Lots of dogs and cats are waiting to be adopted at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them is Monkey (No. 105322), a 2-month-old neutered male, black domestic short-haired cat. Also hoping for a good home is Benjamin (No. 105512), a 7-year-old neutered male, red dachashund dog. Fees are … Continue Reading
This election I’m mirroring The Enterprise’s endorsements for City Council. I’m voting for a team most likely to exercise fiscal prudery on employee salaries and benefits. Sue Greenwald, the indispensable and well-informed. Lee, the quietly competent industrial engineer. Wolk, the inevitable and thus unintimidated. Not all of these are great on historic preservation, another pet … Continue Reading
The city of Davis is accepting applications for its newly created Affordable Housing Task Force. The deadline is Monday. The task force will explore options for potential future use of 20 single-family affordable homes that were part of the Davis Area Cooperative Housing Association. The task force also will review methods and options for the provision of … Continue Reading
New allegations have been brought against the city of Davis and its dealings with the Davis Area Cooperative Housing Association this week. David Thompson, president of the Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation and co-owner of Neighborhood Partners LLC, claims that after the DACHA dissolution hearing the City Council held in February, the city did not subsequently … Continue Reading
Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation recently sent a letter to The Enterprise listing a number of out of town people and organizations who had written to the City and the Attorney General about DACHA. The letter we sent was within the 350 word limit. Regretfully, The Enterprise edited out the very important clarification of “organizations for … Continue Reading
Due to the illegal acts of the Davis Area Cooperative Housing Association and the millions in public funds wasted on the DACHA debacle, the shameful events have attracted national scrutiny from cooperatives. Letters were sent to the City Council and the California attorney general protesting the dissolution and the wrongful role of DACHA and city … Continue Reading
Sadly, it seems evident that members of the Davis Area Cooperative Housing Association have become pawns to be sacrificed in a nasty, high-stakes game of chess between the city and businesses fronting for David Thompson (Neighborhood Partners and Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation. In Tuesday’s edition of The Davis Enterprise, Louis Gonzalez, attorney for Twin Pines, … Continue Reading
CLEAR AS DAVIS WATER … “Clear goals set for city water panel,” said the front-page headline in last Friday’s paper … never mind that the Davis Water Advisory Committee has been meeting for several months now, the City Council finally got around to defining its mission … that mission includes, according to Tom Sakash’s report, … Continue Reading
The ongoing dispute between the city of Davis and two local affordable housing developers turns on two key questions: Was an official settlement offer extended to resolve two pending lawsuits? And was that offer — or framework of an offer — considered serious enough to push the parties forward? David Thompson, president of Twin Pines … Continue Reading
By Louis A. Gonzalez Jr. The Davis City Council’s op-ed piece in the March 7 edition of The Davis Enterprise was not only improper, as it spoke to confidential settlement communications, it was erroneous and a piecemeal (re)characterization of the events that have been ongoing since 2005. Perhaps this is a knee-jerk reaction to the … Continue Reading
The city of Davis offered Neighborhood Partners LLC and Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation a settlement of $300,000 — the first of two such offers — in April 2010 in an attempt to resolve ongoing lawsuits.
The offers also were designed to allow the Davis Area Cooperative Housing Association to continue to operate as an affordable housing model, according to a statement released Wednesday by the City Council.
But Neighborhood Partners and Twin Pines, who have filed multiple lawsuits against the city, the city’s Redevelopment Agency and DACHA — for alleged misappropriation of …
More info Additional information is available on the city of Davis website: www.cityofdavis.org Suggested further reading related to DACHA: DACHA history, assets and liabilities in the organizational dissolution plan application and staff report dated Feb. 7, 2012 DACHA organizational dissolution plan, dated May 16, 2011 Yolo County Grand Jury report on the city of Davis … Continue Reading
Several key items on the Feb. 21 City Council meeting agenda were pushed back by two weeks after a lengthy economic development roundtable discussion and the Golden Heart Awards ceremony ran longer than expected. At Tuesday’s meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Chambers at City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd., the council will decide whether … Continue Reading
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