The City of Davis is facing a fiscal crisis due to overspending on employee compensation, and the Measure Q funds allocated for road and bike path maintenance have been spent, leaving no money for these projects.
Part 1 – Recent Salary Increases to the City Manager On July 9, 2024 the Davis City…
Measure Q will be on the ballot in November, asking Davis voters whether to increase their sales…
Part 2 – The Rich Get Richer! Compensation to the Top 10% Highest Paid City of Davis…
by Alan Pryor This author previously published an analysis of annual compensation and raises given to City…
Rich Rifkin’s latest column looks at the MOU (memorandum of understanding) issue and concludes: “Expect city services…
This week, Alan Pryor forcefully pushed back against the council placement of two MOUs on the consent…
(From Press Release) – Earlier this week, the City of Davis received a report from the Yolo…
The specter of organized opposition figures to make what might have already been a tough task even…
The Vanguard has spent ten years warning the community about the shortcomings of the budget. In a…
Submitted anonymously to Yololeaks In a recent article in the Vanguard, Mayor Robb Davis discussed the need…
Yesterday the Vanguard published an analysis of the Nishi fiscal picture. In response, we received an anonymous…
On Tuesday, Mayor Dan Wolk will deliver his version of the State of the City at the…
Yesterday’s article on potential revenue from new hotels triggered another side discussion on employee compensation. The problem…
This is probably not a fair indictment, but in the last 12 to 18 months, it seems…
It is perhaps easy to forget the world of 2008. It was just seven years ago that…
Monday night’s Finance and Budget Commission budget discussion got high marks from a number of people who…
As we noted in yesterday’s article, the city’s projected budget forecast has good news and bad news….
The rumor this week is that, with the city pushing into the black and restoring its general…
Now that New Year’s and the holidays are over, I want to refocus on three critical issues…