City Manager Bill Lindsay just received a news report that the Tucson City Manager’s office is reporting that Chief Chris Magnus has accepted the job to be Police Chief in Tucson. We have not yet heard directly from Chief Magnus, and will provide more information when...

The agenda/packet for the Tuesday, November 17, Richmond City Council Meeting is on the web. Follow the link below to view: http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/meet.aspx PLEASE NOTE: CLOSED SESSION BEGINS AT 5:30 P.M. – SPECIAL JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY BEGINS AT...

A couple of weeks ago, Richmond residents received a slick mailer (partially copied at the end of this email) from Richard Poe, owner of a parcel of waterfront property in Marina Bay between Lucretia Edwards Park and the Rosie the Riveter WW II Home Front National...

A On November 9, 2015, the second Contra Costa Times column (See Daniel Borenstein: Richmond city manager blocked release of report forecasting city's financial fall, November 7, 2015) by Dan Borenstein in two days hit the presses, predicting that the fiscal sky over...

This Veterans’ Day 2015 brings to mind the veterans in my family who go all the way back to the Civil War. Civil War – William Alvin Butt My great grandfather, William Alvin Butt, joined the 126th Illinois Infantry, Company C, in 1862 when he was 19 years old and...

Please join us this Friday, November 13, 7:30 pm at Point Richmond Acoustic! Get your tickets now at www.pointacoustic.org, and save $5 off the door price. This Friday, November 13, 7:30 Katie Dahl, Claudia Russell Rich Higdon & Bruce Kaplan One of our very...

Richmond Developer Pushes Two Ballot Measures Sensing that the city would reject his suburban-style housing project along the waterfront, Richard Poe is taking his proposal to the voters. He also wants to slash the city manager's pay. By John Geluardi November 11,...

Copied below is the latest column by Contra Costa Times columnist Dan Borenstein criticizing Richmond financial management. Let’s break this down. The gist of the Borenstein’s story is that Lindsay allegedly “blocked” release of a five-year financial plan that, had...

Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the weekly report for the week ending November 6, 2015. 1. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 17th. Enjoy next Tuesday off! 2. Veterans Day Observance City offices will be...

For over 35 years, dedicated individuals, including many Richmond residents, have been volunteering, once a month, to maintain one of Richmond’s best known landmarks, East Brother Light Station, operated by the non-profit East Brother Light Station Inc., under license...

In a unanimous vote last night, but with widely different motivations, the City Council repealed the rent control ordinance narrowly passed in early August. The ordinance was suspended by a successful petition drive, and the City Council had two choices, (1) place it...

The application by the Contra Costa County Sheriff to expand the West Contra Costa Detention Center in Richmond appears to be unsuccessful. Preliminary scoring by the Steering Committee left the project in 6th place out of ten large county grant applications where...

Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the weekly report for the week ending October 30, 2015. 1. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3rd beginning with a closed Session at 5:00 PM, followed by the regular agenda at...

Click here for the 2015 3rd Quarter Richmond Report. The market for Richmond manufacturing space hit an all-time low vacancy rate of 4.1%, down from 8.4% just a year ago. Office and Office/flex is showing both continued absorption and higher rents as Berkeley,...

Despite warnings that the suspension of the Rent Control Ordinance would motivate landlord’s to take advantage and spike rents, that has not occurred. Richmond rentals remain the best bargain in the inner Bay Area. They are significantly below Richmond’s nearest...

Mark Twain is mythically credited with the saying, regarding California, “Whisky’s for drinkin’ and water’s for fightin.” We don’t have a lot of either in Richmond right now, but we do have $35 million or scholarships, and the fighting has begun. The Richmond Promise...

In a little over three weeks, we will be leaving for Paris and the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, also known as COP21. I am part of a delegation led by the Sequoia Foundation that includes Marin Clean Energy (MCE), KyotoUSA and LEAN Energy US...

For decades, Richmond’s unemployment rate has hovered several percentage points above national, state and county average (See http://www.homefacts.com/unemployment/California/Contra-Costa-County/Richmond.html). For the first time ever, Richmond has beat that trend....

The agenda/packet for the Tuesday, November 3, 2015, Richmond City Council Meeting is on the web. Follow the link below to view: http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/meet.aspx