Davis City Council Candidates Respond to Sierra Club Yolano Group Questionnaire – Part One
The Sierra Club Yolano Group recently posed a series of local environmental-related questions to the Davis City Council candidates. Written responses are limited to 400 words for questions relating to the surface water project and 200 words for all other questions.
All responses are reported exactly as received from candidates with the exception that minor formatting changes were made to ensure consistency and to minimize space requirements. Responses were arranged alphabetically by last name for the first question and then rotated for each subsequent question.
The Vanguard fundamentally disagrees with the decision to redact names in the Reynoso Task Force and Kroll Reports. We believe that responsibility needs to be taken appropriately by those whose decisions or actions contributed to this problem.
About a week or so ago, I spoke with one of the spokespersons with UC Davis, and they were almost excited that they had found what to them must have looked like the antidote to months of nightmares dealing with the Occupy UC Davis folks. They don’t need police confrontations, they simply have the DA’s office mail a complaint and suddenly the students are in serious legal jeopardy.
Earlier this week, we once again raised the issue of long council meetings and we were met by defensive skepticism on the part of some on the council.
At one level, the hiring of Matthew Carmichael to be the Police Chief of the UC Davis Police Department seemed the obvious choice. He had already led the department since those fateful days following the November 18 pepper-spray incident, that led to the suspension of his predecessor and nationwide scrutiny on the department.
By a 4-1 vote, the City Council approved authorization of a consultant agreement with the West Yost/Malcolm Pirnie Team to provide city representative services for the Secondary and Tertiary Improvements Phase of the Wastewater Improvements Project.
By E. Roberts Musser 
Thomas Matzat suffered nerve damage when he was one of 10 arrested for misdemeanors during the camp clearing operation back in November 2011. On Friday, he will be one of 12 arraigned on misdemeanor charges for his bank blocking actions and, reportedly, he will also be arraigned on felony vandalism charges.
The Vanguard has not completed its person-by-person analysis just yet. On Tuesday, Chancellor Katehi made her first public comment on the release of the report.
Councilmember Greenwald Concerned with Using West Yost, Given Track Record
One of the more controversial changes enacted under the new city manager has been the City Hall reorganization. Critics charge that these changes have been instituted to sequester the city manager away from the public, and perhaps more importantly, the employees that he manages.
It was a statement that certainly jumped out of at us as we read the report by the Reynoso Task Force and Kroll. The statement made by John Meyer seemed like a statement from another time.
