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Master Laboratories Emerges to Produce Remembering Swabs for COVID-19 All of Them on Testing Memorial Day PAGE 8 IIndependentndependentDixon's VVoiceoice VOLUME 28 • ISSUE 21 MAY 22, 2020 PO Box 1106 • Dixon, CA 95620 • (707) 678-8917 • email: [email protected] • Independentvoice.com SEE Yolo Habitat Conservancy Resolution to INSIDE End Governor’s PRICE CONTROLS Wins Award of Excellence Emergency WOULD PREVENT Powers COVID-19 MEDICINE Announced By Joshua Hoover, Office of Assemblyman Kevin Kiley SACRAMENTO, CA (MPG) - Under Section 8629 of the California Emergency Services Act, the Legislature has authority to terminate the Governor’s emergency pow- ers. Assemblymembers Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) and James Above: Whether agriculture or construction, mass production Gallagher (R-Yuba City) are PAGE 5 needs to be balanced by conscientious land stewardship. Right: introducing an Assembly Swainson's hawk is one of the species protected by the Yolo Concurrent Resolution Habitat Conservancy Photos courtesy: Yolo HCP/NCCP to exercise this statutory prerogative. By Jenny Tan, Yolo County “This award is a A “State of Emergency” testimony to our com- in California is a legal term GOVERNOR WOODLAND, CA (MPG) - The Yolo munities’ commitment describing not merely con- Habitat Conservancy recently to smart planning ditions of extreme peril, received the 2020 American Planning practices that seek to but also the inadequacy of PSYCHO Association’s (APA) Sacramento balance the needs of state and local institutions Valley Section Award of Excellence our natural habitats to combat the threat within in the category of Innovation in Green and the needs of the the constraints of the State Planning and has been invited to apply development com- Constitution. for the 2020 APA California Awards. munity,” said Yolo “This Resolution is meant n 2019, the Yolo Habitat County Supervisor to restore a proper balance Conservancy completed the Yolo and Chair of Yolo between the legislative and Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP)/ County Habitat Conservancy Don Agency and the Lower Putah Creek executive branches,” said Natural Community Conservation Saylor. “This conservation approach is Coordinating Committee to enhance Assemblyman Kiley. “To Plan (NCCP), a countywide conserva- the result of over twenty-five years of and restore riparian habitat along Putah the extent the Governor tion approach that provided mitigation collaborative efforts by Yolo County, Creek. retains extraordinary pow- for infrastructure and development of our four cities, and the University of “The Yolo Habitat Conservancy is ers, they should be limited activities identified for construction California at Davis. This award shows but the latest example of the member in scope in coordination with over the next 50 years in Yolo County, that the hard work to put this plan agencies being at the forefront of best the Legislature, which has including Endangered Species Act per- together is already beginning to bear practices in environmental steward- authority to terminate those PAGE 5 mits. The Yolo HCP/NCCP coordinates fruit.” ship,” said City of West Sacramento powers altogether.” improvements to maximize benefits to The Yolo HCP/NCCP also will Councilmember and Vice Chair Since proclaiming a State sensitive species as well as conserves build on existing conservation efforts, of the Yolo Habitat Conservancy of Emergency on March 4, habitat above and beyond required mit- such as the work of the City of Davis Martha Guerrero. “The Yolo Habitat Governor Newsom has issued igation. In addition, the plan will result Open Space Program to preserve agri- Conservancy will be an integral part of 39 Executive Orders, uni- in the conservation of tens of thou- cultural land, Yolo County’s work preserving our cherished natural land- laterally changing 200 laws sands of acres of habitat benefitting to restore Cache Creek through scapes into the future.” spanning most sections of the 47 12 species while providing develop- implementation of the Cache Creek Some nominations in the APA California code. This includes ers a simplified approach of mitigation Resources Management Plan, and California Awards require a win at creating new voting laws for through the Yolo Habitat Conservancy. the work of the Solano County Water Continued on page 3 an election six months away and overhauling Workers’ Compensation rules. “We must take action to restore representative, con- Commissioner Lara Expands Order for Insurance stitutional government,” Assemblyman Gallagher said. “The Governor has clearly overstepped his authority, Companies to Partially Refund Premiums from arbitrarily changing state laws, to using state California Department other insurance line where action to return premiums, “Consumers who have agencies to threaten small of Insurance the risk of loss has fallen the Department of Insurance lost their jobs or busi- business outside of their substantially as a result of will be checking that the nesses due to this crisis legal jurisdiction, to spend- SACRAMENTO, CA (MPG) - the COVID-19 pandemic. reductions are adequate and deserve flexibility in pay- ing money outside the scope Insurance Commissioner The Commissioner’s consumers and businesses ing their premiums, just of legislative authorization. Ricardo Lara issued a Bulletin 2020-4 requires are not shortchanged.” like any other,” said It is incumbent upon the Bulletin extending his insurance companies to pro- On March 18, Commissioner Lara. “I am Legislature to restore the bal- previous order requir- vide an adjustment to the Commissioner Lara issued asking insurance compa- ance of powers.” ing insurance companies premium in the form of a Notice, calling on all nies to be mindful of the The nonpartisan Legislative to return partial insurance a premium credit, reduc- admitted and non-admit- revenue stream Californians Analyst, in a report Sunday premiums to consumers tion, return of premium, or ted insurance companies to have consistently provided on the Governor’s May and businesses and pro- other appropriate adjust- provide their policyholders to insurers over the years, Revision, was “very trou- vide much-needed financial ment as soon as possible, with a 60-day grace period stand with their custom- bled” by the authority the relief amid the ongoing and no later than August to pay their premiums. With ers in this crisis and extend Governor seeks to take away COVID-19 pandemic. The 11, 2020. For most if not the deadline for this grace grace periods an additional from the Legislature. The Department of Insurance all consumers, this will be a period fast approaching, 60 days.” report concludes: “we urge will review all premium percentage of the premium Commissioner Lara today Commissioner Lara is the Legislature to jealously adjustments to ensure ‒ not 100 percent ‒ and the issued a second Notice also requesting that all guard its constitutional role they are fair and adequate Department of Insurance requesting insurance com- insurance agents, brokers, and authority.” and reflect policyholders’ will validate each insur- panies to work with their and other licensees who “The Emergency Services reduced risk. ance company’s plan so that policyholders who may accept premium payments Act was designed to grant The Bulletin now refunds are adequate and be struggling financially on behalf of insurers take extraordinary powers to a includes the month of May, reflect the reduced risk. to allow them an addi- steps to ensure that custom- Governor under conditions of having already included the “With the vast majority tional 60-days, effectively ers have the ability to make extreme peril,” Assemblyman months of March and April, of Californians still under extending the grace period prompt insurance payments, Kiley said. “It was not covering at least six differ- ‘stay at home’ orders, the until July 14, 2020. After if and where possible. This meant to give a single per- ent insurance lines: private risk of accident and loss July 14, 2020, insurers are includes alternate methods son the ability to remake all passenger automobile, remains low for many lines encouraged to work with of payment, such as online of California law indefinitely. commercial automobile, of insurance and their pre- their individual policyhold- payments, to eliminate the An open-ended state of emer- workers’ compensation, miums should reflect that,” ers who have been acutely need for in-person payment gency, with boundless powers commercial multi-peril, said Commissioner Lara. impacted by COVID-19 and methods in order to protect vested in a chief executive, is commercial liability, med- “While I appreciate compa- are still unable to timely pay the health and safety of both incompatible with democratic ical malpractice, and any nies that have already taken their premiums. workers and customers. H government.” H Dixon's Independent Voice - Dixon's ONLY Family Owned Newspaper For Over 25 Years 2 • MAY 22, 2020 Dixon's Independent Voice Dave Ramsey Says California Poison Control Sees Spike financial habits, I’d say go see what you spent on main- for it. Just don’t wipe out tenance and repair issues. your savings in the pro- Home maintenance is kind in Household Disinfectant Exposures cess. Leave plenty of cash of like car maintenance, in in there, especially right that it’s going to depend on By Tricia Tomiyoshi, UC Davis Health during this same time, with 1,673 cases in now when so many things the age and general condi- February, 3,401 cases in March, 3,601 in are uncertain. Also, make tion of the house. If you’re SACRAMENTO, CA (MPG) - As California April. sure you cut up that credit driving an older model car, residents use more cleaning products to dis- With more children staying home dur- card, close the account, and you expect to put more infect their homes during the COVID-19 ing the COVID-19 pandemic, the odds of First, Understand make a promise to yourself into it over time, right? It’s pandemic, the California Poison Control children accidentally being exposed or the Problem that you’ll never use those kind of the same principle System’s Sacramento Division, housed at ingesting household cleaning products also things again.

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