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Vehicles drive on Highway 50 during construction lane closures as crews work on a drainage system during the U.S. Highway 50 Multimodal Corridor Enhancement and Rehabilitation Project on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
PAUL KITAGAKI JR.<\/p>\n
pkitagaki@sacbee.com<\/p>\n
Sacramento\u2019s top stories Wednesday span a school district\u2019s contested labor deal, another setback for a long-running freeway overhaul and the opening of a high-profile wrongful death trial. Here\u2019s a quick look at what happened.<\/p>\n
A Sacramento County Office of Education-appointed fiscal adviser has temporarily suspended Sacramento City Unified\u2019s approval of a new teachers union agreement<\/a>, saying the district failed to complete required fiscal reviews and public disclosures before the school board voted. Fiscal adviser Luz C\u00e1zares cited state laws requiring public explanation of a labor deal\u2019s terms and costs, and giving the county office 10 working days to review agreements from districts with negative budget certifications. The MOU would extend use of the district\u2019s retiree health fund for an additional year to cover an estimated $23 million in retiree health costs during 2028-29. It adds to an escalating dispute over how SCUSD should address its estimated $222 million structural deficit.Caltrans\u2019 $511 million Fix50 project on Highway 50 has been pushed back again, with substantial completion now estimated for Oct. 31<\/a>, District 3 spokesperson Sergio Ochoa-Sanchez confirmed. Public records obtained by Abridged by PBS KVIE showed multiple instances of unapproved concrete being poured, including one at the Elmhurst Bridge that added six months to the timeline. The project \u2014 which adds carpool lanes and resurfaces pavement between I-5 and Watt Avenue \u2014 has run nearly $100 million over its original estimate and more than a year past its 2025 target date. Crews still need to finish electrical, landscaping, drainage and striping work.Opening statements began Tuesday in Auburn in the wrongful death case against developer and minority Sacramento Kings owner Phil Oates<\/a>, 75, who was driving the Cadillac that collided with Patrick Mulderrig\u2019s motorcycle in Granite Bay in 2024. Mulderrig\u2019s widow, Miranda Flores, is seeking up to $30 million in damages, and her attorney Roger Dreyer told jurors he would show evidence of pain and significant economic loss, including more than $2 million in future CalPERS pension value. Oates\u2019 attorney Chris Hogan countered that Mulderrig was unconscious throughout and never regained consciousness, asking jurors to \u201cmeasure it carefully within the confines of the law.\u201d Oates was not ticketed and prosecutors declined to file charges. <\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vehicles drive on Highway 50 during construction lane closures as crews work on a drainage system during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-466207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}