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More accolades go out to departing county spokeswoman BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Jenny Tan’s work as Yolo County public information officer has not gone unnoticed. Her once daily — more recently, biweekly — COVID-19 video briefings have kept the county informed about everything from testing to vaccinations to changes in health orders since last spring, and she has been hailed as a key partner during the pandemic by officials from other jurisdictions, as well as those with Healthy Davis Together. Earlier this year, Tan was honored as a “Woman of the Year” by the California Legislature for her efforts during both the COVID-19 pandemic as well as during devastating wildfires. And last week she was named to the National Association of Asian Pacifics in Politics and Public Affairs “Top 40 under 40” list, which honors the top Asian American Pacific Islander political operatives and public affairs
professionals under 40 years of age. Now comes more recognition: Tan has been named senior manager of public affairs for the California State Association of Counties, meaning counties across the state will now benefit from her expertise. The bad news for Yolo: Tan’s last day as county public information officer will be June 4. “It was a hard decision for me,” she said, “since I love Yolo County so, but CSAC is offering me a lot of room and opportunity to grow in my field.” While the county decides on a replacement for Tan, Frank Schneegas, currently interim public information officer, will continue to provide COVID-19 video updates. “I am proud to congratulate Jenny Tan on her new position with the California State Association of Counties,” said Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis. “We are sad to lose Jenny but are heartened that Yolo County
A team of UC Davis and CSUS students are running the Imani Clinic, a free clinic in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento that provides free endocrine/diabetes care. More than 34 million Americans have diabetes, and one in five do not know they have it, noted UC Davis student Rishi Sharma in a press release. More than 84 million Americans have “pre-diabetes,” a reversible condition, and four in five do not know that they have it. Furthermore, about 16% of Black adults have
BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Davis City Council members took their first look on Tuesday at a draft city budget that’s in better shape than many would have feared at the beginning of the pandemic shutdown a year ago. But while the proposed budget restores some funding for capital improvement projects that were postponed last year and funds some of the public safety reform proposals approved by the council in
April, not everyone is satisfied. Public safety reform proponents who weighed in during Tuesday’s meeting urged council members to put their money where their mouths are and set aside funds in the budget now to fully implement the nine recommendations in the Reimagining Public Safety report issued by a city subcommittee last year. The council voiced support for those recommendations in April and voted to create a pair of subcommittees to look into the key
Enterprise staff writer Millions of dollars worth of incentives are now available to Californians who’ve not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19. Beginning Thursday, two million $50 gift cards will be made available on a first come, first served, basis for eligible individuals (anyone ages 12 and up) who receive
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council for policy discussions and directions and that budget adjustments would be made appropriately to align with those policy directions moving forward,” Webb said. Mayor Gloria Partida, who is serving on the subcommittee charged with determining which city services should be moved away from the police department, agreed. “We’ve received many communications around concern that tonight’s
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diabetes, much higher than white counterparts. This statistic is even more pronounced for Black women. The team of students are dedicated to helping mitigate these effects among the individuals in the Oak Park population, especially within the Black population, Sharma said. Call 916-475-9582 to book a free appointment with the endocrinologists or health/nutrition coaches. The endocrine/ diabetes clinic will run on the first Sunday of each month virtually via Telehealth.
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Five local youths — Austin Williams, Katherine Berdovskiy, Chloe Aldrete, Ella Lim and Matthew Vallero — display some of the handmade signs they created for a YouTube video promoting COVID-19 vaccinations.
They’ll learn much more than we’ll ever know Local youths tout vaccinations, local merchants in ‘Wonderful World’ video BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A group of Davis youths recently joined the movement to promote COVID vaccinations in their community. “We wanted to give them a worthwhile project, a
cause,” said Dr. Judi Vallero, a local pediatrician and mother of an 11-yearold son, Matthew, a Davis Musical Theatre Company performer who, like his friends, has missed the extracurricular activities the pandemic curtailed. The end result was a
State offering millions of dollars in incentives to get vaccinated BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY
components: determining which city services currently being handled by the police should be reassigned and moving towards the creation of a crisis-now response program. City Manager Mike Webb said both subcommittees are continuing their work, “but they’re not at a point of being settled enough to include any specific proposals or funding in the budget as of right now. “We fully expect and anticipate those policies will come back to the
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a COVID-19 vaccine. “If you’re a family of four, do the math,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom. “If you’re a family of six, do the math.” Meanwhile, millions of dollars will be up for grabs in three drawings scheduled for June where the names of every Californian who has been vaccinated will be entered. All told, the state is putting up $116 million to
incentivize vaccinations. As of Thursday, 37 million Californians — about twothirds of all adults — have been vaccinated, but with the pace slowing in recent weeks, the ability of the state to reach the magic number touted by President Joe Biden and others — a 70 percent vaccination rate by July 4 — is not yet in reach. “We have seen a reduction in the number of
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people looking to get access to this vaccine,” said Newsom, who added that after 2.1 Californians were vaccinated three weeks ago, that number dropped to 2 million two weeks ago and 1.9 million people over the last seven days. “That’s not even close to where we were at peak, just shy of 3 million people over a seven-day period, so we’re starting to see a decline in
YouTube video in which the five kids — Austin Williams, Katherine Berdovskiy, Chloe Aldrete, Ella Lim, Matthew Vallero, all friends collectively known as the Davis Youth Harmonix — sing “What a Wonderful World” while encouraging vaccinations and supporting
local businesses. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/NDV xN0TLIdI. “They were so excited to do it, and felt that it was important work,” said Vallero, who coordinated the
the total number of doses administered on a weekly basis,” said Newsom.
So, Thursday’s announcement of “the most significant incentive program in the United States of America,” as Newsom described it.
That is not as precipitous a decline as some other states have seen, he said, “but we are mindful that if we continue down this path and this trend, we’re not going to get where all of us need to be, and that is north of 70 percent of all eligible Californians getting administered doses of this life-saving vaccine.”
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“We’re putting aside more resources than any other state in America and we’re making available the largest prizes of any state in America for those that seek to get vaccinated.” The two million $50 gift
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