Road Maintenance Backlog Approaching Dire Stages
City Continues to Hide the Real Costs and Real Deficit Through Deferred Maintenance –
City Continues to Hide the Real Costs and Real Deficit Through Deferred Maintenance – The report was alarming on the front of transportation and street maintenance. It made front page headlines in the Davis Enterprise that reported, “But while streets, bike paths and sidewalks will stay in good condition for the immediate future, the city’s current proposed funding allows streets to deteriorate while the cost to repair them will climb exponentially.”
City Manager Bill Emlen acknowledged the problem, “There’s lots of concern about the sidewalks and the bike paths. Realistically, it’s going to be hard to address them.”
For Max Connor he bought a laundry business, The Laundry Lounge on Hanover Drive, two years ago and has worked hard to be environmentally responsible and as well as keep a local business local. But as the city of Davis continues to put burdens on his business and raise his bottom line he finds it more and difficult to do so.
The Bee in the first major endorsement in the Davis City Council race has opted to endorse Joe Krovoza and Rochelle Swanson. Do endorsements really matter some may ask? Probably not. Two years ago, the Bee ended up endorsing Don Saylor, Sue Greenwald, and Cecilia Escamilla-Greenwald over incumbent Stephen Souza and Souza still finished second in the race. Nevertheless, it may or may not be meaningful that the Bee chose Ms. Swanson over Sydney Vergis. Time will tell.
The Sacramento Bee this morning reports on a closed-door meeting held on Monday with the Davis police, business representatives, students leaders and city staff members. According to Gary Sandy, the university’s director of local government relations, the group has decided to form a task force to fix Picnic Day.
We buried the lead in order to run today’s headline article. And frankly the news got even bigger late last night. One our big themes for the last two years has been the fact that city hall, particularly the Davis City Council has been bought and paid for by the firefighters’ union. In 2008, they gave more than 20,000 dollars in both direct and indirect contributions.
This week we had Davis Bicycles! and a host of other groups have a candidates forum featuring discussions on transportation and biking. I have been to a lot of forums in the past two weeks, and this was my favorite of them all. It dealt with a lot of issues that do not get enough attention even as Davis likes to do things like get a Bicycling Hall of Fame, bring in the Amgen tour, and act as though it is the bike mecca of America.
The Vanguard has learned through numerous sources that Davis Police Chief, Landy Black, since 2007, is a finalist for the Chief position at the Fairfield Police Department.
The other day, I stumbled across Sydney Vergis’ campaign ad. It’s a pretty basic 30 second ad, basically a name recognition piece. Given Davis’ position in the market, one has to rely on doing cable ads on Comcast to reach Davis vmioters. Buying into the Sacramento market is hugely expensive.
