BrightNight is reason enough to dump this entire council. They all participated in this sham. Honest government doesn't work this way.

This Council brought us Healthy Davis Together and through COVID. It was a wonderful collaboration with UCD and made me proud to live in Davis.

I appreciate HDT but I don't see Davis leadership as having played much of a role in developing or implementing it. A large anonymous outside funder worked with UCD to develop it, and Davis did what? exactly? How did Davis even accept enormous monetary contributions without considering and revealing potential conflicts of interest? Used the opportunity to push the DiSC project on the ballot twice during the pandemic? Gave away millions of money from the federal government without asking for tangible returns on the investment?

I'm curious, did Davis fair better than the rest of the country when it came to COVID? Or did COVID just run its course in Davis as it did everywhere else?

Roberta, If that’s how you think, then Partida shouldn’t be responsible for putting DISC on the ballot. All she did was say “YES.” One can’t cherry pick just the things that enrage and ignore or discount the positive things. . It is about who represents the community best and who will advocate for their District best. The Council does not really have a say in development outside our City limits. They can only vote to allow the residents of Davis vote on it.

Roberta - I’m speaking toward your complete dismissal of Council leadership during COVID, while enhancing the negative leadership role of development. This is unfair, as we have taken away the power to approve development from the Council, its advisory Commissions, and Staff. All they have the power to do is place the proposal on the ballot. The community already voted to not move forward with the project, likely for the reasons you mention. I appreciate my City leaders collaboration with scientists and researchers at UCD to respond to the COVID pandemic and I appreciate the community’s willingness to follow the Council leadership and Staff’s plan for implementing the strategies for the Non-UCD community.

Testing for Covid accomplished NOTHING, unless those infected actually quarantined themselves. And we have no idea whether or not that actually occurred.

For that matter, those with symptoms (but without being tested) might quarantine themselves, as well.

Testing was not entirely reliable in the first place.

Young people (e.g., students) were ALWAYS more resistant to serious symptoms. As such, towns with large, young student populations were always going to have significantly less serious symptoms.

And the rest of Davis (being relatively "on board", due to their political outlook) were already among the more-careful populations. Not exactly a Sturgis motorcycle rally-type crowd. (Or even a "Redding, California" type of crowd.)

If you want to see the "damage" Covid did, visit nursing homes - where they tested, took extensive precautions (but where the virus spread among residents and staff, regardless). Gee, I wonder what folks in nursing homes have in common? Illness, age, etc.?

But yeah, if you want to "pat UCD on the back", go for it.

Didn't UCD also hold prohibit in-person classes, for awhile?

To be clear, I'm not saying that the testing was a "bad" thing - not at all.

I'm just saying that it's difficult to determine cause-and-effect. Testing itself does not prevent spread of the disease, unless the individuals take action based upon a positive result. And who knows if they do so - even within their own household (which is pretty difficult to do).

For that matter, not all of those who work at UCD (and were presumably tested) even live in Davis.

Those who seek out testing (beyond those required to do so) are likely a careful bunch in the first place.

I did hear of a nursing facility in Davis which had substantial "positive" results (both residents, and staff) - despite frequent (required) testing (and subsequent required quarantine procedures). I believe this information can also be found online.

Wondering how they'd know what the actual positivity rate for the city was, unless the entire population was tested.

I know of people who believe they (probably) had Covid, but did not test for it.

Then, there's those who are walking around before they even test for the disease in the first place.

But again I ask - didn't UCD prevent students from in-person attendance, for a period of time? (For both students and staff?) If so, that probably had the biggest impact of all.

And again I'd point out that the population of Davis itself is likely very different than that of surrounding communities. Highly-educated, some might (derisively) say "know-it-alls". Even the students are a "cut above" those at say, Sacramento State.

The Davis Elites, as it were.

You could probably offer free testing in some other cities, with much fewer "takers".

I don't deny that the testing offered had some impact, but I wouldn't attribute all cause-and-effect to it.

The article that Sharla posted almost sounds like it was written by UCD's public relations department. Are they working on curing cancer, next? (Or, at least taking credit for it?)

As a side note, my comment regarding "Davis Elites" was intended in a semi-humorous manner.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a "YUPPIE". Never quite made it - in my mind at least.

Let alone an "Elite".

Hell, I graduated from a state university - what do you expect? :-)