Monday Morning Thoughts: Fiscal Picture No Brighter for the City
Last week the city had its first budget presentation for the 2019-20 budget. Past analysis has shown…
Sunday Commentary: Target – Did Davis Voters Make a Mistake?
The Davis city staff is proposing to eliminate leasable square footage limitations on the Target site as…
Sunday Commentary: The Big Question For Davis – How Will We Change in 2019 and 2029?
Over the next nine to ten days, the year of 2018 will run its course. We have…
Potential Nishi Sales Tax Revenues from Construction
by Richard McCann One fiscal impact not included in previous analyses is the additional sales tax revenues…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Will Council Agree on a Tax Measure? Will the Voters Approve It?
When the city of Davis faced a $5 million a year structural deficit in 2014, the council…
Council to Consider Possible Tax Measures for 2018
The city’s current long range budget forecast shows an annual shortfall of $7.8 million in terms of…
My View: Why Whole Foods Purchase Matters to Davis and How Amazon is Exacerbating the Death of Local Retail
Two weeks ago, we ran a story on the rise of urban wasteland called “greyfields” – and…
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: Should Davis Have Recreational Dispensaries?
The voters of Davis in November voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 64. Nearly 70 percent of…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Commitment to Cost Containment Must Accompany Revenue Measure
Had the council not postponed its March 7 meeting until March 14, the council would have been…
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…
Sunday Commentary: The Davis Dilemma
The Hyatt House hotel is only the most recent example of the difficulty of doing infill in…
My View: No Easy Answers for City Revenue
Bottom Line: To Remain The Community We Love, We Must Give a Little, On Something San Luis…
A Tale of Two Cities on Sales Tax
Last week, the Vanguard presented data on per capita retail revenue, and it was not completely surprising…
Commentary: What Can We Do to Close the Revenue Gap?
Yesterday’s article, that showed Davis lagging well behind both regional comparable cities as well as other college…
Analysis: Davis Lags in Per Capita Retail Sales
As we noted earlier this week, Davis, probably not surprisingly, is near the bottom in terms of…
Commentary: Why is Davis’ Sales Tax Per Capita So Low?
It comes as little surprise to the informed observer that Davis’ sales tax per capita is much…
Commentary: Disappointing Failure to Provide Boost to Preschool Programs
In the end, not only did the preschool tax fall short of the four votes needed to…
Will Preschool and Early Childhood Education Initiative Have the Votes to Go Forward?
Three weeks ago there were four votes to go forward with a quarter to one-half cent sales…
Sunday Commentary: Why Aren’t Anti-Tax Crusaders Leading the Way on Economic Development?
It is that time in the election cycle, and the Davis City Council is very shortly going…
