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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2021
Newsom budget boosts DJUSD
Council vote guides Rescue Plan funds
By Edward Booth
Rivera’s mosaic mural honoring the Peña family stands on the site of the humble cottage where Narcissa Peña (1918-2008) lived for the entirety of her 89 years. (The mural is just across the street from the main entrance to Davis Community Church, on the southwest corner of Fourth and D streets in Davis). Narcissa Peña was one of the very first female students to attend what is now UC Davis, earning a degree in home economics in 1939. She was hired as a secretary at UC Davis and worked there for three decades. She also
Funding transformational projects and recovering from COVID-related revenue losses are among the principles that will guide how the city of Davis utilizes its windfall of American Rescue Plan funds. The city is expecting to receive $19,730,600 in ARP funds, with the first half available now and the remaining funds in the spring of 2022. Additionally, the city will receive another $1.37 million in separate ARP funds allocated for the provision of affordable housing and related costs. The American Rescue Plan was enacted in March and included $350 billion in support for local governments. In addition to the $19.7 million that Davis will receive, Yolo County is expecting to receive $42.7 million. The Yolo County Board of Supervisors previously passed a set of guiding principles for how to spend that money, with collaborating with cities being a key one. Likewise, the set of guiding principles
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Enterprise staff writer The Davis school board received a presentation on the district’s budget May 20, in light of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget proposal earlier this month. Amari Watkins, associate superintendent of business services, said at the meeting that district staff and board trustees attended a state budget workshop on May 20 that informed them of the impacts associated with Newsom’s proposed fiscal year 2021-2022 budget. The legislature is set to review and recommend changes to the state budget throughout June, and the school board is also set to discuss and approve the district budget next month. Watkins said that the governor’s proposed budget would result in the district gaining an estimated $800,000 more in revenues than projected in March. But, she said, the district will still need to continue monitoring the impacts of declining enrollment, any future deficit spending and ensuring that it maintains a minimum
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Mark Rivera’s big carrot outside the Davis Food Co-op is well-known in the community.
Artist Rivera, whose handiwork delighted residents, dies unexpectedly By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent If you’ve walked the streets of Downtown Davis, you’ve seen artist Mark Rivera’s work. There’s the enormous, oversized orange carrot (a local landmark as tall as some small trees) that stands as a sentinel by the sidewalk in front of the Davis Food Co-op on G St. And there’s the streetside mural honoring the multigenerational legacy of the Peña family — a Latino clan who were recipients of a huge land grant covering large portions of land in what is now Yolo County and Solano County back in the 1840s (when California was a province of Mexico). You
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may have visited the historic Peña Adobe Regional Park (next to Interstate 80 in Solano County, between Vacaville and Fairfield). RIVERA Today’s Peña famgayle k. yamada/ ily descendants Courtesy photo sometimes volunteer as docents at the old adobe on the weekends. And there are several freestanding statues, as well as a painted “street mandala” at the intersection of K and Fourth streets, in addition to art installations at numerous local schools. Rivera died unexpectedly in his sleep on May 22, and friends are
Graduating seniors invited to Senior Sunday By Edward Booth Enterprise staff writer The annual Davis Grad Night won’t be happening this year because of COVID-19 restrictions. But some of the organizers of Davis Grad Night are planning an outdoor “Senior Sunday” instead, which is set for 4:00 p.m. on June 6, the Sunday
preceding a week of high school graduations, on the grounds of Davis Senior High School. Senior Sunday will be an in-person walkthrough event, a carnivalstyle fair free to seniors graduating from any of the four Davis high schools. Many of the volunteers who typically put on Davis Grad Night will
be running activity booths for Senior Sunday — games, prizes and free food will all be offered.. Students can register for the event through invitations sent to their school email address. With the online registration, seniors can sign up for a time block with several
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Bear killed by vehicle at I-80 intersection By Owen Yancher Enterprise staff writer A bear spotted Tuesday morning in the south area of the UC Davis campus has been struck and killed by a vehicle, university officials said. At 6:09 a.m., a WarnMe alert informed campus users that a roughly 200pound bear had been seen in the area of the arboretum, near La Rue Road and the southeast area of campus. A citizen first saw the animal around 5:42 a.m. and called 911. Less than an hour later, at about 7 a.m., the bear was fatally struck by a car
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at the junction of Interstate 80 and Highway 113, UCD Associate Director of News and Media Relations Andy Fell said. Wednesday’s bear sighting comes nearly two years after a similar situation occurred in Davis. In June 2019, a young bear — estimated to weigh between 80 and 100 pounds — made its way to a grassy area near the Hyatt Place Hotel. Wildlife agents formed a perimeter around a tree the bear had climbed and waited for the bear to come down before shooting it with a tranquilizer dart, Fish and Wildlife
scientist Josh Bush told media outlets. After the bear was tranquilized, it ran up another tree and then fell about 30 feet when the tranquilizer kicked in. That bear was later released outside Yolo County. In April 2020, another small bear sought sanctuary in the West Davis Pond area. The animal — nicknamed “Gilligan” because of his islanddwelling life in the pond — sheltered in the space for several days before also being struck and killed by a vehicle along Highway 113 north of Davis.
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reflecting on his legacy of public art, which is now part of the downtown Davis landscape.
Rosenberg elected vice president of California Judges Association Special to the Enterprise Yolo Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg was elected as one of two vice presidents of the 2,000-plus member California Judges Association. The CJA comprises Superior Court judges, Appellate Court justices, Supreme Court justices, court commissioners and State Bar Court judges. Rosenberg currently is in his second year on the 25-member CJA Executive Board and becomes the first judge from Yolo County ever elected vice president of the CJA. The CJA was established in 1929 and is the professional association representing the interests of California state judges. It is dedicated to
Judge David Rosenberg in 2019. Courtesy photo
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