From the Internal Affairs Committee agenda, for the upcoming 11/3/25 meeting (see agenda link above) – The City of Chico’s recent radar speed surveys were conducted in accordance with state law and the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). These surveys analyze the “critical speed,” which is the speed that 85% of drivers travel at or below, to determine appropriate speed limits.
In other words, they set speed limits according to how fast people drive. The report goes on to say they consider the “setting” – residential, commercial, etc. They why did they raise the speed limit on an entirely residential two-lane street like Palmetto? When Tom Lando was city manager, he admitted, he was tired of neighborhood complaints about speeding, so instead of better enforcement, he raised the speed limit. People objected that if you raise the speed limit in response to speeding, people just drive faster.
Read the rest of that agenda to see the discussion about serving booze outside restaurants Downtown. The public will pay for that ordinance in more ways than one.
Meanwhile, BCFAC reports crazy accidents related to booze and speed every day. This report popped up today.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/butte.county.fires.accidents.crimes
Four Injured After Vehicle Strikes Crowd on West 2nd Avenue
Chico, CA Saturday 11/1/2025 @2:00 A.M. BCFAC: Four people were transported to Enloe Hospital after a vehicle struck a crowd in the 700 block of West 2nd Avenue. Injuries ranged from minor to severe, including one trauma activation.
The driver (who was also injured) initially refused to exit the vehicle. First responders on scene suspect alcohol may have been a factor.
What does this mean to me? They raised the speed limit on two streets that I regularly use on my bicycle, including the street right at the end of my driveway. I love riding my bike – it’s fun, convenient, and saves mileage on my car and GAS. But it’s not worth being a statistic.
Chico Taxpayers Association 
Did you see the projections in the 25/26 budget to pay the UAL for the pension fund? Page 23.
Now keep in mind that this is in addition to the amount of money that goes into the pension fund from employee contributions and the normal city contribution. In other words in a given operating year there are normal pension costs associated with payroll and those are not included in the UAL calculation.
it’s also reasonable to assume that the ongoing UAL calculation is a rosy scenario and probably wrong. The current chart details with the UAL cost is going to be over the next 20 years. If you went back 20 years and looked at the 20 years going forward from that point I’m sure you would see something demonstrably different from the chart that has just been put out.
The cost to the city based on their own data is 300 million dollars over the next 20 years. $300,000,000. That’s the projected scenario which is probably too good to be true.
Every constituent in the city of Chico whether, right leaning or left-leaning should be focusing on this number.
it doesn’t matter your politics it’s all about the money. Food bank, gay rights, environmental protection, new sewer road fixtures, updating downtown, traffic calming, services for seniors, cleaning up the park, homeless, health care benefits.
None of that matters because there is no money.
it seems to me that both the conservatives and the left-leaning social justice cause people should all be united in one thing. Running a responsible city budget.
and as for the city council this should be an open item on every single meeting.
You really need to go to the morning meetings BC, you would not believe what they say in those meetings. Mind blowing. If we could get more people to attend the morning meetings, things would be different. Anytime you are interested in attending, let me know – I would love to be there to see the looks on their faces when you stand up to make a comment like this.
I miss Dave. When Chico Area Rec District was pushing measure A, the manager, Ann Willmann, tried to say all the money would go into building and maintenance, that the district had NO DEBT.
Dave, sitting next to me, caught old Ann (rest in pieces bitch) by the seat of the pants with the figures on the pension deficit, the catch-up payments, the interest, etc. You would have enjoyed that, he made her admit she was LYING, right then and there.
You can do that. Let me know when you’re interested.
Chico just paid an admitted sexual predator, former Chico police department Lt. Michael Williams, $37,000 on top of his salary for not working, so Williams may have collected his full compensation for 14 months, meaning taxpayers would have paid more than $290,000 while he was doing NO police work and under investigation. The exact amount of “pervert payoff” has been kept secret by Chico ignoring legal public record requests.
It’s taxpayer money to pay a predator victimizing women, including a mentally ill woman. If Chico leaders had to pay with their own money maybe some needed changes would be made. Chico is a “good ole boy” and a “good ole girl” city. Time to drain the swamp.