The Davis Enterprise Friday, July 17, 2020

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FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2020

Survey details pandemic’s impact on businesses

Outbreak strikes at Woodland residential care facility

A game effort

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

Enterprise staff writer

The Davis business community was facing significant challenges even before the latest round of closures ordered by the state last week. A survey of members conducted by the Davis Chamber of Commerce prior to the most recent closures revealed 70 percent of businesses were experiencing a reduction in income with half saying the reduction was significant. One in four said they had furloughed or laid off some or most of their staff and half reported reduced operating hours or remote-only operations. The two-week survey of 123 members ended just before Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a number of business sectors to close last week, including hair and nail salons, spas, gyms and more. Bars and indoor restaurant dining had been shuttered a week earlier. For many of those businesses, the closures came just weeks after they’d been given the go-ahead to reopen following three months of sheltering in place.

A residential care facility in Woodland that serves the developmentally disabled has 10 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and has reported one death, according to the county. Woodland Residential Services is an intermediate care facility that serves vulnerable and high-risk individuals who are developmentally disabled, need nursing or rehabilitative care and live in a congregate setting. The family-owned company was formed in 2002 and operates seven intermediate care facilities and a day program, according to its website. Six residents and four staff members at Woodland Residential Services have tested positive for COVID19 and one resident has died, the county reported on Thursday morning. All residents and facility staff will be tested on Thursday and all positive cases have been isolated in a separate building, the county said. Woodland Residential

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From left, Pam Hofstad, Jan Bridge and Diane McGee sport their new Mahj On! shirts. The three are members of the Davis Senior Center’s mahjong playing group, which has stayed connected online.

Mahjong players keep up connections BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Her last name may be Bridge, but Janice will be the first to tell you her game of choice is actually mahjong. One of almost three dozen seniors who have played the tilebased pastime weekly from noon to 4 p.m. at the Davis Senior Center for the better part of the last two decades, Bridge calls it “addictive.” “It has the tactile aspect of playing with the tiles,” notes

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Bridge. “It has the logic challenges between calculating percentages of drawing certain pieces. And then it has all kinds of social interaction.” But that later facet of mahjong has been lacking for Davis seniors since the start of shelter-in-place orders. And for a group like Bridge’s, the separation has been close to unbearable. That is, until this past Monday, when the gang was finally able to reunite after nearly four months apart. “We’d been around each other

for years,” Bridge says. “We knew about each others’ grandchildren, kids weddings, when somebody’s family member was sick — and then all the sudden we had nothing.” But Davis’ 2011 Citizen of the Year, was determined to reconnect the tight-knit group of friends. Meeting face-to-face momentarily to collect group T-shirts at Bridge’s home in Central Davis Monday, they now each wear matching gear from home while playing mahjong online. “Bill Sbarra, one of our players,

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Davis police reveal ethnicity data for 2019 traffic stops Petition drive to force school BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer White, Hispanic and Asian drivers were the most frequently pulled over by police in the city of Davis in 2019, according to data released this week by the Davis Police Department. When it came to arrests, police took white, Hispanic and Black people into custody the most, both for felony and misdemeanor offenses. The agency unveiled the data in accordance with the

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California Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) of 2015, also know as Assembly Bill 953, the aim of which is to aid the elimination of racial and identity profiling in law enforcement. It requires state and local law-enforcement agencies to collect data regarding individuals’ stops, including their perceived demographics, and report that information to the state Attorney General. “While agencies the size of Davis PD are not

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required to submit data until April 2023, we have embarked upon this effort four years earlier than required,” the report notes. “To date, Davis PD remains one of the few agencies of its size to collect stop data in California.” To see the stop or arrest data, visit www.cityofdavis. org and search for “annual reports.” Davis police made a total of 5,561 traffic stops during 2019, according to the report. Of those, officers initiated 86 percent, and 71

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percent were triggered by an alleged traffic violation. Another 20 percent stemmed from suspicion of criminal activity. Broken down by ethnicity, nearly 50 percent of those stopped were perceived as white, 20 percent Hispanic/Latino and 12 percent Asian, followed by 9 percent Black and 5 percent Middle Eastern or South Asian. Another nearly 3 percent were multiracial.

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board election hits target BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer

A petition with upward of 1,700 signatures — which could trigger a special election to fill the school board seat once held by school board trustee Cindy Pickett — was turned over to Yolo County officials on Wednesday, setting up an unusual situation in terms of who will succeed Pickett.

Pickett was elected to the Davis school board in November 2018 with upwards of 20,000 votes. She was the top votegetter in that election’s field of Davis school board candidates. In May, Pickett (a longtime faculty member/ academic administrator at UC Davis) announced that she had accepted a new job at De Paul University

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