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FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2020
Lee won’t seek new term on City Council
Plastic dividers separate tables at the University of Beer, which was cleared to reopen in June. Closing bars again was a topic of debate among Yolo County Supervisors on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, the county acted to shut them down.
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer
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County to shut down bars Indoor dining off, too, as regional COVID numbers get worse BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY
supervisors expressed reluctance about closing local bars as Sacramento and other counties have done, saying there was insufficient data that virus transmission was occurring in those locations. But on Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered all counties on the state’s monitoring list — currently 19 — to close bars and breweries (indoor and out) as well as indoor dine-in restaurants, indoor wineries and tasting rooms; indoor family entertainment centers (like
Enterprise staff writer Yolo County is expected to land on the state’s monitoring list due to rising COVID-19 cases and an increased test positivity rate, county officials said Wednesday, so the county will close all bars and a number of indoor businesses beginning Friday morning. They will remain closed for at least three weeks. The announcement came just a day after some Yolo County
bowling alleys); indoor movie theaters; and indoor zoos, museums and cardrooms (except for those on tribal lands). In a press release issued Wednesday evening, the county said that due to increases in confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks, Yolo is likely to exceed the disease transmission criteria that would place it on the state’s monitoring list. “To help slow the spread of COVID-19 and align with surrounding counties, Yolo County will pre-emptively close the same sectors that the state has required counties on the list to close, effective July 3 at 12:01 a.m. for a minimum of three
weeks,” the county said. Yolo County had previously exceeded the benchmark for total cases in a two-week period, but now the test positivity rate — the percentage of COVID-19 tests yielding positive results in the last week — is nearing the 8 percent benchmark set by the state, the county reported Wednesday. The county said the sevenday rate as of Wednesday was 7.1 percent and that rate has risen continuously over the past two weeks. Meanwhile, 108 new cases have been reported in the county just since Monday —
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UC Academic Council calls for reforms to campus police BY CALEB HAMPTON
“The statement offers a visionary and transformative approach to address the enduring concerns from campus communities about distressing interactions between campus police and students and faculty of color, the militarization of campus police, and the excessive and potentially lethal uses of force during campus protests,” wrote Academic Council Chair Kum-Kum Bhavnani. “You will see that the recommendations are substantial.” The Academic Council has recommended that UC: ■ “Substantially defund
Enterprise staff writer The University of California Academic Council endorsed a set of recommendations last week to restructure the university’s safety and security infrastructure and substantially reduce funding for campus police. The recommendations, described by the council as “a guide for rethinking the role of police on UC campuses,” were published Monday in a letter addressed to UC President Janet Napolitano.
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general campus police and redistribute those resources to the study and development of alternative modes of campus safety that minimize and/or abolish the reliance on policing and other criminalizing responses.” ■ “Invest in resources that promote mental and physical wellbeing of the campus community, specifically support services for Black students as well as for other marginalized student groups who have been historically targeted by police violence.” ■ “Ban firearms as standard
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When November rolls around and residents of three newly formed Davis City Council districts head to the polls, they’ll see some familiar names on the ballot, including two incumbents and possibly a former councilwoman throwing her hat in the ring again. A name they won’t see: Brett Lee. As he prepared to hand over the mayor’s gavel on Tuesday LEE night to incoming Not running Mayor Gloria Partida, Lee made an announcement: After having served two terms on the council, including the last two years as mayor, he will not be seeking reelection. “I am looking forward to serving out the remainder of my term to November and looking forward to seeing who will be the next representative who will be representing the newly formed District 2,” Lee said. So far three candidates have said they plan to seek that job: Councilman Will Arnold; Dillan Horton,
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Yip done at Yolo Board of Education BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer
■ “Assemble groups at both the campus and systemwide level to discuss these recommendations and how to begin implementing them within a three-year period. In doing so,
Educator and longtime Davis resident Shelton Yip — who was elected to the Yolo County Board of Education YIP in 2012, and re- No third term elected in 2016 — won’t be seeking another term. Yip has represented Trustee Area 4, covering the eastern portions of Davis and adjacent rural areas to the north and south of Davis — the same area as the Fourth District for the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. Yip told The Enterprise in 2012 that he came to Davis as a UC Davis student “and never left.”
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equipment for police on the general campus.” ■ “Dissolve any existing partnership or cooperation agreements with non-UC law enforcement agencies and terminate any agreements to allow non-UC law enforcement agencies access to campus facilities or property.”
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