City Manager’s Report For Week Ending July 14

E-FORUM subscribers now have access to the City Manager”s Weekly Report, which is distributed weekly to Council members and City department heads. This is the weekly report for the week ending July 14, 2006. 1. Meeting Notes Tuesday”s meeting will begin...

Revised Business License Tax

For several weeks, an ad-hoc committee of the City Council has been working on a draft revision of Richmond”s business license tax (RMC Chapter 7.04, Business Licenses) for the November 2006 ballot. When it was first rumored that they were cooking up a...

West One Quiet Zone Debuts Today

The second Railroad Quiet Zone in Richmond, West One Quiet Zone, goes into effect today, July 15, 2006. This is the West Richmond Avenue grade crossing in Point Richmond. Under the Quiet Zone rules, BNSF can no longer sound a horn as a warning before crossing West...

Civic Center Design Process Sparks Controversy

An illustrated version of this is attached as a PDF file. If you would like the historic preservation analysis of the Civic Center, I can email a 2 MB file. A proposal to place a new Hall of Justice (Police building) facing Barrett Avenue in front of the Richmond Art...