The Davis Enterprise Friday, June 19, 2020

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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020

COVID cases continue surge Council

approves budget

Nail salons to reopen today BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer A spike in new coronavirus cases this week caused Yolo County to exceed one of the state’s attestation metrics for epidemiological stability — the number of new cases over the last 14 days. The benchmark for Yolo County, based on total population, is no more than 55 new cases over the last two weeks. The county has now reported 87 new cases during that time frame. However, that will not cause recently opened activities to close, and new businesses — including nail salons — were given the OK to open their doors today. “Exceeding one metric does not mean there is an automatic rollback,” said county public information officer Jenny Tan, “but it does mean Yolo County will be reviewing case data, including the source of community spread infections, to target communication to those most affected and determine if other protective measures are necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19.” The county’s test positivity rate — another attestation metric —

Future discussions set on police funds BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

SEE BUDGET, PAGE A7

Partitions are up at Y2K Nails on G Street to separate customers receiving manicures and pedicures from the salon’s employees. remains below the state threshold of 8 percent, though that rate has been climbing locally recently. With 1,366 tests conducted in the last week and 62 positive test results, the test positivity rate was 4.54 percent. For the pandemic as a whole, the positivity test rate has been 3.42 percent. Counties that do not meet either threshold — total cases in the last two weeks or test positivity rate — are placed on the state’s watch list. At that point,

the California Department of Public Health reaches out to provide counties with technical assistance and support, Tan said. However, being on that list does not trigger any pullbacks or further restrictions. Yolo County reported 26 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, the highest oneday total since the pandemic began, and 11 more cases on Thursday. Supervisor Jim Provenza of

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer

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SEE SURGE, PAGE A5

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UC leaders cheer Supreme Court DACA decision UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and the University of California Board of Regents each released statements Thursday applauding the United States Supreme Court’s long-awaited decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. The program allows undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to work in the U.S. and shields them from deportation. On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration cannot proceed with its plan to end the program, which currently offers protections to about 700,000 young people. “This ruling is a huge relief to so many valued members of our

Davis had said Wednesday that contact tracing was continuing on the recently confirmed cases “and we will look closely to see if any of the recent re-openings have contributed to the alarming increase in cases.” But according to the county on Thursday, most of those cases were due to social and family gatherings as well as some workplace exposures

A nationwide call to redirect local funding from traditional police activities to expanded mental health care and social services echoed through Tuesday’s Davis City Council meeting. Nearly 80 people called in to the Zoom meeting to urge the council to reduce the budget proposed for the Davis Police Department. That budget, like nearly all city department budgets this year, contains funding cuts due to significantly reduced city revenues, but many callers contended the cuts should go further. The department is looking at a cut of almost $1 million, largely through the elimination of a number of currently vacant positions, as the city grapples with a budget deficit caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. City Council members said they were supportive of the call for reforms — calls that have grown more urgent in the wake of the death

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A crowd outside the court held signs to show their support. The monarch butterfly, most famously portrayed by Favianna Rodriguez, has been embraced as a symbol of immigration by pro-DACA advocates. UC Davis community,” Chancellor May said. “Our undocumented community has faced incredible stress and uncertainty as they awaited this

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decision over the past two years.” Currently, there are roughly 4,000 undocumented

SEE DACA, PAGE A5

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Planning Commission recommends council put DISC project on ballot BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

most recently, the DISC.

Enterprise staff writer

Developers — Ramco Enterprises, the Buzz Oates Group and Reynolds & Brown — say the project would provide much-needed research and innovation space to businesses emerging from UC Davis, thousands of local jobs to graduates and other Davis residents and increase the city’s housing supply.

The Davis Planning Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend the City Council place the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus on the November ballot. The council will decide whether to do so at its next meeting on June 30. Nearly a decade in the making, the proposal has morphed over the years into what will now be before the council: 2.64 million square feet of business and innovation space as well as 850 residential units on the northeast corner of Mace Boulevard and Interstate 80. The project’s name has changed over the years as well, from the Mace Ranch Innovation Center to the Aggie Research Campus to,

Others say the project will bring increased traffic congestion to the Mace Boulevard/I-80 interchange area while taking agricultural land out of production and without a guarantee that the types of companies developers say will locate there actually will. Several planning commissioners expressed those concerns on

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