by admin | Feb 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last night on a 4-0-2 vote, with McLaughlin and Beckles abstaining, Vinay Pimple was chosen to fill the empty seat, thus avoiding a costly $500,000 election. He will be sworn in on March 3. Following is media coverage of the prelude to the selection and the selection...
by admin | Feb 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Port of Richmond has moved its offices into the once contentious historic and now rehabilitated Riggers Loft, and the R&B Winery has leased and will share the remainder of the space. The Port Office is designed to serve as an Emergency Operations Center in...
by admin | Feb 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Richmond City Council agrees on new member at last By Hamed Aleaziz – SFGATE Updated 4:12 pm, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 A 47-year-old blind attorney has been appointed to the Richmond City Council after a weeks-long stalemate over who would be selected to...
by admin | Feb 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
UC Berkeley studies international education campus in Richmond Geese wander outside one of the facilities at the Richmond Field Station. (Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times) By Larry Gordon contact the reporter UC Berkeley is proposing a global campus where UC and foreign...
by admin | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
We have been in a process of improving the City’s recycling and compost programs for residents and businesses for the past five years. I am happy to report that expanded recycling and compost services are coming to Richmond that will help the City continue to reduce...
by admin | Feb 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is interesting that on February 4, 2013, both Gayle McLaughlin and Jovanka Beckles argued passionately that Eduardo Martinez should be selected primarily because he was the next highest vote getter. McLaughlin called it “a question of democracy that the vote should...
