Sunday Commentary: Firefighters Storm into 2014 Loaded For Bear
From 2002 until 2008, the Davis Professional Firefighters Association dominated the Davis City Council, gaining the election…
Vanguard Analysis: Staff Report Offers No Clues on Revenue Decision, Leaves Them to Council
For all of the fumbling of the roll out of the tax revenue community-based discussion, the fact…
Participatory Budgeting – Does It Have a Future In Davis?
Vallejo Participative Budgeting by Matt Williams Recently from the dais Council Member Lucas Frerichs reiterated his impassioned…
Commentary: City Fumbles Tax Issue, But Tax Remains Only Viable Way Forward
On Tuesday, the Davis City Council will vote to put a new tax measure on the ballot…
Conflict of Interest – Part 2
by Doby Fleeman With appreciation to the Vanguard for acceding to a follow-on Part 2 article. Judging…
Vanguard Analysis: Has the City Already Lost Control of the Tax Message?
The city of Davis has to act on February 11 to put a tax measure on the…
On Conflict of Interest – Part 1
by Doby Fleeman Increasingly, folks around town have been asking how the City could be continuing to…
Should the City Consider Outsourcing Jobs As a Means to Cut $5.1 Million Deficit?
An editorial today in the Enterprise argues, “Rising labor costs are unsustainable” and “Without a large tax…
Sunday Commentary: Council Needs to Do Everything It Can to Keep Pinkerton
The City of Davis is facing a fiscal crisis far worse than any it has faced in…
My View: 2009 MOU’s Were the Genesis of Fiscal Crisis
The city is facing a new fiscal crisis. To get out of that crisis the city is…
New Fire Chief Questioned Hard By Mayor Pro Tem
Those who caught Mayor Pro Tem Dan Wolk’s nearly 12:30 am interrogation of the new fire chief…
Commentary: Tricky Revenue Situation Could Get More Tricky
The two biggest pieces of news of the week intertwine here to form an uncertain future for…
Will Pinkerton Take Job Offer in Incline?
Davis’ City Manager was offered the position of General Manager of IVGID (Incline Village General Improvement District)…
Council Asks Staff to Return with Options for Tax Measures
Council Hears An Earful From Community on Fiscal Responsibility, Revenue Needs – Council will push the tax…
Vanguard Analysis: Concerns About the Innovation Task Force Process
Last night at the Innovation Parks Task Force Meeting, the city’s Chief Innovation Officer Rob White gave…
Enterprise Editorial Highlights the Budget Problem
The Davis Enterprise in their Sunday editorial laid out their case for short-term fixes for Davis’ structural…
City Manager’s Office Responds to Op-ed on Revenue
Editor’s note: the following was released by the city manager’s office in response to Dan Carson’s op-ed,…
City Staff Report Suggests Fire Service Improved Under Reforms
Beginning in November 2012, the city of Davis looked into ways to create potential opportunities for cost…
Improved Revenue News Means the City Has Options to Downsize Its Tax Measures
By Dan Carson Last Thursday, I got two dental implants. After years of dithering about having the…
Sunday Commentary: City Needs to Commit to Fiscal Reform in Order For Support on Tax Measure
The city, facing a new and emerging fiscal crisis more than five years after the Great Recession…
