The agenda/packet for the Tuesday, July 19, 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

Marin IJ Editorial: Marin Clean Energy’s power to the people Posted: 07/13/16, 11:18 AM PDT | Updated: 12 hrs ago Economies of scale reap rewards for ratepayers of Marin Clean Energy, Marin’s homegrown public power agency that is reducing its rates by an average of 9...

California Public Utilities Commission Wants To Hear From You About PG&E’s Rate Request The CPUC is holding a Public Participation Hearing in Richmond on PG&E’s 2017 General Rate Case request to increase its rates, effective January 1, 2017. This free public...

Please support this! Last year we raised $25,000 for grants to youth sports and other community programs. Support Richmond Youth Sports by playing Golf! Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Mayor Tom Butt Community Fund Annual Golf Tournament Is now accepting...

Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park Media Advisory July 11, 2016 Contact: Superintendent Tom Leatherman, 510-778-4171, tom_leatherman@nps.gov Park Staff Welcome Ranger Betty Reid Soskin Back to Work Following Home Invasion RICHMOND, Calif. – The...

View this email in your browser About Celeste Guap (7/11/16) Susun Kim, Executive Director On April 7, 2016, we celebrated the 1st year Anniversary of the Central Family Justice Center. We prepared a Press Release and contacted over 30 news agencies, including TV...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...