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COVID-19 Community Report Episode 15: Updates from Davis Mayor Brett Lee and the Yolo Community Foundation- May 5, 2020

Tue, 05/05/2020 - 12:40pm | Autumn Labbe-Renault

The impacts of COVID-19 sharply impact cities, and still there are things like municipal measures (such as MeasureJ/R)  and local elections to consider. We talk about that and more with Davis Mayor Brett Lee.  Today's conversation included an overview of how the pandemic is impacting the city's budget as it prepares for a new fiscal year starting July 1, 2020.  We also heard from Jessica Hubbard of Yolo Community Foundation about this week's local giving program #BDOG2020 for the Big Day of Giving, which is this Thursday, May 7, and the foundation's donor engagement program.  The Yolo Community Foundation is spearheading an effort to raise awareness and funding for our region's hard-working nonprofit organizations with the Yolo COVID-19 Relief Initiative.  This initiative is made possible through the partnerships with Yolo County and the cities of Davis, West Sacramento, Winters and Woodland.  

Davisville, May 4, 2020: A veteran of muni finance sizes up the pandemic-sized hole facing Davis City Hall

Mon, 05/04/2020 - 6:10pm | Bill Buchanan

(This repeat of the April 27 program is kept in the archives as a source for Apple podcast.)

We’ve entered a recession, and don't know yet how bad it will be. To get some perspective, I talk today with Bob Leland, an expert on municipal finance with the Management Partners consulting firm who began his career in the 1970s. He compares the current downturn to the Great Recession 12 years ago, lists some possible responses, and estimates the size of the revenue loss facing Davis – “it’ll probably be about a 6 to 8 percent loss for the year that will be ending June 30,” with the financial damage concentrated in the last few months.

Read that carefully—the plunge since March has been steep enough to take the results for the entire fiscal year down by 6 percent or more.

Perspectives: Poetry Overload with Alonna Shaw

Mon, 05/04/2020 - 2:35pm | Alison B

On this episode of Meraki Radio- Perspectives, Alonna Shaw returns and we fill the time with poetry and musings thereof. A bit of commentary on animals interspersed, as well as other meanderings.

Words Cited:

"Fool's Gold" by Tim Mathys: https://poets.org/poem/fools-gold

"Part of Eve's Discussion" by Marie Howe: https://poets.org/poem/part-eves-discussion

"Red" by Mary Ruefle: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/153198/red-5e83d38...

"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45502/the-red-wheelbarrow
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