Electrical Outages in Richmond

Last week, I talked to the PG&E governmental affairs representative for Richmond, Nkiruka Ohaegbu, who gave me a briefing on the outages. The main problem is caused by particulate matter on the lines and transformers that causes shorts when it rains. We have had...

UPDATE PG&E Outages in the East Bay Area

Nkiruka told me that the City granted a citywide pole washing permit earlier this week and that they washed poles on Thursday and Friday. From: Ohaegbu, Nkiruka <NCO4@pge.com> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2021 12:22 PM To: Laura Snideman...

Weekly Report for the Week Ending September 17, 2021

Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending September 16TH, 2021. Meeting Notes The following City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 21st, 2021. Closed Session begins at 5:00 P.M., followed by the Special...

Not Quite Gone Yet

Despite the air of finality in the Richmond Confidential story below, it’s not exactly time to say “good-by” and ride into the sunset yet. I have about one year and four months left in my final term as mayor. That’s about 60 City Council meetings, over 100...

Traffic Code Enforcement

Richmond is now down to one parking enforcement person for the entire city of 110,000, Amanda Le Gaux (alegaux@richmondpd.net), who offers the following contact phone numbers for residents requesting service. She laments, “it is difficult to be proactive with...