Daily Republic: Wednesday, June 22, 2022

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Council signs off on 2022-23 priorities, goals, objectives Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Homelessness, quality of life, downtown development, housing, organizational excellence and community engagement are the top priorities for the city heading into the 2022-23 fiscal year. The goals and priorities were set out during a strategic goal-setting workshop held in March and approved Tuesday night by the City Council. There was no discussion by the council, nor public comment. The priorities, each with a listed primary goal as well as objectives, are: Homelessness: Reduce homelessness and the impacts of homelessness. n Objective 1 – Strengthen regional capacity. n Objective 2 – Enhance services and local partnerships. n Objective 3 – Improve public policy and community engagement. Quality of Life: Elevate Fairfield as the place to live, work, and play. n Objective 1 – Crime reduction. n Objective 2 – Infrastructure and beautification. n Objective 3 – Programs, services and events. n Objective 4 – Economic development. Downtown Development: Create an economically vibrant and safe downtown with equal access to all. n Objective 1 – Increase residential housing.

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Erick Silva, second from left, carries the Flame of Hope during the Torch Relay for Special Olympics at the government center in Fairfield, Tuesday. Silva, an 18-time

Special Olympics Summer Games athlete, carried the torch at the end of a leg that spanned the Main Gate of Travis Air Force Base to the government center.

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From left, Rusty Bowers, Arizona House speaker; Brad Raffensperger, Georgia secretary of state; and Gabriel Sterling, Georgia secretary of state chief operating officer, are sworn in prior to testifying during the fourth hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

Local ‘heroes’ rebuffed Trump, then faced threats Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — Republican state legislators and elected officials detailed Tuesday the intense pressure they faced from President Donald Trump and his lawyers to subvert the will of voters and submit to Congress false slates of electors backing him. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling, all Republicans, testified at the fourth hearing of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021, about numerous lengthy phone calls and in-person meetings from Trump and those in his inner circle pushing them to act to keep him in office despite being repeatedly informed the effort was illegal or unconstitutional. “Pressuring public servants into betraying their oath was a fundamental part of the See Heroes, Page A8

A team of Solano County probation and Suisun City police carry the Flame of Hope during the Torch Relay for Special Olympics at the government center in Fairfield, Tuesday.

FAIRFIELD — Erick Silva, an 18-time Special Olympics Summer Games athlete, carried the Flame of Hope during one of the early legs of the Torch Run on Tuesday. Silva, 28, who is not competing in the games this year, ran as part of the Fairfield police team, which picked up the torch at the Main Gate of Travis Air Force Base and brought it to the fountain at the Solano County Government Center on Texas Street in downtown Fairfield. It was then handed off to a team of county Probation and Suisun City police participants. Tuesday’s relay was the second day, in Solano County, of the 25th anniversary of the Law Enforcement Torch Run in Northern

Man fatally shot by sheriff’s deputy has manslaughter history in county state prison. The District Attorney’s Office, after a request FAIRFIELD — The Tuesday from the Daily man shot and killed Republic, provided Sunday by a Solano County information confirming sheriff’s deputy Thompson’s idenhas a violent crimtity and connection inal history. to the prior case. Jason T. Thompson’s Thompson, 29, defense attorney pleaded no contest during criminal in March 2016 to a proceedings in the manslaughter case described the count for the shooting as a “heat April 2014 fatal THOMPSON of passion crime,” shooting of Gustavo and said ThompP. Banda, 27, son acted in self defense. outside a Travion Court The judge overseeing the apartment, near Union case described the shootAvenue and Travis ing as the result of a turf Boulevard. war by rival drug dealers. Banda, a father of two, According to the Diswas shot in the back of the trict Attorney’s Office, head. A 15-year-old boy in a statement released was also shot but survived. Monday, Thompson was Thompson was sen- carrying a saw blade, tenced to 11 years in ignored law enforcement

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orders to put the blade down and continued to approach the sheriff’s deputy when he was shot. Thompson died of his wounds at a nearby hospital, the District Attorney’s Office statement said. The Vallejo Police Department had received reports at about 5:24 p.m. Sunday of a carjacking

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on Curtola Parkway, and at 6:53 p.m. requested assistance from the Sheriff’s Office. The Solano County Major Crimes Task Force, following the Countywide Officer Involved Fatal Incident Protocol, is conducting the officer-involved shooting investigation.

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