This Week in Your Government

Monday, October 31 – Friday, November 4, 2011

The People Speak

Each week we post links to articles by Davis authors who promote great public discourse.  Visit our Facebook page and share your thoughts or post a comment below.

Here are this week’s conversation starters:

‎”Our economy and our culture have evolved, paralleling the evolution of our technology, but our ethics, our basic sense of what is right and what is sinfully wrong, has not similarly evolved,” writes Lawson in Morality in Politics: Occupy This! in The Davis Patch

“Could we make A-G pre-requisite the default graduation requirement for our high schools?  Students could ‘opt out’ with parent permission, but would not be tracked out without scrutiny,” writes Jann Murray-Garcia in Three Steps Forward, Why Step Back? in The Davis Enterprise

“Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that the FBI has revised its ‘Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide,” which serves as a handbook for the bureau’s 14,000 agents.  The amended manual … is one more step in the FBI’s ongoing transformation since 9/11, as it morphs from a law enforcement agency into a domestic intelligence agency,” writes Jay Feldman in Rein in FBI As It Again Tries to Assume the Role of Secret Police in The Sacramento Bee.

Show Up or Stop Whining

Below are your opportunities to participate in the public process this week.  Click on links for locations and full agendas.

And please note, the Davis School Board is soliciting public input on the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school calendars at this Thursday’s meeting.  Options are available here.   Attend the meeting or contact the Board at boe@djusd.net to express a preference.

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

6:30 pm – Davis City Council - public hearing on establishment of underground utility District No. 9; car sharing pilot program – Year One status report and agreement amendment No. 2 with Zipcar, Inc.; Central Park master plan restroom building; establish Utility Rate Advisory Committee

Thursday, 3 November 2011

7:00 pm – Davis Joint Unified School District Board of Education – resolution supporting California Retired Teachers Week; Davis Bridge Foundation update; parcel tax input & resolution discussion; budget update; budget reduction planning; 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 instructional calendar adoption forum; Community Facilities District No. 2 public hearing and approval of Resolution No. 30-12: Calling an Election to Levy a Special Tax Within an Area Proposed to be Annexed to CFD No. 2