by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending August 6th, 2021. Meeting Notes The City Council is on August recess. The next regularly scheduled Council meeting is on September 14th, 2021. Enjoy the next few weeks off! Upcoming...
by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
On July 28th the Mayor’s Office learned that an elderly resident living in a Richmond Housing Authority apartment unit had a severe case of bed bugs that required their furniture being thrown away. Without resources of their own to replace the furniture, the Mayor’s...
by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
There was much to celebrate this past Saturday. On August 7, the City of Richmond turned 116 years old and The Factory Bar turned one year old. Richmond residents and supporters of The Factory Bar enjoyed a day of great drinks, food from S&K Wings food truck, live...
by admin | Aug 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last week, we looked at the shameful and embarrassing failure of the City of Richmond to maintain its park infrastructure and to enforce the conditions of a development agreement (Baxter Creek Park An Example of City Priorities, July 31, 2021). This week, we look at...
by admin | Aug 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Years ago, the City Council adopted the perennial purple tree collard as Richmond’s official green. With the sorry state of maintenance of Richmond’s roads and streets, it may be time to adopt Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) as Richmond’s official weed. I don’t mean...
by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the late 1960s, with 32 miles of shoreline, there was only 67 feet publicly accessible. By 1975, only eight years later, there were over 3,000 acres of shoreline park and miles of shoreline publicly accessible. In a crucial vote on February 25, 1985, the City...
