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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2020
Napolitano announces UC salary freeze
Will the customers come? With reopening on the horizon, restaurants may depend on outdoor seating. Below right, The Hotdogger is an old hand at the sidewalk-seating game.
Top execs will take 10-percent pay cut BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer
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Seating arrangement Expanding outdoors may be key for some downtown businesses BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Downtown Davis restaurants may be able to welcome customers inside as soon as next week, but many may not survive if they are unable to accommodate enough customers to make ends meet, business leaders said this week. Reopening will come with physical distancing requirements that will limit the number of individuals allowed inside businesses at any given time as well as the number of tables restaurants can make available for diners. “Even if we are given the green light to a certain degree,
the capacity level is a huge issue,” said Brett Maresca, executive director of the Davis Downtown Business Association. “It’s not going to matter if a restaurant is going to be able to open their doors to dine in if they can only have a third of their patrons on a Saturday or Friday night or a Saturday lunch,” Maresca said during a joint meeting Monday of city and business organization leaders. “They’re not going to be able to cut that as they have to ramp up staff, ramp up supplies and food … It’s a slow death that’s going to occur here if we’re not innovative and really open this
up for discussion.”
vehicle traffic.
The innovation city and business leaders are now discussing is similar to what’s taking place in other locations; namely, opening some public space up for business use, including using sidewalks or closing streets and parking lots to
Picture E Street Plaza or E Street itself being used by restaurants to provide outdoor seating to diners. Another idea to help local businesses reopen: using a parking lot or closed
SEE SEATING, PAGE A5
Sisters spruce up arson-damaged memorial Shrine to slain Officer Corona torched last week
County seeks OK to reopen shops, restaurants Enterprise staff writer
months after Corona’s death. Meanwhile, police continue to investigate the alleged arson, during which an unknown suspect doused the memorial
Yolo County planned to submit new documents to the state on Tuesday attesting to having met all of the public health benchmarks now required to reopen additional businesses, including indoor dining at restaurants and indoor shopping at retailers currently limited to curbside pickup and delivery. That new attestation would follow on the heels of one rejected by the state because the county had not met a key benchmark previously required: no deaths in the county within the last two weeks. However, the state changed its epidemiological benchmarks on Monday, focusing on recent hospitalizations rather than recent deaths, and on those counts Yolo County “passes with flying colors,” according to county public health director Brian Vaughn. Vaughn expressed confidence to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning that the state will approve
SEE MEMORIAL, PAGE A3
SEE REOPEN, PAGE A5
Enterprise staff writer
VOL. 123 NO. 61
SEE SALARY, PAGE A3
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY
BY LAUREN KEENE When Elk Grove sisters Courtney and Kaitlyn Riley learned that a suspected arson fire damaged a roadside memorial for fallen Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona, they sprung into action. “We have this love and passion for law enforcement,” said Courtney, 22, whose uncle serves as an officer with the Woodland Police Department. After seeing an article about the vandalism on Facebook, “we got emotional about it, and we wanted to do what we could to lift the spirits of the people in the community.” Last weekend, Courtney and 17-year-old Kaitlyn spruced up the memorial at Fifth and C streets — where Corona was fatally shot on the night of Jan. 10, 2019 — with fresh flowers, working alongside several Davis police officers and members of the department’s peer support team. “They were talking to us about Natalie, the type of person that she was,” Courtney Riley said. “It was cool to hear all the stories about her.” It’s not the first time the Rileys have rallied in support of law enforcement. They’ve
On Monday, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced a systemwide freeze on salaries for nonunionized staff and nonstudent academic employees. Additionally, Napolitano and all 10 campus chancellors will take a 10 percent pay cut in the coming fiscal year. Napolitano earns a base pay of $570,000. The chancellors’ average base pay is roughly $500,000. The pay cuts and salary freezes are part of cost-saving efforts undertaken by the university in response to financial hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter addressed to the campus community, Napolitano said UC suffered $1.2 billion in unanticipated losses from mid-March through the end of April. “Like many other organizations, UC is facing significant financial impacts as a result of the pandemic,” Napolitano said. “This significant loss of revenue is having an enormous negative impact on our budgets.” Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a revised state budget for 2020-21, which included a 10-percent reduction in funding for UC worth $372 million. Newsom’s
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Sisters Courtney and Kaitlyn Riley, center, teamed up Sunday with members of the Davis Police Department to add flowers to a Fifth Street memorial for slain Officer Natalie Corona, which was damaged by a suspected arson fire last week. also launched Bracelets for a Cause, making and selling “thin blue line” bracelets to raise money for slain Sacramento Police Officer Tara O’Sullivan’s memorial fund. O’Sullivan was shot and killed in the line of duty on June 19, 2019, just over five
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