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Davis City Councilman Will Arnold spits into a small vial as part of the COVID-19 test developed by UC Davis and now being made available to the larger community.

Workers stationed behind plastic barriers direct participants as they self-administer the test.

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer

on Wednesday with a dry run at the senior center.

Several Davis City Council members turned out to be tested, including Arnold, Mayor Gloria Partida and former mayor Brett Lee. Belafsky said 240 people were tested that first day, with several hundred more since.

Individuals arriving for the test answer a series of questions about any symptoms of illness they may have had in recent days before entering the building. There, workers remain

Yolo County law-enforcement agencies say they plan to take an information-based approach to the curfew measure Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week in response to a surge in coronavirus cases.

“Our main posture is education,” PYTEL Davis Police Chief Police chief Darren Pytel said Friday following a conference call among city and county leaders, including Dr. Amy Sisson, Yolo County’s public health officer.

“She’s expressing concerns, like the state is, that we’re seeing increased positivity rates, and it’s not just due to increased testing,” Pytel said.

“Obviously, this (the curfew) was done to reduce the spread there.”

Effective Saturday, the limited stay-at-home order calls for citizens in California’s most-restrictive purple tier — which Yolo County reverted to on Tuesday — to remain indoors from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. unless performing essential duties.

Its intent is to discourage

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Spit-take: UCD rolls out virus test

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer As promised, UC Davis brought its saliva-based COVID-19 testing to the broader community last week and hundreds of Davis residents turned out to be tested at the Davis Senior Center.

Test results — which are being processed by the Genome Center lab on campus — were being provided in 24 to 48 hours.

Davis City Councilman Will Arnold, who was tested Wednesday along with his wife,

Nichole, reported receiving results in 44 hours, while an Enterprise reporter tested Thursday received them in about 28 hours.

“By early December, we’ll be able to notify people within 24 hours,” said Dr. Sheri Belafsky, director of the medical surveillance program at the UC Davis School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences.

Belafsky is supervising the COVID-19 testing program for Healthy Davis Together, a joint effort between the campus and the city of Davis that will provide the free saliva-based

testing to the community for the foreseeable future.

Unlike the somewhat invasive nasal swab test familiar to most community members who have been tested for COVID-19, this method involves spitting into a small test tube. UC Davis has been using the saliva-based method since the beginning of the fall quarter but testing has been largely limited to students and staff.

A significant component of the Healthy Davis Together plan was the promise to extend that testing into the larger community, something that began

Trustees hear COVID update

Council approves South Davis apartments

BY JEFF HUDSON

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Enterprise staff writer The gnarly problems the Davis school district must address from the COVID19 pandemic continued to dominate the trustees’ discussion at Thursday night’s school board meeting.

The school board warmly welcomed the recently hired Yolo County Public Health Officer, Dr. Aimee Sisson. Thursday was the first time Sisson has addressed the Davis school board; her familiarity with UC Davis extends back to 2006-07, when Sisson earned a master’s degree in

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public health (focusing on epidemiology).

Sisson began her presentation by referencing the famous opening line from Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” — “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...”

On the one hand, during the past 10 days, “we have had great news about vaccines (being developed by pharma companies) Pfizer and Moderna,” Sisson noted.

Yet during that same timeframe Gov. Gavin Newsom declared “California is experiencing the fastest

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increase in (COVID) cases we have seen yet.”

Enterprise staff writer

SISSON

Newsom County health officer announced a curfew between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. as part of an effort to control the spread of the virus, and moved more than two dozen California counties back into the restrictive purple tier status, the most restrictive tier in the state’s COVID ranking system.

As a result, 94 percent of

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Two hundred apartment units and a new location for the Yolo Crisis Nursery are headed to South Davis following a unanimous decision by the City Council on Tuesday.

Approval of the Plaza 2555 housing development — more than two years in the making — followed a lengthy public hearing during which a number of people objected to the developers meeting a component of their affordable housing requirement by deeding an acre of land to the crisis nursery rather than for permanent affordable housing.

The project reserves 5 percent of units on site for very low income households but the city’s current affordable housing ordinance calls for 15 percent.

Rather than providing another 10 percent of units, an acre of land will be deeded to the crisis nursery instead.

Doing so reduces the footprint of the apartment complex, which will be located on a triangle of land bordered by Research Park Drive, Cowell Boulevard and I-80.

The crisis nursery, meanwhile, which has long operated out of a small house in East Davis, will be able to meet growing need for crisis care with more land.

The nursery serves primarily lowincome families by providing emergency housing and care to children ages 0-5 whose parents are in crisis.

Enabling the crisis nursery to expand its services — while keeping it in Davis — prompted council members to unanimously approve an amendment to the

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Just in Suspect flees from motel shooting

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A suspect remains at large after shooting a woman outside a Dunnigan motel Thursday morning, Yolo County sheriff ’s officials said.

Lt. Matt Davis reported that deputies were informed at about 7:30 a.m. about the shooting, which according to witnesses occurred in the parking lot of the California Motel on County Road 99W. The woman had been taken from the scene by the time officers arrived, but was picked up by an ambulance along Interstate 5 and transported to an area hospital.

A chaotic scene ensued at the motel, where officers from multiple local lawenforcement agencies, including the Davis Police Department, temporarily evacuated the rooms as they searched for a suspect.

So far, no arrests have been made.

The victim, whose identity was not released, remained in critical condition as of Friday.

Anyone with information about the incident is urged to contact the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office at 530668-5280 or 530-6668282, or leave an anonymous tip at 530668-5248.

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‘Crack’ legal team can’t get a thing right

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ust when I thought we were finally through with the several weeks of drama we’ve endured since they started counting votes after the polls closed on Nov. 3, the president’s crack team of lawyers, some of whom have apparently passed the bar, dropped another bombshell.

The latest came from Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell in that mascara-laden press conference from Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C. According to Aaron Blake’s piece in that dubious daily, The Washington Post, “In its wild news conference Thursday, President Trump’s legal team promoted a very simple-sounding theory that seems likely to be central to its voter fraud allegations: that many precincts in key states had more votes than actual voters, particularly in Michigan and Wisconsin.”

This would be the frequently charged but rarely proven fraud known as “over-voting.”

In other words, if Sacramento has only 400,000 registered voters, how can it be that over 650,000 votes were actually counted in Sacramento?

Said Giuliani, “Well, in Michigan and Wisconsin, we have overvotes in numerous precincts of 150 percent, 200 percent and 300 percent.”

County boards need volunteers Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County Board of Supervisors is actively seeking candidates to fill vacancies on several county advisory bodies. For more information and to submit an application, visit www. yolocounty.org, call the clerk of the board’s office at 530-666-8195 or contact a Yolo County supervisor.

Boards with vacancies include the Assessment Appeals Board, Child Care Planning Council, Commission on Aging & Adult Services, Community Services Action Board, County Redevelopment Successor Oversight Board, Emergency Medical Care Committee, Health Council, In-Home Supportive Services, Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council, Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Advisory Board, Parks, Recreation & Wildlife Advisory Committee, South Davis General Plan Citizens’ Advisory Committee, Transportation Advisory Committee, Valley Clean Energy Community Advisory Coommittee and Waste Advisory Committee.

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Powell corrected that somewhat, claiming it was “up to 350 percent in some places.”

Holy guacamole, I thought, someone has a lot of explaining to do and they’d better do it quickly before the U.S. Supreme Court steps in and awards the Commander in Chief a second term.

According to Blake, The Post’s author of this terrifying piece, “The source of Powell’s number is an affidavit from a security consultant in Texas named Russ Ramsland. Ramsland appeared on Lou Dobbs’s Fox Business Network show on Tuesday and detailed his claims.”

And if you can’t trust Faux News, whom can you trust?

These are the same bunch of conspiracy peddlers who claim that Trump actually earned 410 electoral votes, including the 55 from California where machine malfunctions combined with dead people voting in Humboldt County made it seem as if Biden had actually carried the state by

over 5 million votes.

According to Ramsland, the number-cruncher from Texas who may or may not have a working abacus, “The things that you find in Michigan are amazing.”

Indeed, I’ve always been fond of the Upper Peninsula.

Added Ramsland, “There are over 3,000 precincts where the presidential vote cast compared to the estimated voters is 99 percent all the way up to 350 percent.

Those kind of numbers don’t exist in the real world. So where did all those votes come from?”

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hope Mr. Ramsland is sitting down while I answer his question. Turns out all those votes came not from Michigan, but from Minnesota.

Yes, the Gopher State, where fraudulent ballots are routinely hidden in gopher holes, magically appearing on Election Night when the tabulations aren’t going a certain candidate’s way.

Trump campaign lawyer L. Lin Wood filed those very numbers in an affidavit as part of a lawsuit in Georgia, which, according to my map, is a long way from Michigan.

The affidavit focuses on alleged over-votes specifically in Wayne County, Mich., which includes Detroit.

Wrote the Post’s Blake, “The list of precincts next to their alleged over-voters is striking.”

Among those listed were places such as Benville Township, Albertville, Champion, Hokah, Veldt and Eyota.

But, Blake noted, what was also striking “was that those sound a lot like cities and towns in Minnesota.”

“The text states that, in Wayne County, Michigan, ‘25 of those 47 precincts/townships show 100 percent turnout.’ But it then lists 25 precincts from Minnesota.”

So, was there over-voting in Minnesota?

Not at all. Turns out the allegations were patently false. Ironically, in Minnesota’s Benville Township, the one cited for the 350 percent over-vote, fully 75 percent of the votes cast went to — you guessed it — Donald Trump.

Adds Blake, “The fact that an affidavit with such a glaring error would be not just cited by the Trump campaign but filed as a part of an actual lawsuit might be the biggest takeaway here. It certainly speaks to a lack of due diligence.”

You think?

I don’t know which law school this legal Dream Team attended, but it apparently did not have a course in “Introduction to United States Geography” as part of the curriculum.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

APARTMENTS: By-the-bed rentals at issue From Page A1 city’s interim affordable housing ordinance allowing the services provided by the nursery to qualify.

But Councilman Will Arnold suggested a sunset on the ordinance, saying he had no intention of voting for another project with such an exception.

“Our affordable housing need is so great, that if it weren’t for the opportunity that I see here, I wouldn’t even be entertaining this,” Arnold said.

“This is not intended as part of our longterm affordable housing strategy.”

His colleagues voted unanimously in favor of that sunset.

Also at issue Tuesday evening was how leases at the apartment complex will be handled.

When Plaza 2555 first came before the council in 2018, the primary concern was the number of fourand five-bedroom units the proposal contained.

Council members, as well as many members of the public, objected to

so many units being geared toward students.

Following work between a subcommittee of Mayor Gloria Partida and Councilman Dan Carson and developers, the plan that returned to the council Tuesday night eliminated all units with more than three bedrooms.

But concerns remained among some council members about those units being rented by the bed rather than by the unit — a method that appeals more to students than families and local workers.

Carson suggested a compromise Tuesday under which developers would commit to leasing at least 75 percent of apartments by the unit rather than by the bed.

After a 10-minute break, the applicants came back with a counter offer of 50 percent, a compromise the council accepted.

“I appreciate the willingness for a compromise here,” said Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs, “but I also

say this site is doing nobody any good at the moment. It has been vacant the entire time I’ve been in Davis and that’s been 25 years now.”

“We need housing in this community,” Frerichs added, “and our community has… regularly voted to not approve peripheral development, so I personally see that as a sign that there is an interest in … infill development, especially a site that is vacant and has no real near neighbors.

“I think it is (an) appropriate use and, of course, the bonus in all of this is the ability for a solid footing and ground for Yolo Crisis Nursery … It represents the best type of a project we can actually put forward.”

Arnold noted that “this is a project that we’ve been working through at the city for more than two years at this point.”

“There is an opportunity cost when you take what could potentially be more roofs over more folk’s

heads and instead go with something less than that,” he noted.

“But it’s my opinion that the value to our community of securing a spot for the Yolo Crisis Nursery in Davis is of such critical community importance that I had to weigh those two legitimate concerns and err on the side of finding a spot for the Yolo Crisis Nursery.”

When it is fully built out, Plaza 2555 will include 200 apartment units with a total of about 500 bedrooms. The housing will be row-house style townhouses and stackedflat apartments in two-, three- and four-story buildings.

Five percent of the units will be reserved for very low-income households, defined as households earning no more than 50 percent of the area median income.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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Rethink Thanksgiving.

Celebrate safely.

Social gatherings are a leading cause of COVID-19 cases in Yolo County. If you’re planning to celebrate Thanksgiving with family or friends, there are some things you can do to reduce your risk and slow the spread: • • • • • •

Limit gatherings to no more than 16 people and 3 households Keep festivities to 2 hours Gather outdoors Stay 6 feet away from others Wear a face mask When in doubt, stay home

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Briefly Podcast looks at climate, poverty In Kenya, climate change is threatening a way of life for pastoralists. It’s driving families deeper into poverty.

When drought hits, men travel for weeks in search of water and greener pastures for their livestock herds.

The women and children are left behind with no stable source of food or income.

For the final episode of “Unfold,” Season 2, podcast host Amy Quinton travels to Kenya to learn more about how climate change and poverty intersect.

UC Davis agricultural economists are researching the pairing of two intervention programs, including a type of climate insurance policy, to keep these vulnerable populations from falling so deep into poverty that they have no way to recover.

In season 2, “Unfold” explores the solutions to and complexities of climate change. It is available free, on demand at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon’s Tunein, Stitcher, Pandora and Spotify.

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TRUSTEES: Families split on reopening schools From Page A1 California’s population lives in a county that is presently in Purple Tier status.

And nationally, the number of deaths from COVID rose to 1,500 deaths daily, the highest daily death toll recorded during the pandemic thus far.

Sisson indicated that Yolo County “will remain in purple tier status for several weeks (to come), and perhaps longer” in the event that the number of COVID cases in Yolo County does not begin to decline.

Sisson added that “Yolo County is not an island, and we are influenced (in terms of COVID) by the communities around us.”

She also noted, “Our county borders are porous ... people cross county borders every day” to get to work, attend medical appointments, etc.

Sisson stressed that “the decisions we make as individuals and as a community can definitely influence the way we move forward” in terms of bringing the COVID pandemic under control and rescinding state restrictions. She urged people to wear a face mask, wash their hands frequently, avoid social gatherings that involve large numbers of people coming from multiple households.

“This pandemic will end”

at some point, Sisson concluded, “but we have to keep making sacrifices for a bit longer” in order to tamp down the COVID virus sooner rather than later.

The school board continues to receive a good deal of public comment regarding when students should return to classrooms. At the Nov. 3 school board meeting, some 43 messages from the public were presented to the board in written form, and on Nov. 19, the board received another 12 messages from the public, which were read aloud during the meeting.

Survey results During the Nov. 19 meeting, the school board also reviewed the results of a recently-conducted family survey regarding the eventual return to campus, as well as a separate survey done of teachers and other school staff.

The surveys were conducted by ECM Research, a polling firm that has conducted surveys on behalf of the school district relating to ballot measures like parcel taxes and the district’s 2018 school facilities bond.

The family survey was based on 4,442 completed surveys, with responses representing about 7,190 students (since some households have more than one student in school).

And the family survey found that households are not unanimous in terms of how the “return to campus” should happen.

■ Some 22% of respondents wanted to go with a “full in-person model” (i.e. students on campus throughout the school day) when campuses reopen.

■ Some 38% of respondents preferred a “distance learning only” model for the time being, with students continuing to study online.

■ And some 40% of respondents favored a “hybrid model” (involving a mix of in-person classroom instruction and distance learning instruction, gradually shifting back to having students on campus on campus all day.

The staff survey, on the other hand, found that 73% of respondents were still uncomfortable with returning to campus for inperson instruction at the present time (with 22% “somewhat uncomfortable” and 51% “very uncomfortable.”

Another 26% of staff indicated they were comfortable returning for campus for in-person instruction (including 20% somewhat uncomfortable, and 7% “very uncomfortable.”

Public comment that came directly to the board has included multiple

and will likely not “Yolo County is moving return to the district in January if only distance not an island, learning is offered.” and we are Availability influenced by Another factor in the mix the communities regarding when to reopen campuses to students: the around us.” vaccines being developed

Aimee Sisson Yolo County public health officer parents who said they have a child who is not doing well academically under the school district’s current distance learning approach, and many of these parent urged the school board to return to in-person classroom learning soon.

And some parents expressed frustration at the school board’s months of deliberation regarding the eventual return to campus.

A message from parent Robert Oldham was read during public comment.

Oldham indicated he wants the board set a date yet for reopening Davis school campuses to students.

“Parents need a timetable for return, as COVID isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and we can’t in good conscience keep kids out of school indefinitely,” Oldham wrote. “We are strongly considering finding a private school or

by Pfizer and Moderna are recommended for age 12 and up. It will probably be a while yet before a vaccine appropriate for younger children becomes available, which could impact plans to reopen elementary school campuses.

The encouraging news in this regard from Sisson: only 1.6% of Yolo County hospitalizations for COVID-19 involve children under 18. There is growing evidence that children generally withstand the COVID virus a lot better than older adults.

Consequently, the school board’s discussion of the eventual return to campus will continue for at least a while. As Superintendent John Bowes of the Davis school district put it during last Thursday’s school board meeting, “the time for reopening is not here yet ... we are doing everything we can (now) to prepare for that time.”

— Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenter prise.net or 530-747-8055.

OBITUARIES Louise Micke

Milton Clay Blackman

Feb. 8, 1939 — Nov. 17, 2020

Nov. 17, 1938 — Nov. 16, 2020

Milton Clay Blackman, O.D., was born at home in Archie, La. on Nov. 17, 1938. He had no birth certificate when he needed one for a passport. His mother wrote a pleading letter to assert his birth and “she was there.”

His death resulted after a gradual decline from Alzheimer’s. He spent the last three years living at Carlton Senior Living with the excellent and compassionate care provided in memory care. Before moving to Carlton, he received wonderful care and companionship at Yolo Adult Day Health Care, Citizens Who Care, and more recently, from the nurses and caregivers from Yolo Hospice.

His parents, Clay and Althea (Richardson) preceded him in death.

The family moved to Los Angeles when Milt was a baby and he spent his school years in Maywood. After high school, they moved to Chico where Milt started college.

The U.S. Army soon called him to service.

Milt finished in Chico and was then accepted to the School of Optometry in Berkeley.

His first practice took him to Davis where he remained practicing optometry for the next 42 years. He soon became an avid Aggie fan and celebrated his retirement with a “day as a coach” for an Aggie game.

Music was a joy for Milt. His lovely baritone was a part of his church choirs, a local barbershop chorus, and, more recently, the

Woodland Chamber Singers. The highlight was performing with the WCS at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Milt’s love of the outdoors began with camping and later skiing. He joined the Davis Aquatic Masters in 1976 where he met his wife, Lorna.

Water skiing every summer with dear friends, bike trips with the Davis Bike Club and even training for mini triathlons kept him fit for many years.

He had yearly golf trips in Palm Springs with his best friend Paul Hiss.

Thanksgiving was spent camping and hiking at Big Sur with family and friends.

Milt and Lorna began their travels with a honeymoon in Tahiti and continued with several trips to Europe and Africa, and memorable trips to Alaska.

Milt is survived by his wife, Lorna Belden; children Kelly (Matt Roseberry) and Kevin (Christina); grandchildren Jessica (Chris Grubbs), Elizabeth and Mason; greatgrandson Hunter Grubbs; stepchildren Mike Stark, Wendy (Dave Banas); and stepgrandchildren Nicholas and Brenna Banas.

Milt will continue to be missed by his family and friends following the long progression of Alzheimer’s. There will be no services and the family will celebrate his life at a later date.

Donations in his name may be made to Progress Ranch Treatment Services for Children; Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence; or the Alzheimer’s Association at alz.org.

Louise (LaBelle) Micke died peacefully on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at home with her family around her after a long battle with kidney disease and vascular dementia.

Louise was born on Feb. 8, 1939, in Edgartown, Mass., to Louis and Angela LaBelle. After growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, she moved to California after high school to be closer to her brother, Roland LaBelle.

Louise worked for UC Davis Pomology Extension where she met her husband of 58 years, Warren Micke. After moving to Hayward, Santa Barbara and Auburn, they finally settled in Davis in 1964, where they raised their two children, Catherine and Stephen.

Louise worked as a paraeducator for DJUSD, mainly working in the special ed department. She loved her time working with students, and enjoyed seeing them around town years after they graduated.

Louise was very involved in her children’s lives and activities, and has been manager of various sports teams, scorekeeper and

club leader. She enjoyed singing in the church choir, playing golf, knitting, and spending time with her pets. Most of all, she loved being a mother and grandmother!

Louise is survived by her husband Warren Micke; daughter Catherine Pereira; son Stephen Micke; grandchildren Briana Pereira, Sofia Pereira, Jordyn Micke and Joshua Micke (all of Davis); and her brother Paul LaBelle (Florida). She is predeceased by her parents, and her brother Roland.

There will be a public viewing at Smith Funeral Home, 116 D St. in Davis, from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23. Due to COVID, there will be a private funeral mass for family only, but a public burial at Davis Cemetery at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, following COVID guidelines.

Louise’s family wish to thank the caregivers at APEX, Yolo Hospice, and Doctors Alcalay and Cotterel, for their excellent care of Louise.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to your favorite charity.

DEATH NOTICE Michael Joseph Cosgrove Enterprise staff

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Michael Joseph “Mojo” Cosgrove, 59, of Davis died Friday, Nov. 13, 2020.

He lived in Davis since 2002, was a psychiatrist at Napa State Hospital and a longtime member of the Davis Bike Club.

Martin Lawrence Privalsky Feb. 25, 1953 — Oct. 28, 2020

Martin Lawrence Privalsky was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Feb. 25, 1953, to Rachel Cohen and Jack Privalsky.

His father being a local postmaster, Marty’s first job was delivering mail during his summer breaks. He was born, however, in an era of spectacular science and enamored with its possibilities from a young age.

Like many future scientists of his generation, he was a tinkerer and a chemist from his preteen years, building radios, mixing a range of rocket fuels, but failing in his attempt to produce nitroglycerin — a disappointing result at the time, to which he would later attribute his lifelong possession of 10 fingers. The same Borough Park basement that served as a chemistry lab also became a photographic darkroom, the beginning of a lifelong pursuit.

After finishing high school in Brooklyn, Marty attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, originally intending to be an astrophysicist. As he humbly explained, however, his experience with differential equations convinced him to pursue a slightly less mathematical

branch of science, and in 1974, he graduated with a degree in biochemistry. With a continued interest in research and alone out of all his siblings in daring to leave the East Coast, he decided to enter graduate school at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in 1979 (in a lab where he met a San Francisco native named Susan Vigano, who will continue to figure into the story), then took a postdoctoral position at UCSF. Subsequently, after a short stint working for then-startup biotech company Chiron, Marty decided to return to academia. In 1984, he was hired into the microbiology department at UC Davis, where he remained a professor for the next 36 years, studying oncogenes and nuclear hormone receptors, shepherding many graduate students into their own successful careers.

Marty was a man of many hobbies. He took up sailing in grad school, one suspects to impress Sue, but he had to be pretty good at it as he never learned to swim. Images of the primary investigator

as literal and metaphorical sea captain were a fixture of his UCD lab. He returned to his pyrotechnic and aviation roots, building and flying model rockets and radio-controlled airplanes with his two sons. Sorting through and printing the best of his photographic portfolio, now in digital form, was one of his main diversions in his later years. He was also a longtime and deeply knowledgeable fan of science fiction and mysteries, in print and on film.

Marty earned the official title “Distinguished Professor” based on his scholarly achievements and teaching career.

Undergraduates on ratemyprofessors. com called him “a very nice man” (more than once!) and “hilarious,” but accused him of “blazing through 82.8 slide PowerPoints” and expecting one to “swallow the material like ice cream.”

Even faced with the misfortune of an illness that brought his relationship with biomedical research full circle, putting him in the role of a lab rat for the pipeline of

new drugs and a clinical trial at UCSF, he maintained good humor, equanimity and an admirably philosophical outlook. He continued his scientific pursuits to the very end, with his last paper published just days before his death. He spent the morning of his last day on Earth watching a movie called “It! The Terror from Beyond Space” with his family, and wouldn’t have asked for anything different.

Marty died on Oct. 28 and is survived

by Sue Vigano, his wife of 40 years; their sons J.J. Privalsky (who ended up teaching computers to do useful things, instead of students) and Tom Privalsky (who followed in the family business of biochemical research); his brother Chuck Privalsky (sister-in-law Alice); and sister Maxine Plotkin (brother-in-law Ron, who wanted to say he always thought of Marty as a little brother).

Memorial donations may be made to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, The International Myeloma Foundation, Doctors Without Borders or your favorite charity.

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THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2020 A5

Gyms take brunt of new restrictions Y

olo County got a surprise on Monday when the state tightened pandemic business restrictions, placing 41 of California’s 58 counties in the most-restrictive purple tier. Establishments had 24 hours to comply. And as of Saturday, counties like us have a stay-at-home curfew between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Just two counties were yellow tier (minimal) as of Friday, four were orange (moderate) and 11 were red (substantial). The rest — including our entire Sacramento region — were placed or remain in purple (widespread). The lucky two in yellow? Mariposa and Alpine counties. The four in orange were Lassen, Sierra, Calaveras and Inyo. Red counties were Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Plumas, Lake, Colusa, Amador, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Mono. That put more than 94 percent of the state’s population in purple. And it looks like we’ll be there for a while.

Yellow tier means most indoor business operations are open with modifications (like mask-wearing).

From orange to red to purple, the restrictions intensify, especially in the dining and fitness categories. The biggest changes that come with the purple tier are restaurants, gyms, churches and galleries, which can no longer offer indoor services. Nonessential retail can open indoors at 25 percent capacity. Personal-care services like nail and hair salons may remain open with modifications.

The change accelerated restaurants’ outdoor dining accommodations.

Many added heaters and tents to protect patrons from the elements. Those without an outdoor dining area are either closed or returning to takeout-only.

Most fitness centers returned to a hybrid of outdoor (brr!) and online classes. However, the indoor climbing gym Rocknasium is closed temporarily.

Rocknasium continues retail sales. Customers are asked to email retail@ rocknasium.com to

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arrange a curbside pickup of items like climbing gear, shoes, T-shirts, guidebooks, chalk and tape.

“Thank you to all of our members for supporting us and be being so cooperative with all of the new procedures and changes.

We hope we can see you soon,” it wrote in a social media post.

———— But the big news on Monday — before we learned we were heading into purple — was the announcement by Get Fit Davis that it will close its original gym at 2795 Second St. As of Dec. 15, it will consolidate all operations into Get Fit Davis Sport at 1809 Picasso Ave. “Our membership numbers have dwindled. … We do not have the memberships needed to maintain both locations,” owner Nick Walejeski wrote in the email. “It is a gutwrenching decision that we never thought we would be faced with, but here we are, and we have to do what we can to keep at least one location going.”

The Second Street gym originally opened as Peak Performance before Walejeski purchased it in 2013 and changed the name to Get Fit Davis.

Two years later, he purchased the Davis Athletic Club facility on Picasso, which is much larger. It has two pools, a sauna and steam room, a hot tub, an indoor basketball court, a lawn, and is adjacent to Oak Grove Park. Walejeski plans to renovate the indoor soccer field at Get Fit Davis Sport to make room for equipment from the Second Street gym.

If you are able, please continue to pay your gym memberships to keep our awesome fitness options available.

———— On Thursday, the city of Davis announced a loan of up to $100,000 to local business incubator

Inventopia, to allow it to add specialized space for entrepreneurs and startup companies. The City Council voted unanimously at its Oct. 6 meeting to approve a resolution granting the loan. Tuesday, after a public hearing, it approved the loan.

Financing comes from city enhancement funds from development, a city news release said. The proposed loan would be repaid over five years at 3 percent interest. Operating as a nonprofit, Inventopia leases the use of labs, specialized manufacturing equipment and technology for startups, based on various membership models.

It recently moved from 1949 Fifth St. to 630 Peña Drive.

The city loan allows Inventopia to double its size by adding two new suites. The additional 3,900 square feet will house a specialized biosafety lab and an advanced manufacturing machine shop.

Mayor Gloria Partida said the loan expands economic development and capitalizes on local talent to create more Davis jobs.

“We are pleased to contribute to Davis as a burgeoning research hotspot in the life sciences, food and agriculture, sustainability and advanced manufacturing.”

Startup successes supported by Inventopia include Innerplant, a company that makes plants into living sensors, and Peakb, a startup developing naturally derived blue food coloring.

Tim Keller, executive director of Inventopia, said, “We are grateful to the city for their faith in us and the future of Davis businesses. This loan will allow more startups to anchor in Davis, keeping discoveries and jobs within the community, especially at this time where we need the economy to rebound.”

Inventopia is affiliated with UC Davis’ Venture Catalyst Engine DRIVE (Distributed Research Incubation & Venture) program, which launched 122 startups since 2004 — 85 of them in the last six years.

———— In other City Council action on Tuesday, locals will have to wait a little

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longer for any commercial businesses at The Cannery.

The housing development is north of Covell Boulevard and east of the railroad tracks. Residents started moving in about four years ago.

According to Anne Ternus-Bellamy’s story in Friday’s paper, the original developer agreement called for 50 percent of commercial buildings to be complete before a 72-unit apartment building could go forward. It’s part of the last piece of the development — 12 acres on the east and west sides.

But the pandemic is interfering, as potential lessees and purchasers of those commercial buildings have canceled leases and escrows, prompting lenders to withdraw loan commitments, Cannery developers said. Meanwhile, the need for housing in town multiplies. So, the council lifted the requirement tied to commercial buildings, allowing the apartments to begin construction.

———— Forget about Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Shop Small Saturday — on Nov. 28 — is a better focus.

Davis Downtown plans lots of fun, safe ways to participate that day and throughout the holiday season. Customers who shop at participating businesses will earn a raffle ticket for every $20 they spend, which enters them into a drawing for prizes.

DDBA staff will hand out swag bags and play ambient music in E Street Plaza.

There’s fun stuff for children, too. Community members will be invited to

solve riddles and find an elf on a shelf in stores. If you post an image on social media, you may earn a prize. While out and about, ask merchants for coloring pages, and enter the completed work in a coloring contest. Other ideas in the works include a drive-thru Santa visit, gingerbread contest, and ugly sweater photos in front of a possible wing mural. Learn more at https://davisdowntown. com.

But most of all, remember your small, independent businesses this holiday season (if you hope to see them around next year). Are you a gift-card giver? Buy one from a small business instead of a chain. Are your relatives out of town? Find a momand-pop store or restaurant from their hometown, and purchase an e-gift card. Or, buy a Yolo County one your loved ones can save for a future visit.

———— On Wednesday, the Davis Farmers Market hosts its annual PreThanksgiving Market, where it extends its hours.

This year, hours are like a Saturday market (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.), and will be filled with many of the vendors from Saturdays and Wednesdays.

Besides all of the seasonal produce, there will be table décor, meats, cheeses, olive oil, honey and wine. Several bakeries will have fresh-baked items like pumpkin, apple, pecan and berry pies, and pumpkin cheesecake; also breads, stuffing mixes and cookies.

————

Cookies N Cones had its grand opening on Saturday at 110 F St., Suite A. The ice cream sandwich shop launched a soft opening a couple of weeks ago.

It’s a rebranding of CREAM Davis, which had a similar concept.

The menu includes cookies and brownies; ice cream sandwiches, cones, cups, shakes and sundaes; and fruit freezes.

Hours are 2 to 9 p.m.

Mondays through Thursdays, 1 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 1 to 9 p.m. on Sundays. When it opened on Saturday, it planned to give free ice cream sandwiches to the first 100 customers.

———— Wondering what’s open in town? Check my Google spreadsheet of more than 300 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19.

It’s at https://bit.ly/Davis Businesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurantsopen, Restaurants-closed, Businesses-retail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and more. Please email wendyedit@gmail.com to suggest updates.

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor.

Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail. com.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2020

What does an urgent situation look like?

W arnings about potential adverse effects of what was heretofore known as “climate change” began long ago, but even if we stick a pin in the year 1990 (see below), there was always the semicomforting tagline to news reports to the effect of, “if we act now we can avoid those adverse effects.” Symbolically, we were all called on to change our light bulbs and consider others of the “25 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Planet.”

On a national or international level, there were expressions of concern, but the most salient actions seemed to be conferences, seminars, research papers, and putting pledges and agreement on paper.

Over time, the little voice accompanying the predictions of

severe consequences of inaction added the obvious: the longer the world waited to directly address climate change, the more draconian and disruptive the actions to avoid the predicted mess would be.

At some point, scientists, climate activists and policymakers began speaking more about adaptation and resilience than mitigation, figuring that the cat is out of the bag, or, more accurately, CO2 in the atmosphere

has exceeded what mitigation alone can deal with.

Most recently, the experts have added, “carbon capture” to our policy vocabulary. It’s not that this term hadn’t existed before, but its common currency now in serious discussions about what is now referred to as the “climate crisis” signals an acceptance that we have passed the point where we can rely on reducing CO2 emissions to avoid the worst adverse effects of the climate crisis.

It’s important to note that “carbon capture” is going to take more than a butterfly net.

Although there are several efforts underway there is nothing yet in existence that can scale to the level needed to capture enough carbon to make a difference.

Recall the bathtub analogy meant to graphically illustrate our climate predicament, with water coming in faster than it is able to drain. More pointedly, we are in a lifeboat with water coming in faster than we are currently able to bail.

Recall also that scientists have generally referred to 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere as the benchmark for a healthy planet. We passed that in 1990 and, depending on what time of year the concentration is measured, we are now at about 420 ppm with an annualized rate of over 410, higher than any time in the past nearly half a million years, a time span that includes both ice ages and warmer interglacial periods.

I haven’t noticed anyone pointing to what we once

described as “tipping points” for irreversible temperature increase or melting in the arctic. I think the consensus is that there’s not a single point, a number, which if we pass we are in deep yogurt.

Rather, we are on a slope that is getting progressively steeper.

Don’t get me wrong. We cannot let go of efforts to mitigate, to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Just the opposite. There will be no vaccine for the climate crisis; we need to support efforts to capture carbon, but we must also double down on reducing fossil-fuel use.

The question on my mind today is what degree of urgency is required for the latter? And how difficult will our task be?

What changes will we be asked,

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Here are a few ways to beat the COVID blues

D

o you have the COVID-19 blues? Feeling a little blah, bored, restless, hopeless? Then be good to yourself and get a little eco therapy, only choose a new place.

Change that routine.

Get out and walk and explore — right in town. Take along some binoculars and a camera.

I was feeling really in need of a change, so we headed out to the Arboretum, a place I hadn’t visited for a while. We entered near the gazebo at the west end and headed for the creek. Within five minutes my spirits were lifted. The late afternoon sun was shining on three Chinese pistache trees in brilliant red fall color reflected in the pond.

I observed a western bluebird perched on a sign and suddenly a flock of birds, including many western bluebirds flew past me. And in the widened portion of the pond

were two handsome wood ducks. The Arboretum has an online plant sale going on now. Want to attract more birds to your yard?

They’ll have the plants.

Take your binoculars and head out to the North Ponds. Ed Whisler and Joshua Greenfield did a bird survey around the two ponds and spotted 45 species last Saturday. Their finds included two hooded mergansers, common gallinule, killdeer, greater yellow legs, 10 Northern flickers, 25 bushtits, and eight ruby-crowned kinglets. Listen for the flicker with its loud kleeeyer call easy to identify or a wikwik-wik.

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A Chinese pistache tree full of vibrant fall colors at the west end of the UC Davis Arboretum delights the eye.

Fall migration is bringing new birds into our backyards and open spaces daily.

New birds returning to winter in Davis make my day. My bird feeders are right outside my kitchen sink so even kitchen cleaning is brightened by new species in my yard. This

year, dark-eyed juncos are plentiful. White-crowned sparrows have returned and how I love their pleasant sounds. Some people think it sounds like sitlisitli-te-te-te-te-te-te-zrrrr.

I’m delighted by the redbreasted nuthatch that crawl down the tree trunk, hurriedly grab a seed from

the column feeder and they are off again. They were new to my yard last year and I’m glad they are back. And we hear their nasal anh-anh-anh-anh.

Last week we did a getaway at Lake Solano and launched our kayaks.

There’s a free place to launch them on Putah

Creek Road, right across from a parking area before you get to the park. Someone even put a carpet down to help you slide your kayak down a little slope.

We ended up repeatedly scaring up a flock of at least 100 buffleheads.

They are a small, compact duck with a large head.

The adult males are black and white with white on the back of the head. The non-breeding ducks have a distinctive oval white patch on the head.

We saw great blue herons, egrets, mallards, Canada geese, cormorants, red-winged blackbirds and more. But just being on the water, with beautiful reflections, felt like another world. Saw a number of people on stand-up paddleboards.

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THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2020 A7

Where the bleep is my mail, anyway?

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few years ago, my mom excitedly told me about her new ability to know what mail would show up in her mailbox before the carrier delivered it.

“I get an email showing me what mail is coming!” she enthused.

I remember soon after learning about this weird service hearing a comedian joke that if the U.S. Postal Service is going to email us what our mail is, why don’t we just do away with the USPS and use only email?

Weren’t they making themselves obsolete?

I also remember rolling my eyes at my mom, probably teasing her for her impatience at just waiting to see what junk mail arrived. Seriously, who besides a retired person would be interested in an email with a visual of what mail was being delivered each day?

Well, dear readers, I know the answer now. Everyone should think about this service because when your mail gets stolen out of your box and you didn’t know was coming your way, it’s a major pain in the butt.

Let me set the scene: I am the only person in our household who ever walks down to our USPS-installed “cluster box” to retrieve the mail. And, on average, I go get it once every four days. Sometimes, however, when we are away from home for a stretch, I can go a week without checking.

True story: One time I’d let the mail sit so long that I got a note from the mail carrier saying our box was overstuffed and everything now had to be retrieved from the Davis Post Office. Lesson learned, which is why I usually don’t go longer than a week without checking.

So on Monday morning of this past week when I walked down to the cluster box, I was trying to remember the last time I’d gotten the mail. Had I grabbed it on

Monday before we’d left for Tahoe? Hmm, maybe I’d gone past my self-imposed seven-day check. “I sure hope they didn’t take it all away,” I thought to myself with some freaky premonition.

“Boo!” I thought when I saw that both package keys were hanging from their box-locks.

Nobody sent us anything good!

As I put the key in our box marked No. 4, it had the distinct feel of an empty container — there’s a more muffled feel when you unlock a super-stuffed mailbox. And when I opened it and saw it was empty, for a split second I assumed the mail carrier had to take it to the post office because the box was so full. But wait ... why could I see through the box and out the back side?

As I walked around the cluster box, I realized the mail carrier hadn’t accidentally failed to lock it, but rather someone pried open the back door that allows access to all 12 boxes at once.

And everybody’s mail was gone.

Uh-oh.

I’m not sure how everyone’s brain would work in this situation, but I immediately thought,

As I walked around the cluster box, I realized the mail carrier hadn’t accidentally failed to lock it, but rather someone pried open the back door that allows access to all 12 boxes at once.

And everybody’s mail was gone. Uh-oh.

“Oh crap! Everybody lost their past seven days of mail!” I hammered out a text message to a neighborhood group letting them know of the discovery, and then it quickly became apparent that others had, of course, retrieved their mail on Saturday, so there was a good chance they hadn’t lost anything at all.

Oh, right. Just because I was

gone for nearly a week and didn’t have my mail held — a very easy function you can request online at USPS.com — doesn’t mean everyone else was in this same boat.

I called the Davis Police Department and the officer I talked with took a report and was very helpful. I next went to the USPS website and found where to report vandalism.

Amazingly, the USPS was out the same day and replaced our cluster box with a newer, more formidable-looking model.

And while on the USPS website, I enthusiastically signed up for “informed delivery” (https:// informeddelivery.usps.com/box/ pages/intro/start.action).

Because, it turns out, it’s very helpful to know if that car registration from the DMV was in that batch of mail that you’re never gonna get. Sigh.

Also, if you sent me any presents in the past 10 days or so, I didn’t get them. Would you please be so kind as to send them again?

— Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday.

It’s the special time of year for giving and gratitude

BY BECKY HEARD Special to The Enterprise

N

ovember begins the holiday season — normally, a treasured time with family and friends. This year will undoubtedly look very different for us all. Even in years without the added stress of a pandemic, for many, the holidays are not always idyllic.

Increased loneliness, anxiety, sadness, and depression are common over the holidays. This year, it’s fair to say that most of us are looking for ways to overcome some degree of melancholy. Psychology research shows that giving and gratitude can help to lift spirits and are closely linked to increased happiness.

Giving Tuesday is an annual global day of generosity, perhaps, this year, ideally timed to help us feel empowered and impactful during a moment of uncertainty, fear, and loss.

Supporting the Yolo Crisis Nursery this Giving Tuesday, Dec. 1, will give hope to the most vulnerable children in Yolo County. Every family we serve is unique, with specific needs, but each is facing crisis and adversity and often has nowhere else

YOLO CRISIS NURSERY to turn. Your donation can provide an overnight safe stay for a child, childcare essentials and caring support at the moment a family needs it the most. And this year, three amazing donors will double the impact of your gift, by matching dollar-for-dollar all donations up to $20,000!

Your gift to the Nursery will help families like Amanda’s break the cycle of crisis and become stronger together. Amanda, a mother of two, recently moved back to Yolo County after living out of state. Unable to find housing, she and her children moved into her mother’s home where they were exposed to domestic violence. Amanda shared that her mom had a long history of choosing “bad men” and that she herself had been exposed to domestic violence through much of her childhood.

When she met with a Yolo Crisis Nursery caseworker, Amanda was homeless, without a stable income, overwhelmed with her parental responsibilities, and trying to come to

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The Yolo Crisis Nursery invites you to give the gift of Hope on Dec. 1. terms with the haunting domestic violence experiences of her own childhood. Amanda did not want her children to have the same exposure to violence that she experienced growing up. She reached out in hopes that the Nursery could provide the stability needed for her children to escape the violence in her mother’s home.

Amanda was right, the Nursery not only provided respite care for the children, but also the opportunity for her to begin to heal

and start anew.

Amanda is remarkably resilient, and she needed to rely on that strength as she began the hard work of starting over again. She engaged with the Nursery’s wrap-around services to participate in parenting classes, address legal issues, find housing, obtain professional training, and engage in counseling.

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Amanda’s commitment, in the face of adversity, to keep her children safe, healthy, and strong is remarkable. Her hard work and resilience will continue to help Amanda achieve her goal of breaking the

cycle of violence in her family. All of us at the Nursery are so excited to witness this strong mother attain her goals and build a brighter future for her children.

Having been with the Yolo Crisis Nursery for almost 20 years now, I continue to be amazed at the gratitude of our client families and the generosity of our supporters. Day in and day out, our staff and client families are addressing unimaginable challenges. All too often, the Nursery’s wrap-around approach and services can mean the difference between life and death for the youngest and most vulnerable children in our community I invite you to start your season of gratitude by giving to a family facing extraordinary challenges.

Through your support, the Nursery can avert disaster with well-timed assistance and early intervention.

Please join us by making your gift on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 1, to enact positive change in our community and in the lives of vulnerable children in Yolo County. To learn more about the Yolo Crisis Nursery or to make a donation, please visit www.yolocrisisnursery.org.

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Northern flickers are all around — 10 counted at the North Davis Ponds bird survey. Listen for their loud call of kleeeyer.

POND: Find renewal out there in nature From Page A6 1.25 miles between Sycamore Lane and F Street.

Walk down in the ditch for one perspective, up along the west side of the ditch along the farmer’s fields with a peek at the birds on the Whitcomb Pond, or walk on the paved walk along the ditch. Volunteers regularly work in the ditch, removing weeds and improving habitat.

Then you can head out to the Yolo Basin — though you might want to wait until after Thanksgiving and on into December. New bridges have replaced culverts that were too small. Because of the construction, there was about 100 acres less mudflat flooded in August so fewer shorebirds than usual. Winter ducks will begin arriving soon and there will be more flooding.

Since Veterans Day, U.S. veterans and Gold

Star families have free lifetime access to all national parks, wildlife refuges and other federal public lands.

So, I hope that is an incentive for many of you to go out and enjoy nature.

Brant Jorgenson reports the sighting of a bald eagle in the redwood tree behind 615 Marina Circle, south side of Marina Circle. We seem to be getting more and more reports of bald eagles, usually in North Davis. They’ve made such a recovery once we stopped using the pesticide DDT. Forty years ago they were in danger of extinction. Well, there’s something we got right. We can indeed change our ways.

— Jean Jackman is a Davis resident. Her column is on the third Wednesday of each month. Got a story, question, correction? Contact her JeanJackman@ gmail.com.

White-crowned sparrows are back in town and full of song.

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behind plastic shields while directing participants through the process of self administering the test — a process that literally involves spitting into a small vial.

Samples are then delivered to the Genome Center for PCR testing and participants receive a text and email about their results.

Those who test positive will receive a call from someone on Belafsky’s team who will shepherd them through next steps.

Testing (by appointment only) will continue at the Davis Senior Center in the coming week but will be moved to the Veterans Memorial Center, likely in the next week or two, which will allow for greater capacity.

On Dec. 6, a second testing center will open at the

Mondavi Center which will operate seven days a week for longer hours, accommodating those whose work schedules limit their ability to test during the week.

Currently testing is limited to asymptomatic individuals in order to protect staffers at the testing sites as well as community members being tested, but Belafsky said testing will eventually be available to symptomatic individuals, likely in a drive-up method.

Until then, community members with symptoms should contact their doctors or community healthcare providers to arrange for testing.

So who should be taking advantage of this free test?

“We’d like to encourage all members of the community who feel like they have need for it to take

advantage of it,” Belafsky said.

High on the list of those who should are high-risk populations and individuals with significant public contact, including first responders, healthcare workers, teachers and daycare providers, service workers and those working at community organizations or the city.

But people who will be traveling over the holidays or will have family visiting should also consider getting tested.

“We want to encourage them to get tested and invite their guests to get tested as well,” Belafsky said.

Testing is by appointment only, with 500 tests per day available for the first couple of weeks.

Appointments can be made by registering at https://healthydavis

together.pointnclick.com/ login_login.aspx Use “Davis” when prompted for the agency code.

Testing hours at the Senior Center, 646 A St., for the coming week are Monday from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Wednesday from 8 a.m. to noon; and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.

For a list of all community testing in the county, visit https://www. yolocounty.org/healthhuman-services/adults/ communicable-diseaseinvestigation-and-control/ novel-coronavirus-2019/ coronavirus-testing.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

CURFEW: Plan based on strategy from March From Page A1 late-night social gatherings, such as holiday festivities and other parties, that tend to fuel COVID’s spread.

“The virus is spreading at a pace we haven’t seen since the start of this pandemic and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge. We are sounding the alarm,” Newsom said in a statement announcing the curfew. “It is crucial that we act to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations before the death count surges. We’ve done it before and we must do it again.”

Newsom’s order is set to expire on Dec. 21.

Pytel said the law-enforcement chiefs participating in Friday’s conference call developed a game plan that largely mirrors the enforcement policies established back in March, when the pandemic first took hold: dealing with violations primarily through education regarding the county’s COVID guidelines.

More egregious offenders, however, can expected to be dealt with as nuisance situations, while those out committing crimes face additional charges for violating a county order and looting, defined as stealing during a state of emergency.

“The reality is, we haven’t had to do much enforcement,” particularly when it comes to parties and other large gatherings, Pytel said. “It’s really very tame compared to previous years, and we’re not seeing huge numbers or massive outbreaks.”

Still, while Davis’ coronavirus infection numbers have remained relatively low, “we have to remain vigilant as we approach the upcoming holidays,” Pytel said.

Those seeking to report violations that don’t involved an in-progress emergency should do so through the Police Department’s business line, 530-747-5400, or by email to policeweb@cityofdavis.org.

Lt. Matt Davis, spokesman for the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office, said his agency also will continue to enforce COVID-related guidelines as it has throughout the pandemic — emphasizing education over punishment.

“This is only going to work with voluntary compliance from the public. That’s the goal,” said Davis, who has fielded several calls from citizens with curfew-related concerns, such as whether they’ll be pulled over while driving during curfew hours.

“No, obviously. That’s not what this is about,” Davis said. Instead, county

residents wishing to report pandemic-related concerns will continue to be directed to code-enforcement services via an online portal established for that purpose: https:// survey123.arcgis.com/share/a2796db 431b14d9c97086fc6a7172262 Likewise, the California Highway Patrol noted the voluntary nature of the curfew, imposed “with the goal that people will self-regulate their behavior, protect themselves, and go about only the ‘essential’ activities during those hours,” CHP spokeswoman Fran Clader said.

“The mission of the CHP is unchanged. CHP officers will continue to patrol throughout California and use their sound professional judgment to conduct enforcement stops for violations of the law based upon probable cause,” Clader said.

She added: “The CHP does not make arrests based on race, ethnicity, gender, political affiliation, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or for any reason other than violations of the law based on probable cause. As always, CHP officers will have the discretion to take appropriate action when a violation is observed.”

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.

URGENT: Fixing carbon on a national level will take coordinated effort From Page A6 or told, to make in our lives? What does urgency look like? We are certainly not talking about changing light bulbs.

Back on Oct. 30, the New York Times published a full two pages of graphs, one for each state, illustrating how each state makes electricity. Basically, in summing all the graphs, as a country our electricity in 2019 was primarily produced by burning natural

gas (38 percent) and coal (23 percent). Nuclear, not a fossil fuel but with problems (and, to be fair, potential) of its own, comes in third with 19 percent. So fossil fuels are responsible for over 60 percent of electricity production.

Looking at the graphs of each state, some, such as Indiana, are nearly 100 percent for coal and natural gas. And this is not just for the U.S. A similar set of

graphs for the rest of the world put an exclamation mark on the point: There is substantial infrastructure, investment and momentum for fossil fuels.

Changing that, on a stateby-state or country-bycountry basis is not just a policy question, it’s also political, and many states and countries have reasons of their own to go slow if at all.

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vehicles are about 1 percent of the global car stock and it makes switching to renewables a daunting task at best, with very severe actions necessary to achieve CO2 reduction goals by 2030.

Costs to governments and the people whose taxes

fund those governments, along with the economic and human dislocations, and making this happen in a fair and equitable way, and doing this all with urgency will require global coordination of massive and wrenching changes to the world as we know it.

The big question now is what does a lack of urgency look like?

— John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please send comments to johnmottsmith@ comcast.net.

Thank You!

On behalf of the Save Pine Tree Gardens Committee and NAMI Yolo County, thank you to the following individuals and local businesses for their generous donations during the October 2020 Mental Illness Awareness Week.

Together, we raised over $50,000 to landscape the backyards of Pine Tree Gardens East and West, two homes in Davis for adults living with mental illness.

PRESENTING SPONSORS Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza & Donna Provenza

Brian Foster Samantha Good & Chris Kirkham

Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor & Julie Saylor

Lindsay Weston

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May & LeShelle May

Nancy Temple

Capital Group University Covenant Church

Sabrina Moyle & Julian Abdey

Consero Solutions

Judy Boock Davis

Turning Point Community Programs

Marilyn & Peter Moyle

Kathy Williams-Fossdahl

HOST SPONSORS Vice-Mayor Lucas Frerichs Reed & Susan Youmans Leslie Carroll Petrea & Vince Marchand

Linda Deos

Corner Drug

River City Bank

Dr. Ah Young (Nora) Kim

Kim Eichorn

Anya & Richard McCann

COMMUNITY PARTNERS UC Davis Campus Community Book Project Maggie Newcomb Davis Media Access Taylor McMahon Video Production

Abaton Consulting Davis Arts Center InnerSense Design James Glica-Hernandez

NAMI Yolo County, the local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, seeks to improve the lives of those living with serious mental illness and their families by providing education on how to better manage the illness, advocacy to reduce stigma and eliminate barriers to treatment, housing and employment, and by providing awareness and support to move toward the promise of recovery.

Visit namiyolo.org or follow NAMI Yolo County on Facebook to access resources, get involved, and learn about upcoming events.

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Forward Kayla Konrad, seen cutting down the Big West title net last season, returns to help the Aggies in their quest for a fifth consecutive BWC crown.

Aggie women are consensus pick to win BWC

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COVID-19 precautions.

“Sometimes, it was upsetting,” Konrad admits. “You’re out there Think of a muscle car. Now, working with what you have, and think of a muscle car equipped each time you try to do something, with a nitrous-oxide booster. something else gets taken away.”

That’s been Kayla Konrad each But the 6-foot-tall former CIF time she’s set foot on the hardwood Southern Section Player of the Year for the UC Davis women’s basketrefused to take her foot off the gas ball team since her NCAA debut in pedal.

2018.

Determined to build on her 5.5 High-octane, locked-andrebounding average last winter, the loaded. focus shifted to footwork. Then Gym closures, UCD’s shift to ball-handling. Then mastering the online instruction and a delayed mental side of her game. start to fall training have all been Dribbling drills went down on hurdles for Konrad and her teamthe sidewalks of her Santa Clarita mates. But with three Big West neighborhood as she enlisted her titles already on brother Kevin — her résumé, the an All-Foothill fourth-year Aggie League selection forward has no himself while a intention of letmember of the ting the hiccups VHS boys hoops of 2020 thwart squad — as her her plans to help training mate.

Davis steamroll “So, finally getits way to yet ting back in the another confergym with teamence crown. mates last month “All offseason, I Kayla Konrad … it was rejuvewas asking nating,” Konrad Fourth-year player myself, ‘What can says.

I do with what I Gearing up for have to make it work,’” the always what’s likely to be the strangest colenergetic Konrad says. lege basketball season in history, For the one-time Valencia High the Aggies have more height prep star, that often meant driving infused into their lineup than ever before, with 10th-year head coach to any gym she could find that was open. She even connected with for- Jennifer Gross’ roster boasting nine players at or taller than 6 feet. mer UCD men’s sharpshooterturned-instructor Ryan Sypkens Knowing her new crew as she does, Konrad says those towering on several occasions to get in some ladies could make for several UCD reps. rotations that “might be unstoppaBut eventually, those gyms ble.” locked their doors.

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“All offseason, I was asking myself, ‘What can I do with what I have to make it work.’ ”

It wasn’t rocket science for Big West media and coaches when they picked the UC Davis women as preseason favorites to win a fifth consecutive circuit title.

The Aggies return eight players from a championship season that saw the locals go 12-3 to win their conference by three games.

True, key ingredients like Sophia Song, Katie Toole and Nina Bessolo have graduated, but a quick review of the UCD roster must have opposing coaches shaking their heads: “What to do about this Aggie domination?”

And while Davis has relied on a guard-rich environment that shoots first, then asks questions, this full house of talent features a wealth of versatile big women.

Back is 6-3 post Sage Stobbart, who enters her redshirt junior year with credentials as a solid rebounder, improving defender and capable bomb-thrower when left alone outside

the arc.

But Big Canada is joined by a trio of glass cleaners who either redshirted or sat out due to transfer rules in 2019-20.

After transferring from Colorado State, 6-foot-6 Danish dandy Lena Svanholm joins redshirt freshmen Kenedy Lilly (El Dorado High of Placentia) and the notso-wee lass Megan Jones, a 6-3 power forward from Scotland. Capable 6-2 Emma Gibb also returns for her sixth year on campus.

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Opportunistic optimists UCD men could have just the right mix this season

BY BOB DUNNING Enterprise staff writer Despite losing four seniors — including the nation’s top three-point shooter — optimism is the word of the day as the UC Davis men’s basketball team prepares for its Wednesday season opener.

“I really like what I’m seeing so far,” said Aggie head coach Jim Les. “Yes, we had some big losses of key people, but our young guys got some great experience last year and we’ve added some talented newcomers.

I’m really impressed. Our guys have embraced everything we’re trying to do and are working really hard with great energy and enthusiasm.”

That opener comes against Nicholls State (Louisiana) in the first round of the Silicon Valley Classic at the Leavey Center on the campus of Santa Clara University.

“When you have basketball and everything else taken away, you realize how much you miss it and how much you love your team and love the game,” added Les, remembering how the Big West Tournament was canceled by the pandemic at the 11th hour last March.

Graduated are long-range bombers Joe Mooney and Stefan Gonzalez, who averaged 13.1 and 10.5 points per game, respectively. Gonzalez led all of Division I with 47.7 percent accuracy from 3-point range.

Also missing are the inside presence of Matt Neufeld and talented reserve Rogers Printup.

Kennedy Koehler, a 6-7 forward, is the only senior on the squad, and Les is looking for big things in terms of leadership from the Las Vegas native who averaged 5.8 points and 4.1 rebounds a year ago.

And it appears Koehler is ready to embrace the role ...

“I need to be more intense and try to be a leader both vocally and by example,” he said. “I

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UC Davis forward Kennedy Koehler (10) looks for room inside in a 2019 contest versus Sacramento State at Golden1 Arena. Koehler is the only senior on this season’s Aggie men’s squad. need to be more aggressive on defense and all aspects of the game. I’m working on those things and hopefully there will be a big improvement this year.”

Added Les: “Kennedy is already turning out to be an excellent leader for us. He’s helping to build our culture and what it means for our ability to have success.”

Koehler went home to Las Vegas when UC Davis went to virtual instruction last spring and was able to work out regularly, often competing with others on outdoor basketball courts.

“I really pushed myself hard in the offseason

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ith the coronavirus pandemic seemingly on the rise just about everywhere in the country, Jim Les admits he and his UC Davis men’s basketball team are taking the 2020-21 season one day at a time.

“I’m not sure what the future holds,” the Aggie head coach told The Enterprise.

“There are a lot of different variables going on. At first we didn’t know if we were going to be able to play at all, and then we were thinking maybe starting in January. I feel like it may have been rushed a bit by starting now.”

But start the Aggies will, taking part in a three-game, round-robin event at Santa Clara that finds UCD playing Louisiana-based Nicholls State on Wednesday, then

taking Thanksgiving Day off before meeting host Santa Clara on Friday and finishing with Idaho State on Saturday.

“It’s quite a challenge to play three games in four days, but we’ll be able to learn a lot about ourselves and it will be great to have some real game action,” Les noted.

The Aggies come home for the first time with a Dec. 5 date against the University of Portland, then travel to Cal Baptist on Dec. 9, University of the Pacific (Dec. 12) and Sacramento State (Dec. 19). William Jessup of Rocklin completes the non-conference scheduled when it comes The Pavilion for a Dec. 22 tilt.

UCD, tabbed to finish third a Big West media preseason polls, opens league play with two

games on consecutive nights, Dec. 27-28, at BWC newcomer Cal State Bakersfield.

The season concludes March 12-14 with the Big West Tournament in Anaheim, the winner of which moves on to the NCAA tournament.

Both Portland and Pacific compete in the prestigious West Coast Conference (think Gonzaga), while Sacramento State is in the Big Sky Conference and

Cal Baptist is in the Western Athletic Conference.

The game against the Hornets, usually held at the Golden 1 Center during the week of the Causeway Classic football game, will be at the much smaller Hornet Gym this season.

At this point, home-court advantage doesn’t loom as large as it did last season. Schools like UCD are not allowing fans to attend, thanks to COVID-19 protocols.

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he current nonleague schedule is not what Les envisioned when he started putting opponents together last spring.

“We’ve really had to do our scheduling on the fly,” he said.

“We had to completely throw out our old schedule that had us

flying all over the country (Tulane and Oregon State among the former opponents) and put something together that kept us in California the whole time to keep travel to a minimum in response to the virus.”

The Aggies’ 28-game schedule includes 20 Big West Conference games, an increase of four dates from last year with the addition of new members Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego.

Last season the Aggies faced three of the same opponents in nonconference games, dropping a 72-62 decision at Portland, a 61-51 verdict to Sacramento State at Golden One, and routing William Jessup, 109-63, at The Pavilion.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Aggie men prep for a long haul Big West Conference expansion nets teams an arduous 2020-21 schedule

BY BOB DUNNING Enterprise staff writer With two new conference members providing four more games, the men’s basketball race for the Big West title promises to be as down-to-the-wire as ever during the 2020-21 season.

While defending champion UC Irvine remains the perennial favorite, the addition of Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego gives the league 11 members and a grueling 20-game conference slate for the first time ever.

Games against Bakersfield and San Diego — four in all — will count in the conference standings, although UCSD will not be eligible for the conference championship or the NCAA tournament as it transitions from Division II to Division I. A major change with the Big West schedule this season is that the traditional home-and-home format has been scrubbed to cut down on travel in an effort to combat the continued spread of COVID-19.

Instead, all conference schools will host five opponents for two games each and do the same with five road opponents.

With the exception of the opening series against Bakersfield that will be contested on a Sunday and Monday (Dec. 27-28), all

other two-game series for the Aggies will be Friday-and-Saturday affairs.

“I love having Bakersfield and San Diego in the league because it gives us two more home games every year,” UC Davis head coach Jim Les said with a smile.

“With 20 league games, whoever gets through all this and wins the conference tournament will certainly be battle-tested when it comes to the NCAA tournament.

“Playing two nights in a row against the same opponent will definitely be different and we’ll have to make quick adjustments on the fly without much practice time.”

Les continued ...

“Everyone talks about Irvine, and with good reason, but they had a number of close games last year, and so did Santa Barbara, and so did we. I really think it’s wide open, but if we play Aggie basketball in February and early March, I think we’ll be right there at the end.”

Overall last year UCD had 13 games settled by five points or less, including a pair of heartbreakers to Hawaii by scores of 76-75 and 67-65 that dropped the Aggies to 8-8 in Big West play.

(21-10, 10-6): The Gauchos are coming off their third straight 20-win season and have all eyes on the title after that 10-6 BWC showing.

UCSB returns the league’s field-goal percentage leader (54.7) in 6-9 forward Amadou Sow. He hit for 14.1 points and seven rebounds per game.

■ UC Davis (14-18, 8-8) was picked

In order of selection from the recent BWC media preseason poll, here’s a rundown of what to expect from conference schools ...

■ UC Irvine (21-11, 13-3 in 2019-20): The Anteaters have won or shared the Big West title five times in the last seven seasons. They return talented junior forward Collin Welp, a first-team all-conference pick last year after averaging

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13.0 points and 5.9 rebounds a game, while hitting a sizzling 44.2 percent from long range.

Shot-blocking senior Brad Greene (9 ppg and 7.7 rebounds) also is back for coach Russell Turner, one of only seven coaches in league history with more than 200 wins.

■ UC Santa Barbara

Beat UCD women, go to the head of the BWC Gross & Co. face stiff competition with major target on their backs

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor

MACKENZIE TRPCIC

There are no secrets in the women’s Big West basketball conference.

Beat UC Davis, go to the head of the class.

The Aggies — winners of four consecutive league crowns and picked to win a fifth — will be circled on everybody’s calendars when BWC play starts on Dec. 27 against circuit newbie Cal State Bakersfield.

“It’s so interesting, with the (pandemic) and CSUN opting out of the season, which came as a bit of a surprise,” explained UCD head coach Jennifer Gross. “It’s hard to say what every team will look like at this point. Are others opting out? Is everybody at full strength?

“We don’t have all the information right now, but one thing I’ve learned from

coaching in the Big West all these years is that everyone’s a threat.

“The coaching is so good in this conference, and everybody’s really prepared, so we’re going to have to take every game very seriously.

We have to make sure we’re prepared and bringing maximum effort.”

Listening to what the 10-year Davis head coach just said, winning that fifth regular-season banner won’t be a walk in the park. But let’s see what kind of flora and fauna await the Aggies, should they continue the stroll that saw them pick nothing but daisies in winning the Big West by three games last year ...

Oh, before we get started, it must be noted that one opponent has been dashed by coronavirus.

CSUN had six players opt out of playing amid threats of contracting COVID-19. A seventh Matador (Rochelle Fourie of New Zealand) was stranded in her native land. Down to just six on the roster, CSUN announced on Nov. 12 it was “unable to field a team this basketball season.”

On to those schools that are ready to roll (in order of the BWC coaches poll) ...

■ UC Davis (17-12, 12-3): See accompanying article for prospectus.

■ UC Irvine (13-18, 9-7): Giving UCD one of its three conference losses (73-68 at Irvine on Feb. 8), the Anteaters hope they can build on that encouraging victory.

Forward Sophia Locandro (11point average with 5.4 rebounds) is an emerging sophomore who meshes nicely with senior Haleigh Talbert (12.8 ppg, 5.1 caroms) and an expectedly deep bench.

■ UC Santa Barbara (14-15, 9-7): It’s hard to believe former Kansas coach Bonne Henrickson already enters her sixth season at the Gaucho helm. That secondplace UCSB league tie with Irvine was its best under the exJayhawk.

But there just came a big speed bump to the coastal campus’ drive to survive in the Big West — three meaningful players have cited COVID concerns and will sit out 2020-21. The loss of 6-3 center

Ila Lane, RyAnne Walters and Kiana Vierra in avoiding contact during the pandemic may be a step backwards.

Returning is proven all-league veteran guard Danae Miller, who hit for 13.5 ppg and was a competent floor general.

■ Hawaii (16-14, 9-7): Always a tough out, especially in The Islands, the Rainbow Wahine will entertain UC Davis in Honolulu on the last weekend of the season (March 4 and 5).

Deadeye swingman Amy Atwell (10.6 ppg, 45.3 percent behind the arc) paces Hawaii, while setup superstar Nae Nae Calhoun kept a sharp eye on the open player, recording a school-record 104 assists last winter.

■ Cal Poly (11-18, 6-10): The slipper just didn’t fit for this Cinderella. After the Mustangs beat Long Beach State and Irvine in the first two rounds of the BWC Tournament, the pandemic forced cancellation of the event’s final two rounds.

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OPTIMISTS: Defense is, once again, the top priority From Page B1 and was lucky to be able to do it. I dropped from 235 pounds to around 215, which will allow me to be a lot quicker and move around better,” he said.

Koehler and his teammates were stunned last year when the entire season came to a screeching halt just as the Aggies were preparing to take on Hawaii in the first round of the Big West Conference tournament in Anaheim.

“After what happened last season, any competition we can get now is a complete blessing. I’m taking everything as a blessing at this point.”

Les, too, laments the way last season ended, especially for his four departed seniors.

“Everyone was hurting because we thought we had a legitimate chance to win the whole thing and move on to the NCAA tournament, but I felt especially terrible that those four guys didn’t have a chance to fight one more time for a significant accomplishment and a significant prize,” Les said.

“In my 19 years of coaching, it’s the most emotional locker room I’ve ever been in. It was the right decision to cancel the tournament, but it didn’t make it any easier. It’s a big hole losing those guys, but what I’m most pleased about right now is how our young guys from last year are stepping

up. They learned a lot last year, sometimes in a real baptism of fire.”

Another key piece in the 2020-21 Aggie puzzle is 5-11 guard Ezra Manjon, an electrifying playmaker who easily led the team with 130 assists, but could also be an efficient scorer when the occasion presented itself.

Said Les of his budding superstar, “I’m just blessed to be around him every day. I love his approach.

The accolades are deserved, but he doesn’t think about them. He had to adjust on the fly last year. He had the kitchen sink thrown at him and teams were planning their defense on how to stop him. He’s humble and he wants to learn. He has speed and quickness and a great IQ on defense.”

Manjon averaged 12.1 points a game while playing over 30 minutes each time out to earn Big West Freshman of the Year honors. Twice he was honored as Player of the Week, something no Big West freshman had done since 1974.

When Manjon went home to Antioch last spring, he and his older brother, Zyan, pooled their resources to buy a basketball hoop so they could work out together in the driveway.

“That helped a lot and we were able to get in some good workouts,” Manjon said.

“What I really like about this group is their versatility in terms of ball handling and passing and then being able to step up and give us a presence on the perimeter.”

Jim Les Men’s head coach “I do see myself as looking for my teammates first, but if things present themselves, I’ll try to take advantage of scoring, too.

I’m really focusing on my shooting this year and trying to extend my range.”

Also back after contributing significantly last year is Elijah Pepper, who averaged 8.7 points a game off the bench and was a frequent crowd pleaser with aggressive drives toward the basket, especially down the stretch of close games.

Caleb Fuller is back after averaging 7.2 points a game, along with Damion Squire, Cameron Ba, Ade Adebayo and B.J. Shaw from the team that finished 8-8 in the Big West

and 14-18 overall.

Les also is high on University of Portland graduate transfer Hugh Hoglund, who has two years of eligibility remaining.

“He has an impressive interior presence,” Les said of the 6-10 Hoglund. “He’s physical and can score and block shots. That’s something we really need.”

Also in the fold is 6-7 freshman Caleb McGill from Aurora, Colo., described by Les as “Really skilled and versatile” and someone who “doesn’t look like a freshman.”

“What I really like about this group is their versatility in terms of ball handling and passing and then being able to step up and give us a presence on the perimeter. We do have some guys who can shoot the ball really well.”

Les makes no secret that defense comes first in every game plan he draws up. He reminds his charges that they were No. 311 in defense last year among the 357 teams at the Division I level.

“We were way ahead of our time,” he said. “We were practicing social distancing on defense even before the coronavirus hit.”

With the league schedule dictating Friday/ Saturday games against the same opponent, Les claims team depth will be crucial.

“You can’t have a guy play 38 minutes on Friday

UCD men’s schedule Nononference Nov. 25 — Silicon Valley Classic vs. Nicholls State TBA Nov. 27 — Silicon Valley Classic vs. Santa Clara TBA Nov. 28 — Silicon Valley Classic vs. Idaho State TBA Dec. 5 — vs. Portland Dec. 8 — at Cal Baptist, 1:30 p.m.

Dec. 12 — at Pacific, 7 p.m.

Dec. 19 — at Sacramento State TBA Dec. 22 — vs. William Jessup, 6 p.m.

Big West Conference Dec. 27-28 — at CSU Bakersfield Jan. 1-2 — vs. UC Riverside Jan. 8-9 — at UC Irvine Jan. 15-16 — vs. Cal State Fullerton Jan. 22-23 — at UC San Diego Jan. 29-30 — vs. UC Santa Barbara Feb. 5-6 — at CSUN Feb. 12-13 — vs. Long Beach State Feb. 19-20 — Bye Feb. 26-27 — at Cal Poly March 5-6 — vs. Hawaii Big West Tournament Opening round (Honda Center, Anaheim) March 10-13. night and then turn around and play another 38 minutes on Saturday night,” he said. “I’m confident we can meet that challenge. I think we can go 10 or 11 deep and that will be critical.”

The Big West has mandated no fans for league games for the time being, but Les seems unconcerned about losing The Pavilion’s notorious homecourt advantage.

“We have the best cardboard cutouts in the league and the best cardboard band and the best cardboard student section,” he said with a knowing laugh.

Big West competition is ticketed for a Dec. 27 on the road at conference newcomer Cal State Bakersfield.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenter prise.net.

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Rozelle made one huge NFL mistake F

ifty-seven years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

It is a crime that has never been fully solved, and probably never will be.

Kennedy was killed on a Friday. That following Sunday, the NFL played its regular schedule as a stunned nation grieved. The rival AFL did not play. Pete Rozelle said later that playing those games was the biggest mistake he ever made as NFL commissioner.

Rozelle, a graduate of the University of San Francisco (and publicist for that “unbeaten, uninvited” 1951 Dons football team), didn’t make many errors.

He’s one reason the NFL is as successful as it is today.

■ Baseball’s Hall of Fame ballot is out, and a quick glance at the nominees reveals a number of players who qualify for the Hall of the Very Good. Don’t be surprised if Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens — who would

have been in long ago were it not for drug-use suspicions — see a rise in their vote totals.

■ Column co-conspirator Steve Kennedy notes how UCLA beat Cal on two days’ notice last Sunday: “Don’t prepare.”

■ Eagle-eyed reader Bill Greene points out, correctly, that if a college football game is tied at the end of regulation, the game does not go to overtime. Instead it goes to extra periods.

■ Why do politicians, whenever they screw up or try to pull a fast one, think the general public won’t eventually notice? Especially when almost everyone has a phone with a camera in it?

■ With the MAC and AAC now playing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, there will be college or pro games played every night of the week for the foreseeable future.

■ It’s been passed down from each generation, the unknown assistant coach comparing

church to football: “Many attend (pre-COVID). Few understand.”

■ With the Pac-12 looking for nonconference football opponents, here are a few to consider: Teamsters Football Club LLC (always looking for a good scrap).

Acme Vocational Institute (noted alums include Wile E. Coyote).

Minnesota State Eagles (haven’t played since 1997 on TV show “Coach,” so a desirable foe).

Tratten Old Blues (Rugby, football? they don’t care which).

■ Hugh Freeze and Steve Sarkisian are two current and former college head coaches with tons of off-the-field personal and

professional behavioral baggage. Yet they are considered strong candidates for 2021 jobs at places like South Carolina.

Will college athletic directors ever learn?

■ Another NFL star, Jake Scott, passed away this week at age 75 following a recent head injury suffered in a fall.

Scott teamed with Dick Anderson to form one of the game’s greatest safety duos — each keys in Miami’s 17-0 perfect season in 1973. Those Dolphins were the last NFL team to go undefeated.

■ As of last evening, local citizens are being held to a 10 p.m.to-5 a.m. curfew. Wonder if our politicians will observe it, or only if it’s convenient for them? Recent events make you wonder. The person who orchestrated the curfew didn’tfindthe courage to announce it to California residents.

■ This NFL rule change is needed. Now. Defensive pass interference

should be 15 yards from the original line of scrimmage. The Arizona-Seattle Thursday night game featured a 46-yard PI call.

That’s simply not right, especially since today’s wideouts have speed to burn and the defensive backs trying to guard them have to start by backpedaling.

■ A total of 18 college football games were either canceled or postponed this week due to COVID-19. What will the number be next week?

■ Despite the fact that 2020 thus far has been the hardest year of our lives, take a moment this Thursday to be thankful for what you do have. It will be different, but Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Stay safe. Stay home.

— Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields 2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Kelly also is the longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts.

MEN: Familiar foes, new arrivals will keep team on its toes From Page B2

UC Davis men’s basketball roster

third in the preseason poll. See accompanying story.

■ Hawaii (17-13, 8-8): The Aggies were scheduled to play Hawaii once again in the first round of the Big West tournament before the pandemic stepped in.

And the Rainbow Warriors should again be in the upper echelon of the conference with the team’s only three-year letterwinner, Samuta Avea, returning.

Avea proved he could play inside or out as he averaged almost 11 points a game while collecting five caroms an outing.

Transfers Casdon Jardon (Utah Valley) and James Jean-Marie (San Diego) provide depth for a school that lost four starters.

■ UC Riverside (17-15, 7-9): UC Riverside is clearly a team on the rise, those 17 victories accounting for a school Division I record.

Frontliners Arinze Chidom (12.2 ppg, seven rebounds) and Callum McRae (9.6 points and 6.2 boards) will make thing difficult inside for Highlander opponents.

By the way, coach Mike Magpayo is the first D-I coach of Asian decent, according to the NCAA. ■ Long Beach State (11-21, 6-10): Nothing went right for The Beach, which hopes standout Hunter Chance (13.9 ppg, five boards) and veteran guard Michael Carter III can lead a resurgence. Carter’s 12-point scoring average was in the top 15 among Big West gunners. Coach Dan Monson has 211 victories at Long Beach.

■ Cal State Bakersfield (12-19, 6-10): The Roadrunners are hopeful with four starters back — led by point guard Darius

No. Name Pos Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown/last school 1 Damion Squire G 6-0 185 Jr. Montreal, Quebec/Wasatch Academy 2 Caleb McGill F 6-7 215 Fr. Aurora, Colo./Grandview HS 3 Aaron Murphy F 6-6 220 R-Fr. Modesto/Modesto Christian HS 4 Christian Anigwe F 6-9 220 Jr. Phoenix/San Jose State 5 Ezra Manjon G 5-11 170 So. Antioch/Heritage HS 10 Kennedy Koehler F 6-7 220 Sr. Las Vegas/Pima CC 11 Caleb Fuller G 6-5 210 Jr. Ipswich, England/Barking Abbey 15 Ron Pehka G 6-3 185 Fr. Tallinn, Estonia/Audentes Sports Gym 20 B. J. Shaw G 6-6 195 So. Oakland/Brewster Academy 22 Noah Haynesworth G 6-2 190 Jr. Mill Valley/Skyline CC 24 Ade Adebayo G 6-4 200 So. London, England/Barking Abbey 30 Cameron Ba G 6-3 180 So. Alameda/St. Joseph Notre Dame HS 34 Hugh Hogland F 6-10 230 Gr. Waimanalo, HI./Portland 40 Elijah Pepper G 6-4 200 So. Selah, Wash./Selah HS 55 Francesco Borra F 6-11 250 Fr. Moncalieria, Italy/JSerra Catholic HS Staff Jim Les, head coach Kevin Nosek, associate head coach Kyle Vogt, assistant coach Jonathan Metzger-Jones, assistant coach Ryan Olive, director of operations Darik Artis, video coordinator Luis Reyes, operations and video assistant Samm Brockel, assistant athletic trainer Charles Young, associate strength and conditioning coach Laurie Goldhammer, Asst. AD, Student-athlete outcomes Brown II — that their new digs in the Big West will be step forward after spending its last seven years of Division I basketball in the Western Athletic Conference.

■ CSUN (15-17, 10-6): The crew at (formerly) Cal State Northridge plans to build on its winning record, which was its highest finish in 11 years. Talented Texas

A&M transfer T.J. Starks adds some firepower for the Matadors.

■ Cal State Fullerton (11-20, 6-10): The Titans struggled and now face having to replace for departed starters. Whether that’s good or bad news depends on how Missouri State transfer Josh Hall mixes with veterans like Wayne Arnold (8.8 ppg) and

WOMEN: Reigning champs From Page B2 With a league Player of the Year candidate in Sierra Campisano (17.2 ppg, 8.2 rbg) and emerging sophomore Abbey Ellis (15.6 ppg), the Mustangs — under coach Faith Mimnaugh in her 23rd season — could be the West Coast surprise package.

■ Long Beach State (1317, 8-8): Reliable all-league guard Justina King returns, but she’ll be without former Pioneer High (Woodland) standout Shanaijah Davison, the 12-point-anight forward who transferred to Dixie State.

Ma’Qhi Berry, also a guard, combined with King for 176 assists and is expected to take up some of the scoring void left by Davison’s departure.

■ Cal State Fullerton (1714, 8-8): Much to the relief of all Big West schools, 2019-20 Player of the Year Reina Perez transferred to Nevada, leaving the heavy lifting to all-preseason guard Taylor Turney and junior forward Aimee Book.

Turney (14.7 ppg) and Book (12.2) are joined by four international players and are complemented by

All-Big West preseason selection Cierra Hall is back for a senior season as favored UC Davis has a veteran cast returning.

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six other returners. Highly touted Long Beach Poly center Ashlee Lewis, a freshman, also is a Titan.

■ Cal State Bakersfield (16-13, 8-8 in Western Athletic Conference): Led by junior forward Jayden Eggleston, the Roadrunners are expected to be one of the league’s top rebounding teams.

Not only does Eggleston average 5.6 boards a night, she’s Bakersfield’s top scorer (11.9 ppg).

In concert with opposite forward Miracle Saxon (8.4 rpg) and center Vanessa Austin (6.9 rpg), the latest

Big West entrant knows how to clean up after itself.

Over the past three seasons, however, the Roadrunners have been Mr. Hyde at home (29-12) and Dr. Jeykll (16-31) on the road. As noted, UCD opens conference at The Pavilion with CSBU. ■ UC Riverside (8-22, 4-12): The fortunes of Highlander sports in general are hanging in the balance as school officials wrestle with the possibility of eliminating all of UC Riverside’s already dwindling 15 women’s and men’s programs.

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Aggie guard Damion Squire is one of the Davis veterans back for a UC Davis team that was picked to finish third in the Big West coaches’ preseason poll.

Johnny Wang.

Eight new faces will be on the UCR roster.

Sounds like a rebuilding year.

■ Cal Poly (7-23, 4-12): Last year was tough, but if the Mustangs can live and learn, 2020-21 could be a total turnaround.

Cal Poly returns three starters and seven letterwinners, including sophomore guard Colby Rogers (8.6 ppg) and medical

redshirt Hank Hollingsworth — back for his sixth season.

The Big West Tournament will be conducted March 12-14 at the Honda Center in Anaheim and features the league’s top eight finishers from the regular-season standings, with the winner earning an automatic big to the NCAA’s Big Dance.

Note: Sports editor Bruce Gallaudet contributed to this article.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

UC Davis women’s basketball roster No. Name Pos Ht. Yr. Hometown/last school 00 Mackenzie Trpcic G 5-7 R-Sr. Hamilton, Ontario/Albany 3 Campbell Gray G 5-10 So. Tigard, Ore./Tigard HS 4 Allie Carreon W 5-10 Fr. Chula Vista/San Diego Christian HS 10 Lena Svanholm F 6-6 R-Jr. Hoersholm, Denmark/Colorado State 11 Sage Stobbart P 6-3 R-Jr. N. Vancouver, B.C./Seycove Secondary HS 13 Matzatlan Harris F 6-2 Fr. San Diego/Cathedral Catholic HS 14 Emma Gibb F/C 6-2 R-Sr. McMinnville, Ore./Western Mennonite 15 Evanne Turner G 5-9 So. Fontana/Etiwanda HS 20 Makaila Sanders G 5-8 Jr. Sacramento/Foothill HS 23 Kayla Konrad F 6-0 R-Jr. Valencia/Valencia HS 24 Megan Jones F 6-3 R-Fr. Ayr, Scotland/Charnwood College 32 Cierra Hall F 6-0 Sr. Cypress/Fairmont Prep Academy 41 Bria Shine G 6-1 Fr. Sacramento/Christian Brothers HS 42 Kenedy Lilly C 6-5 R-Fr. Yorba Linda/El Dorado HS (Placentia) Staff Jennifer Gross, head coach Des Abeyta, associate head coach Joe Teramoto, associate head coach Matt Klemin, assistant coach Stephanie Shadwell, director of operations/video coordinator Therese Cardinet, Administrative assistant In what might be a last hurrah, the women’s basketball team — following the lead of all-preseason guard Keilani Cooper — is clinging to the hope that salvation is at hand.

Coach Nicole Powell takes over the reins without graduated Jannon Otto and Marina Ewodo.

■ UC San Diego (25-5, 18-4 in California Collegiate Athletic Association): If the Tritons’ record translates to Big West play, the Aggies will have another formidable program to battle. But given the coaches’ poll last-place preseason voting, one wonders how big the win dip might be.

Nonetheless, the Tritons have leading scorers/guards Julia Macabuhay (17.6) and Tyla Turner (12.9) back with swingman Sydney Brown (9.6 ppg, 5.4 rpg) in the fold.

An interesting newcomer to say the least ... with folks around San Diego saying the Big West is in for another surprise.

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Windfall creates political dilemma

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s Gov. Gavin Newsom makes the final decisions on writing a 2021-22 budget, he’s receiving some good revenue news from his bean-counters.

During the first four months of the 2020-21 budget cycle, which began on July 1, state general fund revenues were more than $11 billion higher than the apocalyptic estimates on which the budget was based.

Moreover, the windfall could easily double to $26 billion in the first months of 2021, according to the Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek.

What happened?

The sharp recession triggered by Newsom’s COVID19 business shutdowns has been very uneven, striking hard at Californians on the lower rungs of the economic ladder while affecting those on the upper rungs very softly, if at all.

Those on top are able, unlike the working poor, to continue earning from home.

Many have also benefited from stock market gains, and they generate most of the state’s income taxes. Hence, the state’s revenues have been far healthier than the 202021 budget had assumed.

Whatever its size, the

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imple advice to innovators and policymakers: Don’t worry about collateral needs or they will distort your good growth and policy efforts.

If we look back, the development of the automobile had collateral effects beyond the ability of the auto pioneers to conceive.

Yet there were those who would have restricted automobile development because they worried about the collateral effects, including that there wouldn’t be enough gasoline, oil would run out, cars were dangerous and the fuel stations would explode.

The lesson wasn’t that those were minor concerns, but that they were giant and reasonable concerns that didn’t take into account that there would be as much creativity in solving those problems as there was in creating the primary product in the first place.

The message is that innovation begets innovation. Invent one thing and then invest in something else to support it.

Yet there are reactionary forces at work in the creative arena all the time.

To continue with the automobile example, there are gainsayers to the electric car everywhere. Sometimes they are driven by economics, but often they are just worried about great change.

I can hardly pass a day without reading alarmist pieces about the disposal of batteries, a possible shortage of lithium from friendly suppliers or that there won’t be enough charging points.

To all that, I say, piffle.

History tells us that these seeming problems will be solved by the same inventiveness that has brought us to this time when we are seeing a switch from the internal combustion engine — faithful servant though it has been — to electricity.

The danger is rigidity.

Rigidity is the seldom-diagnosed inhibitor of good science, good engineering and good policy. Rigidity in policy, or even just in belief, restricts and distorts.

A rigid belief is that nuclear waste is a huge problem.

I would submit that it is less of a problem than many other wastes we are leaving to future generations. Rigid concerns and rigidly wrong radiation standards led the electric utilities to turn to coal, and now to wind and solar to move away from coal and its successor, natural gas.

Medicine is beset by rigidities and it always has been, from excessive use of bleeding therapy to surgeons who believed it was ungentlemanly to wash their hands.

Even great innovators like Henry Ford weren’t without their crippling rigidities.

Henry Ford was opposed to six-cylinder engines and wanted all cars to be black.

Political rigidities are perhaps the most pernicious.

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one-time windfall is not an unleavened blessing because Petek also projects that during the years beyond the 2021-22 period, the state faces structural budget deficits — a built-in gap between income and outgo.

Petek said in his report, “although the budget is expected to have a windfall in 2021-22, it is also expected to have an operating deficit in that year. The operating deficit is relatively small in 2021-22, but would grow to around $17 billion by 2024-25.”

Thus, it creates a dilemma for Newsom and the Legislature — whether to use the extra bucks to offset spending cuts and repay loans that were used to close the projected 2020-21 gap, or sock the windfall away to cushion the impact of projected longer-term deficits.

Petek proposed a Solomonic

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would suggest that the fear of the bogeyman of socialism has prevented us from developing a sensible healthcare system; one that is less expensive and has better results. It doesn’t have to be modeled on Britain’s National Health Service, but it could borrow from Germany or Holland where the health system is universal but provided by private insurance.

Ditch the rigidity and start fixing the patient — in this case, the whole system.

Our educational system is plagued with rigidities. At the lower end, the public schools, children aren’t getting the basics they need to function in our society. At the high end, the universities, there is a new kind of aristocracy where the favored faculty are coddled, shielded and underproductive, while the cost for students is prohibitive.

Our most productive, most gifted graduates are compelled to align their careers with jobs that will pay enough to free them from the debt burden we start them in life with. This might cause a bright student to go into computer science when he or she longed to study astronomy, certainly a less well-paid future.

Rigid doctrine is always at work and is an unseen impediment to future innovation in science, social structure and, above all, in politics.

Watch for it.

— Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail. com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

While I am disappointed that a majority of Davis voters would rather have a few acres of dirt and tall grass than more jobs and a thousand new neighbors paying taxes and funding our schools and roads, Measure B didn't pass.

However, looking at individual projects isn't how we are going to address the housing crisis in Davis or the state.

We need reform of basic zoning laws.

■ Where we currently allow only single-family suburban homes (R1) we should allow duplexes (R2) and triplexes (R3). It would not change the look and feel of Davis but would slowly increase our density and housing supply.

■ Rezone downtown Davis to allow for much taller residential buildings and mixed-use development without parking requirements. That way we could have more organic growth rather than relying on car-centric sprawl on the periphery that our residents so despise.

■ I would come up with a third idea but let's be honest, the homeowners of Davis care more about slight increases in traffic than how their votes are turning/ have turned Davis into an exclusionary suburb.

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solution, appropriating about half of the extra money before the spending cuts fully kick in, and keeping the remainder in the piggy bank.

However, from a purely political standpoint, such a measured approach would be difficult because the pressure to spend is heavy, as Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon indicated in his reaction to Petek’s report.

“In light of the revenue analysis of the Legislative Analyst’s Office, it should be our priority to restore funds to critical programs that were cut and prevent additional cuts,” Rendon said. “I agree with Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins’ approach for making use of the $26 billion that has been identified.”

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ver since the 2020-21 budget was passed in June, advocates for education and other programs that were cut back have been pressing for tax increases, especially after it became clear that a massive new federal relief program to offset the reductions was not happening.

They had hoped that voters would bolster their cause by passing Proposition 15, a

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2020

I would like to give a big shout-out to the returning UC Davis students. The downtown has become much more crowded in the last couple of weeks, but I have been very pleased to see near universal mask-wearing among the college-age folks.

As an older adult, it makes me feel safe being downtown, and also proud of our community.

Kudos!

Cathy Forkas Old East

Praying together The Celebration of Abraham thanks the Davis-Area Interfaith Religious Leaders Network (DAIR-LN) for offering a Zoom Interfaith Prayer for a More Perfect Union on Monday, Nov. 2.

The service, the night before the national election, featured Davis faith leaders offering reflections, music, and readings for our country and our community. The faith leaders focused on three themes: Be kind. Be strong. Stay together. Our community needed to hear the message and we need to hold the service in our heart as we go forward. For those of you who would like to revisit the service, DAIR-LN has posted the service on their Facebook page.

To continue efforts to find ways to work together, on behalf of the Celebration of Abraham, I invite you to be part of our interfaith community conversation,

Speak out President Hon. Donald J. Trump, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202224-3841; email: http://feinstein.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Kamala Harris, 112 Hart Senate

hefty increase in commercial property taxes, but the measure was defeated. Newsom has also thrown cold water on calls for income-tax increases and the windfall would make a tax increase politically impossible in the short run.

With new taxes seemingly off the table, advocates will press, as Rendon hinted, for spending most or even all of the windfall, even though such an approach would worsen the longer-term deficits.

The situation then raises another scenario. The windfall may make a tax increase impossible in the short run, but if the state faces the longer-term deficits that Petek projects, they will fuel pressure for either another try at a property tax hike or an income tax increase circa 2022.

Furthermore, we also don’t know how long the pandemic and the recession it induced will last.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.

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as we Celebrate the 18th Annual Celebration of Abraham — “An interfaith perspective on the practice of humility in difficult times” — at 3 p.m. Jan. 31. With the ongoing COVID restrictions, this will be a virtual event, held via Zoom webinar beginning with excellent speakers from the three Abrahamic faiths. We are continuing to work on the format, and we will include a moderated panel where participants can ask questions.

Let’s continue the dialogue among our faith communities! To sign up for updates on the planning, email hroland2@gmail.com.

Again thank you to DAIR-LN for providing calm and centering the night before the election, Helen Roland President, Celebration of Abraham

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Democracy is worth all the anxiety “A

nticipation, is makin’ me late, is keepin’ me waitin’ …” I don’t think Carly Simon had these days in mind when she wrote these lyrics. Many of us, I am sure, hoped all our waiting would be done on Nov. 3. Even now we continue to wait for the process to work its way through.

Democracy is worth the wait.

It is the tool we must continually use as intended to achieve the promised result of liberty and justice for all. This election season brought a record number of voters to the polls.

In Yolo county we reached a record breaking 83%. I am grateful for our local election office and city clerk that put in so much work to make sure our ballots were accurate, and votes were secure. This is never an easy feat. This year it was made more difficult with COVID-19 and the new districts.

I am also grateful to all the candidates that ran for local offices. Competition is a conflict, and it is often difficult to get through harmoniously.

The creation of the Housing Element is an opportunity to pause as a community and take stock of one of the most critical human needs. More importantly it calls upon us to plan for how we will meet that need. As with most things that are deeply important housing is an emotionally charged subject.

Candidates spend countless hours getting to understand their community’s needs, walking districts (this year in bad air quality) and answering endless questions. The gamble is large, and the reward is long hours of work and many difficult decisions. It is this selfless willingness to serve that make the places we live special. It is also the just-as-vital realization of the democratic process unfolding in our own back yards. It is giving a voice to every issue we must live with on a local level every day.

Our housing element is one such issue. The City Council launched work on its Housing Element by establishment of the Housing Element Committee.

The conversations involve not only future housing and its occupants, but the impacts on current occupants. While most can agree that housing is critical, how and where it is built is more of a question. Universally people want housing that is affordable, sustainable, infilled and that does not cause traffic or parking issues. Often, these are competing purposes. One of the greatest challenges is ensuring that there is a diversified stock of housing to afford opportunity to those in our community that wish to live where they work or where their children go to school.

There are some external forces that will dictate how many total

units the City must build and what amount of those must be affordable. California has required, through its Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), that all local governments (cities and counties) adequately plan to meet the housing needs of everyone in the community. This year the City of Davis

By August 2021, must adopt a housing element that demonstrates how we plan to accommodate the assigned RHNA numbers, which are almost double of the previous cycle (20132021). This is an opportunity to seriously find solutions to not only meeting those numbers but to have conversations about how to keep the essence of our community alive.

The standard of living in a city is something that must be cultivated. It is also something that must be passed to the next generation. This is our opportunity to make these important decisions The Housing Element Committee’s main functions are: ■ Provide comments and

feedback. To review the existing housing element and other documents, background information, and public input. To provide comments and feedback on (rather than prepare) the draft Housing Element for 20212029 to City staff and the project consultants with the goals of creating documents which are responsive to community goals and aspirations.

■ Provide recommendations.

To make recommendations to the Planning Commission and City Council at key project milestones.

■ Communicate information.

To communicate information about the project to others, provide status updates to the City Commission they serve on and encourage others to participate in the process.

The Housing Element has two more meetings on Dec. 3 and Jan. 14. A virtual Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) workshop will be scheduled, too.

— Gloria Partida is the mayor of Davis.

Prop. 15 isn’t the last chance to restore the social contract

BY GUILLERMO MAYER AND SARA NELSON Special to CalMatters

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alifornians faced the largest wildfires in our history this fall, and we desperately needed bold action to stabilize our communities, schools and climate. But corporate special interests spent nearly $75 million to mislead voters into protecting their profits by opposing Proposition 15. The measure ultimately failed with a 51.7% no vote.

The result is billions of dollars of new revenue lost to local budgets and school districts.

This comes on top of the decades of austerity budgets, which have meant deep cuts to public health services, fire departments and the social safety net. Meanwhile big businesses have seen profits and executive pay skyrocket.

This fall, as short-staffed fire crews struggled to contain the blazes set by lightning storms and fueled by climate change, 4.1 million acres burned and 10,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed while fewer than 25% of adults in fire-prone counties were receiving county emergency alerts. That’s where Prop. 15 would come in.

The initiative would have brought an estimated $12 billion a year into our cashstrapped cities, counties and schools by closing a loophole that allows California’s richest corporations to pay lower property tax rates than homeowners.

If approved, Prop. 15 would have been part of the financial groundwork we need for a Green New Deal in California — a comprehensive, common-sense plan to rebuild the Golden State with a just and sustainable economy. Making sure the wealthiest corporations and individuals pay their fair share is the foundation for a thriving public sector that can meet the needs of our communities and protect us from the crises we face.

Why don’t we have enough cash to adequately deal with COVID-19, provide relief to laid-off workers, and fight forest fires and other effects of climate change?

Because large corporations have avoided paying their fair share for decades and made 2020 a record-breaking year for campaign spending to protect that advantage at the expense of Californian families.

For Prop. 15, big business special interest groups invested $72 million in misleading and anxiety-inducing attack advertisements. By making baseless claims that this proposition would hurt homeowners, small businesses and farmers — all of which Prop. 15 explicitly exempted — lobbyists ensured that their clients’

COMMENTARY profits would keep going to shareholder payouts and bloated executive bonuses instead of helping keep our schools and communities afloat.

To see what is possible when elections aren’t buried under an avalanche of big business lobbying money we can look to our neighbors in Arizona and Oregon, where voters passed school-funding ballot measures raising income taxes on high earners this November. These measures, which will collectively inject more than a billion dollars every year into public schools, will ease the burden on low-income and marginalized families while better preparing their leaders of tomorrow for the unique challenges of the 21st century.

Progressive tax policies like these can pass right here in California — when political spending from big business is low. Through a measure with no reported opposition spending, San Francisco voters approved raising taxes for businesses that pay their executives more than 100 times their average worker.

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rop. 15 isn’t California’s last opportunity to restore our social contract. With other bold, visionary proposals like a wealth tax, creation of a public bank like North Dakota’s and tax increases for millionaires coming back to the Legislature next year, we can still lay the foundation for a just recovery and California Green New Deal while generating billions for our schools, firefighters and local services.

If you believe a better future is possible and that special interest groups shouldn’t be able to buy elections, call, email or write your state representatives and tell them to support crucial proposals like these that will make our state healthier and safer in the next legislative session — even in the face of massive corporate lobbying.

— Guillermo Mayer is the president and CEO of Public Advocates Inc., a nonprofit civil rights law firm and a member of the California Green New Deal Coalition, gmayer@publicadvocates.org. Sara Nelson is executive director and cofounder of the Romero Institute, a nonprofit law and public policy center and a member of the California Green New Deal Coalition, sara.nelson@ romeroinstitute.org. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Affordable-housing subsidies cry out for reform

BY SCOTT LITTLEHALE Special to CalMatters

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hen it comes to California’s persistent shortage of affordable housing, the default position for many politicians is to promote tax credit schemes to incentivize investment in more building.

Last year alone, California committed $3.4 billion in taxpayersubsidies for super-wealthy investors (as credits taken against their future tax liabilities) who put up money to build affordable units. Our state finances about half of its annual affordable housing production this way and recently added $500 million in new state credits to be awarded alongside federal credits.

A recent study did a deep dive on how these arrangements work, who benefits and who doesn’t. The findings may surprise you.

First, it turns out that taxpayers give more in credits to investors than they get back in project financing. Only 94 cents of every federal tax credit dollar goes to affordable housing projects, on average. The rest goes to investors and financial middle-men. California taxpayers’ rate of return on state credits is lower: Developers receive only 80 cents of every credit dollar. These “excess credits” are a boon to investors, but they add as much as $26,000 to the total cost of every affordable unit built in California.

Second, whatever you’ve heard about onerous regulatory costs on California housing likely was overblown. Data from projects approved by California’s Tax Credit Allocation Committee show local government impact and permit fees capture just 4% of affordable housing development costs, on average, while landowners, investors, developers, construction firm owners and banks take 35%.

And finally, there’s the matter of construction workers’ pay. Construction labor only accounts for about 14% of all project spending.

COMMENTARY Unlike other forms of publicly financed construction, affordable housing builders are not required to pay their workers anything beyond minimum wages in order to qualify for tax credits. Even as the housing industry complains of labor shortages, 53% of California construction worker families qualify as “low income” or “very low income,” according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data.

These three points are cause for alarm for anyone who is concerned about housing affordability in California. What they show is that billions of California tax dollars set aside each year to build low-income housing effectively make the economic inequality at the heart of our state’s housing affordability problems worse — particularly for people who do the actual building.

The data cries out for reform of the housing tax credit system. If California taxpayers are to increase subsidies to wealthy

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What does the A in the acronym SMART stand for?

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investors who fund affordable housing production, they should get more in return.

One way to do that would be to link receipt of credits to the same construction prevailing wage standards that apply to other publicly funded projects. This way, more of the workers who we all rely on to build California’s housing will be able to pay the rent in their communities.

Or we could keep doing things as we have been — yearly committing hundreds of millions more in tax dollars to wealthy investors more than we get in return, blaming the production failures on local regulations that simply aren’t draining project budgets, and paying many of the workers who do the arduous, hazardous work of building housing less than they’d make working for Amazon.

How’s that been working out?

— Scott Littlehale is a research contributor to Smart Cities Prevail, a California-based, nonpartisan construction industry research and education organization, slittlehale@smartcities prevail.org.

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All-American guard in her playing days at UCD. “This has probably been the most With all the height — couNonconference player-led team we’ve had in a pled with seven players who can Nov. 25 vs. San Francisco, 3 p.m. while. It’s really fun for our play guard — 10th-year head Aggie coach Jennifer Gross says Nov. 28 vs. Simpson University, 2 p.m. coaches. Every time we blow the whistle to stop and correct the possibilities are endless.

Dec. 8 at Sacramento State, 5 p.m. something, one of our veteran “What we’ve seen in practice Dec. 11 at Stanford, 4 p.m. players has grabbed a younger is the awareness of constantly player, coaching them up, looking up, looking inside now,” Dec. 20 vs. Northern Arizona, 2 p.m. encouraging them. reports Gross.

Big West Conference “It’s so cool. (Staff ) has “When we started practice, Dec. 27-28 vs. CSU Bakersfield, TBA always felt that when your we’d have to stop every couple players are the ones who have of seconds and remind (the Jan. 1-2 at UC Riverside, 2 p.m. the biggest voices, that’s when players), ‘Hey, eyes up. Throw Jan. 8-9 vs. UC Irvine, TBA you have your best teams.” the ball in (the paint).’ Now, our Jan. 15-16 at Cal State Fullerton, TBA guards are doing a good job of Gross continues: “What constantly looking for our post we’ve realized the past few Jan. 22-23 vs. UC San Diego, TBA players … and they’re finishing years is that the target is on Jan. 29-30 at UC Santa Barbara, TBA well. It’s exciting. our backs, which means that Feb. 5-6 vs. CSUN, TBA “Our offense is designed to every game feels like a chamtake advantage of mismatches …” pionship game. But that’s Feb. 12-13 at Long Beach State, TBA Gross can be forgiven is she’s really good for us. Our team Feb. 26-27 vs. Cal Poly, TBA smirking when she reports that has talked about that and March 5-6 at Hawaii, TBA her Aggies will have a veteran needs to be ready for that.” player like Kayla Konrad at It all starts on Wednesday Big West Tournament small forward, maybe a doublewhen West Coast Conference Honda Center, Anaheim, March 10-13 post scenario working, while a member San Francisco (a host of those proven guards — 79-67 loser to UCD last Nov. Evanne Turner, Mackenzie 22) comes calling for a 3 p.m.

Trpcic, Campbell Gray or even play-anywhere all- encounter at The Pavilion. The Dons are expected to leaguer Cierra Hall — survey the landscape. be led by redshirt freshman Ioanna Krimili, a 5-10 “There’s been an overall shift in our emphasis,” guard from Greece who averaged 15.6 points last Gross told The Enterprise. “Last season we were season before going down with an injury after nine very perimeter-focused — put our heads down, games. Czech senior Lucie Hoskova (13.9) seems to attack the basket, shoot the ball when we catch it. be the other USF main threat.

“Now, we’re still looking to shoot first, but if that’s Notes: Konrad, who fought her way back from a not open, we’re really trying to get the ball inside. knee injury just before enrolling at UCD, “is playWe’re going to try to use that to our advantage.” ing really, really well,” Gross explains. “When To say the coach loves her team’s balance is a, er, Makaila Sanders (knee) comes back, it will give us gross understatement. another shooter on the floor.” Hear that, Big West Most Aggie fans know the stories of Albany trans- schools? The depth never ends. ... The word now is fer Trpcic or the reliable play of preseason All-BWC that no fans will be allowed to attend Aggie home selection Hall, who is coming off a campaign in games. ... The schedule-makers weren’t kind to UC which she was named conference Defensive Player Davis: the final two games of the season are at of the Year.

Hawaii (March 5-6). “Not ideal, having to travel But anyone who followed UCD through to the right before the conference tournament, but we’ll canceled postseason tournament saw then- figure it out … kind of see where we’re at at that freshman Turner begin to emerge from her guard point,” Gross says. “Obviously, there’s so much position. uncertainty just trying to navigate the challenges Turner wound up starting 13 games, and her 40 of COVID-19.” ... BWC play begins Sunday and three-pointers led the Aggies.

Monday, Dec. 27-28, with league newcomer Cal “I’m excited for Evanne,” Gross says. “She’s State Bakersfield (16-13). ... As if the rest of the matured so much in just one year. She’s put so much league has enough to worry about with the Aggies, work into her game. Last year (she was) predomi- true freshmen Allie Carreon (San Diego Christian), nantly a shooter for us, and this year she’s expanded Mazatlan Harris (Cathedral Catholic of San Diego) her game — finishing at the rim and has become a and Bria Shine of Christian Brothers (Sacramento) won’t have to worry about redshirting. Nobody, reliable defender, too.

“I’m happy for her that all that hard work is pay- according to the NCAA uses up a year of eligibility as we battle the pandemic. ing off.”

Apparently, everybody’s hard work is about to pay — Reach DE sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at off ... bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456.

“I love this team,” reports Gross, who was an Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

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From Page B1 Stobbart was a rebounding machine, and she tallied 10 or more points in six of the Aggies’ final eight contests (along with three double-doubles). Davis will also have 6-foot-6 Colorado State transfer Lena Svanholm ready for action after she rode the pine last season per NCAA transfer requirements.

Then there’s first-team All-Big West preseason selection Cierra Hall (6-0), El Dorado High product Kenedy Lilly (6-5), Emma Gibb (6-2), Scotland native Megan Jones (6-3) and two newcomers in Mazzie Harris (6-2) and former Christian Brothers standout Bria Shine (6-0).

As coach Gross has said in the past, her team’s biggest problem might be the fact that she has too many solid options from which to choose.

“When you think about a big lineup, you tend to think of the inside presence it creates,” Konrad explains. “But for us, our bigs can be (away from the basket) and shoot.”

Konrad says Stobbart will be a lethal weapon from long range this year. And with Svanholm and Gibb hitting shot after shot from downtown in recent practices, there are hints that the Aggies could top the school’s

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Aggie Kayla Konrad gets a shot off last season against Santa Clara.

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single-game three-point record of 17, set during a clash against Washington State in Konrad’s freshman season — a year she was sidelined by a knee injury.

And about that injury? Konrad says those rehabbing days are far off in the rear-view mirror now.

Konrad, who from time to time still dons a knee brace, is feeling 100-percent heading into the Aggies’ nonconference home opener Wednesday versus the University of San Francisco (3 p.m.).

Starting roughly half of UCD’s games last season as the Aggies finished 17-12, she was just as effective coming off the bench — posting scoring performances of 8 or more points on nine separate occasions. Her biggest night of the year (a 15-point, 11-rebound outburst) was key in a 77-75 nail-biter win over Sacramento State last November.

“When I go in, it’s my chance to help the team out,” Konrad says. “Whether I’m in there for one minute or the (whole game), I always want to bring that toughness and energy, because I know once one person does, it brings up the rest of the team.

“And this year I’ve been reminded how blessed I am to be able to play this sport during a time when it can feel like the world is ending,” Konrad adds.

“I have so much gratitude.

“I’m playing the sport I love with teammates and coaches I love.”

Notes: The daughter of Anne and Marty Konrad (both former athletes at Pacific during their playing days), Kayla was a foursport athlete at Valencia High, playing lacrosse, softball and volleyball on top of her storied hoops career. In her senior season she earned All-Santa Clarita Valley Player of the Year, averaging 21.1 points, 11.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists, three steals and a block per game as she led the Vikings to their first section title in school history, beating Canyon High, 50-45.

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