Richard Reed Appointed as Deputy to Supervisor Provenza
Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza, District 4, today named Richard Reed, Chair of the Yolo County Planning…
Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza, District 4, today named Richard Reed, Chair of the Yolo County Planning…
We have been covering the back and forth between Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig and Judges Kathleen…
Sheriff Ed Prieto on Thursday responded officially to the Yolo County Grand Jury allegations against himself and…
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(Editor’s note: the following is a press release from the Friends of Yolo Crisis Nursery) The Friends…
The Sierra Club today officially endorsed the candidacy of Norma Alcala for Yolo Co. Board of Supervisors…
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On Monday, state and federal officials announced the availability of a public draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan…
This week, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to consolidate the elected Yolo County Clerk-Recorder’s office with the Yolo County Assessor’s office. The majority of three believed that the move would add efficiency, in that there is at least some overlap between a portion of the offices that deal with real property.
The assessor’s office, for example, sets the values of property while the recorder’s office mans the public documents that deal with land transactions, sales, liens, purchases and easements.
Board of Supervisors Also Votes to Combine Assessor with Clerk-Recorder – It has been 20 years that Mike McGowan has served on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, but he announced on Tuesday that he will be stepping down from his position, following Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s appointment of the Yolo County Supervisor to deputy director of strategic planning and policy at the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
According to a release from Governor Brown, “Mike McGowan, 65, of West Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of strategic planning and policy at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, effective December 4, 2013.”
Supervisor Don Saylor introduced a resolution on Tuesday that called for the Yolo County Board of Supervisors to support water fluoridation in Davis and Woodland. The resolution would pass by a 4-1 vote with only Supervisor Duane Chamberlain dissenting.
Supervisor Saylor told his colleagues, that a number of bodies within Yolo County, along with the Centers for Disease Control, the American Dental Association, the California Dental Association and numerous scientists and public health specialists, support fluoridation in the water.
A letter from Diane Parro, Deputy to County Supervisor Don Saylor, dated February 15, 2013 indicates, “After the study prepared by Sue Marks Gibbs and Tammie Murrell was presented to all the contracting agencies which includes Yolo County, Davis, West Sacramento, Winters, Woodland and UC Davis, the Yolo Managers group agreed to explore the JPA model.”
Yolo County Public Works staff recommended raising the speed limits in 14 unincorporated areas including Russell Blvd to the west of Davis out near Pedrick Road.
Last week, the Vanguard expressed concern that redistricting would result in the loss of commitment for Ag Preservation, as the Board shifted the traditionally rural district represented by Duane Chamberlain to a Woodland-based district.
Under a plan approved on Tuesday, the City of Davis most likely will retain two representatives on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, but that result comes at a cost of the district that is traditionally reserved for rural Yolo County.
According to her public testimony on Tuesday, she was told the Board, “A week or two ago, we did try to work on the staff level to share our substantive concerns but we were told that there really was no interest in discussing the substance of our concerns, that in fact this was a formal proceeding to deal with the Brown Act issue.”