Vacaville Kids Fixing Downtown Fairfield

Vacaville Boys & Girls Club Is Fixing Downtown Fairfield

The Vacaville children are getting out their colorful paint brushes and creative bursts of energy to fix up the remaining vacant retail spaces in Fairfield's business center.

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Solano County Housing Prices Doing Poorly

As the saying goes, you can now get more than a "fair" prices on "Fairfield" houses.

Fix Fairfield predicts a further drop in Solano County housing prices before they go back up again. 

San Francisco Chronicle article on US house prices. However Fairfield house prices have sometimes dropped more than any of the SF Chronicle examples mentioned here

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/02/22/financial/f060239S93.DTL

With High Unemployment, Employers Now Get Fairfield Salary Subsidies

In Fairfield employers can receive huge subsidies for hiring new employees.  Solano County reimburses 80% of the salary when you create new Fairfield job openings, and fill them with those receiving subsidies from CalWorks.  Fairfield employers can't fire current Fairfield employees, and replace them with CalWorks people to get the 80% Fairfield subsidy.  Details at Feb 19, 2011 issue of SolanoBusinessNews.com

Free Workshop To Help Fairfield Kids With Autism

The Solano autistic workshop - Teaching Children with Autism: Where to Begin, is part of a growing interest with autism in Solano County. It's being held in Brandman's Fairfield University campus.

Fairfield Autism Workshop Reservations: (707) 863-0990 fairfield@brandman.edu  

Fairfield's 80 to 80 Corridor Revitalization Plan

The City of Fairfield’s 2008 project studied the entire corridor from West Texas Street to North Texas Street. In this larger context, the 80 to 80 plan outlined the vision for West Texas Street and reiterated the importance of West Texas Street as a vital gateway to downtown Fairfield. The 80 to 80 Fairfield plan proposes different interesting improvements. These include creating a pedestrian friendly environment along the street, such as separated sidewalks, landscaping and street trees, additional street lighting, decorative crosswalks, and median islands.

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Gunmen Robbed Fairfield Hotel

Gunmen Robbed Fairfield Hotel.

The robbers visited America's Best Value Inn on North Texas Street in Fairfield.

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City Might Fix One Block Of West Texas Street

Fairfield City Council is discussing plan to revamp about one block of West Texas Street from McDonalds (Beck Avenue) to the roadway under I-80. The Feb 15, 2011 Fairfield City Council session on the project went well.

It's great news that the city is moving forward on keeping part of the promise to complete redeveloping West Texas Street. Fairfield voters look forward to the main section of West Texas Street, from Beck to Pennsylvania to also be redeveloped. Ideas to redevelop West Texas Street were discussed for decades (check city records). While plans to start the changes should have happened in 2000, happily things are moving forward.

Discussions on adding again another traffic light to West Texas Street will further hurt traffic getting to downtown Fairfield. Fairfield Planning needs to reduce the obstacles in getting from I-80 to downtown and the Solano County capital building.

The $350,000 discussed for this project will be moving forward for now. But who is responsible for the Fairfield Gateway project?

They include: Fairfield Mayor Harry Price, Fairfield City Council members John Mraz, Catherine Moy, Chuck Timm, Rick Viccaro, Erin Beavers, Fairfield Director of Community Development, David White, Assistant to Fairfield City Manager, Curt Johnston, Fairfield Economic Development Division Manager, Brian Miller and many other Fairfield City staff. Steve Kays, founder of Fix Fairfield will continue to press the city to continue making needed improvements as well.

Fairfield's Pepper Belly's Reopens - Will Help Downtown Fairfield Merchants Too

More Visitors Are Expected Back To Downtown. Fairfield's Pepper Belly's Reopens.

Fairfield downtown merchants are happy to see Fairfield's Pepper Belly's reopen, said Margaret Manzo, head of Fairfield Main Street Association. Her boss Curt Johnston couldn't agree more.

Fairfield restaurants were affected by Fairfield's Pepper Belly's closure per Margaret Manzo, and Curt Johnston.

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Fairfield City Hall At The Mall Closing To Save Money?

Fairfield needs to cut another $7 million from the budget.

Fairfield City Hall At The Mall is another way to get Fairfield residents to visit the mall and shop locally. With more shoppers, the mall's clients are happier, and they can pay their rent. While our blogs over simplify things, let's think about how synergy can help improve Fairfield business.

In addition to Fairfield City Hall At The Mall, Fairfield cut the equivalent of about 128 full-time employees. Fairfield is now staffed at its lowest level since early 1997.

Fairfield City Hall is closed on Fridays to save more money as well.

Details at www.DailyRepublic.com

Fairfield City Council Session Won't Answer About Broken Promise

At the Feb 1, 2011 Fairfield City Council session tonight, the city was asked about their Fairfield Gateway Promise. The city promised to complete the redevelopment of Fairfield’s main gateway. But mayor Harry Price and others politely danced around clear answers.

Tonight FixFairfield.Org sent a letter to the city and "hopes" to get clear answers as required by the Sunshine Act. Clear answers are not expected however.