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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2023
City Council approves climate plan Building electrification remains a sticking point
Delilah Mays-Triplett, 19, works from April 12 as a student assistant inside the Love Library Edition at San Diego State University.
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
A student assistant organizing committee filed a request for a union election Monday with California’s Public Employment Relations Board, submitting more than 4,000 signed union authorization cards. The students are seeking representation by the California
The city of Davis now has a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan that lays out a framework for reaching carbon neutrality by 2040. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the plan, which has been two years in the making and involved city staff, city commissioners, consultants and many members of the public. And while the plan focuses on five areas — including transportation and land use; water conservation; adaptation; and carbon removal — it is the building energy-and-design component that has drawn the most scrutiny during the approval process and that remained the case at Tuesday’s public hearing. An initial proposal to require that gas home appliances be replaced with electric appliances at end of useful life drew public opposition last year, prompting the City Council in December to move toward a voluntary approach for at least three years.
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CSU undergrad workers seek union representation By Rocky Walker CalMatters California State University is the largest public university system in the country, so when sophomore Delilah MaysTriplett decided working on the San Diego State University campus as a library assistant would be the best thing for her education, she didn’t expect to be paid less than the local minimum wage.
But when Mays-Triplett’s check came, she saw she was paid $15.50 per hour, nearly a dollar lower than the San Diego minimum wage of $16.30. That reason, paired with others, is why Mays-Triplett decided to sign a union authorization card when organizers approached her. Undergraduate student assistants at the university are mounting a union organizing campaign, calling for more work hours, paid sick time
and higher wages. The campaign could potentially affect thousands of library assistants, clerical workers and other nonacademic student employees across the system’s 23 campuses and comes at a time of heightened campus labor activism. “There’s a lot of things that are kind of unfair about our job,” said Mays-Triplett. “So just being able to organize and address some of those issues would be really helpful,” she
said, adding that she finds power in “just being able to have a voice.”
Local students earn recognition for ‘clean air’ artwork By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Davis students performed well in the 2023 Clean Art Art Contest sponsored by the YoloSolano Air Quality Management District. Every year, the district invites students in grades K-12 residing in or attending schools within the district’s boundaries to participate in the contest. This year, students were asked to submit artwork illustrating clean air messages, or complete the sentence, “Clean air is important to me because….” and draw a picture depicting their answer. The district received 75
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Davis High junior Maryam El-Mashad won first in grades 9-12 for her entry, left, in the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District’s 2023 Clean Air Art Contest. Holmes eighth-grader Joanna Liao was tops in grades 6-8 with the entry on the right. entries from students representing 21 schools and the district board of
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directors and district staff selected the top three drawings in each of four
grade-level categories. Each of the following students will receive a
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