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Law will keep courts from capping UC enrollment

By Caleb Hampton

Signs posted on lawns throughout Old East Davis in 2017 register the neighbors’ concerns about the Trackside Center development.

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before the Third District Court of Appeal.

In a ruling issued in December, the appellate court found “substantial evidence” supporting the city’s approval and said the city “acted within its discretion and the trial court erred in reversing approval of Trackside.”

Now the Old East Davis Neighborhood Association has requested review by the California Supreme Court.

“We are doing this because we believe that the city should be faithful to the plain meaning of

On Monday, the California legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a new law limiting the authority of judges to slash enrollment at public universities that have exceeded their student population targets.

The legislation, Senate Bill 118, focuses on aspects of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

It was written in response to a recent court order that UC Berkeley cap its enrollment at 2020-21 levels, a decision that initially forced the campus to eliminate 3,050 undergraduate seats and more than 5,000 admissions offers.

(After making some creative admissions maneuvers, like deferring admission for some students and shifting others to online-only attendance, the campus said it would only need to reduce enrollment by 400 to comply with the court order.)

The order, upheld earlier this month by the California Supreme Court, was in response to a lawsuit brought last year by a neighborhood group called Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods. The group sued UC Berkeley for overshooting its enrollment

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Neighbors seek review of Trackside ruling

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The Old East Davis Neighborhood Association has asked the state Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision that upheld the city’s approval of the Trackside mixed-use housing proposal.

Back in December, the Third District Court of Appeal overturned a Yolo County judge’s 2019 ruling that found the city’s approval of Trackside violated its own zoning ordinances and that the project was inconsistent with the city’s planning provisions governing transition

between the core area of downtown and the Old East Davis neighborhood.

apartment units on three floors above 8,950 square feet of retail on the ground floor.

Yolo County Superior Court Judge Samuel McAdam said the mass and scale of the project was not reasonable, siding with neighbors who objected to the size of the proposed project.

Following council approval of Trackside in 2017, the Old East Davis Neighborhood Association filed suit seeking to block the proposal and the City Council voted to defend the lawsuit.

Trackside, approved by the Davis City Council in the fall of 2017, would be located just east of the railroad tracks at 901-919 Third St., a location currently occupied by two single-story commercial buildings. The project would transform the site with a building providing 27

A trial was held in Yolo County Superior Court in April 2019 and McAdam issued his ruling siding with the neighborhood association a month later.

The council then voted unanimously to appeal McAdam’s decision and the city prevailed

School board to get update County’s universal basic income pilot project gets underway April 1 on superintendent search

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer In just a few weeks, Yolo County’s poorest families will begin receiving a monthly stipend that will aim to lift them up and out of poverty thanks to a universal basic income pilot project.

Approved by the Board of Supervisors last year, the two-year program will provide prepaid cash cards to 54 families throughout the county who are participating in the CalWORKS housing support program and have at least one child under the age of six.

The cash aid, which can

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be used for any purpose, will average between $1,200 and $1,500 monthly per family, depending on family size and other sources of income, and will raise the participating families’ income level to $1 above the California Poverty Measure threshold.

The support these families are already receiving through CalWORKS includes cash aid, food stamps, Medi-Cal benefits, job supports and more.

But the current maximum CalWORKS grant for a family of four with no other income is $1,122 monthly, or $26,928 over

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24 months.

The California poverty threshold for a family of four is $61,776 over two years.

“This demonstrates the really low amounts of CalWORKS benefits we give to these families to get back on their feet,” said Nolan Sullivan, interim director of Yolo County’s Health and Human Services Agency.

“What we will do is give them a monthly payment that will put them one dollar above that $61,000 mark,” Sullivan told a joint meeting of city and county

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By Aaron Geerts

Enterprise staff writer An update on the search for a new superintendent will highlight the Davis school board’s meeting on Thursday, March 17. Other topics include fiscal updates and the Local Control Accountability Plan.

The superintendent search is being conducted

by McPherson & Jacobson and their update will include the work they’ve done so far as well as community outreach.

After five years as superintendent of the Davis school district, John Bowes left in August

to run the Manhattan Beach Unified School District. Matt Best has been serving as interim superintendent in the meantime.

Another key item on the agenda is the approval of bond program agreements. With recommendations from Capital Operations Department staff for the board to adhere, these approvals will help facilitate various construction initiatives regarding Davis Senior High School career technical education projects as well as DaVinci High

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Briefly Man arrested for firing off gun in Woodland Woodland police arrested a man for discharging a firearm Sunday night after he returned to the scene of his alleged crime.

Residents of the area of Promenade Drive and Brookshire Circle in the Spring Lake neighborhood called police shortly after 11 p.m. to report hearing shots fired, according to a Woodland Police Department social media post.

Arriving officers found several shell casings in the roadway and obtained security video of a white GMC pickup as a possible suspect video.

“While (police were) processing the scene, a similar white GMC pickup drove past and an officer conducted a traffic stop a block away,” the post said.

The high-risk stop led to the arrest of Woodland resident Diego Ibarra, 36, the truck’s passenger, on suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm.

There were no injuries reported.

For the record Sunday’s printed obituary for Mary Frances Haugse Hornbeek included incorrect biographical information.

She was born on Nov. 9, 1944, and passed away on March 7, 2022. The Enterprise regrets the error.

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Beantown hoist with its own flagpole

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eave it to the city of Boston to get conservative Christians, President Biden, the ACLU and perhaps all nine U.S Supreme Court justices on the same side of an issue.

“The city of Boston, which refused to let a private group raise a Christian flag in front of its City Hall, seemed to be headed for a loss after a Supreme Court argument on Tuesday,” said a recent piece in The New York Times by the very able Adam Liptak.

But wait, doesn’t flying a Christian symbol over City Hall tend to indicate government endorsement of one religion over another? Or, at the very least, government endorsement of religion, no matter what sort of belief the sponsoring organization might have.

Well, let’s just say there’s more to this case than meets the eye.

“Justices across the ideological spectrum, noting that the city had approved many similar requests from organizations seeking to celebrate their backgrounds or to promote causes like gay pride, seemed ready to rule that the city had violated the free speech rights of Camp Constitution.”

Says the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free

Ethiopia, Italy, Mexico, Vietnam and Haiti, as well as flags commemorating Juneteenth and the Battle of Bunker Hill.

The city even raised the flag of the National Hockey League’s Montreal Canadiens when Boston’s mayor lost a bet on the Stanley Cup.

exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.“ The city of Boston, it turns out, has three flagpoles on a plaza outside City Hall. One flies the U.S. flag, one flies the Massachusetts state flag and for much of the time, one flies the city of Boston flag.

However, on occasion, the city allows outside groups or organizations to briefly replace the city flag with one of their own to commemorate an event or even a point of view.

As a matter of fact, from 2005 to 2017, the city approved 284 consecutive requests for alternative flags without a whisper of concern.

The city has allowed flags from foreign countries such as Ireland, Portugal, China, Panama, Brazil,

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n other words, that third flagpole has traditionally been pretty much an open forum for all sorts of messages, which means the City of Boston can’t start playing favorites based on the content of the message.

The application from Camp Constitution said it wished to raise a Christian flag for one hour during an event that would include “short speeches by some local clergy focusing on Boston’s history.”

Religious? Sure. But a government endorsement of religion on a flagpole that had become a public forum? Hardly.

Noted ACLU national legal director David Cole, “When the government opens its public property for private speakers, it has to treat everybody equally. This case is really about private citizens’ access to government property to express themselves.”

The Biden administration weighed in similarly, comparing

ENROLLMENT: New limits on CEQA From Page A1 targets and thereby impacting local housing and city services more heavily than the campus had projected.

Lawmakers and student groups sharply criticized the lawsuit for using an environmental impact law to force an enrollment cap on UC Berkeley and deny thousands of prospective students a coveted place at one of the country’s best public universities.

“I’m grateful to the Legislature for moving quickly on this critical issue — it sends a clear signal that California won’t let lawsuits get in the way of the education and dreams of thousands of students, our future leaders and innovators,” Newsom said.

Under the new law, if a campus exceeds its population growth targets, a judge would need to give the school 18 months to remedy

the impacts of that growth.

If after 18 months the campus fails to uphold its environmental impact responsibilities, a judge could then impose an enrollment cap based on the school’s most recent growth objectives as stated in its longe-range development plan.

labor unions and community groups have sought to halt campus housing projects like West Village and Russell Park in Davis, as well as the Aggie Square project in Sacramento, under the authority of environmental impact laws.

SB 118 also removes student enrollment from the scope of what potential litigants may challenge under CEQA. Instead, community groups like the one in Berkeley would need to focus their complaints on campus population, which includes students and employees. Should a campus run afoul of its growth projections, it would have more flexibility in how to comply with a court order limiting its population.

UC Davis’ most recent long-range development plan was approved by the UC Regents in 2018 over the objections of the city of Davis, which sought assurances that the construction of on-campus housing would keep pace with growing student enrollment.

They city raised the possibility of taking legal action due to the environmental impact of the campus’ projected growth. That possibility was dropped, however, when city and campus agreed to a memorandum of understanding that included housing and transportation commitments.

The likelihood that a lawsuit similar to the one in Berkeley could be brought in Davis is far from remote.

Over the past few years,

the many different messages on the flagpole to an open mic night.

Interestingly, Boston’s own city flag, which flies most of the time on this same disputed flagpole, depicts the city seal with the phrase in Latin, “God be with us as he was with our fathers.”

Noted Liptak’s piece in The Times, “Justice Elena Kagan said the city had made an understandable mistake in relying on the part of the First Amendment that prohibits government establishment of religion when it should have been focusing on the free speech clause. Putting a cross on the roof of City Hall would violate the establishment clause, she said, but banning a religious group from conveying its message in a transient setting open to lots of speakers violates the amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.”

Amen, sister.

Noted Kagan, “In the context of a system where flags go up, flags go down, different people have different kinds of flags, then it is a violation of the free speech part of the First Amendment and not an establishment clause violation.

The end.”

In the NBA they would call this one a slam dunk.

Case dismissed.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

BOARD: Another coronavirus update coming for trustees From Page A1 School’s tech hub.

With money’s prominent importance in these meetings, the agenda also includes the certification of the second interim financial report for the 2021-22 fiscal year.

The report will reflect district’s financial activity from July 1, 2021, through Jan 31, 2022. It will also touch on updates since the last budget review, actuals to date as well as projections for the future utilizing the governor’s January budget proposals. This all comes as a requisite of the board to certify that the district’s able to meet its financial obligations.

The meeting will also include an update on the Local Control Accountability Plan. With the

plan designed to bolster student learning capabilities, close the opportunity gap while providing safe and inclusive environments, the update will include input data from educational partners and students for an effective implementation of the 2021-24 DJUSD LCAP. These inputs help in any revisions to keep the LCAP as efficient as possible.

As always in these board meetings, a healthand-safety update will focus on the status of COVID-19 in Yolo County and the DJUSD. This update may also include vaccine clinic dates and locations.

The meeting will be at the Community Chambers at 23 Russell Blvd. at 6:30 p.m., carried Cable TV Channel 17.

Obituaries Mary Frances Haugse Hornbeek Nov. 9, 1944 — March 7, 2022

Mary Frances Haugse Hornbeek, a longtime resident of Davis, passed away at her home on March 7, 2022 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Her beloved husband of 54 years, Larry, was at her side in the final moments.

Despite the difficult challenges of Parkinson’s, she maintained a positive attitude until the very end.

Born Nov. 9, 1944, in Palo Alto, Mary was the first daughter of Virgil Samuel Haugse and Mary Jane Kramer Haugse. She attended St Thomas Aquinas elementary and Palo Alto High School. After graduating in 1962 she moved to Davis to attend UCD, where she majored in history.

Mary and Larry met in 1965 on a

three-couple blind date that also included life-long friends Diane Rhett, Dave Schmatjen and John Swanson.

Larry was staHORNBEEK tioned at Travis Air Force Base at the time, and Mary was a student.

The couple married in Palo Alto on April 1, 1967, and were approaching their 55th wedding anniversary.

Mary and Larry loved the Davis community and have lived here ever since. They raised three children, Gary, Michael and Nancy, who attended Davis High School.

Mary was a devout Catholic and the family are long-time members of St James Church. Mary was very social and inquisitive and enjoyed long conversations with her many

Frank Trau 1924—2022

Frank Trau died peacefully at home in Davis at the age of 97 of natural causes. He was born in Akron, Ohio, to Mabel and Frank Trau, and attended boarding school throughout his childhood.

He ventured west when he was drafted into military service during World War II. He joined the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor and the experience took him to the Philippines and Hawaii among other places. He enjoyed entertaining on his harmonica or the piano when on shore leave during this time. After the Navy,

he used the GI Bill to complete his college education at UC Berkeley, becoming a lifelong Cal fan.

He married Marilyn Wales and started a family, settling in the Bay Area in the ’50s. His working years spanned a variety of ventures, but he enjoyed a long career as a real estate broker in Davis, Sacramento and the Bay Area continuing to work well into his 80s. Of his multiple interests, he greatly enjoyed skiing, sailing his 35-foot sailboat in the San Francisco Bay, learning to play the banjo (at age 75), photography, following Cal and

friends in the community.

In 1981 Mary returned to school at Sacramento State to study accounting. Mary earned a CPA license and eventually started her own private tax practice. While tax season was an annual challenge, Mary was always very fond of her many clients.

One of her passions was playing bridge. Some of her closest friends were members of “the bridge group” which met every month for decades. She also often played bridge with friends at University Retirement Community and the Davis Senior Center.

Mary loved spending time walking on the beaches in Sea Ranch, where the family owned a home.

Other favorite activities included walking on the greenbelt, traveling to see family and watching the Oakland A’s. She enjoyed volunteering at the Mondavi Center and

49er football or Giants baseball, and his daily serving of bacon!

TRAU Eight years ago, he and Marilyn moved to Davis, living independently in their home next-door to their daughter. Despite failing eyesight and hearing, he remained as active as he could with a personal trainer multiple times weekly and enjoyed socializing and keeping up with current events.

Frank is preceded in death by his beloved daughter Mary Ann, younger brother Joe, and many relatives and friends.

the Sacramento Jazz Festival.

She is survived by her husband Larry; grown children Gary Hornbeek and wife Susie of Portola Valley, Michael Hornbeek and wife Kim of Jacksonville, Ore., and Nancy Shields and husband Lance of Jacksonville; grandchildren Lance, Blake, Cole and Madison Shields, and Grady and Casey Hornbeek; brother Hank Haugse and wife Karen; and sisters Barbara and Katie Haugse.

A private burial will be held for the immediate family. In addition, a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, March 25, at St James Church in Davis. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to a charity involved in the fight against Parkinson’s disease, such as the Michael J. Fox Foundation or the Davis Phinney Foundation.

He is survived by his life partner, Marilyn Trau, daughter Katie Horn (John) of Davis, five grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren.

Private services will be held in March. Donations in his honor can be made to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation or the American Cancer Society.

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Donald ‘Dutch’ Martinich d. Monday, Feb. 21, 2022

Donald “Dutch” Martinich left Davis on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, for the great music hall in the sky. You’ll find him dancing to Count Basie, or Cajun and Balkan tunes, or just sitting at a table with a beer and listening in appreciation to West Coast jazz and bebop. He was 84.

Dutch’s father was from the Dalmatian island of Brac and his mother was from Kentucky. His and his sister Toni’s earliest years were in San Pedro, before his family moved to San Francisco and then to the Peninsula.

Raised in a Catholic family, Dutch attended St. Joseph’s Military Academy in grade school, along with the Pelosi brothers, but graduated from Menlo-Atherton high school.

His love of the sea was inbred and he served in the U.S. Coast Guard on the Mendocino coast and in Hawaii. Following his military service, he returned to Menlo Park, married, had a son, and held various jobs, working as an arborist, a postman, a sports car mechanic and at Ridge Vineyards, where he learned winemaking and viticulture.

He was an avid cyclist in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a member of the Pedali Alpini.

He particularly enjoyed passing cars on the steep descents on his Cinelli Supercorsa.

Dutch arrived in Davis in 1971 to study Environmental Horticulture, and never left.

We were all the better for his presence. Dutch folk-danced and was an early member of the Davis Bike Club, completing the Double Century several times and serving on “sag” wagons once he passed 60 years old. Dutch was a “jack of all trades” (and mas-

ter of many), holding various jobs during his 50-plus years in the community.

Early on he spent several years doing archeology on the Old Town Sacramento “dig.” Later, he was a staff research assistant in the pomology department, collecting data on the effect of drought on almonds. He helped his friend, Frank Alviso, establish the Clockspring Vineyard up in Plymouth and later worked a crush at Cary Gott’s Montevina Winery.

He was the founding chef at Maurice’s American Bar and Café on Broadway in Sacramento, where for two years he ground fresh beef each day for the hamburgers, a task much too important to be outsourced, and rendered beef suet for the handcut French fries, which were, of course, twice fried (and delicious). Following his time at Maurice’s, Dutch spent several years as an environmental monitoring technician. He later used his photographic and design skills to build and maintain websites for local businesses.

An excellent amateur photographer, Dutch specialized in the landscapes of California, with a particular focus on the Central Valley. He knew pretty much all of the obscure towns and mining villages in California and had probably photographed them. He loved to cook for large groups of people, and if you were lucky enough to have attended a lamb roast, you will smile at the memory.

A convivial man and knowledgeable on diverse and arcane subjects, Dutch was an excellent drinking companion, who always had a new joke and an amusing story to pass on. He often

could be found at his Davis bar of choice — the Antique Bizzare or MARTINICH the Wooden Ship in the early years, later at some place a bit closer to home. Prior to COVD, most mornings he was at Mishka’s, enjoying a hot chocolate and conversation. COVID ended that for Dutch, causing this very social man to confine, alone, at home for most of the past two years.

Dutch is survived by his son, Anton Martinich, and his ex-wife, Kathy Martinich. His sister, Toni, had passed on six months earlier.

The family plans to scatter Toni’s and Dutch’s ashes together at sea, somewhere off the California coast, in a private ceremony. No public memorial is planned.

He would probably have approved of a donation in his memory to either the Davis Bike Club or the California Native Plant Society.

A less expensive way to remember Dutch is to simply lift a glass of your favorite beverage (a Ridge Zinfandel comes to mind as a possibility) and to drink to his memory. This can be done more than once. RIP, our marvelous friend.

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John Richard ‘Jack’ Graf April 30, 1930 — March 9, 2022

John Richard “Jack” Graf passed away on March 9, 2022, in the comfort of his home, surrounded by his family.

Born in Woodland, on April 30, 1930, to Charles and Hazel Graf. He graduated from Winters High School in 1948, where he was an active student, threesport letterman. Jack attended Santa Clara University, majoring in political science. After graduating, he was commissioned as a 1st lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Before leaving for service, Jack married his high school sweetheart, and love of his life, Marjorie Potter. Once he returned from service, he moved to Sacramento where he attended Sacramento State University to obtain his teaching credential, and later earned his master’s degree in Education at the University of Pacific.

Jack was a coach at heart, and served others with great integrity, humanity and dignity. In his professional life, he was devoted to education and the students, teachers and staff he served. He spent 39 years in public education: starting as a coach at Yuba City High, vice principal at Courtland High, vice principal at El Dorado High, principal at Vanden High,

principal at El Dorado High, principal at Winters High, superintendent of Winters Schools, and culminating his career being elected for twoterms as the Yolo County superintendent of schools.

As a father, he was a loving force. A force of structure and stories, with a great knack for nicknames and a wonderful sense of humor.

He loved his family and delighted in nothing more than traveling life with Marge, Youth Day celebrations, large family gatherings and attending various school and sporting events of his grandchildren.

He loved the Winters’ community and is well regarded for his civic contributions, and friendly disposition. For decades he delighted in working with others to bring about positive change for Winters. Jack served on the Planning Commission, bond propositions for schools, St. Anthony’s building committee, and was a 30-year member of Rotary. Additionally, Jack was an active member of the Yolo County Marine Corps Detachment League, Yolo County Democratic Club and was a Yolo County Surrogate representative for Foster youth.

He is preceded in death by his parents; siblings Charles

“Charlie” Graf and Bobby Graf; and his son Peter Graf.

He is survived by his GRAF wife of 69 years, Marge Graf; his children and their spouses, Patty Anderson (Craig), Peggy Graf, Kathy Brian (Bob), Jody Graf, (Fran Gibson) and John Graf (Wendi); 12 grandchildren and their spouses; 13 great grandchildren; as well as numerous nephews, nieces and cousins.

A vigil will run from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Winters. A celebration of life Mass will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, March 21, also at St. Anthony’s, followed by interment at Winters Cemetery and a reception at St. Anthony’s Parish Hall. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to YoloCares, Toys For Tots, or a charity of your choice.

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By Jill Duerr Berrick Special to CalMatters

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arents who witness their children removed to foster care often refer to that day as their darkest. For some, separation from their children is felt as a deep punishment. In California and other states, we make matters worse.

An obscure policy requires many parents to pay for their children’s stay in foster care.

Based on the accumulated evidence, that law should be abandoned.

Many parents involved with Child Protective Services are referred to the child support enforcement agency and thereafter receive a bill for the cost of their child’s care.

Payments can be steep, and the government has many tools available to enforce the law: it can garnish wages, withhold tax rebates, suspend driver’s or professional licenses, or even deny a U.S. passport if parents don’t step up.

The few well-designed studies on this topic show that child support enforcement harms families. It extends children’s stay in foster care and increases family poverty. Its implementation is cost ineffective, and it goes against the fundamental values of the child welfare system: to support families and protect children.

One study examined the effects of child support enforcement on the duration of children’s stay in foster care, finding that for every $100 monthly payment, children’s stay in care lengthened by 6.6 months.

But foster care is designed to be temporary. Why design a policy that keeps kids separated from parents longer than is absolutely necessary?

What’s more, the policy has particularly pronounced effects for Black families.

Families of color are already disproportionately represented in the Child Protective Services system, and substantial evidence shows that Black parents are less likely to reunify with their children. Rather than address those troubling statistics, the current law exacerbates the challenges Black families face.

The painful irony is that child support enforcement targets the lowest-income parents involved with Child Protective Services. Just how poor are families involved with the child welfare system? In one study, more than half of parents had no recorded earnings in the year prior to their child’s removal; in another study, about one-third of parents had an annual income of less than $10,000.

ig change was in store for people like John Garamendi and Ken Calvert and Raul Ruiz from the moment California’s bipartisan and fairly apolitical redistricting commission published its final maps in mid-December.

But only now that the March 11 filing deadline has passed can we see which longtime members of Congress will be threatened and who will not.

Garamendi, a onetime lieutenant governor, looks fine, even though much of his old district may soon go to fellow Democrat Josh Hawley, who has mostly represented territory a little south of his new 13th District.

Hawley also looks safe.

(Davis is moving from Garamendi’s district to Mike Thompson’s).

But longtime Republican Rep. Ken Calvert can’t be so sanguine.

Calvert, an Inland Empire congressman who has represented districts with numbers 42 and 43 since 1993, now must run in the new 41st.

He gets to keep his hometown of Corona, once near the center of his territory, but that city sits in the far western portion of his new district. More populous are added cities like Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, the heart of the Coachella Valley constituency that has sent Democrat Ruiz to

Washington, D.C., since 2013.

Calvert may have trouble defending the new seat, which also includes cities like Anza and Calimesa, but if it had been a district in 2020, it would have voted for ex-President Donald Trump by a 1 percent margin. Calvert’s old district went for Trump by 7 percent.

Ruiz, meanwhile, keeps the far eastern Coachella Valley parts of his old district centering on Indio, and gets new territory extending south toward the Imperial Valley and the Mexican border. He looks safe, but has said he’s chagrined at losing the unity of his old district covering the area from Palm Springs east.

Who both men face next fall will be determined in the state’s June 7 “jungle” primary, where the two leading vote-getters move on to the November runoff election. So far, Calvert appears likely to face tougher competition than Ruiz.

Further west, in the new 47th District of Orange County, including cities from

Seal Beach in the north to Laguna Beach in the south and swinging inland to take in Orange and Irvine, twoterm incumbent Katie Porter looks like a survivor. She has already run off former oneterm fellow Democratic Congressman Harley Rouda and may face onetime county Republican chairman Scott Baugh this fall, but has far more money on hand than any potential opponent.

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n the Sacramento area, current Placer County Republican Rep. Tom McClintock moves south to a new and very safely conservative district stretching toward the Nevada state line. Current Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, who represents some of northeast Sacramento and suburbs, along with Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones will contest in June, together with a few Democrats. One of them could survive into November if Kiley and Jones split the GOP vote in the new 3rd District.

For reasons unknown, Kiley believes the 3.5 percent of the recall replacement vote he got in last fall’s gubernatorial recall election qualifies him to advance. But he polled a mere 15.6 percent in Placer County, which he has represented in the Legislature and which is the population key to the new district.

In the central San Joaquin Valley, the oft-challenged

Republican Rep. David Valadao, one of the very few GOP congressmen voting to impeach Trump in early 2021, will run in a new district that seems even more Latino and Democratic than his old one, where he split the last two elections with Democrat T.J. Cox. He’s expected to face Democratic Assemblyman Rudy Salas this fall in what could be a tight election.

The bottom line is that there are new districts like these all around California, one reason folks like Rouda and current representatives like Jerry McNerney and Jackie Speier are getting out of this rat race and retiring.

For folks like Calvert and Garamendi, who have not previously had to worry much about reelection races, the anxiety the contests bring is unwelcome.

It could also bring newer, more energetic representation to the state, and maybe even a more unified purpose to the entire 52-person congressional delegation.

The primary will begin to tell that story.

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mple evidence shows that family poverty increases the risk of child maltreatment. But the current law intentionally increases family financial precarity, and therefore reduces children’s safety.

The current law is harmful to families involved with Child Protective Services, and it’s also a bad deal for California taxpayers. Cost-benefit analyses show that rather than recouping expenses associated with foster care, the government actually loses money at a ratio of at least 3 to 1.

This year, the Legislature has an opportunity to reform the law as legislators consider Assembly Bill 1686, introduced

by Assemblyman Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, which would reduce the number of CPS families required to pay for foster care.

Child support enforcement represents the antithesis of the values and goals that the Child Protective Services system intends. Therefore, child support should not be imposed on parents trying to bring their children home from foster care.

— Jill Duerr Berrick is a distinguished professor of Social Welfare and a Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor at UC Berkeley. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Letters Sister city Kenneth Firestein’s letter to the editor reminding us that Uman, Ukraine, is one of the city of Davis’ sister cities was a timely one. after Uman became a sister city of Davis in May 1988, city dignitaries, including teachers, made several trips to Uman.

In return, Uman sent several delegations to Davis. At the time, I was a teacher at North Davis Elementary School. I was asked to have my class correspond with a class of similar age in Uman. My students each wrote a letter to a specific student in Uman and waited eagerly for a response. In due time, each student did get a response and, fortunately, a parent in my class could interpret the letters for my students to enjoy.

Over time, the exchange visits subsided. If Uman is still considered a sister

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Briefly Shoplifting gets physical A shoplifting incident escalated to robbery after the suspect struck a store employee Saturday, according to Davis police.

Lt. Mike Munoz said the suspect took a box of condoms from 7-Eleven and tried to leave the Mace Boulevard convenience store without paying. An employee who recognized him from prior alleged thefts tried to block his exit.

“The suspect punched at the clerk twice, striking him once,” Munoz said, noting that the alleged act of violence elevated the crime to robbery.

The man left the scene, but officers caught up with him at his nearby apartment and took him into custody, Munoz said.

Andre Trimiar France II, 22, went to the Yolo County Jail for booking on a felony robbery charge.

Front-yard crash leads to arrest A crash into a residential front yard Saturday resulted in the driver’s arrest on impaired-driving charges, Davis police reported Tuesday.

Katrina Marie PaceMurphy, 36, of Woodland, was at the wheel of a Kia that drove over a boulder and struck a fence on Anderson Road and Tanager Avenue in North Davis at about 6:10 p.m., according to Lt. Mike Munoz.

“When a citizen contacted the female in the driver’s seat, she was unresponsive,” Munoz said. By the time officers arrived on scene, the woman — later identified as Pace-Murphy — was gathering her belongings from the car.

Munoz said those items included fentanyl, heroin and other drug paraphernalia, and that Pace-Murphy failed a field sobriety test. She was booked into the Yolo County Jail on DUI and drug-possession charges.

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TRACKSIDE: Neighbors seek strict interpretation From Page A1 its planning and zoning rules, and because we want to preserve the setting and feeling of our historic neighborhood,” the association said in a press release Monday.

“By convention, land use policies adopted by a California city can be interpreted by the same city when the policies are applied to specific projects. While this sounds logical — giving cities flexibility and local control — if understood too broadly, the conventional view could allow a city to reinterpret planning policies in ways that violate their original meaning and intent,” the association contended.

“OEDNA believes that the city should have some discretion, but should not be allowed to ignore planning and zoning rules when they are inconvenient.”

Unlimited discretion, the

association said, “means that investor-developers may buy a property, intending to build a project larger than planning documents allow, with confidence that a development-oriented City Council will reinterpret the policies to allow for the larger project to be built.

This should never happen, but it has and it does.”

From early on in the Trackside approval process, residents of Old East Davis had urged the project be limited to three stories instead of four and in the press release issued this week, the association said it “welcomes appropriate development that fits with the neighborhood character… “(W)e support a three-story to one-story transition, conforming to the Design Guidelines and zoning law, at the Trackside site. A conforming building would provide commercial space and more than

20 dwelling units, densifying the Old East neighborhood and adding housing near the downtown core.”

But the association added that its request for Supreme Court review “is not only for our neighborhood, but for every neighborhood in California that values its sense of place.”

City officials hailed the appellate court’s decision when it came down in December, with Mayor Gloria Partida saying, “the court of appeal supported the decision of City Council to review thorough staff analysis of adopted city policies and take action after focused deliberations.”

Trackside’s developers also praised the appellate court decision.

“We are pleased with the court’s thorough review and legal validation of the city’s decision to approve our transit-oriented, environmentally

progressive infill project in downtown Davis,” Trackside Center managing partners Kemble Pope and Steve Greenfield said.

“Our investor group, comprised of Davis residents, is glad that this four-year legal process is behind us,” they said at the time.

Now opponents of the project are hoping the state’s highest court will step in and allow the legal process to continue.

In a statement Tuesday, Davis City Manager Mike Webb said, “The city believes that the appellate court ruling is sound and was the right decision.

“The petition to the California Supreme Court is without merit and the city has confidence that the court will not take up the case,” said Webb. “There are no state constitutional issues at hand, and this is an area of long-standing and wellsettled law.”

INCOME: Supervisors hope program is a game-changer From Page A1 officials last week.

“Every family will be a little different. Some of them have earned income, some of them have other benefits, but we will be making sure that all of the families get at least that one dollar above that CPM, which is really revolutionary.”

The families will continue to receive their other benefits, “they’ll just finally have enough money to not be living under the crushing weight of poverty,” said Sullivan.

Poverty remains a huge issue locally, with the Public Policy Institute of California reporting last year that Yolo County has the highest poverty rate in the state at 20.9 percent.

“As of July, we have the deepest poverty in California,” confirmed Sullivan.

The effort to target child poverty, in particular, began with First 5 Yolo, which approached the county about investing $100,000

in First 5 funds into a universal basic income program.

Other funding sources followed, including $250,000 grants from Sutter Health Foundation and Sierra Health Foundation; $150,000 from the state’s Office of Child Abuse Prevention; and $500,000 in the county’s cannabis tax revenue.

The total program cost is about $2.5 million over the two years of the pilot project and an additional $760,000 is needed, “so we’re looking for other funding partners,” said Sullivan.

But the program will launch nonetheless on April 1, when the pre-paid cards will go out to participating families.

A two-year study of the effort by UC Davis researchers will run concurrently with the two-year pilot project.

Those researchers, from the Center for Regional Change, as well as county staff, will be conducting interviews with families,

Teen pleads to assault charges in park beating

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A Davis teen accused of threatening and brandishing a gun at two other youths last fall, and badly beating one of them, admitted to a pair of assault charges Monday in Yolo Superior Court.

Jesse James Cady, 18, pleaded no contest to felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and assault with a deadly weapon, in exchange for which he’s expected to receive probation and a suspended four-year prison sentence.

That sentence would go into effect if Cady violates the terms of his probation.

Meanwhile, he’ll also have two strikes on his record under California’s “three strikes and you're out” law.

According to a factual basis for the plea read in court by prosecutor Amanda Zambor, Cady and a male juvenile confronted the two

other teens at an East Davis park on Sept. 26, following another confrontation earlier in the day.

The suspects rode up on bikes and “this defendant pulled a gun from his waistband, cocked it and pointed it directly” at the male victim, after which a female victim jumped in between the two of them, Zambor said.

“The gun was pointed at her in the interim,” Zambor added. After that, the two suspects punched the male victim several times until he fell to the ground, where he was kicked and punched repeatedly in the face and head.

Davis police reported at the time that officers arrested both suspects the following day and recovered the loaded firearm at the younger suspect’s residence. That teen’s case was adjudicated in juvenile court.

collecting data and more in a comprehensive study on the benefits of the additional income for these families.

Evaluation of the pilot project will include measuring parents’ education and/ or career attainment during the pilot as well as the physical and mental health of parents and children.

Studies of other universal basic income programs have shown promise.

The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), for example, began in early 2019 by providing 130 residents making less than the city’s median income with up to $500 a month with no strings attached.

University researchers who evaluated the program found that nearly 40 percent of tracked spending went to food, but the money also covered transportation, utilities, healthcare, debt and more.

Sullivan noted that the amount of money being given to Yolo County

families through the pilot project will be several times the amount given through the SEED program, “literally pulling these 54 families above the poverty line.

“So it’s not just a stipend,” he said. “It actually brings them out of poverty for their two-year period of time.”

Sullivan said the 54 families in the program are spread out across the county with an estimated 10 percent of them in Davis.

As for the need for additional funding, Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis said, “we are shopping the program to potential donors, contributors, partners to assist with the financial cost of this.”

It is a bit unusual, Saylor said, “the idea that public assistance would help bring people out of poverty, not just keep them in poverty with no hope really of escaping it.

“It’s hard work to be poor and it’s expensive and to be able to have a little break, two years where your circumstances are just a tad

better, will allow for being able to improve your educational background, your investment in yourself, your investment in your children, job development … it’s just an incredible opportunity to reduce stress,” he said.

“And that reduction in stress will benefit the lives of the children in the household that will benefit generations to come.

“This is a phenomenal program,” Saylor added.

“I’m really excited about it.”

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis agreed.

“What’s great about his pilot project is we’re going to actually take a look at what happens if you actually provide enough money to meet the basis needs,” he said.

“One of the frustrations is that whatever program you have, or whatever opportunities you provide for poor people, they never have enough money, and if you don’t have enough money, it’s hard to take advantage of the other things.”

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Could the fighting in Ukraine become World War III?

By Max Davis-Housefield HUB Staff In a move that surprised the western world, Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Continuing a recent pattern of escalation, Russian forces have begun attacking civilian targets and the United Nations has warned about the potential use of chemical weapons.

The Russian invasion marks the first major land conflict in Europe since the end of World War II. With many other obvious parallels to WWII, some experts have been questioning if we are headed towards World War III. “We’re obviously closer than we were before the invasion,” professor Jared McBride, an expert on Eastern Europe at UCLA said.

However, he believes it is unlikely the war will escalate to that scale.

Depite not being a member itself, Ukraine is surrounded by members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Thus far, NATO “seems to be very cautious about any escalation,” he said.

“I think we’re still a few steps away from anything really terrible happening more globally.”

Although McBride said that Russian President Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine was a “major break” from his previous decision making process, an “attack on a NATO country would be a massive break and escalation (that) would be seen as somewhat suicidal.” “(Russia) still thought that they were attacking a third, fourth rate military power in a place that was going to (have) little resistance” when they launched their invasion of Ukraine, McBride said.

He added that he thought Putin’s strategy called for a quick victory and regime

change. “The goal does not appear to be to occupy the country long term,” he said, because “logistically that would be almost unimaginable.”

McBride said that it appears that Russia has somewhat switched strategies. While high civilian casualties are not often conducive to successful regime change, McBride said that “now they are willing to kill a number of civilians to continue to reach that initial goal (of installing a friendly government).”

But still, McBride said, assuaging fears of nuclear warfare, “you’re not going to be using a nuclear weapon against a place that you want to set up a friendly government.”

He believes that nuclear warfare against any other nations, especially the United States, is also highly unlikely.

“My understanding is that we still have an advantage in terms of first strike abilities and I would think … if they fired missiles that Russia would cease to exist - and cease to exist first.”

The most likely resolution to the war would be a series of treaties where both sides make some concessions. It would likely include assurances by NATO towards their future involvement in Eastern Europe.

“The important issue here is timing,” McBride said.

“Whether that kind of thing happens in two weeks from now or two months from now or six months from now, it’s going to affect the lives of millions of people.”

With an invasion of NATO countries mostly off the table, the worst case scenario is that it becomes a “long term stalemate situation” that causes a “horrific humanitarian crisis,” McBride said.

Kevin Williams teaches U.S. history at Davis High.

He has been talking to his classes about the war.

“It kind of got easy because we’re talking about the prelude to WWII and so much of that lines up,” he said.

“I was just teaching about America’s reaction to the rise of Japanese militarism and we responded by halting our sale of aviation gasoline, by freezing assets, and economic sanctions. And you’re just like, ‘wow, that’s exactly what we’re doing right now,’ “ Williams said.

He points out that these measures only served to draw us further into WWII. “History has been easy to teach because so much of what’s happening in our current world relates to things that we’re learning about in history. I just get a lot more head nods from people like ‘yeah I get exactly what you’re talking about,’” he said.

Williams has noticed how well informed his students are and has enjoyed learning about world events with them. “It’s really cool as a teacher to have a conversation with kids where you feel like you’re peers,” he said.

However, he has noticed some nervousness among his students.

“Specifically with the young men in the course … they understand that there’s a registration for a draft. They also understand that there is no draft.”

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‘They want to stay and fight it out’: Ukrainian students worry about family

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The day after Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine, Davis High sophomore Iryna Monastyrska’s mother tried desperately to call Iryna’s grandmother, who lives in a small Ukrainian village. Her grandmother did not pick up.

“It was pretty scary … We were worried maybe they bombed her area or something. But it was just the power lines that got destroyed,” Monastyrska said.

Monastyrska was born in Ukraine, and moved to America in 2009. All of her extended family still lives in Ukraine.

The power lines in her grandmother’s village have since been fixed, so they can reach her now. The village itself has not been bombed, but her grandmother can hear the artillery flying overhead.

“It’s a lot of stress on my parents because they want to try to get everyone from Ukraine to move here, but no one wants to leave. They want to stay and fight it out,” Monastyrska said.

Monastyrska said that her community at school has been supportive of her through this stressful time.

Several of her teachers who know that she is Ukrainian have approached her to check in and see how her family is doing.

“Sometimes at school I can’t really focus, because I’m thinking about what’s going on,” Monastyrska said.

Before the war, kids at school would call her Russian as a joke. “They didn’t know why I would hate that,” Monastyrska said.

But ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, the teasing has stopped.

Senior Alexandra Fomina considers herself to be half Ukrainian, half Russian. She

was born in Russia, but both of her parents are from Ukraine. She moved to America when she was 6, and has a lot of family in both Ukraine and Russia.

“It’s very sad, and very stressful. I’m worried about my family in Ukraine, and about the future of the entire world,” Fomina said.

Her dad has a house in Ukraine. There are currently Ukrainians fleeing from nearby areas hiding in the basement of that house from the bombings.

Fomina has seen several other students joking about the situation in Ukraine, and said that it makes her very uncomfortable because it is such a big part of her culture and identity.

“Even if people aren’t Ukrainian, they should still be aware of what’s happening,” Fomina said. “I don’t know if a lot of my classmates … know what’s happening or understand the significance.”

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Davis roars back to beat West Campus

By Mark DeVaughn Enterprise correspondent The anticipation.

An eerie silence.

A roof-raising burst of cheers.

The Davis High boys volleyball team hosted an entertaining non-league game Monday night, when a pivotal sequence brought the noise.

The crowd played a huge part in the Blue Devils’ straight-set win over West Campus. South Gym erupted in celebration, as Davis roared back to claim the second set by a 27-25 score. The two teams combined for eight ties and six lead changes during the stanza, which the home team claimed by winning the final three points.

Ethan Wells collected team-highs of seven kills and three blocks in DHS’ 25-20, 27-25, 25-16 victory over the Warriors. Liam Langley added 16 digs for Davis (4-1 overall), which has won two straight decisions after opening Delta League play with a five-set loss against Elk Grove.

Mick Dunning dished out eight assists. while lefthanded freshman Gabriel Crawford added seven more.

Making strides on the court is one thing. What’s especially satisfying for this group is seeing the handmade signs and hearing the noisy cheers from their fellow students.

“We really notice it when people are getting loud,” explained Wells, a sophomore who dropped swimming before pursuing volleyball. “It brings this feeling of accomplishment. We appreciate the fan support. It’s hard to describe how good it feels.”

How many points is an inspired home crowd worth?

“I would say about 25 points. A whole game,” Davis head coach Rachel Hinojosa said.

Davis remains a work-in-progress. Weeks ago, Hinojosa ordered new uniforms — which have yet to arrive.

For a while, West Campus showed how an undersized team can offset the Blue Devils’ height advantage.

After trailing for the duration of the first set, the Warriors held leads of 9-4 and 11-6 during the second.

But the Blue Devils — who completed 93 percent of

their serves — limited their mistakes. The home team slowly chipped away. A thunderous Zenniko Moore kill gave Davis its first lead (15-14) of the second set. Wells doubled the advantage to 16-14 by turning Crawford’s pass into a kill.

West Campus claimed five of the next six points.

Anthony Edson, Owen Buzbee and Langley replied to help Davis reclaim the edge (20-19). The two teams kept trading blows until the Devils held firm. With the crowd behind them, the hosts showed a focus that matched the stakes.

“What a psychological lift, to win in that fashion,” Hinojosa said. “We're still improving. We're not done.

When you get excited, you want everyone to notice, especially your opponent.”

After another non-league match at Dixon on Tuesday, Davis returns to DL action at Sheldon next Monday. Match time 6 p.m.

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Davis pole vaulter Will Siemens clears the bar at the Halden Invitational at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Saturday.

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Strong finishes in the field events

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor Will Siemens is looking to leap high to success in the pole vault this year.

The senior on the Davis High boys track and field team continued to progress at the Halden Invitational at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Saturday.

Siemens took third place with an even mark of 14 feet.

Turlock's Ian Strode took first place at 15-06 and Jesuit's Collin Young, whom Siemens will be seeing in Delta League meets in upcoming weeks, was second at 14-06.

“He had a nice performance at Halden, but he’s close to an even bigger breakthrough,” said Davis head coach Spencer Elliot. “Will is such a hard worker. He always has been.”

Davis assistant coach Richard Harper, who works with Blue Devil boys and girls in the pole vault, echos similar feelings as Elliot on Siemens.

“He is a multi-sport athlete that gave up soccer to pursue pole vaulting exclusively this year,” said Harper of Siemens. “He has battled through two years of injuries and has been fiercely dedicated to his

rehabilitation, which is a key reason why he is ready to have a huge (personal record) this year. Despite the injuries and two years of a pandemic, he brings optimistic energy and enthusiasm to every practice. Truly admirable.”

Andrew Baum was another Blue Devil who had a strong finish in the field events. Baum, who is also a senior, won the discus with a toss of 142 feet, 8 inches.

In addition, Baum had a PR in the shot put at 45 feet, 5.50 inches for third place.

Baum is not only a competitor, and a teacher for the younger Blue Devil throwers.

“I would also add that’s he’s always willing to help out younger throwers learn the shot and disc techniques,” said Davis assistant coach Matthew Johnson, who works boys and girls competing in the throwing events. “Since I’m physically unable to demonstrate the techniques, it’s helpful to have Andrew there to demonstrate for our less experienced athletes.

“Though each thrower enters the rings individually, we win and lose as a team.”

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Davis High shortstop Carolena Morales throws the softball to third base, keeping the Pioneer runner at second base in the top of the second inning of Tuesday’s non-league game at the Blue Devils’ field.

Not enough runs for Blue Devils

By Rebecca Wasik Enterprise correspondent Pitching and defense were top notch on Tuesday for Davis High softball.

However, a late-inning run was not enough offensively to secure a win for the Blue Devils.

DHS pitcher Erika Wenner tossed a complete game, giving up only three runs. She also drove in Davis’ only run of the game. But Pioneer High's squad of Woodland posted a 3-1 victory over Davis (2-7).

“Pitching and defense were very good today,” said Davis High head coach Tyler Gibson. “Erika pitched great and that should have been enough. One of the things we have struggled with as a team is our energy level. We’ve been playing good softball, we’ve been in games, but our energy hasn’t been there. That was an emphasis today and it was much better.”

Davis batters collected eight strikeouts. Three of those strikeouts were recorded in a row in the sixth inning after putting two runners on with no outs.

Situations like this stunted Davis’ offense and allowed Pioneer (5-3-1), out of Woodland, to secure the contest.

The Patriots obtained their first run of the game in the second frame. After a leadoff single from Sofia Hernandez, Pioneer catcher Esperanza Bermudez hit another single to move Hernandez to second. A groundout to first base moved up the runners.

Another groundout to first base brought in Hernandez to give PHS a 1-0 lead.

In the third inning, a single by Jordan Thorpe followed by two doubles by Ashley Gruben and Hernandez brought in another run for Pioneer, giving them the 2-0 advantage.

The Patriots added an insurance run in the seventh inning. A leadoff bunt single from Taylor Day was followed by a double from Gruben, giving Pioneer the edge, 3-0.

Davis rejected a shutout by tacking on a run to its tally in the final half inning of the matchup.

Sydney Tuss led off with a single then stole second base. Tuss crossed home on a clutch double from Wenner. Mia Acosta, pinch running, moved to third on a passed ball, but it was fruitless.

Davis finished the game with seven hits, while Pioneer knocked 11.

Naomi Kalanetra and Cloe Lamoureux were responsible for two hits each for the Blue Devils.

Isabella Lester, Tuss and Wenner had one respectively.

After Thursday’s non-league away game at Woodland High at 4 p.m., the Blue Devils will have a rematch with the Patriots in Woodland next Tuesday.

Game time is set for 4:30 p.m.

Gibson reiterated that offense will be the most vital factor for the Blue Devils to capture a victory in next Tuesday’s meeting.

“We are not doing a good job of making small adjustments to differences in pitching we’ve seen,” said Gibson. “Today, we were early and not making adjustments as a group. We’re not moving runners up or getting them in. It’s just the little things right now that we have to get better offensively. That’s going to be our focus in these next couple games.”

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Any Addenda will be posted on www.blueprintexpress.com/davis . It is the responsibility of each prospective bidder to check the BPXpress Reprographics website listed above on a daily basis through the close of bids for any applicable addenda or updates. The City does not assume any liability or responsibility based on any defective or incomplete copying, excerpting, scanning, faxing, downloading or printing of the Bid Documents. Information on BPXpress Reprographics may change without notice to prospective bidders. The Contract Documents shall supersede any inMcCarthy and Page Reprographics.

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00 1116 - NOTICE INVITING BIDS 1. Notice 2nd Street Improvement Project CIP No. ET000l NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Davis ("City") invites and will receive sealed Bids up to but not later than March 30, 2022 at 11:00 AM, at the City Clerk's office of the City Manager, located at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616, for the furnishing to City of all labor, equipment, materials, tools, services, transportation, permits, utilities, and all other items necessary for the 2nd Street Improvement Project (the "Project"). At said time, Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the City Office. Bids received after said time shall be returned unopened. Bids shall be valid for a period of 90 calendar days after the Bid opening date.

BID OPENING PROCEDURE The bids shall be opened according to one of the following procedures: 1. Council Chambers at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616. Bidders will be allowed to sit in the Council Chambers but at least 6 feet apart to adhere to social distancing requirements.

2. Outside of the Council Chambers at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616. Bidders will be allowed to sit outdoors near the Council Chambers but at least 6 feet apart to adhere to social distancing requirements.

3. Taped Video. City staff will record the bid opening and make viewing of the video available to bidders to view in separate rooms at City facilities.

4. Live Video Feed. City staff will broadcast the bid opening by live video feed.

For this project, City staff have determined that bid opening procedure No. 2 will be employed.

If the live video feed is selected, then results of the bid opening will be scanned immediately and made available on the City's website for viewing by all bidders.

Yolo County Order on COVID-19 You are hereby reminded that, pursuant to Section 10.c of the March 18, ORDER OF THE YOLO COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER DIRECTING INDIVIDUALS TO SHELTER IN PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND RESTRICTING NONESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK, WITH EXCEPTIONS AND EXEMPTIONS, AS SPECIFIED (full order is attached), individuals may leave their residence to perform any work necessary to the construction, operation, and/or maintenance of "Essential Infrastructure", as defined, provided that they carry out that work in compliance with Social Distancing Requirements, to the extent possible. The full order is available here: pdf of the March 18 order https://www.yolocounty.org/home/showdocument?id=62366 Yolo County main page for updates https://www.yolocounty.org/health-human-services/adults/communicable-disease- investigationand-control/novel-coronavirus-2019 Social Distancing Requirements are defined in SectionlO.j of the Order as follows:

other than those listed in the Standard Specifications be used for the Project. Such findings, if any, as well as the materials, methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions.

6. Bid Security Each Bid shall be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier's check, or Bid Bond secured from a surety company satisfactory to the City Council, the amount of which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total Bid Price, made payable to City of Davis as bid security.

The bid security shall be provided as a guarantee that within five (5) working days after the City p rovides the successful bidder the Notice of Award, the successful Bidder will enter into a contract and provide the necessary bonds and certificates of insurance. The bid security will be declared forfeited if the successful Bidder fails to comply within said time. No interest will be paid on funds deposited with City. The Bid Bond submitted shall be provided by a surety duly authorized by the Insurance Commissioner to transact surety business in the State of California.

7. Performance Bond and Labor and Material Bond The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Faithful Performance Bond and a Labor and Material Payment Bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code of the State of California, the successful Bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by City to ensure its performance under the contract.

8. Labor Code Requirements Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1773, City has obtained the prevailing rate of per diem wages and the prevailing wage rate for holiday and overtime work applicable in Yolo County from the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute this contract. A copy of these prevailing wage rates may be obtained via the internet at: www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/ In addition, a copy of the prevailing rate of per diem wages is available at the City's Public Works Department and shall be made available to interested parties upon request. The successful bidder shall post a copy of the prevailing wage rates at each job site. It shall be mandatory upon the Bidder to whom the Contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractors, to comply with all Labor Code provisions, which include but are not limited to the payment of not less than the said specified prevailing wage rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the Contract, employment of apprentices, hours of labor and debarment of contractors and subcontractors.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor's and subcontractors' current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the Department of Industrial Relations for the duration of the Project. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the contractor registration requirements mandated by Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 shall not apply to work performed on a public works project that is exempt pursuant to the small project exemption specified in Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1.

For purposes of this Order, "Social Distancing Requirements" includes maintaining at least sixfoot social distancing from other individuals, washing hands with soap and water for at least twenty seconds as frequently as possible or using hand sanitizer, covering coughs or sneezes (into the sleeve or elbow, not hands), regularly cleaning Order of the Yolo County Health Officer to Shelter in Place Page 7 of 7 high-touch surfaces, and not shaking hands.

This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. In bidding on this Project, it shall be the Bidder's sole responsibility to evaluate and include the cost of complying with all labor compliance requirements under this contract and applicable law in its Bid.

You are hereby directed to cause all workers and subcontractors on the Project to comply with Social Distancing Requirements, to the extent possible.

9. Retention Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 7201, the City has made a determination that the project described herein is substantially complex, and therefore a retention of 5% will be withheld from payment until after the work is complete.

2. Requesting Plans And Specifications Plans and specifications (not including standard specifications and other documents included by reference), and proposal forms, may be obtained by logging on to www.blueprintexpress.com/davis or by calling BPXpress. The cost is $100 per set (plus shipping and handling) and is non-refundable. Any bidder that Reprographics at (916) 760-7281 fails to purchase a complete set of plans, specifications and proposal forms from BPXpress Reprographics prior to the bid opening date and time OR is not included on the BPXpress plan holder list shall have their bid deemed non- responsive. In other words, the bidder must purchase the plan set from BPXpress Reprographics AND be on the BPXpress plan holder list to be deemed responsive. The only exception shall be in the event a bidder's name is not included on the plan holders list but the bidder can produce proof of purchase of the plans, specifications and proposal forms from BPXpress Reprographics with a purchase date that occurred prior to the close of bidding. Any bid produced from plans, specifications and proposal forms obtained from sources other than those purchased from BPXpress by bidder shall be deemed non-responsive. Only bidders on the plan holders list shall receive addenda notifications.

It is the responsibility of each prospective bidder to pay the fee and download and print all Bid Documents for review and to verify the completeness of Bid Documents before submitting a bid.

Any Addenda will be posted on www.blueprintexpress.com/davis . It is the responsibility of each prospective bidder to check the BPXpress Reprographics website listed above on a daily basis through the close of bids for any applicable addenda or updates. The City does not assume any liability or responsibility based on any defective or incomplete copying, excerpting, scanning, faxing, downloading or printing of the Bid Documents. Information on BPXpress Reprographics may change without notice to prospective bidders. The Contract Documents shall supersede any information posted or transmitted by BPXpress Reprographics.

Bids must be submitted on the City's Bid Forms. To the extent required by section 20103.7 of the Public Contract Code, upon request from a contractor plan room service, the City shall provide an electronic copy of the Contract Documents at no charge to the contractor plan room.

Contract documents will not be available for inspection or purchase from the City by potential Bidders.

3. Description Of The Work 2nd Street Improvement Project: The 2nd Street Improvement Project will reconstruct approximately 862 linear feet of 2nd Street beginning at the comer of L Street and terminating near Toad Hollow Park. The project will construct a variable height modified barrier curb and gutter on the south side of the roadway and construct new curb, gutter, sidewalk on the north side of the roadway.

Note that there are restrictions on the execution of the Work, including but not limited to schedule constraints and a requirement to have one lane open to traffic and a pay application for that portion of the Work submitted by June 15, 2022.

All work shall be performed in accordance with the Contract Documents and all applicable laws and regulations.

4. Engineer Engineer's Estimate: $1,600,000 Project Engineer: Glenn Armstrong 5. Contractor's License Classification and Subcontractors Unless otherwise provided in the Instructions for Bidders, each Bidder shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to sections 7000 et seq. of the Business and Professions Code in the following classification(s) throughout the time it submits its Bid and for the duration of the contract: Class A (General Engineering) Contractors License.

Subcontractor Substitution requests shall be made within 35 calendar days after the award of the contract. Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(b), the City may make findings designating that certain additional materials, methods or services by specific brand or trade name other than those listed in the Standard Specifications be used for the Project. Such findings, if any, as well as the materials, methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions.

6. Bid Security

10. Substitution Requests Substitution requests shall be made within 35 calendar days after the award of the Contract.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(b), the City may make findings designating that certain additional materials, methods or services by specific brand or trade name other than those listed in the Standard Specifications be used for the Project. Such findings, if any, as well as the materials, methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions.

11. Sole Source Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 3400(b), if the City has made any findings designating certain materials, products, things, or services by specific brand or trade name, such findings and the materials, products, things, or services and their specific brand or trade names will be set forth in the Special Conditions.

12. Award City shall award the contract for the Project to the lowest responsive, responsible Bidder as determined by the City from the BASE BID ALONE. City reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process.

13. Notice to Proceed This Project, if awarded, will be awarded for a Spring start date. The Notice to Proceed shall be issued not later than April 26, 2022.

14. Further Information/Questions For further information, contact Dianna Jensen, City Engineer, at DJensen@cityofdavis.org.

Questions will only be considered and answered via email. Questions will not be considered or answered 48 working hours prior to the bid opening.

15. Pre-Bid Conference A MANDATORY Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled for March 22, at 11:00 AM to review the Project's existing conditions at the comer of Second Street and L Street in the City of Davis.

Representatives of the City and consulting engineers, if any, will be present. Questions asked by Bidders at the Pre-Bid Conference not specifically addressed within the Contract Documents shall be answered in writing, and shall be sent to all Bidders. Bids will not be accepted from any bidder who did not attend the mandatory Pre-Bid Conference. ___________________________________________________________________________ Deliver Bids To: CITY OFFICES - CITY CLERK'S OFFICE 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616-3896 (Building is located on the corner of Russell Boulevard & B Street) *Note* If you choose to mail your Bid Proposal via any of the overnight/express services, the preferred services are FedEx, UPS and USPS and the delivery MUST be a timed delivery. The delivery service MUST deliver the bid during the TIME WINDOW stated below to the City's Clerk Office. The outside envelope MUST be clearly marked as follows: SEALED BID FOR: 2nd Street Improvement Project, CIP No.ETOOOl DELIVER IMMEDIATELY TO CITY CLERK'S OFFICE TIME WINDOW TO DELIVER BIDS (either by delivery service or dropped off in person by bidder): March 30, 2022 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM. No bids will be accepted outside of this time window.

Bids Due Date And Time: March 30, 2022 WINDOW FOR DELIVERY 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM; DEADLINE: 11:00 AM ___________________________________________________________________________ END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS Published March 16, 2022

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Local Roundup

Big West honors Brown’s performance in circle Enterprise staff UC Davis softball player in pitcher Kenedi Brown was named the Big West Conference Pitcher of the Week, the league office announced on Monday.

The honor is the third of the season for the Elk Grove native.

Brown had a near flawless weekend, leading the Aggies to a 5-0 record at the Silicon Valley Classic. She tossed her first career no-hitter, striking out 11 and walking only one in a 2-0 victory over Utah State.

The righthander appeared in three games, allowed a hit in 13 innings and struck out 21. Batters could only muster a .024 average against Brown, as she also added a save in a perfect two innings of relief against Idaho State.

More Aggies softball SAN JOSE — The UC Davis softball team swept through the competition over the weekend at the Silicon Valley Classic, going a perfect 5-0 in the tournament to move to .500 on the

season with an 11-11 mark.

The Aggies closed out the weekend with a 3-0 victory over Idaho State at the Spartan Softball Complex. The Aggie duo of Taylor Fitzgerald and Brown kept the Bengals at bay, surrendering just three hits while striking out six.

Fitzgerald earned the victory, going five innings with two strikeouts while walking one. Brown struck out four in a perfect two innings of relief.

The UC Davis pitching staff shined all weekend, holding opponents to a .123 batting average while sporting an incredible 0.19 ERA in 37 innings pitched.

Brown and Fitzgerald both went 2-0 with unblemished 0.00 ERA's. Brown allowed just one hit and struck out 21 in 13 innings of work.

— To view more of Local Roundup that include all of the Aggies’ games at the classic, Davis High graduate Sondre Guttormsen at Princeton, the Davis High girls lacrosse and boys lacrosse teams, visit www.davisentperise.com and click on the Sports tab.

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UC Davis pitcher Kenedi Brown high fives teammates during a recent home game this season.

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Love never dies Dear Readers: Thank you for your heartfelt and humbling responses to Second Wife, who is bothered that her second husband continues to carry a photo of his late wife in his billfold. These serve as an important reminder that though loved ones die, our love for them doesn’t.

Dear Annie: After 20-plus years of marriage, my now-husband and I

Legals@DavisEnterprise.net both lost our first spouses. We had long and wonderful marriages before they were both cut short by cancer.

When my now-husband and I married, we embraced our first spouses into our marriage. It’s a marriage of four people, not just two. They were a part of who we were then and the people we are now. Their pictures are as important a part of our home as the pictures of his two daughters, my daughter and our grandchild.

We still talk about them, remember the good times and share stories. We take flowers to the cemetery on their birthdays and “death days.” We love them just as much today as we did 20 years ago.

My now-husband and I just celebrated our 22nd anniversary. So my advice to Second Wife is to embrace the first spouse, share stories and add your pic in his wallet. Perhaps opening up to one another — sharing stories about your first spouses — will enrich your current marriage, as it has for me and my now-husband.

— With Open Arms Dear Annie: I, too, lost my wife, and I can tell you she will always be part of my life. I completely disagree that he should bury the past.

Losing a spouse is like losing part of yourself. I believe that it is possible to find new love, but that new love is an addition, not a replacement.

I think Second Wife needs to understand that her husband can love and be devoted to her but that his lost wife will always be part of who he is.

— Still Grieving Dear Annie: In regards

to your response to Second Wife, I have a different take on the situation.

I had been widowed for five years when I remarried and moved into my second husband’s home. He had a wall of family pictures (kids, parents and grandparents), and there was one picture of his ex-wife and their children.

Before we were married, he told me who was in each picture. When he came to that picture, he said, “It’s not there because I still love her, but because it is part of my and my children’s lives.”

After we married, he

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rummaged through my things until he found a picture of my late husband.

He then went and put that picture on the wall because it was part of my life. When people come over and ask about the pictures, he always tells them that is my late husband.

We loved each other dearly, and they are only pictures.

— Grieving with Grace Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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Goal is climate restoration

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estoration: “The action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition.” In this case, we are talking about “Climate Restoration.” My good friend Don has recently made me aware of the Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR).

Their goal is ambitious.

“Climate restoration is the safe and permanent removal of excess CO2, so that our climate is returned to pre-industrial levels of atmospheric carbon. We know that humanity and the natural world thrived in the climate we had before the Industrial Revolution, when CO2 was below 300 ppm (parts per million).

Therefore, the explicit aim of the Foundation is to reduce atmospheric CO2 from today’s levels of around 415 ppm to below 300 ppm by 2050.”

This is a heavy lift.

“Lowering atmospheric carbon by 115 ppm will require sequestering about one trillion tons of CO2.

The task, safely capturing a trillion tons of CO2 from the air and storing it for hundreds to thousands of years, sounds enormous.

And it is. But promising solutions and financing strategies already exist.”

Remember that even at 400 ppm CO2 is a very, very small part of the atmosphere. Removing some from the other 999,996 parts is technically and financially daunting.

They are careful to say clearly that their aim is in no way intended to pull the rug out from under efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or develop the resiliency necessary to respond to current levels. They argue, though, that it is not good enough to just limit temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Centigrade over pre-industrial levels. We are already at the point where fires, floods, hurricanes, drought, and melting levels of ice don’t add up to a condition of the planet that we will be comfortable living with. (And yes, Bob, I do know a preposition is something you should never end a sentence with.)

The Foundation has an analogy from long ago to make their point; the bathtub with the tap on and the tub filling faster than it can drain, resulting in overflow. The bathtub is the atmosphere which, in former times, contained a comfortable level of water (CO2) due to draining more or less in equilibrium with water (CO2) coming in.

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urning fossil fuels adds CO2 faster than it can be absorbed naturally by the carbon cycle and we are now flooding the atmosphere (bathroom floor).

The Foundation argues that we urgently need to stop adding to the problem, but at the same time we need to begin working on ways to restore a livable planet. That’s hard to argue with, but there are arguments nonetheless.

So, what does the foundation propose? Basically, after all is said and done, they are attempting to create a massive movement of individuals, and governments from cities,

counties, states, and nations, as well as the financial community, to get with the program.

One quick clarification.

Climate restoration is not the same as carbon capture. To illustrate this, consider Elon Musk’s latest X-PRIZE offering a $100 million to encourage development of carbon capture technologies.

Those competing for the money must “demonstrate a working solution at a scale of at least 1,000 tonnes (whereas a “ton” in the US is 2,000 pounds, a “tonne” is a metric measure equaling 2,240 US pounds) removed per year; model their costs at a scale of 1 million tonnes per year, and show a pathway to achieving a scale of gigatonnnes per year in the future.”

The size of the prize has resulted in pretty amazing technology in past X-Prizes and may do so again. Good deal, right?

But what’s in it for Musk.

Although the CO2 captured may be used for many purposes, he apparently is interested in it as a source for making liquid methane to be used as rocket fuel to propel earthlings to colonize Mars.

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here’s the rub. Burning liquid methane and liquid oxygen creates water and, you may have guessed it, CO2. Carbon capture that does not result in its removal from the atmosphere is counterproductive to the goal of climate restoration.

Another example would be using the captured CO2 to enhance extraction of fossil fuels. Removal is only half the battle; equally important is storage.

F4CR propose four criteria for climate restoration solutions. First, the solution must result in the “permanent” removal of CO2. They define “permanent as the “captured CO2 securely out of circulation for at least a century.” The emphasis is on “at least” but personally I think the bar should be higher (longer) than that.

Second, the solution must be “scalable” meaning that it can be shown to, within 10 years, remove and store at least 10 gigatonnes of CO2 per year.

Third, the solution must be “financeable.” Basically, it should provide income that attracts investors and users, such as creating a stronger form of cement.

Fourth, the solution must be “equitable.” This is the least defined of the criteria. Essentially it seems they are still working on its definition.

F4CR identifies multiple climate restoration solutions, and discusses examples of actions being taken by local and state governments to move the ball forward. Fodder for another column.

— John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month in the print edition of the Davis Enterprise.

Please send comments to johnmottsmith@comcast. net.

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