This Week in Your Government

Monday, March 8 – Friday, March 12, 2010

Google Fiber for Communities Deadline Nears

You’ve read about it here on the Voice.  Kemble Pope explained the project in “Googlephile Davisites Want Faster Internet”  and Steve McMahon offered thoughts on what might make Davis competitive in “Why Google Needs Davis.”   The deadline for expression of interest is approaching.  The City of Davis website offers this:

Google is looking for communities to respond to the question, “Why is your community the ideal choice to partner with Google in putting in a high speed fiber network?” The Davis City Council passed a resolution on March 2nd outlining the City’s support for this project. Currently many parts of the community are working to gather support and get the word out.

City of Davis staff will coordinate the official response and is asking that community members provide support by going online and telling Google why they feel Davis would be a good test bed for this gigabit fiber network. The links to Google and other community information are below.

Online responses are due by March 26th so please go online and let Google know your support for this project!

Google RFI Links:

• RFI General Information – Link to Google
• Link to Google to show support (requires free gmail account)
• DavisWiki Google Fiber for Communities Discussion
• Local Facebook Page for more information and how to show your support
• DCN Support webpage for additional local references

The following are your opportunities to participate in the public process this week.  Click on links for full agendas, locations and back-up documentation.  If we’ve missed important events, we invite you to add them in a comment.

Monday, 8 March 2010

6:00 pm – CITY – Community Focus Group on Teen Issues - The City of Davis Youth Advisory Task Force and the Community Services Department is sponsoring a series of community focus groups to hear and understand the critical issues facing our Davis teens today. If you are a member of a community youth organization, a parent/guardian, PTA member, or know of a teen between the ages of 13 – 17 years, we would like to invite you to participate with other community members in a group discussion about teen issues. The feedback from the community focus groups will be used to design and plan future teen services here in Davis, and will be presented to the City Council later this year.

6:30 pm – CITY/UCD – Unitrans Advisory Committee

7:00 pm – CITY – Civic Arts Commission

7:00 pm – CITY – Budget and Finance Commission

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 

4:30 pm – CITY/UCD – City/UCD Student Liaison Commission

7:00 pm – CITY – Planning Commission - Greening Davis’ Built Environment: The City of Davis Planning Commission, in collaboration with the Natural Resources Commission, will conduct a public workshop. A panel of experts will help the commissions consider measures which would reduce the carbon footprint of Davis homes, apartments, and businesses. The keynote speaker will be Karen Douglas, Chair of the California Energy Commission accompanied by Anthony Eggert, who was recently appointed to the commission. Other speakers will be Marshall Hunt, Michael Corbett, Kevin Wolf, Mark Berman and Greg Mahoney, Assistant Chief Building Official.

Thursday, 11 March 2010

8:30 am – COUNTY – Planning Commission

12:00 pm – CITY – Open House and Celebration of Varsity Theatre’s New Second Screen

2:00 pm – COUNTY – Yolo County Housing

2:30 pm – CITY – Senior Citizen Commission

6:00 pm – CITY – Community Focus Group on Teen Issues