Pass a Balanced Richmond Budget Tomorrow Night

Tomorrow night, the City Council will consider a structurally balanced budget of $147,854,516 presented by the city manager (see Item 1 below) and Agenda Item I-1, REVIEW, DISCUSS, and ADOPT the proposed Fiscal Year 2016-17 Annual Operating Budget and the Fiscal Years...

Bringing Home the Bacon

Assembly Member Tony Thurmond advised me that the FY 2016-17 State of California budget passed yesterday by the legislature includes the following allocations for Public Safety in Richmond: · $300,000 for Office of Neighborhood safety · $382,000 for Project Safe...

Richmond Inches Towards a Balanced FY 2016-17 Budget

At last night’s City Council meeting, the city manager presented a list of proposed cuts in programs and services that will move the City to within $2.9 million of a structurally balanced FY 2016-17 budget that must be adopted before the end of June, leaving only two...