The Davis Enterprise Friday, February 7, 2020

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Chamber hears State of the City BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

The city has made headway on business recruitment, increasing the housing supply and reducing risks to the budget from rising pension costs, but challenges lie ahead in other areas, according to Mayor Brett Lee. Lee, joined by City Manager Mike Webb, presented the annual “State of the City” address to the Davis Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, where the duo presented the city’s accomplishments over the last year and laid out the challenges that lie ahead. “It’s not all sunshine and rainbows,” Lee said. “We are under no illusions… we have not lost sight of the fact that we have some real challenges that we need to address.” Chief among those challenges will be trying to come up with the millions of dollars needed to repair and maintain the city’s many miles of roads and bike paths. A recent report to the council showed the city has the worst roads in the region with a pavement condition

index — the standard by which the quality of streets and bike paths are gauged — continuing to decline. Simply maintaining the current PCI of the city’s roads would require $75.9 million over the next 10 years plus an additional $22.2 million to maintain the current bike paths, the report found. Actually improving them would cost even more. “The reality is we need to be spending more money on taking care of our roads,” Lee said Wednesday. “The council is cohesive on this,” he added. “Staff is cohesive on this. We recognize we need to be putting more funding to road repairs and maintenance and bike path repairs and maintenance. This is a high priority for us.” Another top concern, he said, is the recent spate of armed robberies in Davis. “This is unusual and the council finds it unacceptable,” Lee said. “We recognize we have some basic responsibilities to the community. We

SEE CITY, PAGE A5

Provenza leads in fundraising BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

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Davis Mayor Brett Lee lays out his State of the City address Wednesday at the Davis Chamber of Commerce.

County education employee pleads to embezzlement BY LAUREN KEENE

Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — A former Yolo County Office of Education employee charged with workplace embezzlement resolved her case during her first day in court Thursday, pleading no contest to the charge and offering full restitution of the fivefigure loss.

SEE FUNDRAISING, PAGE A5

UCD med school adds opioid education

Lori Kathleen Perez, 32, is expected to be sentenced on March 30 to three years of probation and either 80 hours of community service or participation in a restorative justice program.

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer

Perez also may petition to reduce the felony conviction to a misdemeanor

SEE EMBEZZLE, PAGE A3

“The court finds that the Flood Board was a responsible agency and had no duty to review all environmental arguments (the Friends of Putah Creek) raised during its determination whether to issue the subject encroachment permit, and that its review was appropriately limited to flood control,” Daniels said in his decision.

The UC Davis School of Medicine has expanded its curriculum to include more education on opioids, the school announced in a press release last week. Public information officer Edwin Garcia said UC Davis is adding more teaching on addiction and pain management “in an effort to better prepare tomorrow’s doctors for the opioid epidemic and its devastating effect on public health.” In 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a public health emergency to address the misuse of opioids. Between 1999 and 2017, more than 200,000 people

SEE PUTAH, PAGE A5

SEE OPIOID, PAGE A3

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Putah Creek flows under the Winters Bridge.

Cops respond to gunfire Judge turns down Putah challenge BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A 19-year-old man was critically injured by gunfire Thursday afternoon at an East Davis apartment, the nature of the shooting incident still is under investigation as of Thursday night. According to online

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police activity logs, the incident was called in shortly before 3:30 p.m. as an assault with a deadly weapon at the Tuscany Villas Apartments, 2526 E. Eighth St. The victim was transported to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento,

SEE GUNFIRE, PAGE A3

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Supervisor Jim Provenza entered the final month of his reelection campaign with significantly more money to spend on wooing voters than his two challengers, Linda Deos and David Abramson. All three are seeking to represent District 4 on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, a district which encompasses much of north, east and south Davis as well as unincorporated portions of the county south of the city of Davis. According to mid-January financial filings, Provenza still had $93,113 in cash on hand for the campaign, compared to $19,547 for Deos and $2,764 for Abramson. (Abramson had set a campaign budget of about $5,000 and planned to use no lawn signs or mailers). Provenza, who is seeking his fourth term on the Board of Supervisors, entered the 2020 reelection campaign with $99,000

BY TODD R. HANSEN McNaughton Newspapers FAIRFIELD — Solano County Superior Court Judge D. Scott Daniels on Jan. 22 denied a challenge by the Friends of Putah Creek that the Central Valley Flood Protection board should have required a more extensive environmental review before issuing an encroachment permit to allow restoration work on the creek.

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