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eligibility and applications to make sure more rent relief gets out quicker. “It doesn’t make sense to allow evictions, when there are still billions of dollars available that could prevent those very evictions,” said Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who leads the Assembly Housing Committee and helped craft the original eviction moratorium last year. But the deal-making to extend the eviction moratorium has been slow and secretive. Tenant and landlord groups told CalMatters they have been shut out of negotiations, which
The Davis City Council on Tuesday approved a two-year budget with $230 million in total expenditures for the 2021-22 fiscal year and $227 million for 2022-23. Included is $790,000 in placeholder funds from the American Rescue Plan that will be used to implement public-safety reform in the future. The city is expecting to receive a total of $19.7 million in federal ARP funds. Of that, $2.3 million is allocated in the budget to backfill revenue lost due to the pandemic. The city, like the county, plans to solicit public input on spending the remaining funds. The council’s unanimous approval of the budget on Tuesday night followed more than two hours of public comment from more than 100 people, the vast majority of whom called for less funding for the police department in the next budget.
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Without a planned floor session Friday, the vote would now most likely occur on Monday — two days before eviction protections are set to expire. That would mean putting a plan to paper by Friday at the latest, as bills need to be in print for 72 hours before they can be voted on. Rental assistance is the key here: The state has been doling out $2.6 billion it’s sitting on at a snail’s pace, while figuring out what to do with an additional $2.6 billion from the
CalMatters For the third time during the pandemic, California legislators have pushed off a huge, looming question to the last minute: Will the state shield tenants from eviction? The answer, most likely, is yes, but for how long and under what terms is still up in the air. As of Tuesday morning, several stakeholders told CalMatters they hadn’t yet reached an agreement.
federal government. Since Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature passed the last round of eviction protections in late January, the state has distributed only about $50 million of its $1.4 billion pot, and received applications for only about half of that money. While centralized data is unavailable for the cities’ and counties’ $1.2 billion share, there are similar reports of a slow rollout. Key legislators are concerned about ending eviction protections before the bulk of those dollars have entered the pockets of the Californians who need it most, so they’re mostly hammering out new rules on
UC will move ahead with vaccine mandate By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer On July 15, the University of California will finalize a policy requiring students, staff and faculty to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at least two weeks before the fall quarter begins. The requirement will be enforced regardless of whether or not any COVID19 vaccine has received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The University first announced the vaccine mandate in April in a draft policy that indicated the requirement would be contingent on a vaccine receiving the FDA’s full approval. “Enforcement of the mandate will be delayed until
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to 100 times more potent than traditional morphine. It is this potency that makes fentanyl especially dangerous and the frequent cause of overdose deaths. Under the new policy, in taking any plea for the manufacture, possession for sale, sales or transportation of controlled substances, the prosecutor will ensure the accused person is specifically advised as follows: “Illegally selling or furnishing these (fentanyllaced) drugs carries with it the specific risk that you are providing drugs laced
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