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SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2021
Mask mandate still in effect in Yolo County BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer
The UC regents on Thursday approved a mixed-use residential building planned as part of the Aggie Square complex in Sacramento. UC DAVIS/ COURTESY RENDERING
Regents OK Aggie Square housing BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer A mixed-use residential building planned as part of the Aggie Square complex in Sacramento received approval Wednesday from the University of California Board of Regents’ Finance and Capital Strategies Committee. The full Board of Regents approved the housing plans on Thursday. Aggie Square is a $1.1 billion campus and innovation hub planned for the Oak Park neighborhood near the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. The 1.2 million square-foot campus will host research and academic activities, continuing
education and job training, and business startups, especially those working in the fields of life science, technology and healthy communities, and bring substantial economic investment to Sacramento. The regents also approved plans this week for the Alice Waters Institute for Edible Education at Aggie Square, which will house research on more equitable and sustainable food systems. “We are grateful for the support given by the UC regents for Aggie Square,” said Chancellor Gary S. May. “We expect our first-ever housing project on the Sacramento campus to be popular and attractive to both
undergraduate and graduate students. And the Alice Waters Institute for Edible Education will benefit local K-12 students by fostering curricular development to support food-based learning and environmental stewardship.” In March, UC Davis, the city of Sacramento and Aggie Square developer Wexford Science & Technology reached a community benefits agreement and resolved objections raised by community groups that sued the university over concerns related to gentrification and increased housing costs the project could bring to the surrounding neighborhoods. The groups dropped their lawsuits
following the Sacramento City Council’s approval of the community benefits agreement. The agreement includes $50 million for local affordable housing and infrastructure and a guarantee that local residents are prioritized for jobs that come out of the project. City officials have said Aggie Square could bring 5,000 construction jobs and up to an additional 5,000 new ongoing jobs. “Aggie Square is the single biggest high-wage jobs and housing opportunity we have had in this city in decades,” Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in March.
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HDT offers students loot to get tested BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer With less than half of the approximately 8,200 students in the Davis Joint Unified School District registered to test for COVID-19 and only a portion of those who are registered actually testing regularly, Healthy Davis Together is rolling out some big incentives: Thousands of dollars worth of gift cards and raffle prizes students can win simply by testing weekly. A lucky Davis High School student could win a $500 Southwest Air gift card just for popping in to the Veterans Memorial Center for a quick saliva test. A few junior high students could win new AirPods for testing on campus or at one of Healthy Davis Together’s four community testing
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sites. And all students in grades 7 to 12 will receive a $10 gift card to a Davis business whenever they test two weeks in a row between now and the end of the school year. The incentive program is a partnership between Healthy Davis Together, the school district and the Davis Schools Foundation. Healthy Davis Together is covering the cost of the incentives, which includes a grand prize worth up to $500 and three secondary prizes worth up to $100 at each elementary, junior high and high school. Every time students take a COVID test, they will receive a raffle ticket for the drawing at their school. Raffle tickets will be available at both campus testing sites and community
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UC gets funding boost in revised state budget BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer
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Apple AirPods are among the raffle prizes available to DJUSD students who continue to get COVID-tested by Healthy Davis Together. Water bottles and masks were already distributed to students.
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Vaccinated or not, Yolo County residents are still required to wear face coverings in certain settings, including indoors and when attending crowded outdoor events. The county follows the state’s lead on face coverings and the California Department of Public Health has not amended its mask mandate in the wake of new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC changed its face mask recommendations on Thursday, saying people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in most settings. “However, these recommendations do not go into effect locally unless CDPH amends its current facecovering mandate,” the county announced in a press release Friday. Current state guidance requires that vaccinated people wear a mask indoors and when attending crowded outdoor events or other similar settings. The unvaccinated are required to wear a face covering outdoors any
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The University of California, along with other public colleges and universities in the state, will receive a significant funding increase under a state budget revision proposed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The increase includes a boost in base funding along with targeted funds that would help universities expand affordable housing for students, make repairs to campus facilities and provide students with career training. The budget revision came after Newsom revealed an unexpected $75 billion surplus. UC leaders had already applauded the state budget that was announced in January, which restored more than $300 million in cuts made in 2020
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