My View: Appalling Decision by Council on Ladder Truck – Lack of Fiscal Restraint on a Nice-to-Have Expenditure
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It has been more than a decade since…
Guest Commentary: Effects of Excessive Increases in City of Davis Employee Compensation from 2011 to 2020 on the City’s Ongoing Budget Crisis
by Alan Pryor This author previously published an analysis of annual compensation and raises given to City…
Commentary: The City Is Still in Fiscal Peril, but It Can Make Changes to Public Safety Fairly Easily
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – As we have reported in the past, the…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Why the Climate Package Is the Most Immediate and Urgent Need
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor More than a decade ago, the Vanguard was among the first…
City Agrees to New Contract with DCEA, Ending a Decade-Long Standoff
In early 2010, a Davis City Council led at the time by Mayor Ruth Asmundson voted to…
Analysis: We Should Expect City Services to Deteriorate More
Rich Rifkin’s latest column looks at the MOU (memorandum of understanding) issue and concludes: “Expect city services…
City Responds to Grand Jury Report on Pensions and Medical Costs
(From Press Release) – Earlier this week, the City of Davis received a report from the Yolo…
Taking Care of Tomorrow Today: Our Efforts to Develop Fiscal Resilience
By Robb Davis and Rochelle Swanson We have spent the past four years together on the City…
Commentary: Is Davis Governable?
Council is coming back from their winter break. We have nine candidates on the ballot to replace…
Pushback by the Public against Revenue Measure
While the council is continuing to plan to move forward on revenue measures, they received a dose…
Commentary: Council Must Address and Commit to Cost Containment
The Vanguard readers have been focused on the issue of fairness of the proposed tax, now that…
My View: Agreement with Fire Was Necessary to Move Forward
In order to understand what has transpired in the last two months, we need to go back…
After Long Impasse, City and Firefighters’ Union Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
It was 2009 the last time the firefighters reached an agreement with the city on a contract…
Commentary: Defending Double Dipping?
The problem of double dipping into the pension system is a huge problem that the legislature and…
Commentary: Where the Council Ends Up Going on Revenue Measures Not Clear
Watching the council discuss the potential revenue measures continues to feel a lot like déjà vu all…
Monday Morning Thoughts: The Actual Budget Is an Afterthought
The Davis City Council is expected to adopt the budget this week and, unlike in past years…
Commentary: Finally a Fully Transparent Budget
In 2008 during the Davis City Council elections, incumbent Councilmembers Don Saylor and Stephen Souza ran on…
No Rosy Budget Projections in the Current Model
After several years of rosy budget projections, the city, utilizing more robust modeling forecast projections, comes forward…
Five Questions with Mayor Robb Davis
This week the Vanguard sent out the same five questions to all five of the Davis City…
Consultant Lays Out Budget Model and Challenges Davis Faces
The city has retained local budget consultant Bob Leland, who, building on the work of citizen groups…
