Dear City Manager Bill Lindsay, Mayor Butt and City Councilmembers, Our misconduct investigation is active and ongoing. Yesterday afternoon, one of the subject officers, Jerrod Tong was placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of fact gathering focused...

RichmondBUILD and Chevron are hosting a telephone town hall on Monday, July 11 at 6:30 pm to discuss workforce development and training opportunities for Richmond residents. This is a great opportunity for you to learn how to obtain the skills you need for competitive...

Several weeks ago, District Attorney Mark Peterson appeared before the Richmond City Council and, among other things, committed to interview any previously unidentified witnesses to the Pedie Perez shooting if new witnesses could be identified. Today he emailed the...

The Richmond unemployment rate for June 2016 hit a new record low of 4.6%. Out of a labor pool of 52,900 people, only 2,400 are still looking for jobs. 50,500 are employed. That is the lowest on record and perhaps the lowest in Richmond history except for during WWII....

Click on The Richmond Review, 2nd Quarter 2016 for a summary of commercial real estate activity in Richmond. Highlights include: · Richmond is almost out of leasable warehouse space with the vacancy rate at 0.4%, although peak rental rates of over $0.50 from a year...

Last night, Police Chief Allwyn Brown wrote: The Communication Center is experiencing a high volume of fireworks calls from neighborhoods across the city, in combination with recurring ShotSpotter activations - numbers that easily far exceed police officer staffing....

Turns out, the guy who invented CyberTran was a classmate of mine at the University of Arkansas. That doesn’t mean I think it’s right to spend Richmond’s scarce monetary resources subsidizing the privately-owned company’s public relations efforts. Then I get bashed...

As the first shoe to fall from the active Richmond Police Department investigation arising from the "Celeste Guap" scandal, Police Chief Allwyn Brown announced that he has evaluated the logic of continuing two of the named employees in their current assignments whose...

The City of Richmond has partnered with the City of Oakland and several great organizations to host a Boys and Men of Color Career Summit on July 21. During the event, participants will have opportunities to interview with employers, connect to community resources,...

For months, various media have delighted in stories about Richmond’s impending budget deficit, anticipating it as a fact around which to build a story rather than simply a challenge that the City had committed to overcome since early 2015. On November 22, 1015, the...

MJ's Brass Boppers & Zydeco Flames take the stage: Friday, 7/8 + Last chance to vote for us Best of the East Bay! Following a great kick-off in June, Point Richmond Music's 15th annual free summer concert series continues on Friday, July 8th with MJ’s Brass...

Ranger Betty Soskin safe, recovering well. Please consider contributing to Betty's fund. On the night of Monday, June 30, an intruder attacked NPS Ranger Betty Soskin in her home in Richmond and stole many of her possessions. We are all deeply saddened by these...

Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the weekly report for the week ending June 24, 2016. 1. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 28th beginning with a Closed Session at 5:00 PM, followed by the Special Meeting of the...

Several people have been emailing me with concerns about a settlement tender made by Jim Levine regarding Point Molate. You may recall that after the City of Richmond terminated the 2004 Land Disposition Agreement with Upstream Point Molate, LLC (Jim Levine) and The...

The agenda/packet for the Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Regular Richmond City Council Meeting is on the web. Follow the link below to view: http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/meet.aspx

After four days at the Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival where I had no phone or email contact, I packed our tent early this morning, stopped at a park to shower and dress, and headed for Sacramento where I testified at the invitation of Senator Loni Hancock at two...

For more information, please call Carmen at (510) 974-7200.

Urban Garden Contest Showcase on July 2! Next Saturday we are kicking off our Urban Garden Contest Showcase! This event allows you to tour edible gardens throughout Richmond, and to meet some of our city’s top gardeners! You must register to tour participating gardens...

If space weapons weren’t enough the RPA is now promoting a space age transportation system that has never been tried, never been built (not even a working model) and has no major backers other than the City of Richmond. There are no employees, no jobs, no...