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School board talks ethnic studies, COVID BY EDWARD BOOTH Enterprise staff writer The Davis school board on Thursday heard presentations about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent budget proposal, local COVID-19 conditions and the district’s plans for ethnicstudies programming. The board also unanimously approved several items connected to giving district employees a $2,500 stipend in recognition of extra work they’ve done throughout the pandemic. The total cost of the stipends, taken from one-time COVID-19 relief funding, is about $4 million, according to the agenda.
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Locations include near the Richards Boulevard underpass (as a temporary cover for the Welcome to Davis sign); Veterans Memorial Center; Third and B streets; City Hall; and Davis Community Church.
Believing a picture is worth a thousand words, Healthy Davis Together has partnered with local artists to install banners around the city with reminders that following public health guidelines will help us all reclaim our pre-pandemic lives. The “Reclaim” campaign features colorful artwork with sayings like, “Let’s Reclaim a Brighter Future. Get Vacci-
“Partnering with the artists for the Healthy Davis Together banners to create unique, eyecatching pieces not only makes the banners special, but it also supports the arts and creative
“The arts and creative work represent an important part of the rich fabric of our community and has a key impact on our economy. This project is a great way for us to show community support in many ways.” Five artists contributed to the Reclaim project: Stephanie Pierson, Jennifer Lugris, Elise Reutinger; Jeff Musser and Sharon Norton. Musser’s artwork will be attached to the Welcome to Davis sign that visitors see as they approach the Richards
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City installs new series of wayfinding signs and markers BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer It’s never been easier to find your way around Davis. Over the last few weeks, the city has installed numerous wayfinding signs around town, including along the 12-mile Davis Bike Loop. “The new wayfinding is part of a citywide bicycle and pedestrian project that was first approved by the City Council in 2014 as part of the city of Davis Bicycle Action Plan,” noted a press release from the city. “The goal of this project is to improve the navigation and
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s I peeked into the mailbox the other day I could see a very large envelope from the city of Davis, complete with that old-fashioned bicycle logo. At first I was sure it was our monthly water bill, sent this time in a big envelope because it was an especially big bill. I was relieved when I pulled the envelope out of the mailbox and saw the words “Official Ballot Enclosed” on the outside. But “Official Ballot” for what, I wondered. Maybe while I was sleeping that Cyber Ninja recount of the Arizona presidential vote had declared Donald Trump the winner in Maricopa County and the United States Supreme Court has ordered every state, including California, to have an election doover. With trembling hands and a sinking heart I tore open the envelope to find the “Official Ballot Information Guide” for the “City of Davis Stormwater Fee.” “The city of Davis Stormwater Program manages rain water that runs off hard surfaces such as roofs, driveways and streets,” it begins. And I’d first like to thank the city for solving that lifelong argument over whether the plural of roof is “roofs” or “rooves.”
Santa Claus himself has been wondering about that very thing ever since the day he put reindeer hooves on Davis roofs. “The city is responsible for constructing and maintaining an integrated system of storm drainage inlets, pipes, culverts, and ditches,” it goes on, using the dreaded Oxford comma to make its point. Doesn’t the city realize it could save millions of dollars on ink annually simply by eliminating the Oxford comma on mailings to Davis citizens? “The proposed new Stormwater Fee for your property is printed on the Official Ballot included with this information guide. As shown below, the monthly fee for a single-family home on a mediumsized parcel would be $13.10.” Just last week we were being told it was $13 even. Now it’s $13.10. That’s an extra dime a month, a buck-twenty a year. Where will it end?
Notes the city, “Open space acts like a sponge, absorbing rain water.” I think we already knew that. “Covering land with impermeable surfaces like paving and rooftops causes water to run off of property and into the stormwater system, carrying pollutants with it as it goes.” So it’s those darn selfish Davisites putting rooftops over their heads that’s the problem. But if you have a leaky roof, it’s OK because all that rainwater ends up your living room instead of the gutter.
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e’re lucky, because the aging driveway in front of our 1951 starter home has a huge crack where you can see all the way to Middle Earth, which means all rainwater is returned directly to the ground, thus I’m sure this means the city will give us a much lower rate. Or maybe actually pay us for all that groundwater replenishing I don’t know about you, but just talking about stormwater is a good thing because it might convince the good citizens of Davis that it will rain once again some day. “The stormwater fee cannot be imposed if votes submitted in opposition to the fee exceed the votes submitted in favor of the fee.”
Which is another way of saying “the side with the most votes wins.” “Each parcel with a proposed fee greater than $0.00 will get one vote.” In other words, you have to have skin in the game before you receive a ballot. “Ballots will be tabulated under the direction of the city clerk at a location accessible to the public.” I prefer Baskin-Robbins. “The tabulation will commence the week of June 28, 2021, at the Veterans Memorial Theater, and may be performed by technological methods including but not limited to optically readable (barcoded) ballots.” Those counting the votes will operate under the Arizona Rules of Ballot Review, which means all ballots will be scanned with ultraviolet light that can detect both watermarks and traces of bamboo. If bamboo is present, it means we have been bamboozled and the entire election will be null and void. For a seven-dollar a month increase, at the very least this whole process will be worth the price of admission. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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As part of the Episcopal Church of St. Martin’s theme of healthy soil, healthy plants and healthy community, the church has accepted an offer to host an art installation from the Arts, Cultures, and Designs of Remediation research cluster at UC Davis. The Arts, Cultures, and Designs of Remediation cluster is a working group of faculty and graduate students from the performing arts, environmental design, and soil sciences. Their mission is to challenge us to think about how we can remediate and heal our soil, and tell our stories by doing so. They have invited St. Martin’s to display an art piece named “Mother Nurture” in its developing garden space outside of the Parish Hall facing Hawthorn Lane. It was recently shown at the International House in Davis and is at St. Martin’s from through June 14. The installation invites individual storytelling and participation from the community. Pieces hung on the structure are all organic and made from Kombucha leather, mushrooms, seaweed and silk from cocoons. Pieces are dyed from natural materials. People are welcome to touch pieces and be inspired by our own ability to nurture the land we stand on, the air we breathe, and the water that nourishes us. The art piece includes
Kombucha mothers because symbolically we can celebrate all our mothers — human and nonhuman — and meditate on what it means to cultivate the best mother in ourselves. The community is welcome to add prayers to “Mother Nurture” on the Community Chalkboard and add a message of your own about mothering to the art piece itself. The community is invited to begin growing Kombucha mothers now. In three weeks, the mother becomes leather and there will be a “molting” ceremony to replace the existing Kombucha leather on the installation with new pieces. For more information about the process of making Kombucha leather or to join the molting ceremony, please visit http:// churchofstmartin.org or email Anuj Vaidya at anuva@ucdavis.edu.
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY A rabid bat was found on the Davis High School campus on Wednesday and county health officials are encouraging parents to ask their children if they had any contact with it. The bat was found at 9 a.m. on Wednesday near the North Gym and was submitted to Yolo County’s public health laboratory for rabies testing. “We were informed today that the bat tested positive for rabies,” Principal Tom McHale informed the school community in a message on Friday. “The risk for contracting rabies from a deceased bat is low,” McHale said. “We are notifying parents out of an abundance of caution.” Every year a number of positive bats are found throughout Yolo County, including Davis, but records going back to
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1950 show no human cases of rabies in residents of Yolo County, according to the county. Rabies is an infectious viral disease that is transmitted in the saliva of infected animals and affects the nervous system of humans and other mammals. “Unfortunately, there is no test in people to determine if a person has been exposed to rabies,” McHale’s message said. “If direct contact does occur between a person and a rabid animal, the person can be given rabies postexposure treatment. If treatment is given promptly, it is highly effective in preventing rabies in people.” However, once symptoms begin, rabies is invariably fatal, the message said. The Yolo County Department of Health and Human Services strongly recommends that parents interview their children to
determine if they had contact with the bat found at Davis High. “If contact did occur, it is important that you consult with your health care providers immediately to determine if rabies postexposure treatment is necessary,” said McHale. Additionally, he wrote, it is important to remember that seeing a bat or contacting a downed bat with one’s shoe are not actions that lead to transmission of rabies. “Please take this opportunity to discuss with your children how to safely behave around deceased or wild animals.” For more information, contact the Yolo County Department of Health and Human Services at 530666-8645. This isn’t the first time a rabid bat was found at Davis High. The school reported a rabid bat found in the gym back in 2017 as well.
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BOARD: District seeks to fill committee PLEA: Suspect says From Page A1 Juanitas added that the district has continued to see low rates of infection among staff and students. One staff member tested positive this week, she said, which hasn’t happened since March. And three students are currently in quarantine, and thus in distance learning, because they were exposed to a positive case. Superintendent John Bowes said the number of students returning to inperson learning has increased gradually over time since the model was launched on April 12. Overall, he said, about 72% of students are now learning in person, which amounts to about 83.5% percent of elementary school students, over 70% of junior high students and over 55% of high school students. Juanitas also talked about the district’s series of COVID-19 vaccine clinics, which have been held throughout May and will continue into June in light of the fact that anyone age 12 and up is now eligible to
receive the Pfizer vaccine. Juanitas said that on May 16, the district held a drive-thru vaccine clinic at Harper Junior High and vaccinated 1,019 people, with 755 of those vaccinated falling between the ages of 12 and 17. The district also held a walk up vaccine clinic at Harper on May 18, Juanitas said, and 400 students were vaccinated. A second-dose clinic was held by the district at Harper on Saturday, and additional second-dose clinics will be held at Harper on June 6 and June 8, according to Juanitas. And, she said, the district is working with the county to offer a vaccine clinic during summer school as well as one in September, if needed, so that all students age 12 and up are vaccinated as soon as possible. “The good news about improving conditions in Yolo County and wide access and good participation in vaccine clinics, especially with youth as young as 12 years old, is it all helps with our goal of providing a full in-person learning
offering when we begin the 2021-22 school year on August 25,” Bowes said.
Ethnic studies Rody Boonchouy, associate superintendent of instruction, kicked off the ethnic-studies presentation by talking about work that was done by the district’s task force. He said well over 100 people participated in the task force, which brought together many different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. The goal now, Boonchouy said, is to appoint an ethnic-studies advisory committee, which will be charged with reviewing the district’s definition of ethnic studies and helping inform a program recommendation for board adoption later this year. (Interested community members can apply on the ethnic-studies portion of the district website until May 26.) According to the presentation, the district currently defines ethnic studies as: “focused on the study of four racial ethnic groups of color: Native Americans,
African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latina/ o/x/ Americans, the field of ethnic studies explores the identities, institutional racism these groups have faced, their responses or resilience, and their diverse contributions to our multicultural society.” Boonchouy said the district is looking for applicants who have background knowledge or experience that will help contribute to the eventual ethnic-studies program recommendation. The first meeting of the advisory committee is scheduled for June 2, from 5 to 6 p.m. According to Boonchouy, the committee will meet twice a month through the summer and into the fall. The plan, he said, is for the committee to bring a program recommendation to the board in early November. Initial implementation of the program is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2022. — Reach Edward Booth at edward.booth@ mcnaughton.media. Follow him on Twitter at @Edward_E_Booth.
City hosts workshop on climate plan Special to The Enterprise The city of Davis announced a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) Community Resilience and Equity workshop for 5 p.m. Thursday, May 27. The link for the Zoom meeting is: https://zoom.us.j/92615944043 The city has created a CAAP email list and an online survey (in English and Spanish) at cityofdavis.org (click on CAAP link under the Spotlight section). The Community Resilience and Equity workshop was added to the schedule of CAAP community engagement in response to input and dialogue with stakeholders and has been designed in response to these comments. The goals of this meeting are to: ■ Listen to the lived life experience of community members impacted by climate change ■ Learn from each other about these impacts
■ Begin the discussion of how the CAAP plan and implementation can address equity and inclusion in the Davis context while solving for the risks of climate change and reducing greenhouse gases The Community Resilience and Equity workshop will include two panels to address the above goals. A panel of Davis community members moderated by Mayor Gloria Partida will share their lived experiences in relation to climate impacts. A second panel moderated by Jonathan London, UC Davis faculty director of the Center for Regional Change and associate professor in the Department of Human and Community Development, will provide stakeholder and equity advocate responses to Davis community needs and provide recommendations to identify ways the community can incorporate community resilience and equity into the CAAP planning and implementation process.
WORD: Promoting vaccines From Page A1 proud of, because to see the sign that we’ve seen for so long, Davis is better than that.” In the meantime, a Healthy Davis Together banner will be attached to the structure and “until there is a permanent sign, this is an easy way to make that look a whole lot more welcoming,” said Rachel Hartsough, arts and culture manager for the city of Davis. “The idea is to continue to have it be a welcome sign but to also promote the messaging through Healthy Davis that we want to continue to promote getting vaccinated, promote getting
tested and promote wearing a mask,” she said, adding, “this will stay up as a temporary piece.”
As stated in a council resolution, “Low-income communities, communities of color, the young, the disabled, the elderly and indigenous communities have suffered the gravest consequences of climate change, and remediation of these impacts requires the active consultation and protection of vulnerable and historically exploited populations.” The city of Davis’ CAAP Update will create a roadmap to net municipal and community carbon neutrality in the short term, identifying maximum efforts to implement carbon reduction actions by 2030. The target for total carbon neutrality is 2040, five years ahead of California’s 2045 target. A key focus of the CAAP is to fully incorporate equity, inclusion and diversity in the Davis context into the project planning and outreach.
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From Page A1 In a jailhouse interview with The Davis Enterprise two days later, Graham said he’d been target shooting with a .22-caliber rifle at a U-Haul truck parked on the debris-strewn property, not realizing that Beach was either inside or near the vehicle. Beach suffered a fatal bullet wound to her chest. Graham and Beach’s boyfriend attempted CPR at the scene, but Beach died after being transported to the hospital. “I would never hurt one of my friends,” Graham, 38, said during the tearful interview. “I feel horrible for what happened. I would never do it on purpose. I’m not a murderer.” The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office apparently drew the same conclusion. “We believe that this (agreement) more adequately covers the conduct that we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt,” Deputy District Attorney Deanna Hays
told Judge Timothy Fall during Graham’s court hearing Friday. Beach’s family, while devastated over her death, “think that this is a reasonable resolution.” “They’ll never get Sasha back, but they would like to see Mr. Graham held accountable, and they understand that this does a measure of that,” Hays added. Graham’s public defender, Andrea Pelochino, declined to comment on the plea agreement. Beach’s relatives are expected to deliver victim-impact statements at Graham’s sentencing hearing, scheduled for the morning of July 16 in Fall’s courtroom. Yolo County sheriff ’s detectives had also arrested Graham’s girlfriend on suspicion of being an accessory to a felony, but the District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute her. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
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his is not your father’s Oldsmobile,” said the car ad tag line. Well, this is not your father’s electric utility. The traditional electric utility is a simple ABC construct: The electricity is generated in one place (A) and sent down a wire (B) to the customer (C). In today’s electric world, power is generated from many sources and wires carry the current to and from diverse points, switching in fractions of seconds. Renewables — wind and solar — are driving the changes in the electric utility industry, but so are new and different demands on the utilities from customers, and new operating environments which include aberrant weather, wildfires, and cyberattacks. To cope with this more difficult environment utilities are digitizing: They are rapidly becoming connected. “The future utility will be driven by data analytics plus communications,” says Joe Weiss, a leading electric industry consultant in cybersecurity, particularly relating to programmable controllers and transformers. This future depends on broadband, which can carry vast amounts of data almost instantly, allowing the data to be analyzed and acted on in something close to real-time. Anterix, a Woodland Park, N.J.-based company, has just announced the formation of an extraordinary collaborative grouping — which it calls an “ecosystem” — of 37 high-tech companies to help the utilities with their broadband transition. This ecosystem includes ABB, Cisco, GE, Ericsson and Motorola, and is a de facto brain trust which will assist the utilities’ move into the digital future — turning them into what some are already calling “virtual utilities.” That, to my mind, is an exaggeration. But the value of data and data management is not. Data is being called the new oil and not without cause. It contains a treasure chest of information which, when unlocked, can reform utility practices and can help prepare for emergencies. Arshad Mansoor, president of the Electric Power Research Institute, says data can help the utilities “wring more” out of the existing infrastructure. That is more power from everywhere — from big central stations to dams to wind turbines and solar arrays. Also, data will be the cornerstone of smart city planning. Anterix, a relatively small but visionary firm, has licenses for a substantial amount of critical 900-megahertz spectrum. It is offering this to the utilities as the platform for private broadband networks. Already two important utilities, Ameren and San Diego Gas & Electric, have signed up. Separately, experimental licenses have been issued for 11 test sites, ranging from the giant and influential New York Power Authority to Texas State University. The companies in this ecosystem will advise, competitively design, and build out these networks, which will use the current standard LTE (4G) technology. Every utility CEO I have questioned tells me that what keeps them awake nights is cybersecurity. That worry is heightened after the attacks on SolarWinds and the Colonial Pipeline. Private networks offer secure communications, totally free of other networks and the internet, which is appealing to the utilities as they continue to bolster against cyberattacks. As for physical protection, Rob Schwartz, president and CEO of Anterix, says with a private network and a full deployment of sensors throughout the utility’s system, if a line breaks, the utility’s control center will know about it before the broken line hits the ground and it can be instantly de-energized, avoiding fires and danger to the public. Around utilities these days “resilience” is a watchword. Private communications networks can be an important part of resilience, says Schwartz. It isn’t like it was in dad’s day. We didn’t use the word ecosystem then, let alone apply it to strengthening utilities. — 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.
he most important section of the budgets that California governors propose — an initial one in January and a revised version in May — is a chart that projects revenues from major tax sources. The chart’s numbers are the financial basis for what the governor wants to do over the forthcoming fiscal year and several years to follow. The latest such chart, found on page 218 of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget, estimates that personal and corporate income taxes and sales taxes will generate $172.2 billion during the current year that ends on June 30, a whopping $33 billion increase from the previous year. The chart also projects that the tax systems will produce another $170.4 billion in the 2021-22 fiscal year, growing to $181.3 billion in 2024-25. The projections support Newsom’s “$100 billion California Comeback Plan” that he says will erase pandemic blues and bring prosperity and equity to the state, using surplus state funds and $27 billion in pandemic relief aid from the federal government. The Legislature, dominated by Newsom’s fellow Democrats, is certain to enact
his plan to sharply boost state spending on hundreds of new or expanded services and benefits, albeit with a few tweaks, thus endorsing his assumption that the money will be there when it’s time to spend it. But will it be? Tax revenue estimates are just educated guesses and California’s governors have a history of badly missing the markers they lay down. Our tax systems are notoriously volatile, making accurate forecasting difficult. A look at recent revenue projections illustrates the syndrome. Two years ago, before COVID-19 hit, Newsom’s budget expected revenues of $145.5 billion in the current 2020-21 fiscal year. One year ago, after the pandemic had struck and Newsom had ordered thousands of businesses to close, his May revision dropped that projection
LETTERS Take a moral stance Dear Rep. Garamendi, As an individual who is an active member of the Jewish community in Davis, I believe it is important to speak out regarding the current conflict engulfing Israel and Palestine. In this case, there is no consolidated body that can claim that it speaks for a unified Jewish community. Rather I am one Jewish constituent calling for your help. There is no question that there are political forces that are reaching out to extremist groups on both sides. On the Israeli side, it is a leadership that does not reflect a majority opinion and is dependent on support from an extreme right, both secular and religious. On the Palestinian side, Hamas also takes an extremist position and does not reflect a majoritarian view of Palestinians. That is why there has been no interest from the leadership of either side to end the confrontation. They each see a benefit in continuing the violence. Those who suffer are the ordinary people who are the recipients of the bombs. Without pressure from outside sources operating on moral grounds, the fighting will continue. In the meantime, people are losing
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to $116.4 billion. But now it’s been boosted up to $170.4 billion. Those are particularly wide swings, but we’ve seen similar, if less dramatic, versions in years and decades past. The volatility and unpredictability are almost entirely due to personal income taxes, which supply about 70% of the state’s general fund revenues. Nearly half of those income taxes come from the top 1% of taxpayers, much of whose incomes are capital gains, making the budget highly dependent on predicting how their portfolios of stocks and other assets will perform.
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ver the years, as income taxes and particularly taxes on the wealthy have provided everincreasing shares of the revenue stream, volatility has increased. Twelve years ago, a blue ribbon commission appointed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature recommended a major overhaul of the tax system to make it more predictable, but its report was ignored. When Jerry Brown became governor, he championed the creation of a “rainy day fund” to soak up some surplus
homes, land, livelihoods and lives. American politicians should take a moral position and not one of political expediency on this issue. Although I speak only for myself, if there is any way that I and others in our community ready to become actively involved with you, please call upon us. G. David Miller Davis
For the Class of 2021 Dear Class of 2021. There are people trying desperately to accelerate the growth/adaptation of coral reefs to adjust for the acidification and geologically sudden rise of sea waters. We wish them well as we resume air and land travel that accounts for 60% of global carbon emissions. Missing from your elder’s compassion for future generations is alignment with “I gave this up for you.” “I gave up flying for you, I gave up plastic for you, I gave up fast fashion for you, maybe not all, but very nearly, if not all.” The extravagance of disproportionate access to instantaneous mobility and consumption is depressing. We know it hurts you as we have continued to make excuses for a system that asks you to choose between access or conscience. Class of 2021, you know that instead of wagering on “success,” using money and privilege to insulate ourselves, that we
revenues and be available to cushion the impact of any unexpected economic downturn. The emergency fund was tapped last year, although it turned out the money was unneeded when revenues surprisingly ballooned as the incomes of the wealthy increased sharply despite the recession. Reserves are a prudent tool, but they remain small in relation to the huge potential revenue swings that the governor’s prognosticators are unable to reliably predict because of the state’s lopsided revenue system. The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, wisely suggests that Newsom and the Legislature spend less of the windfall and sock away more in reserves. However, with Newsom facing a recall election and legislators in a spending mood, they will likely commit the state to tens of billions of dollars in new spending with their fingers crossed. — CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/ commentary.
can fully realize human dignity. You know that we can choose to grow gardens, giving to the Earth more than we are taking. As you transition from high school to a four-year university or to an equally intentional new place, and someday later may transition to the home of a chosen partner; respect the legacy of that “new to you” place. That place comes with past actions — or lack of action — and will likely need mending. Find beauty in that community. Mend and grow that garden. Class, we know we need to help you by creating livelihoods of happy personal independence within communities of mutual reliance. We celebrate, with you, a world that will make and consume less and blossom in health and renewal. My congratulations to the class of 2021 from a member of the DHS class of ’79. May more of us elders lean in to help make a future of meaningful abundance for you. Scott Steward Davis
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Winner, winner, chicken dinner; or is it? I ’m on a going-out-to-lunch kick, seemingly with a mission to keep all restaurants in downtown Davis afloat with my lunching. Since I’ve been vaccinated, getting my second shot around St. Patrick’s Day, I estimate I’ve gone out to lunch with friends 6,000 times. Approximately. There are a lot of reasons I’m a fan of going out to lunch, but a big one is the fact that it has a finite end-time. You can’t be in the middle of a work day and stay at lunch for three hours, no matter how much you want to. (And, if you’ve read my column for a while, you know I never want to because I expire at two hours. See proof here: https:// tinyurl.com/ekdxddn9) Lunch dates are also a perfect part of working from home. First off, it makes me get out during the day, with actual publiclyacceptable bottoms on. My “indoor pants” as I’ve taken to calling pajama bottoms, seem inappropriate for Mikuni. Plus the change of scenery after so much time at home is revitalizing. It’s also more manageable to hop in my car that is right in front of my house and go to Paesano’s, rather than adding in the trek to and from my car — scenic
as my Arboretum-stroll from parking lot to building is — when I’m parked at my UC Davis office. But the real hidden value of all these lunch dates is something I’ve recently started referring to as “Big Meal,” in honor of an Atlantic column by the very excellent Amanda Mull. In this March column, “There’s no real reason to eat three meals a day,” (https://tinyurl.com/es34xf86), Mull taps into something I completely relate to but hadn’t formally identified in myself: I really don’t like eating three meals a day. Specifically, I dislike dinner. I’m generally really hungry mid-day, but eating a lot in the middle of the day means I’m not hungry at dinner when most people eat their bigger meals. If I lived alone and was responsible for feeding only myself, here’s a dream-day of
eating for me: Breakfast, wheat toast and oatmeal; lunch, chicken fajitas at Tres Hermanas; dinner, a bowl of shredded wheat, or grazing on whatever S is having for dinner. (Disclaimer: If calories were all created equal and junk food didn’t make you fat and clog your arteries, that oatmeal at breakfast would be a doughnut, and shredded wheat would be Cap’n Crunch.) As Mull says in her column, working from home and having no social plans thanks to the pandemic has caused her to eat when she wants. Big Meal, she explains, is now “untethered from linear time. … Big Meal comes when you’re ready to have it, which is a moment that only you can identify.” When I realized I’d been living by the principle of Big Meal for a while now is when Mull said this: “The phrase (Big Meal) started as a joke about … why I didn’t have an answer to ‘What’s for dinner?’ at 6 p.m. beyond, ‘Uh, well, I ate a giant burrito at 11 a.m. and grazed all afternoon, so I think I’m done for the day.’” Bingo. Now, Mull says, she simply replies about dinner, “I already
had Big Meal.” Poor S hears this on the regular now. He often texts around 3 p.m. to ask, “What do you want to do for dinner?” Woe unto him when my reply is, “I already had Big Meal.” Translation: I’m full, so I haven’t made anything and don’t want to go out anywhere. S loves dinner. It’s absolutely his favorite meal. Also, his favorite dessert is more dinner, and his favorite breakfast is leftover dinner. Big Meal is quite an unfortunate development for him when I have it at restaurants midday.
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ven on a weekend when we are both home, I often want to go out to a big lunch. S used to get excited about a big lunch, until he realized he’d likely be scrounging on his own for dinner. We’ve sat at many a 1 p.m. lunch where he’s announced, “This isn’t dinner!” Since reading Mull’s column, I’ve felt free to say, “Well, it’s Big Meal, so order wisely.” On the luckiest of days for S, I make Big Meal in the middle of the day (a great work-fromhome perk) and eat it around noon. When he is home for dinner, it’s ready when he is. The worst for him are days like Thursday of this past week,
where I had Tres Hermanas’ chicken fajitas during a lunch date with someone, and five hours later I was still full. It’s like I have the digestive system of a snake, and that rat I ate on Tuesday is still working its way through my gut. I swear I just had a flash of a funny incident when our kids were younger: After a big lunch out, I convinced the fam we’d have “dessert for dinner!” and I got all the supplies for makeyour-own ice cream sundaes. I laid it all out on the counter and 9-year-old D and 6-year-old T made 10,000-calorie goopy, gloppy creations for their dinners. Upon finishing, D earnestly asked, “What are we having for dessert?” I explained that the sundaes were dinner and dessert, that’s what “dessert for dinner means!” D was not having it … S had to whip up a small dinner for D and himself, while T and I had another sundae for dessertdessert. — Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.
On stormwater fees: Let’s take care of our needs BY DAN CARSON, ELAINE ROBERTS MUSSER AND LUCAS FRERICHS Special to The Enterprise
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e call upon our community to defend Davis from a serious potential climate threat. We face the risk that, sooner or later, superstorms like the renowned Pineapple Express will dump extraordinary amounts of rain on Davis. Unless we act with foresight, and vote “yes” on the city’s stormwater initiative, a catastrophic series of storms could someday inundate and disrupt our community and cause loss of life or property damage. It is time — in fact, long past time — for us to act to upgrade and modernize a stormwater control system with some equipment and facilities that are nearly a century old. If this system is not fixed, expanded, upgraded, and better staffed to conduct maintenance and other operations to proactively manage the system, it could fail, with potentially dire consequences: ■ Failure of the Richards Tunnel Pump Station No. 6, built in 1924 when the city was much smaller, would result in flooding of the Richards Boulevard tunnel that would cut off
COMMENTARY this route into and out of the city and potentially hinder the ability of our emergency services crews to respond to South Davis. A temporary pump must be brought in by truck sometimes to handle the excess water. ■ South Davis Pump Station No. 5, built in 1966, is subject to major flooding within the station itself, creating hazardous conditions for city staff and even thwarting their access to the pump during emergencies. Failure of the station would result in significant flood damage and flooding that could reach Interstate 80, causing safety and operational issues. ■ H Street Pump Station No. 3, which has protected Central Davis since 1948, is at risk of structural damage in a seismic event and is inadequately sized to meet the required capacity. Failure of this station would result in significant and widespread flooding within the area from State Route 113 to Pole Line and from just north of Covell to Russell Boulevard. Strict new government clean water standards require the removal of pollutants from stormwater
before entering our local waterways. This will require additional resources we don’t have. If you are a city of Davis property owner, you may have already received a ballot in the mail from the city. It will ask you to cast your vote on whether to adopt an increase in stormwater rates sufficient to fix these problems. We urge you to vote “yes.” The proposed stormwater fees are reasonable. For a Davis home on a medium-sized parcel, for example, the fee would increase from about $6 to $13 per parcel with future adjustments for inflation. While state law prohibits the city from discounting utility fees, there are several government programs in place to provide assistance for low-income persons affected by the pandemic that could assist in paying their entire city utility bill, including these fees. In the future, the City Council has the option to limit future increases in these fees that are offset by other revenue sources, such as federal or state grants. However, the fees can never exceed the amounts approved by voters. The stormwater fees paid by a particular property owner are based on a
formula reflecting what proportion of their property is taken up by impervious surfaces such as pavement and roofs that cause water runoff. Commercial properties, which generally have more impervious surfaces, will pay more. This is a fundamentally fair approach to allocating these costs. A more detailed explanation can be found at storm water.cityofdavis.org. The roughly $4 million in annual revenue generated by the fees will allow the city to finance $34 million in critically needed capital improvement projects to upgrade the pumping stations highlighted above and improve other facilities. This funding is needed because our stormwater system is a massive and complex piece of infrastructure — with 195 miles of storm drain pipes, drainage channels, and access roads, and 3,400 storm drain inlets that must be inspected and cleared before the rainy season each year. The fee revenues cannot be used for any other program or purpose than stormwater management and cannot be taken away by state government. The money must be used in Davis to fix Davis’ stormwater problems. The process to move
forward with the fees has been transparent. The proposed stormwater charges are based on a detailed rate study prepared by an independent expert which is available for public review. The study was scrutinized and approved by our independent citizen Utilities Commission in a public meeting and then discussed in a series of officially noticed public forums. Only 18 property owners filed opposition protests. Following an additional public hearing, the City Council voted unanimously to send the proposal forward for a vote by the owners of 16,000 properties within the city, in keeping with the process placed into the California Constitution by Proposition 218. Proposition 218 specifies that property owners, the parties legally obligated to pay the fee increase, get to make these sorts of decisions. If a property owner has multiple properties in Davis, they will get one vote per parcel. Their ballots will soon arrive in the mail if they have not already done so. Please return your ballot by mail or deliver it in person to the City Clerk’s Office at 23 Russell Boulevard, Suite 1, in Davis. It must be received by 5 p.m.
on June 25, 2021, not just postmarked by that date, so if you are replying by mail it would be wise to get your ballot in well ahead of that deadline to ensure it counts. Call the City Clerk at 530-7575648 to arrange for inperson delivery. As we are all learning, climate change leads to more extreme wet and dry years in our region. Right now, another California drought is looming. Fortunately, our city leaders and Davis voters had the foresight in 2013 to approve the purchase of additional water rights on the Sacramento River and to partner in the surface water project with Woodland to bring that water to Davis. Your “yes” vote on the stormwater initiative will show that we will do our part again to protect our community from catastrophic future rainstorms that could also result from climate change. Let’s take care of Davis. Let’s deal with the realities of climate change. Let’s vote yes for the stormwater fees needed to protect our community from harm. — Dan Carson is a Davis city council member. Elaine Roberts Musser is a member of the city Utilities Commission. Lucas Frerichs is the vice mayor of Davis.
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Answers: 1966 (so the 1960s), Sweden, Freewheeler Bicycle Center, 16,000, Milan Kundera. — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” Dr. Andy is now also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquiz master.com.
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have always liked Tony La Russa. I’ve never met him, but from what I know, he’s good for the game of baseball as he continues his Hall of Fame career as the manager of the Chicago White Sox. The other night, though, he publicly shamed one of his star players for hitting a home run. I am not making this up ... The White Sox, who have been on a tear in the early baseball season, were leading the Minnesota Terrible Twins, 15-4, in the top of the ninth inning. Things were so bad for the Twins that they had already waved the white flag of surrender by putting utility player Willians Astudillo on the mound for the final inning. This was no longer a Major League Baseball game. No, it had devolved into an exhibition that should have enraged the handful of paying customers who remained. With two outs and no one on base in the top of the ninth, 28-year-old rookie sensation Yermin Mercedes came to the plate for the White Sox with his leagueleading .368 batting average. After taking three balls, Mercedes smacked Astudillo’s fourth offering — described as a 47 mph “eephus” pitch — into the cheap seats in centerfield for a home run.
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n eephus pitch is described as a high-arcing, exceptionally lowspeed pitch. It’s clear from watching the replay that Astudillo was simply clowning around. He most definitely would not have been on the mound if the score had been 3-3 in the top of the ninth. Afterward, La Russa was unhappy. Not with the silly eephus pitch, but with Mercedes for even swinging at such a toss. He said it was bad sportsmanship to hit a home run in a situation like that. According to the sports wizzes at ESPN, who can apparently push a button and instantly come up with the most obscure statistic in the history of baseball, in the last 20 years, hitters have seen 557 pitches with a 3-0 count when their teams were up by 10 runs or more. Who knew? Turns out Yermin Mercedes was the only one ever to swing at such a pitch. “If you think you need more runs to win, you keep pushing,” La Russa said. “If you think you have enough, respect the game and the opposition. Sportsmanship.” I’m a big believer in sportsmanship. But what did La Russa want his slugger to do, strike out? Walk to first if the pitch produced ball four, which might also lead to more runs?
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BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise sports editor It was a win that could’ve caused cardiac arrest. But at the end of the night Friday, 20 Davis High girls lacrosse players and a stadium full of Blue Devil fans went home with smiles on their faces. Junior Devon Morris played the part of Ms. Clutch. Her senior batterymate, Meilla Blissett, was the X-Factor. And freshman Tory Agnew was the Unsung Hero as the Lady Devils stunned visiting Vista Del Lago, 13-12, in overtime in a match that served as both schools’ season finalé. “We’d had another overtime game just last week against St. Francis,” explained Morris, who sent a shot whistling past the Eagles’ goalie just over a minute into extras that sealed the deal. “And I found myself in the same situation.” Vista scored as time expired in regulation to knot the score, 12-12. In sudden death OT, the
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Davis High lacrosse players swarm Tory Agnew after her go-ahead goal late in the Blue Devils’ match against Vista Del Lago. Eagles also won the draw. “The nerves were really there,” Morris went on, describing the tension. But under the pressure, the Devil D stayed calm ... Whistled for an illegal pick, VDL turned the ball over with just under two minutes remaining. Agnew chaperoned the rock downfield, distributing it to
Blissett as the clock continued to tick down. “And Meilla and I found ourselves behind the goal,” Morris told The Enterprise. “It was just like it had happened against St. Francis when she’d scored the game winner. “And we ran our play.” Only this time, Blissett was the distributor. Morris got the golden goal.
“It was awesome,” said Sydney Skinner — one of the Devils’ nine seniors honored prior to the start of the match. The future Colorado Mesa University laxer called it one of the closest games she’d ever experienced. A neck-and-neck affair from the get-go, DHS never led by more than two goals. It was Vista that emerged from a 5-5 logjam at the half to score twice in two minutes, putting the Devils on their heels early in the second period. Enter the Unsung Hero. On a pristinely-executed 8-meter fake, Agnew found Colette Quaas for Davis’ seventh score of the ballgame. Not even 30 seconds later, Amara Higgins burned through a patch of VDL defenders to net her second of four goals on the night. Then it was Agnew’s turn to torpedo. Converting on an 8-meter try, she recorded her second goal of the match before taking a draw control all the way, tossing a shot past the Vista keeper that tied it, 10-10. DHS traded goals with Eagles in the final 5 minutes, with Vista tying it, 12-12,
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Trey Doten added six goals and UC Davis-bound attacker Joshua Davis netted four in the road victory in Stockton. Ryan Pfeifer also accounted for a pair of net breaches, while Jonny Vochatzer scored a single. DHS goalie Juan Ramirez made seven stops, Doten added a teamhigh six steals and Joshua Davis pitched out six assists. The Devils will be back on the road next Tuesday for a 4 p.m. meeting with Vintage.
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St. Mary’s of Stockton was the most recent team caught in the Lady Devils’ wake. Suffering a 19-3 girls water polo loss to the locals, the Rams were held scoreless the entire first half Thursday, thanks to the fine play of DHS netminder Maddie Walker (seven saves). Kenzie Walker scored six goals, Lindsay Taylor pushed through five, Malaya Wright had four and Lucie Lapuz, Iz Meraz, Kathleen Sheridan and Alyssa Waterson tossed in one each. Sara Kos added three steals. Friday, the Devils dropped their second match of the season to Acalanes, 11-7, in Moraga. Kenzie Walker scored five times in the loss. Taylor and Waterson had single goals. Davis bounced back Saturday afternoon, beating Campolindo, 10-7, behind a 15-save performance by Maddie Walker. Again, Kenzie Walker led the offense with four goals, while Taylor pumped in a hat trick, Waterson scored a pair and Lapuz hit paydirt once. DHS heads to Wine Country next Tuesday for a 5 p.m. match versus Vintage.
Boys water polo Alex Cordone had the Rams number Thursday, pumping seven scoring strikes past the St. Mary’s goalkeeper as the Devil boys won, 20-11.
Improving to 4-0 in Delta League play Thursday, the Lady Devils outlasted Cosumnes Oaks, 51-49, in Elk Grove. A tight game from start to finish, DHS freshman Alia Cordone’s team-high 12 points were crucial down the stretch, including four fourth-quarter free throws. Mara Bledsoe added 11 and Skylar Schouten scored 8. DHS returned to the hardwood Friday against Pleasant Valley (Chico), beating the Vikings in another close match-up, 52-50. As the Devils battled back from 12 points down, Devil post Tessa Schouten detonated, finishing with a career-high 22 points. “Bella Oliva the really clutch one,” head coach Heather Highshoe told The Enterprise. “She hit two 3s in the fourth quarter that tied us at 44.”
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Devil post Alia Cordone’s (13) clutch free throws down the stretch helped Davis High defeat Cosumnes Oaks Thursday, 51-49. The 6-foot freshman’s 12 points led all scorers in the win.
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Four UC Davis student-athletes — three from the men’s team, one from the women’s — earned entrance in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships West Preliminaries at Texas A&M University from Wednesday through Saturday. The four Aggies are sophomore Matthew Okonkwo in the men’s 400-meter dash, junior Jered Española in the men’s pole vault, junior Anthony Easter in the men’s 400-meter hurdles and senior Sarah Anderson in the women’s 10,000 meters. Okonkwo captured a share of the Big West Conference Male Track Athlete of the Year award as the league office unveiled its year-end track-and-field honors on Thursday. The Murietta Mesa High graduate also earned Male Track Athlete of the Meet at the Big West Conference Championships last weekend, thanks to meet titles in the 200 (21.23) and 400 (47.26) plus his contributions in the Aggies’ secondplace 4x100 relay and third-place 4x400 squad. Easter finished second in the 110 hurdles (14.32) and third in the 400 hurdles (51.86), while also taking part in the 4x400. Española successfully defended his Big West title in the pole
UCD ROUNDUP vault, falling a centimeter shy of his PR with a winning 5.21m (17-1) leap.
Carper at NCAAs Freshman golfer Lucas Carper wrapped up his first career postseason appearance with a final-round 76 on Tuesday afternoon, finishing in a tie for 43rd with an 11-over 227 at the 2021 NCAA Stillwater Regional at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla. The Big West Conference individual champion was among a group of four individuals knotted on the leaderboard. The Leland High product parred the par-5 opening hole and finished the front nine at 2-over following a birdie on the ninth hole, heading to the turn with a little momentum. A birdie on the 14th hole had the second-year freshman even on the back, but a bogey on 15 and a double on 17 slowed him down a bit before ending the regional on a high note, carding a birdie on the par-five 18th.
HERO All-Americans UCD punter Daniel Whelan was selected to the HERO Sports Football
Championship Subdivision 2020-21 All-America team, running back Lan Larison made the Freshman AllAmerica squad, and tight end McCallan Castles earned Sophomore All-America accolades, the online outlet announced earlier this week. This is the third All-American award in 10 days for Whelan, a sustainable environmental design major originally from Dublin, Ireland. He earned similar acclaim from Stats Perform on May 18, then made the American Football Coaches Association honor roll last Friday.
Softball Junior second baseman Sommer Kisling, freshman pitcher Kenedi Brown and freshman first baseman Sarah Starks represented Davis among the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I All-Region honorees, as announced by that organization Thursday. Each Aggie made the third team, taking their place among 380 studentathletes from 154 programs. NFCA-member head coaches from each of the 10 regions voted for the winners, with all honorees now eligible for the NFCA All-America squads, which will be announced on June 2.
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victory for the athletes and a comeuppance for a university that prides itself on its pristine reputation. That’s pretty much the final score in the Stanford athletics department reinstating the 11 sports it had originally planned to cut last July. The last straws were several, not the least of which was a pair of what could have been lengthy, drawn-out lawsuits that Stanford’s lawyers probably figured they could not win. Add constant, fact-based media coverage, led by S.F. Chronicle journalist Ann Killion, and the story Stanford wanted to go away would not. But the most poignant image of this entirely unfortunate mess was that of Stanford wrestler Shane Griffith, after winning the 165pound NCAA championship. Griffith wore a plain black singlet, the red Cardinal logo having been
removed to represent his and others’ protests of the school’s proposed program cuts. The photo went viral in a matter of minutes. In the end, Stanford athletes, past and present, stood up as one. The administration had no choice but to stand down. Cutting sports at the varsity level is never a good idea, mainly because of the backlash that comes with it and the athletes affected. Schools would be well-advised to only have the number of sports they can afford and fund properly. ■ Kings GM Monte McNair this week gave the team’s longtime sufferers (fans, sponsors, players, coaches, OK, most everyone) some hope with his decision to retain Luke Walton as coach. Walton’s 62-82 record over two seasons is usually a ticket out of town, but McNair realizes, correctly, that the franchise cannot keep churning players and coaches
in and out the door and hope to be successful. Basketball operations has never truly been the sole problem with the Kings. They’ve had competent coaches and GMs. The problem lies elsewhere and anyone with even a cursory knowledge of sound management practices knows where. ■ Pittsburgh’s Rennie Stennett, the only player in baseball history to go 7 for 7 in a nine-inning game, has died at age 72. In a 22-0 rout of the Chicago Cubs, Stennett had two doubles, a triple,
Mercedes, a 28-year-old rookie. Mercedes either didn’t recognize the sign or simply ignored it. So he swung at a 3-0 meatball and hit a home run. LaRussa, 76, and managing for the first time in a decade, reacted in old-school fashion. He called out his own player, then apologized to the Twins. Mercedes’s take: “I have to be me.” ■ The late, great Jim Croce put it best: “Isn’t that the way they say it goes?” The Giants scored 19 runs on Thursday and won. They scored 1 on Friday and lost. ■ 40 dingers in less than 120 games: Hank Aaron in 1973 and Matt Williams in 1994. — The longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Reach him at DKelly1416@aol.com.
scored five times and had 11 total bases. The Giants’ Brandon Crawford had seven hits in a 2016 game that went 14 innings. No one had seven hits in a game between 1975 when Stennett did it and Crawford’s “7-hitter” five years ago. Crawford’s feat came after he was in a 6-for-36 slump. ■ Only two National League hitters hit 40 or more home runs in less than 120 games. Who are they? Answer below. ■ It’s difficult to take anything Alex Rodriguez says about baseball seriously given his numerous suspensions (one of them seasonlong) as a player for drug use. ■ No better example of oldschool baseball colliding with new-school baseball: The White Sox, up 15-4 over the Twins with the Twins using a position player on the mound. On a 3-0 count, Sox manager Tony LaRussa gave the take sign to his hitter, Yoemin
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More than any other sport, baseball is a game of statistics. Batting averages, earned run averages, runs batted in, home runs, stolen bases, strikeouts, walks, on-base percentage, slugging percentage. I honestly don’t know of a single player who is less interested in getting a base hit if his team is leading 18-0 than if the game is tied. Or a pitcher who is less interested in getting a batter out despite having an insurmountable lead. There are thousands and thousands of examples of a relief pitcher coming on in the ninth inning with a 10-run lead and striking out the side. But nobody said it was bad sportsmanship to do so. There are even more examples of players hitting home runs when their team has a 10-run lead. Some have even hit grand slams. Bad sportsmanship? I don’t think so. Let’s go back to June 29 of 1952 when the Cincinnati Redlegs led the Chicago Cubs, 8-2, in the top of the ninth, with two Cubs already out and no Cubs on base. Who won? The Cubs, 9-8. How about Seattle’s 12-0 early lead over Cleveland in 2001? Cleveland
scored fives times after two were out in the bottom of the ninth and eventually won, 15-14, on Jolbert Cabrera’s RBI single in the bottom of the 11th. In 1925, the Philadelphia Athletics trailed Cleveland, 15-4, in the top of the eighth and still managed to pull out a 17-15 win. You can’t take the lead in baseball and then simply run out the clock. No, you always have to get that final out. In games like football and basketball, I do think it’s bad form to run up the score by leaving your starters in the game longer than necessary. But when the reserves finally see some action, they should be allowed to play the game for real. If La Russa was so concerned that the big lead the White Sox had should not become even larger, there was a simple solution at hand. He should have sent a pinch-hitter to the plate for Yermin Mercedes and let his league-leading slugger take a seat on the bench. Of course, the pinch-hitter might have tried to knock one out of the park as well. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.
LACROSSE: Seniors exit with win From Page B1 as the clock ran out. “I wish we didn’t have to make it so close,” Morris said. “That was really stressful. “But we stayed level-headed and we battled. And in the end, we really deserved it.” Morris ended the match with a hat trick, along with Agnew, while Higgins’ four goals led all scorers. Quaas finished with two, capping off a 41-goal season and Grace Scheuring pumped in her 15th career netbender. Skinner’s three ground balls also led Big Blue. Along with fellow defender Ella Heringer, she advanced the ball past the mid-line through heavy traffic, time and again Friday. The match marked the final appearances in a DHS jersey for Devil seniors Higgins (Army-West Point), Jessie
Finkelor (UC San Diego), Lauren Lee (UCLA), Skinner (Colorado Mesa), Charlotte Bowler (U.S. Coast Guard), Grace Heringer (UC Davis), Gracie Hartsough (UC Santa Barbara), Blissett (Cal Poly) and Rosie Mariano (UCLA). Added Skinner, a fourth-year varsity starter and team captain: “I tried out for a team four years ago ... I got a family out of it.” Notes: DHS had won 7-4 and 10-8 in its previous two meetings with the Eagles this spring. ... The Devils end the season 13-3 overall. ... Quaas’ 41 goals led the unit, while Higgins finished with 34 and Agnew with 30. Higgins and Quaas each recorded 13 assists, while goalie Stella Cardenas made 74 stops. Davis scored 204 total goals, allowing opponents to net just 123. — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.
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Oliva scored 7, while Skylar Schouten and Cordone each had 6. With a 10-5 résumé, DHS resumes Delta League play Thursday at Franklin (7 p.m.).
Wrestling Grappling with Sheldon on Friday at the Davis High North Gym, eight Davis High seniors were honored in what was the Devils’ final home match of 2021. Senior Ethan Rosendale’s win by pin in his second match of the evening capped the event, which also featured strong performances from Devils Liam Kinney, Josh Prudhomme, Wyatt Bluecoat, Sam Reising and Juana Peralta. “I’ve been so impressed with all of the kids this spring,” Devil head coach John Rosendale told The Enterprise after. “I didn’t know how may we’d have come out this year, but brand new kids showed up and, boy, did they put in work. Junior James Davis also won a match by pin, earning high praise from the elder Rosendale. “He’s part of the up and coming core,” the veteran coach explained. “Along with guys like Vance Tangren, Kosta Christopulos, Andrea Gonzalez, Avangelina (Turner) and Kelsey Bordios. “They’re way ahead of anything I’d ever expect from new wrestlers.” The Devils’ eight graduating seniors include: Aaron Turner, Zach Brooks (Whitworth), Ethan Horowitz (Colorado), Noor Mashiana (Cal), Rosendale (U.S. Air Force), Tristan Wollrich (Santa Barbara Community
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Baseball Saturday was a day to forget for the Blue Crew after DHS suffered an 8-0 loss at the hands of the Sac-Joaquin Section’s topranked Elk Grove. The muting dropped Davis to 16-9 overall and 6-9 in Delta League play. It was just the second time this spring that the Devils had been held scoreless. DHS returns to the diamond Tuesday for a 4 p.m home game against Cosumnes Oaks.
Track and field In Dublin for the Distance Fiesta on Saturday, a handful of Blue Devils hit the oval. Abby Carroll was Davis’ top girls finisher in the 1,600 (5:39.22) with Grace Dwyer (5:43.58) and Amie Huang (5:50.76) close behind. Jessica Oslund (6:16.56) and Anna Kelly
(6:26.49) also raced. In the boys’ 1,600, Diego Perez was fifth, clocking in at 4:16.33. Ansel Tucker finished 13th (4:21.15) and sophomore Ryan Mitchell crossed the line at 4:27.80 to snare a 3-second PR. Other Devils in the 1,600 were Connor Cougevan (4:37.41), Luca Maes (4:59.46), Elian Malessy (5:02.19), Thomas Doherty (5:04), Carlos Campos (5:11.43), Jefferson Wright (5:14.35), Jacob Hertz (5:17.56), Kyle Watkins (5:18.16), Gavin Rashid (5:19.90), Jay Doctor (5:20.43) and Jayson Sisco (5:26.71). “If we had an Athlete of the Week award this spring, I’d be nominating Ryan Mitchell,” Devil coach Tim Groth said. “His race was that good; excellent execution and he won his heat. “He’s been putting in a lot of hard work and it paid off Saturday.” Anaya Browning placed 35th in the girls 800 (2:29.54), Amie Huang came in a second behind (2:30.56) and Madeline Zafonte finished in 2:42.96.
Boys basketball The Davis High boys fell to Pleasant Valley (Chico), 92-69, on the road in nonleague play Saturday. The Blue Devil offense was fueled by three doubledigit scorers, with Isaiah Conlan dropping 17 points and Colin Walsh and Jackson Isidor adding 16 each. Ish Bull Bear added 5 points and Brett Wiebe tallied 4 in the contest. The loss was Davis’ second of the season. The Blue Crew now boasts a 3-2 record heading into its next game against Pleasant Grove, at home on Monday.
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OBITUARIES Catherine Marie Speck d. April 5, 2021
With great sorrow we announce that dearly beloved Cathy Speck passed away on April 5, 2021, from neuroendocrine cancer. Cathy was born in Davis, raised, and graduated high school in her beloved hometown, from where she did not stray far or long, and which was woven into the fabric of her life as she was into the tapestry of Davis. Cathy worked for 24 years at the Davis Food Co-op, a place she loved dearly, and her nightly “This Is The Queen!” closing announcements will joyfully live in many SPECK memories. Cathy was an exceptionally wonderful singer, most notably writing and performing in Duval Speck and rockin’ the crowds as the lead singer in The Essentials. Cathy was inducted into the Davis Hall of Fame in 2011, awarded the Thong Hy Huynh Award in 2014, the 2019 Women of the Year Award of the 3rd Congressional District of California, presented a Tedx talk in 2014, and along with Linda Duval was given the “Harmony In Our Lives” award in 2013. Cathy loved people, performing, singing, camping, sun and water, writing, triking, smiling and laughing, helping others, creating her art and phonetos, watching movies, texting and posting, and her snacks. Her passing is grieved by her survivors Linda Duval (and Mazie); BFF Angela Simon; sistah Jennifer Terra; siblings Barbara (Salonius), Peg (Grady), Jim Speck, Mary Speck; 34 (great) nieces and nephews; and many, many dear friends. A memorial celebration is pending, please visit https:// www.evergreenmemorialsacramento.com/catherinemarie-speck for details.
Jean Lorraine Camacho d. April 14, 2021
With sadness her family announces that Jean Camacho died at home on April 14, 2021, in Davis, surrounded by her children and her sister, after a courageous battle with cancer. Jean was born in Westwood, Lassen County, on April 21, 1937. Jean married and moved to Yolo and then to Woodland where she raised her family. She was divorced and seeking a career when she was accepted into the LVN program at Sacramento City College in 1974. Jean excelled in her studies, making the honor roll every semester. Upon graduation Jean worked at the Woodland Clinic. She was an organizer there, gaining union representation for employees following an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. Jean was selected by her coworkers to serve on the negotiating committee which led to Woodland Clinic employees securing their first union contract for better pay and benefits. She continued to serve as a union steward for many years. In addition to the clinic, Jean worked CAMACHO for several private practices during her career. Jean moved to Davis in 1987 and was employed by Kaiser Permanente when she retired. Jean was an excellent nurse — knowledgeable, compassionate, professional, and meticulous in her work habits, always striving to exceed her own high standards. After retirement Jean fulfilled her dream of returning to the mountain and lake area where she grew up when she moved to Lake Almanor. She loved nature and all creatures. She enjoyed her family visiting as often as possible to share the beauty of the lake and Mt. Lassen with them. Jean made many friends in Lake Almanor. She was a member of the Lake Almanor Fire Sirens, a volunteer group who supported the Lake Almanor firefighters. She bowled with the Almanor ladies league. Jean eventually returned to Davis, but always treasured her years at the lake. Jean lived a full life. She enjoyed trips to Europe, Mexico and throughout the U.S. Her recent travels were to England and Scotland in 2019. She loved wine and good food; live theater, especially on Broadway; music and going to the movies. Jean found joy in the simple things in life. Most of all she found joy in her family and family events. Jean had five children: Kimberley (Bob), Cathy, Chris (deceased), Kurt and Carrie; grandchildren Ashley (Thomas), Sydney (Randall), Devin (Mara), Kalin and Tanner; and great-grandchildren Harvey, Conrad, Ellie, Cecily, Bennett Cora. She was adored by them all and will be missed forever. Jean is also survived by her sister Karen, other family members and lifelong friends. Jean remained a small-town girl at heart and was gracious, kind, humble and honest. She exemplified dignity, strength and bravery in her year-long fight against cancer. She was laid to rest in a private service near her beloved son Chris at the Chester Cemetery. A celebration of life will be held for Jean at a later date. To be notified of the date or if you wish to contact the family, please send an email to notifyjlc1@gmail.com.
Judith Baron Murphy
Feb. 24, 1938 — April 30, 2021 Judith Baron Murphy passed away on April 30, 2021, in Helena, Mont., following a long illness. She was born Feb. 24, 1938, in Rochdale, Lancashire, UK. She trained as a laboratory technician in England and came to the U.S., where she worked at the University of Redlands, UC Riverside and UC San Diego. She came to Davis with her husband, Terence Murphy, and worked with him and with Prof. Alan Stemler in the botany (later plant biology) department and with Prof. Marilyn Etzler in the Biochemistry Department. She is survived by her husband, her daughter Shannon Knotts, and three grandchildren.
Melvin King Neville
Jan. 5, 1939 — March 31, 2021 Surrounded by family, Melvin King Neville, 82, passed away on March 31 at his home in Davis. In a true testament to his character, Melvin showed the same kindness and strength in his final days that epitomized his life. He is survived by his wife of nearly 57 years, Anna; brother Richard; children — Lawrence, Sarah, Amy, Jesse, Roger, Annelise and Gregory — as well as a long-term exchange student, Fatma, and 11 grandchildren. Mel graduated from Tucson High School in Arizona in 1956 and was awarded the National Merit Scholarship Program in recognition of outstanding performance and
promise. He attended the California Institute of Technology and received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He also obtained a master’s degree in physics and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University. In the fall of 1963, Melvin met his future wife, Anna, at a Harvard Law School mixer with Wheelock College. NEVILLE They married in August of 1964 in Troy, N.Y. On a National Institute of Mental Health Research grant, the couple moved to Northern India, where Melvin studied the social behavior of Rhesus monkeys. In 1966, they moved to Davis, where he began teaching anthropology at UC Davis. He remained at UCD until 1976 but spent many of those years in South America along with his growing family. First in Trinidad and Venezuela for fieldwork, circa 1971-74, Melvin worked for the Pan American branch of the United Nations in Columbia before moving to Peru along with Anna, Lawrence, and Sarah. Returning to the U.S., Melvin became an assistant professor in anthropology at Loyola University in Chicago and obtained a master’s degree in computer science from Loyola in 1984. In 1985, the Neville family moved to Flagstaff, Ariz., where he taught computer science at Northern Arizona University and retired as a full professor in June 2004. While at NAU, he also taught computer science classes at the Technological Institute of Nogales in Mexico. Mel was a dedicated and gifted teacher who continued to be contacted by former students throughout his life and was infamous for his Mars Course. Upon retirement, Melvin and Anna returned to Davis and spent lots of time enjoying grandchildren living in Davis, Burbank and Portland and traveling. Mel enjoyed hiking and biking, was a voracious reader, loved classical music, ballet and theater. Speaking Spanish, German and Russian fluently, he joined the UCD International House to participate in language groups for Spanish and German and was learning Mandarin. A loving husband, dad, grandfather and friend, Mel will be remembered for living with honor, kindness, and compassion as well as for his dry sense of humor. He worked toward creating a better world and held volunteer positions at Sutter Health Davis as a greeter and Spanish interpreter, for the Davis Public schools and hosting a refugee family from Cambodia. A full obituary may be viewed at https://www.smith -funerals.com/obituary/Melvin-Neville.
Wayne “T.J.” Rebstock, son of Wayne and Ellen Rebstock, passed away on March 28, 2021, at the age of 44. His friends and family knew him as T.J. He grew up in Davis and Woodland where he played youth sports and met many of his lifelong friends. He was a multitalented varsity athlete at Dixon High School and went on to receive an athletic scholarship in baseball to Menlo College in 1994. He was a lifelong fan of sports, and a “die hard” San Francisco 49ers and Giants fan. He REBSTOCK worked professionally in waste water management for the majority of his career and received one of the highest certification levels in the industry. Since, childhood he loved to camp, fish and spend time in Pinecrest with his family and friends. He was bright and funny with enormous life potential and a magnetic charisma that will be missed. He is survived by his two children, his parents and his sister. May his heart and soul rest in peace.
Verne Harry Scott
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Verne Scott was born June 19, 1924, and passed away at the age of 96, in Sonora on Dec. 16, 2020. Verne Scott loved life. He was an exuberant extrovert, one with tremendous curiosity, eagerness to learn and loved to converse with people. Verne had endless energy for; work, volunteering, eagerly supporting and helping his kids, grandkids and people in general, exercising, engaging enthusiastically as community member and clearly participating fully in life on a daily basis. Verne was passionate, upbeat and truly embraced his 96 years of life. He was not ready to die. Instead, Verne was ready to invest in his next chapter of living, so much so that he purchased a scooter when he was 96 to get out and about and perhaps meet a new person along the way and share a conversation. Verne, the eldest son along with his SCOTT brother Dave and Richard, were raised in Salem, Ore., by his parents Lois Martha Tyler and Harry Willard Scott. Verne’s early years were spent going to school and working for his parents at the family bicycle store, which still remains in Salem as “Scott’s Cycle & Fitness.” Verne’s tremendous work ethic initiated as a youngster was a prominent characteristic throughout his life. Verne squeezed in time between school and work to earn his Eagle Scout honor. After graduating from Salem High School, Verne started college at Willamette University in Salem and also enlisted in the Navy College Program. He earned his master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Michigan. While pursuing his master’s degree in Michigan, Verne met his future wife, Dorothy Jane Forshee. They were married on June 23, 1948. They had three children, Patti, David and Jane. Verne, in 1948 was employed as a professor at UC Davis in the water, science and engineering department. He attended Colorado State University in Ft. Collins earning his doctorate. He returned to UC Davis to continue his professorship for 41 years, retiring In 1989. At UCD, Verne was one of the pioneers and creators of the Planned Educational Leave Program. This fit Verne well; the program was new, exciting and a golden opportunity for students to garner experiential learning. Verne had life with multiple facets well beyond his academic career at UC Davis. Verne became passionate about his own athletic lifestyle in his 50s. Verne followed he’s wife Dorothy by participating in the master’s swim program that his son David started in 1974. Verne expanded he’s athletic endeavors competing in swim meets, cycling, running and triathlons. Verne’s voracious appetite for knowledge and pursuit of a healthy life style allowed him to flourish throughout his last 30 years of his life. Verne’s new found love of athletics, in combination with his strong work ethic and his abilities to organize started a long and committed life creating and supporting youth and adult athletic organizations and events. These include Davis Aquadarts, Davis Aquatic Masters Board, Parks & Recreation Commission, USA Pacific Masters Swimming, National Triathlon Federation, which is now the USA Triathlon (USAT) governing body. After years of participation and serving on numerous committees with USAT, he was voted into the first Triathlon Hall of Fame in 2008. Verne and Dorothy moved to Boulder, Colo., in 2000 to be closer to their younger grandchildren. Verne continued to be involved with promoting triathlons and was the director of the USA Triathlon history committee. Following Dorothy’s passing in 2013, Verne relocated to Sonora. He moved into his independent apartment in January 2014. He loved his home that looked out over a field full of wildlife. In Sonora, he enjoyed educational and sporting events, concerts, theater and the farmers market. He religiously continued to swim, walk, golf and do his home exercises. In continuing Dorothy’s love of birds, Verne joined the local Audubon Society. Verne had three bird feeders
Dr. G. Wolfgang Fuhs, age 88, of Davis, passed away May 9, 2021. Born in Cologne, Germany on May 19, 1932, to Lisette Ilse (Stayen) and Dr. Friedrich Karl Fuhs, Wolfgang was raised in Cologne and environs. He received his biology degree from the University of Bonn, and in 1956 he graduated with his Ph.D. in Natural Sciences: botany, microbiology, chemistry and zoology from the University of Bonn. He was a pioneer in environmental sciences with research interests in environmental microbiology, freshwater and coastal ecosystems. Rather than pursue a career in academia in Europe, he moved his young family to the United States, accepting a post in 1964 as Senior Research Scientist with the Environmental Health Department of New York (Albany). He lived in Delmar until 1979 with his wife, Heidy Fuhs and family. In 1973 Wolfgang was promoted to director of the environmental health branch of the New York State Laboratories. He also served as adjunct professor FUHS in microbiology at the State University of Albany and as Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Wolfgang was appointed chair of the International Joint Commission for the Great Lakes, formed under the Boundary Waters Treaty, Canada-USA. His consulting activity included serving on research grant committees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. Wolfgang’s major projects included restoration of lakes in New York state, analyses of microbiological factors in wastewater treatment, and studies of acid rain. In 1985 Wolfgang moved to California, becoming director of the California State Public Health Laboratories in Berkeley. Until his retirement in 1998, he worked at the California Environmental Protection Agency establishing an environmental accreditation program. In Davis, Wolfgang was an enthusiastic participant in the Early Music group, performing on his clavichord, harpsichord and fortepiano together with other instrumentalists. He was also an avid collector of early keyboard music manuscripts, visiting libraries throughout Europe and the United States to acquire his finds. With his lifepartner, Joan Moses, he enjoyed hiking, sailing, and kayaking, tending his fruit trees and roses, cooking and baking stollen, reading the Financial Times and Die Zeit, swimming, and hosting celebrations for his family and friends. Wolfgang was a lifelong hiker, skier, an early adopter of technology, as well as an avid photographer, cabinetmaker, bookbinder, art framer, pianist and harpsichordist and opera-patron. As comfortable discussing astronomy as tinkering with his motor home, he was a true Renaissance man. Wolfgang leaves behind his beloved Joan Moses; children Lisette Mallary, Georg Fuhs (Susan Fuhs) and Dagmar Serota (Gilbert Serota); and grandchildren Katharine and Matthew Mallary, Carl, Eric and Emma Fuhs, and Kyle Serota.
June 19, 1924 — Dec. 16, 2020
outside he’s apartment and loved watching the birds come and go throughout the day. Verne is preceded in death by his wife of 65 years, Dorothy Jane Forshee Scott, younger brother, David Scott, his sister-in-law, Virginia Forshee and brother-in- law, Jim Forshee. Verne is survived by his three children, Patti Scott-Baier (Rick Baier) of Sonora, and David Scott and Jane Scott, both of Boulder, Colo.; grandchildren Brian Baier (Martha Susiarjo) of Rochester, N.Y., Michael Baier (Mary Rossetti) of Denver, Katie Baier Cherefko (Chad Cherefko) of Kailua, Hawaii, Ryan Scott of Boulder, Drew Scott of Cedar City, Utah, and Kara Scott of Chico; greatgrandchildren Arie, Adrian, Carmen Baier, Quinn and Cora Cherefko, and Tristen Baier; younger brother Richard Scott (Betsy) of Salem, Ore.; sister-in-law Jessie Siekmeier (Don) of Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Anna Pettis Scott, his former daughter-in-law of Boulder, Colo. Verne will be dearly missed. There will be a celebration of Verne’s life in Davis and Boulder when the pandemic has settled down. If you would like to be contacted about the celebrations, please send a note to scottsinboulder@gmail.com.
Wayne Allison Rebstock III d. March 28, 2021
May 19, 1932 — May 9, 2021
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Public Notices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: 04/27/2021 FBN Number: F20210373 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Meg Blankinship Consulting 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 527 Hermosa Pl. Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Meg Blankinship 527 Hermosa Pl. Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Limited Partnership 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Meg Blankinship 5/2, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23 1281 PUBLIC NOTICE DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE OF TAX EXEMPTIONS and REDUCTION MEASURE H PARCEL TAX Senior Citizens Tax Exemption: Property owners who can provide evidence that they reside in a home, which is their principal residence, and one owner is 65 years or older, may apply for a tax exemption of the special tax to be levied by filing an application with the Davis Joint Unified School District by June 15, 2021. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Exemption: Property owners receiving Supplemental Security Income for disability, regardless of age, and who own and occupy the property as their principal residence can qualify for an exemption by filing an application with the Davis Joint Unified School District by June 15, 2021. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Exemption: Property owners receiving Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, regardless of age, who own and occupy the property as their principal residence and whose annual income does not exceed 250 percent of the 2012 federal poverty guidelines issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, can qualify for an exemption by filing an application with the Davis Joint Unified School District by June 15, 2021. MEASURE G PARCEL TAX Senior Citizens Tax Exemption: Property owners who can provide evidence that they reside in a home, which is their principal residence, and one owner is 65 years or older, may apply for a tax exemption of the special tax to be levied by filing an application with the Davis Joint Unified School District by June 15, 2021. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Exemption: Property owners receiving Supplemental Security Income for disability, regardless of age, and who own and occupy the property as their principal residence can qualify for an exemption by filing an application with the Davis Joint Unified School District by June 15, 2021. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Exemption: Property owners receiving Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, regardless of age, who own and occupy the property as their principal residence and whose annual income does not exceed 250 percent of the 2012 federal poverty guidelines issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, can qualify for an exemption by filing an application with the Davis Joint Unified School District by June 15, 2021. DJUSD Employee Tax Exemption: Property owners who can provide evidence that they live in a home which is their principal residence, and one owner, as of July 1 of the tax year for which an exemption is sought, is an eligible DJUSD employee, can qualify for an exemption by filing an application with the Davis Joint Unified School District by June 15, 2021. COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 1 Senior Citizens Tax Reduction: Senior Citizens who can provide evidence that they reside in a home, which is their principal residence, and one owner is 65 years or older, may apply for a 50% tax reduction of this special tax to be levied by filing an application with the Davis Joint Unified School District by June 15, 2021.
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detached ADUs have been added or WHEREAS, Interim Urgency Ordinance amended. No. 2600 was effective immediately upon • Permitted and Conditional Uses. adoption on April 20, 2021 for up to 45 Some ADUs and junior ADUs must be days and scheduled to expire on June 3, approved via a ministerial process, as 2021, unless extended; and
required by state law. The ordinance updates the Davis Municipal Code (DMC), to list in each appropriate zone, which ADUs are allowed by right and which COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 2 ADUs and guest houses are subject to the Low Income Rental Housing approval of an Administrative Use Permit. Exemption: Owners who can provide • Accessory Buildings/Structures. evidence that their property constitutes Section 40.26.010 is amended to clarify low income rental housing have the that an accessory building/structure shall option of applying for a low income not be used for dwelling purposes. rental housing tax exemption from the • Ministerial ADUs and Junior ADUs. special tax, by filing an application with Section 40.26.450 of the DMC is replaced the Davis Joint Unified School District by in its entirety with new provisions and June 15, 2021. standards that are mandated by state law for ADUs and junior ADUs. FURTHER INFORMATION Section To apply for the Senior Citizens, SSI, • Non-Ministerial ADUs. SSDI and Employee Exemptions and 40.26.460 is added to the DMC to provide Reduction, visit: https://djusd.net/ the provisions and standards for those departments/business_services/tax_ ADUs that do not meet the provisions of Section 40.26.450. exemptions. • Guest Houses. Section 40.26.470 is Contact Business Services for the Low added to the DMC to provide a single Income Rental Housing Exemption location for all the standards and application, or for further information provisions applicable to guest houses. about DJUSD tax exemptions. • Findings for Approval. The DJUSD Administrative Use Permit approval Business Services provisions have been updated to reflect 526 B Street that a non ministerial ADU, guest houses, Davis, CA 95616 and certain cannabis related uses can be taxexemptions@djusd.net approved with an Administrative Use 530-757-5300 ext. 122 Permit. Cheryl Ozga 5/16, 5/23 1303 The above summary constitutes the major highlights of the ordinance; to obtain a full understanding of its provisions a PUBLIC NOTICE reading of the document in its entirety NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX DELINQUENCY may be necessary. A certified copy of the AND IMPENDING DEFAULT full text of the adopted ordinance may Made pursuant to Section 3351,3352, be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/ Revenue and Taxation Code I, Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector, or copies may be obtained at a nominal charge. State of California, certify as follows: 5/23 1319 That at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2021, by operation of law, any real property (unless previously PUBLIC NOTICE tax-defaulted and not redeemed) that have any delinquent taxes, assessments, or other charges levied for the fiscal year 2020-2021, and/or any delinquent supplemental taxes ORDINANCE NO. 2603 levied prior to the fiscal year 2020-2021, shall AN EXTENSION FOR AN ADDITIONAL be declared tax-defaulted. 10 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS THROUGH That unless the property is completely AND UNTIL APRIL 20, 2022, UNLESS redeemed through payment of all unpaid SUPERSEDED, OF INTERIM URGENCY amounts, together with penalties and fees ORDINANCE NO. 2600 OF THE CITY prescribed by law or an installment plan is COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS initiated and maintained; the property will WHICH TEMPORARILY AMENDED become tax-defaulted and may be sold SECTION 40.03.040 OF ARTICLE subsequently at a tax sale to satisfy the tax lien. 40.03 (R-1 DISTRICT) OF THE DAVIS That a detailed list of all properties remaining MUNICIPAL CODE TO REQUIRE A tax-defaulted as of July 1, 2024, and not CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR redeemed prior to being submitted for ADDITIONS, CONVERSIONS, OR publication, shall be published on or before NEW CONSTRUCTION THAT RESULT September 8, 2024. IN SIX OR MORE BEDROOMS IN A DWELLING UNIT That information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of WHEREAS, on February 20, 2007, the City redemption of tax-defaulted property will be Council adopted Ordinance 2276, which furnished, upon request by Chad Rinde, 625 amended the City of Davis Municipal Court St., Room 102, Woodland, California Code Chapter 40, Zoning Ordinance, 95695, telephone number (530)666-8190. and established a conditional use permit I certify, under penalty of perjury, that the requirement for additions, conversions, or new construction of dwellings with six foregoing is true and correct. or more bedrooms in single-family and Chad Rinde two-family zoning districts throughout Yolo County Tax Collector the city, including the Residential OneExecuted at Woodland, Yolo County, Family (R-1) District (Article 40.03), but the conditional use permit requirement California, on May 17th, 2021 Published in Davis Enterprise on May 23rd, for the R-1 District was inadvertently May 30th, and June 6th, 2021. 1318 removed by later amendments to the Zoning Ordinance; and PUBLIC NOTICE WHEREAS, the City has recently received
C. The City Council hereby declares that this Ordinance, extending Interim Urgency Ordinance No. 2600, is necessary for the continued preservation of the public peace, health, safety and welfare for the foregoing reasons and because Interim Ordinance No. 2600 will expire on June 3, 2021 before a permanent Ordinance would be effective. As such, this Ordinance, extending Interim Urgency Ordinance No. 2600, shall be deemed an urgency measure to take WHEREAS, even if approved as effect immediately upon a minimum expeditiously as possible after four-fifths vote of the City Council. consideration at the May 18th City SECTION 3. CEQA. This Ordinance will Council meeting, the permanent not result in any significant changes to ordinance would not be effective before the environment within the meaning the interim ordinance expires on June 3, of Section 15061(b)(3) of Title 14 of the 2021; and California Code of Regulations, as it WHEREAS, pursuant to Government merely extends the requirement for a Code section 65858(a), the City Council process to review additions, conversions, may extend the interim ordinance for or new construction resulting in six an additional 10 months and 15 days by or more bedrooms in a single-family four-fifths vote at a duly noticed public dwelling in areas where single-family dwellings are already permitted by hearing; and zoning, and therefore this Ordinance WHEREAS, the City Council considered is exempt from environmental review this matter at a duly noticed public under the California Environmental hearing and for the reasons set forth Quality Act (CEQA) as general policy and above and below finds that until a procedure making. permanent ordinance amendment is effective, is necessary for the continued SECTION 4. Severability. If any section, preservation of the health, safety or subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, welfare of the City to continue to phrase, or portion of this Ordinance or prevent the development of small- the application thereof to any person or scale, dormitory-style housing without place, is for any reason held to be invalid adequate review for neighborhood or unconstitutional by the final decision and community impacts by extend of any court of competent jurisdiction, Interim Urgency Ordinance No. 2600 for the remainder of this Ordinance shall be an additional 10 months and 15 days and remain in full force and effect. WHEREAS, the City is also currently processing an ordinance to permanently amend the Zoning Ordinance to add back the conditional use permit requirement for a 6-bedroom house or more in the R-1 District, which the Planning Commission considered at a public hearing on April 28, 2021 and voted 6 to 1 to recommend for City Council adoption and which is scheduled for City Council consideration and first reading on May 18, 2021; and
pursuant to Government Code section SECTION 5. Effective Date; Publishing. As 65858(a). an urgency measure adopted pursuant to NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL Government Code section 65858(a), this OF THE CITY OF DAVIS DOES HEREBY Extension of Interim Urgency Ordinance No. 2600 upon adoption by a minimum ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: four-fifths vote of the City Council shall SECTION 1. Extension of Interim Urgency become effective immediately. After Ordinance No. 2600. Pursuant to notice pursuant to Section 65090 of the Government Code section 65858(a), California Government Code and public upon adoption of this Ordinance, Interim hearing, the City Council may extend the Urgency Ordinance No. 2600 is hereby effectiveness of Interim Ordinance No. extended for a period of ten (10) months 2600 for an additional year as provided and fifteen (15) days, to and including in Government Code Section 65858. April 20, 2022. This Ordinance shall expire The City Clerk is directed to publish and terminate at midnight on April 21, this Ordinance or a summary thereof in 2022, unless further extended by the accordance with law. City Council pursuant to Government Code Section 65858 after a regularly PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City noticed public hearing, or alternatively, Council of the City of Davis on this 18th unless earlier repealed by City Council day of May, 2021, by a unanimous vote. 1320 due to the adoption of a permanent 5/23 Ordinance requiring a conditional use permit for additions, conversions, or new construction that result in six or more bedrooms in a dwelling unit. SECTION 2. Recitals; Declaration of Urgency. The City Council finds that the above recitals are true and correct, and hereby adopts them as findings in support of this Ordinance, to be incorporated herein as though set forth in this section. A. Pursuant to Government Code section 65858(a), the City may, to protect the public safety, health and welfare, adopt as an urgency measure an extension of an interim ordinance prohibiting any uses that may be in conflict with a contemplated general plan, specific plan, or zoning proposal that the legislative body, planning commission or the planning department is considering or studying or intends to study within a reasonable time. Pursuant to Government Code section 36937, an ordinance shall be effective immediately if it is an ordinance “for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, containing a declaration of the facts constituting the urgency.”
a potential proposal to exceed 5 bedrooms for an addition to a residence in an existing neighborhood and there CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY is a large demand for housing targeted toward the student rental market NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May 4, such that owners of similarly situated 2021, the City Council of the City of Davis properties may also pursue additions, introduced, and on May 18, 2021, the conversions or new constructions with City Council unanimously adopted the more than 5 bedrooms; and B. Based on the facts as set forth in the following entitled ordinance: WHEREAS, the City Council determined above recitals, there is a continued ORDINANCE NO. 2602 that, while intending to enact a immediate need to require compliance AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY permanent ordinance, there was a with the City’s conditional use permit COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS current and immediate need to reinstate procedures as set forth in Article AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF the conditional use permit requirement 40.30 for additions, conversions, or CHAPTER 40 (ZONING) OF THE DAVIS in order to protect single-family new construction that result in six or MUNICIPAL CODE TO IMPLEMENT neighborhoods in the R-1 District from more bedrooms in a dwelling unit. REGULATIONS REGARDING increasing and inappropriate small-scale, Development of small-scale, dormitorystyle housing threatens the health, ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS, dormitory-style housing proposals; and safety and welfare of the community JUNIOR ACCESSORY DWELLING WHEREAS, on April 20, 2021 the City through increased parking demand, UNITS, AND GUEST HOUSES, AND Council adopted Interim Urgency increased noise, loss of privacy, visual MAKING A DETERMINATION OF EXEMPTION UNDER THE CALIFORNIA Ordinance No. 2600, pursuant to blight, incompatibility of land use where Government Code section 65858(a) a dwelling becomes more similar to a ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT and section 36937 for the immediate small-scale dormitory and significant The adopted Ordinance will: preservation of the health, safety or irreversible change to, or loss of, Amend the Davis Municipal Code welfare of the City, to reinstate the neighborhood and community character. Chapter 40 to update and clarify certain requirement of a conditional use permit Unless the City Council extends Interim provisions to comply with State law as requirement for additions, conversions, Urgency Ordinance No. 2600, the City amended by recent legislation. or new construction of dwellings with will be required to approve applications • Definitions. Definitions of accessory six or more bedrooms in the Residential for additions, conversions, or new dwelling units (ADUs), accessory building One-Family (R-1) District (Article 40.03) construction that result in 6 or more or structure, guest houses, efficiency previously established by Ordinance No. bedrooms in a dwelling unit without apartments, junior ADUs, attached ADUs, 2276 but later inadvertently deleted; and adequate review for neighborhood and community impacts. Due to the
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF IMPENDING POWER TO SELL TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY (Rev. & Tax Code, Sections 3361, 3362) Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Codes sections 3691 and 3692.4, the following conditions will, by operation of law, subject real property to the tax collector’s power to sell. 1) All property for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for five or more years. 2) All property which has a nuisance abatement lien recorded against it and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years. 3) Any property that has been identified and requested for purchase by a city, county, city and county, or nonprofit organization to serve the public benefit by providing housing or services directly related to lowincome persons and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years. The parcels listed herein meet the one or more of the criteria listed above and thus, will become subject to the tax collector’s power to sell on July 1, 2021, at 12:01 a.m., by operation of law. The tax collector’s power to sell will arise unless the property is either redeemed or made subject to an installment plan of redemption initiated as provided by law prior to close of business on the last business day in June. The right to an installment plan terminates on the last business day in June, and after that date the entire balance due must be paid in full to prevent sale of the property at public auction. The right of redemption survives the property becoming subject to the power to sell, but terminates at 5 p.m. on the last business day prior to the date of the sale by the tax collector. All information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption will be furnished, upon request, by Chad Rinde, 625 Court Street, Room 102, Woodland, CA 95695, phone (530) 666-8190. The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of June, 2021, is shown opposite the parcel number and next to the name of the assessee. PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION The Assessor's Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor's map book, the map page, the block on the map, if applicable, and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor's maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the assessor's office. PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED ON JULY 1, 2014 FOR THE TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER CHARGES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2013-2014 ASSESSOR'S ASSESSEE NAME/ AMOUNT PARCEL NO. PROPERTY ADDRESS TO REDEEM
large demand for student focused housing, property owners are likely to pursue additions, conversions or new constructions with 6 or more bedrooms.
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CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May 18, 2021, the City Council of the City of Davis introduced, and on June 1, 2021 the City Council shall consider adopting the following entitled ordinance: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS AMENDING SECTION 40.03.040 OF ARTICLE 40.03 (R-1 DISTRICT) OF THE DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE TO REQUIRE A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR ADDITIONS, CONVERSIONS, OR NEW CONSTRUCTION THAT RESULT IN SIX OR MORE BEDROOMS IN A DWELLING UNIT The proposed ordinance will amend Section 40.03.040 in Article 40.03, Residential One-Family (R-1) Zoning District, of the Davis Municipal Code to require a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for additions, conversions, or new construction that result in 6-bedrooms or more in a dwelling. In 2007, the City adopted Ordinance 2276 which added the CUP requirement to the R-1, R-2, R-2-CD, and R-R Districts and similar PD Districts. A subsequent amendment inadvertently deleted it from the R-1 District (Article 40.03). The proposed ordinance amendment will reinstate the CUP requirement in Article 40.03 for a dwelling with 6 bedrooms or more. This permanent ordinance will replace the extension of the interim urgency ordinance previously adopted by City Council to temporarily reinstate this requirement. The above summary constitutes the major highlights of the proposed ordinance. A reading of the entire ordinance may be necessary to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance. A certified copy of the complete text of the ordinance may be read in the City Clerk’s Department, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/ or a copy may be obtained from the office at a nominal charge. 5/23 1321
014-346-007-000 GLORIA JUANA ESTATE 546.52 1109 ANNA ST 045-702-002-000 QUOCK ERROL J & WONG IRENE CHI-WAI 32428.60 3737 CAT ISL RD 046-302-008-000 SANDS NATHANIEL & ERIN 29283.54 1772 MERCED WAY 049-240-023-000 ESPARTO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT 424.98 26490 WOODLAND AVE 049-446-036-000 GRAJEDA MARIA S 4223.01 28932 ARCHER ST 052-050-025-000 GRANT PARK DEVELOPMENT INC 3998.20 5011 CR 7 056-297-006-000 DIXON NEAOMI JEAN ESTATE OF *PTP 11635.54 42323 2ND ST 060-020-016-000 YOCHA DEHE WINTUN NATION 3050.82 T11N R3W 062-080-002-000 SCHRANG TRUST 672.10 NO SITUS 062-080-007-000 SCHRANG TRUST 687.73 NO SITUS 063-020-004-000 HEWITT JAMES & LEISHA 53864.13 333 N PIONEER AVE 070-430-018-000 DAVISVILLE PROPERTIES LLC 20192.90 1111 KENNEDY PL #5 049-264-003-000 HERNANDEZ DORA 1404.74 26341 WOODLAND AVE 066-191-003-000 SEGURA LIDIA 661.64 1393 E OAK AVE #B 045-693-005-000 TELELYUYEV PETER 393.50 3725 SOLOMON ISL RD 006-232-013-000 HARTMAN GERALD L 928.61 4 CROSS ST 042-494-014-000 REISTER DAVID ANTHONY ETAL 343.69 2558 ALLEN CIR 072-271-006-000 SUMPO GILLE 838.53 3324 SAN VICENTE RD 010-580-009-000 DE LA TORRE IVAN 3227.35 259 MCDOWELL LN I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. _____________________________ Chad Rinde Yolo County Tax Collector Executed at: Woodland, Yolo County, California, on May 17th, 2020 Published in: Davis Enterprise: May 23rd, May 30th, and June 7th, 2020 5/23, 5/30, 6/6 1317
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B6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE
SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2021
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hen federal officials loosened mask-wearing restrictions on May 13, there was much confusion among area residents — and frustration from area proprietors. If you read the news carefully, the order meant fully vaccinated individuals could go without masks — if their local guidelines permitted. Instead, some chose to read it as permission to do as they please. It didn’t help that several stores like Wal-Mart, Trader Joe’s and Costco quickly announced they would no longer require masks. But county and state restrictions apply first, regardless of company policy. Since then, Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed that Californians will continue masking until June 15 — especially when inside or in crowded outside environments like the Davis Farmers Market. I heard from several business owners who struggled with the abrupt announcement. Some felt thrown under the bus. They have adjusted to becoming the “mask police” but now faced even stronger defiance from a misinformed clientele. Such was the case on Friday, May 14, when Yolo County Sheriff ’s deputies were called at 6:15 p.m. to Winters’ Berryessa Brewing for a fight. Witnesses
told me some customers refused to mask inside the taproom, and reportedly harassed employees about it. It escalated outside with patrons in fisticuffs. That’s right. People were punching each other over whether to briefly wear a mask — one they could remove as soon as they sat down to drink their beer. Sheesh. Officers deemed it a “mutual fight,” with no charges or arrests. Both parties declined medical help. I was at the brewery on Sunday, and things were running smoothly, with customers in their usual chill mode, drinking some of the best beer around. Erin Arnold, owner of The Avid Reader bookstore in Davis, took a proactive approach at her business. As the store opened on May 14, she hung a sign in the store window — and posted a photo of it on social media — reminding patrons, “Vax or no vax — still mask.” It’s not that hard, friends. We’ve been doing
it for 14 months. Three more weeks of masking is not a big deal. ———— The shortage of employees continues to affect area businesses, especially in the service industry. The owner of Tres Hermanas, at 805 Second St., recently announced a reduction of hours. “We are sad to announce that starting Sunday, June 6, Tres Hermanas of Davis will not be open on Sundays. We hope that this is a temporary move until we can find enough staff to serve you properly. We appreciate your business and support throughout this difficult year,” owner Sergio Saenz wrote in a Facebook post, tagging me. It’s a similar story for Aziz Fattahi, owner of Village Pizza & Grill, Village Pizza & Pints and Village Bakery in Davis. Starting May 23, Village Pizza & Grill, 403 G St., will close on Sundays. He told Downtown NorCal’s Heidy Kellison that he needs to hire at least five more employees, or he will have to close one of the businesses. On Thursday, Fattahi told me that if he closed one, it would probably be the largest — the grill. Pizza & Pints is at
236 B St., and the bakery is at 814 Second St. ———— The ax-throwing business Smart Axe is getting closer to opening at 720 Olive Drive, Suite U2, near Rocknasium. The premise is a fun outlet and teambuilding activity where patrons throw an ax at a target. The chain has businesses in several towns across the Sacramento Valley. Many include alcohol but the Davis one would not. Patrons must be 12 or older. Owners are Doug Link, broadcast personality Mark S. Allen, Jim Corbett of Corbett’s House of Horrors in Davis, and Mike Liston, a retired Sacramento sheriff ’s deputy. The owners report it could open in two to six weeks. ———— Davis has a new option for buying organic produce. Picnic Table Farm is run by Paul and Caitlin Boulware, who grew up in Davis and raise their two young kids here. “We are a regenerative and certified organic farm in Yolo County,” its website says. Patrons order online between 8 a.m. Tuesdays and 9 p.m. on Wednesdays, for produce they can pick up in West Davis on Fridays between 4 and 6 p.m. They sell lettuce, spinach, kale, beets, turnips, radishes, kohlrabi,
Economic report highlights three Davis companies BY TODD R. HANSEN McNaughton Newspapers FAIRFIELD — Three Davis companies, and three others in the Bay Area, were among 11 California businesses that were highlighted in a report about the economic benefit of funding university research. The Science Coalition, a group of 50
private and public research universities, reports that between 2015 and 2019, 11 California-based spinoff companies from federally funded university research contributed $1.99 billion to the state’s economy and supported 26,300 jobs. The Davis companies are SensIT Ventures Inc., Cognivive Inc. and Tesio Pharmaceuticals Inc.
SensIT “develops, builds and sells custom chemical sensors that provide solutions of great value to the defense, health care, agriculture and food industries,” the company profile states. Cognivive Inc. produces inhome, personalized therapeutics for stroke patients. Tesio works to prevent arthritis after injury through genetic-based research.
carrots, basil, parsley and more. Visit https://www. picnictable.farm/. ———— Upper Crust Baking recently reopened the interior of its store at 634 G St. It’s been serving customers through a front-door kiosk, curbside and delivery since the pandemic began. It also reinstituted outdoor dining. Indoor tables are on hold for now, owner Lorin Kalisly said. ———— Morgan’s on Main, 614 Main St. in Woodland, has been closed since midFebruary, with occasional pop-ups at Blue Note Brewing. It plans to reopen soon, with a new menu. It plans “California Cuisine with a fun twist,” a Facebook post said. “We will also have BBQ specials on Thursdays, and steak specials on Fridays and Saturdays.” The patio has a new cover with string
lights, fans and misters. The menu includes burgers, fish, chicken, fries, salads, sandwiches and kids’ meals and more. ———— I keep track of Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/DavisBusi nesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurantsopen, Restaurants-closed, Businesses-retail, Businesses-service, and more. Email me (address below) 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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