Should We Be Spending One-Time Monies Prior to Resolving Budget Crisis?
Next week’s council meeting will see a number of budget discussions. Following on the wings of the…
Commentary: Have We Really Come Full Circle on Fiscal Matters?
It is interesting to me to see the pushback from a few on the city’s fiscal crisis. …
Sunday Commentary: Davis Needs to Wake Up If It Wants This Place to Remain Great
A growing view for solving Davis’ financial problems is to kick the can down the road and…
Containing Employee Compensation Costs
Submitted Anonymously through YoloLeaks Recently several articles have been published in the Vanguard discussing the increasing costs…
Commentary: Laying the Groundwork for Fiscal Reform
On Wednesday, I attended a brown bag lunch sponsored by the Davis Downtown, in which they invited…
Aguiar-Curry Discusses Minimum Wage and Farm Worker Overtime in Second Part of Interview
Newly elected Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry sat down with Leanna Sweha of the Davis Vanguard for an interview…
Mayor Lays Out City Challenges in State of the City Address
While it was a new format and there were some differences of opinion, Mayor Robb Davis laid…
Commentary: Hotels Represent Just the First Step toward Fiscal Resiliency
It is perhaps not ironic that the short discussion on Tuesday night focused on sustainability rather than…
More Analysis on the Coming Pension Hit
Back in November, with respect to the hotel discussion, Dan Carson, a member of the Finance and…
Sunday Commentary: City Faces Urgent Fiscal Situation
For months we had heard that the city’s fiscal situation had improved – and in some ways…
Mayor Calls City’s Unfunded Liabilities Situation – Urgent
Mayor Robb Davis has reacted to an updated analysis by a city-contracted actuarial as “urgent.” Despite cost-containment…
Increased Pension Costs – And Why the Hotel Projects Are Important
By Dan Carson Your staff has done a good job providing you with the analyses I personally…
My View: We Don’t Need Radical Change, but We Do Need to Break Paralysis
Contrary to some, I don’t see Davis in a renaissance, I see it in a slow and…
Analysis: Can We Cut Our Way to Prosperity?
In 2008, the Vanguard was ahead of the curve, warning of unsustainable spending practices by the city,…
My View II: When Will We Address $655 Million in Infrastructure Needs?
Two years ago, as we first began to earnestly plan for the possibility of innovation parks and…
The Fiscal Reality of the City Differs From the Mayor’s Column
By Robb Davis Recently our Mayor, my colleague, wrote: “Our budget is balanced and resilient. Due to…
My View II: When Should Employee Compensation Increase?
Yesterday’s article on potential revenue from new hotels triggered another side discussion on employee compensation. The problem…
My View: Is this a Budget to Celebrate?
This week, the Davis City Council approved the city’s 2015-16 budget. Let us be clear about one…
Council Will Approve the 2015-16 City Budget
There has been a lot of discussion on the longer range budget issues such as how the…
Analysis: Is It Time to Start Evaluating the City Manager?
It is perhaps easy to forget the world of 2008. It was just seven years ago that…
