by admin | Feb 15, 2004 | Uncategorized
Getting the message out the way they want it and circling the wagons to defend themselves from any adverse consequences of recent statements about the City” financial position led to City officials advising the City Council of an urgent need to retain a quartet...
by admin | Feb 15, 2004 | Uncategorized
I regret to report that City management has severely crippled the recently vaunted Code Enforcement and Abatement program by releasing ten Code Enforcement Aides that actually do the cleanup of vacant lots and unkempt properties when the owners balk. The downsizing...
by admin | Feb 8, 2004 | Uncategorized
It was like old Richmond home week with friends and neighbors at The Playhouse on Friday, February 6, at the west coast premier of “The Glory of Living,” a play by Rebecca Gilman, starring Richmond native Lauren English. The Playhouse is a newly opened San...
by admin | Feb 6, 2004 | Uncategorized
On February 4, 2004, the Richmond City Attorney”s office won a Contra Costa Superior Court judgment in favor of the City for $601,000 plus $25,000 in attorney”s fees against a Florida Avenue property owner for illegal storing of “vehicles, cars,...
by admin | Feb 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
For those who may not regularly read the San Francisco Chronicle, I bring you today”s column from Chip Johnson. Chip apparently shares my view that the City Council has abdicated its responsibility to a staff that can”t handle it. Richmond’s budget...
