This Week in Your Government

Monday, May 3 – Friday, May 7, 2010

Participate or Stop Whining

The City of Davis is looking for volunteers to serve as members of the following commissions:

• Business & Economic Development (1 regular vacancy & 1 alternate vacancy)
• Finance & Budget (1 alternate vacancy)
• Historical Resources Management (1 alternate vacancy)
• Human Relations (1 alternate vacancy)
• Natural Resources (1 alternate vacancy)
• Open Space & Habitat (1 regular vacancy)
• Safety & Parking Advisory (1 alternate vacancy)
• Social Services (1 regular vacancy)
• Telecommunications (1 alternate vacancy)
• Tree Commission (1 regular vacancy)

Application deadline is May 14, 2010.

Saving California Communities: What Next?

2nd Annual Davis Conference on Government Reform

Saturday, May 15, 2010.  Registration and coffee at 8:30 am, program from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the new UC Davis Conference Center at Vanderhoef Plaza near the Mondavi Center.  Admission and parking are free. Lunch provided.

It’s been a year–what’s next?  Last May, Saving California Communities brought together more than 150 people from around the region to discuss the impact of California’s broken state financial and governance systems on local communities and learn about reform efforts underway to rebuild these systems.  Join us again this coming May 15 to reflect on what happened with these reform efforts over the past year and chart a course for the future of California communities.  We will hear and talk with writer and former Sacramento Bee columnist Peter Schrag, California Forward’s Jim Mayer, former Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin, and others.

Space is limited.  Please RSVP by May 12 to be included in the lunch count.  For more information, visit www.SavingCA.org, write info@SavingCA.org or call (530)304-6360.

The following are your opportunities to participate in the public process this week.  Click on links for locations and full agendas.  As always, if important events have been overlooked, add them as a comment.

Monday, 3 May 2010

5:30 pm – CITY – Bicycle Advisory Commission

7:30 pm – CANDIDATE FORUM – Davis Bicycles & The Davis Bike Collective candidate forum

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

6:30 pm – Davis City Council – public hearing on water and sanitary sewer rates; public hearing on recommendation to remove weeds and grasses to eliminate potential fire hazards; public hearing on resolution establishing fees for facility rental use for fiscal year 2010/11; public hearing on resolution authorizing submittal of the five-year consolidated plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); presentation of City Manager’s fiscal year 2010/11 proposed budget.

7:00 pm – CANDIDATE FORUM – Davis Democratic Club candidate forum

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

9:00 am – Yolo County Board of Supervisors – 2010-11 budget workshop

Continues May 6 and May 7 at 9:00 am, as needed.

Thursday, 6 May 2010

5:30 pm – CANDIDATE FORUM – Downtown Davis Business Association candidate forum

7:00 pm – Davis Joint Unified School District Board of Education – approve agreement between Davis Joint Unified School District and Davis Bridge Education Foundation; approve proposed decision of Administrative Law Judge and direct staff to issue final certificated layoff notices; Davis Schools Foundation update; ratification of tentative agreements between the district and the Davis Teachers Association; approval of Board Resolution No. 41-10: ordering elimination or reduction of positions for lack of work and/or lack of funds (Classified), and directing the Superintendent to notify classified employees of layoff; Homework Policy Review Committee survey results and final report; presentation on the Revised Family Life Curriculum; approval of Resolution No. 42-10 to issue of 2010-2011 Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes (TRANS)

Friday, 7 May 2010

7:00 pm – CANDIDATE FORUM – League of Women Voters candidate forum