Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the weekly report for the week ending April 10th, 2015. 1. Meeting Notes The next meeting of the Richmond City Council is scheduled for Tuesday, April 21st. Enjoy the next Tuesday night off. 2. BART Intermodal Improvement...

Congressman Mark DeSaulnier’s Town Hall Meeting will be at Lovonya DeJean tonight, April 8, 2015 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. What: Congressman DeSaulnier’s “First 100 Days” Town Hall When: Wednesday, April 8th, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Check-in begins at 6:00 pm. Where:...

Barnidge: Richmond council meetings are fun, even without the shouting and screaming By Tom Barnidge Contra Costa Times Columnist Posted: 04/08/2015 02:11:55 PM PDT | Updated: 31 min. ago The mayor didn't spend the evening pounding a gavel, no recesses were called for...

Catch this Grammy Winner up close and personal! View this email in your browser Friday, April 10 , 7:30 Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands with special guest Richard Brandenburg We are pleased to present Bay Area bluegrass legend Laurie Lewis and her band, the Right...

Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the weekly report for the week ending April 3rd, 2015. 1. Meeting Notes The next meeting of the Richmond City Council is scheduled for Tuesday, April 7th, beginning with a Closed Session at 5:30 PM, followed by the...

On Thursday, April 2nd, the Water Emergency Transportation Authority (“WETA”) Board of Directors approved a contract amendment with Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects to prepare the final design and engineering of the Richmond Ferry Terminal, and to provide design...

Chief Magnus cleared up the source of the “Buy a Gun” billboards in Richmond. “The ATF is one of several components of the Justice Department. The Justice Department selected Oakland/Richmond as part of their 5 site national Violence Reduction Network (VRN). The other...

Yesterday, I received an mail from a local resident who was outraged over a billboard campaign in Richmond that approaches the scale of the Chevron election campaign. I had seen one of them and was curious about it, but I didn’t think much more about it. These are the...

FROM THE CHIEF Dear Community Members, We are seeing some increases in crime during this first quarter of 2015, compared to the same period of 2014, so I wanted to reach out to everyone with the hope we can maximize how we work together to turn things around. Although...

Yesterday, ACCE responded to my E-FORUM Fight Over Rent Control Heats Up in Richmond, March 31, 2015, and David Sharples of ACCE asked me to publish it, which I will gladly do, but not without comment. The ACCE response follows my comments below. ACCE and I agree on a...

CBE and Chevron reached a settlement regarding the Chevron modernization project approved by the City in July 2014. In that settlement, Chevron and CBE agreed to file an agreement or stipulation ‘discharging the writ’ with the superior court (ending all litigation...

In a significant federal court victory today for the City of Richmond and the Richmond Police Department, a federal jury unanimously voted in favor of Defendant Richmond Police Officer Kristopher Tong in an “excessive force” case brought by John Burris’s office. Andre...

DON'T MISS OUT! We need your RSVP by April 1! Please join us for our Annual Benefit Dinner "You've Come a Long Way, Rosie!" Saturday, April 11, 2015 At The Historic Richmond Galileo Club! Our annual benefit dinner is the #1 way we support the Rosie the Riveter/WWII...

Richmond looks to refurbish image with new marketing campaign By Karina Ioffee Bay Area News Group Posted: 03/31/2015 11:57:42 AM PDT| Updated: 9 min. ago RICHMOND -- The mayor of Richmond has launched a one-man campaign to change the public's perception of his home...

Leaving his life as a poor farm worker from a large family in a remote village in Mexico, Guadalupe Campos emigrated to the U.S. in 1965 and found work as garbage truck driver in San Francisco. He worked hard for many years, saved his money and invested in a couple of...

San Francisco Cromicle While scientists continue to argue about both the cause and effects of global warming, the opportunity to change our habits to prevent it is rapidly diminishing. Realizing that it is probably too late to stave off climate change, the priorities...

I did not know it until I saw some Facebook posts that March 29th (or 30th) is recognized as Vietnam Veterans Day. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Vietnam Veterans Day on April 23, 1976. Since then, several states have declared their own Vietnam...

Mayor’s Business Roundtable Kicked Off on March 26 From left to right – Tom Butt, Bill Lindsay, DiemMy Duong, John Roulac, Prosper Attias and Ken Maxey (Comcast) One of the initiatives I announced in my State of the City presentation in January is the Business...

Yesterday, both Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis paid a surprise visit to Richmond for a tour of Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park. They first met with a group of Rosies at the Visitor...

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