any of the rising chorus of dissent over the handling of the firing of girl’s basketball coach Jeff Christian in early January, the district issued its most direct comment on the situation.
The Yolo County Coroner’s Office Needs to Sever Ties with Forensic Medical Group – 
The worst-case scenario may actually be the most likely outcome, based on the reality before us. On Thursday night, the Davis school district had to plan for that worst case scenario, announcing that they would have to lay off around 61 teachers to close what is now projected as a 7.1 million dollar budget deficit.
While the Judicial Watch covers mainly Yolo County, our goals extend more regionally, and certainly a matter of grave concern are the actions that occurred last weekend in Elk Grove.
It took a bit longer than expected, but we now have the complete set of all ten candidate interviews. Steve Williams is the final candidate to submit responses. Steve Williams describes himself as semi-retired and living in the Wildhorse subdivision since 2000.
In his Wednesday column this week Rich Rifkin did a brilliant job of laying out the exact problem that I have been harping on for a couple of years now, and that is the entire city model of impacts of pensions has been too optimistic because the assumptions that they are based on – the rate of return – as laid out by CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System) is too optimistic.
by Amani Rashid – 
Yesterday the Vanguard learned of a California Watch/ Frontline investigation that discovered that a man who had performed potentially hundreds of autopsies for Yolo County had his qualifications to perform autopsies called into question by an investigative report.
by Alex Clark