A recent posting on social media about Melvin Willis’ quest for a new place to live in District 1 evolved into a claim by failed RPA candidate Jamin Purcell that, “the pay for council members is so abusive” and whining that the alleged low pay for City Council members...

The Rooted in Richmond app is now complete, and we just pushed the final update (which increased the multilingual functionality and also reduced the download time for the files) I’m including the language and promo information below. Also see the slide presentation...

Check out the upbeat, colorful 24th Bay Trail Richmond New Year Report prepared by TRAC, the Trails for Richmond Action Committee, available at https://www.pointrichmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TRAC_NewYear_Report_2023_FINAL_HighQuality.pdf. It summarizes great...

See https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/weather/millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-are-spilling-into-sf-bay/article_3474d37c-9136-11ed-a6e4-ef581c011dbd.html The fundamental challenge with the wastewater system that serves 60 percent of Richmond residents is that some old...

I am going to keep the E-FORUM going for a while at least, but this is my last one as mayor. I just finished my last City Council meeting, a special meeting to certify the election results in District 2, which passed on a 5-1 vote with Bates Absent and me voting NO. I...

The following article appeared in the East Bay Times. The biggest challenge the new City Council will face is getting control of labor costs, and especially unfunded pension liabilities. This will be difficult for the RPA-controlled City Council because they are, in...

A combination of missing RPA City Council members, an incompetent and corrupt city attorney and a disorganized Contra Costa County Elections Division created a perfect storm where certification of newly electeds Eduardo Martinez, Cesar Zepeda, Doria Robinson and...

According to posts on Facebook, Vice-mayor/Mayor-elect Eduardo Martinez has paid for a private swearing-in ceremony for Cesar Zepeda, Doria Robinson, Soheila Bana and himself at Bridge Storage. The official City Council meeting to conduct the swearing-in remains...

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From City Manager Shasa Curl: Evacuation Orders Fifteen (15) homes within the impacted area have been evacuated and are unoccupied. Per the City’s consultant, Cal Engineering & Geology, Inc. (CE&G), there is currently no need to evacuate additional homes. In...

City of Richmond Fire and Police were able to reassess homes in the incident area to confirm vacancy. No homes are occupied, and currently there is no need to evacuate additional homes. The Police Department is staffing the roadblocks to prevent anyone from accessing...

Although recently activated by extensive rain, the slide fissures and scarps above Seaview Drive have been observable from space in Google Earth and Google Maps for years. The image below is from https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9119511,-122.3742744,112m/data=!3m1!1e3.

City Attorney Dave Aleshire worked through the holidays from the ski slopes at Mammoth, obsessed with jamming this poorly designed project through a sale to Terminal One Development LLC before the end of 2022. See Terminal One Single-Family Housing Development In...

Yesterday, January 3, 2023, at 5:23 PM, I received an email from Tom Leader, a landscape architect and former Richmond Design Review Board member, alerting me to a potential geologic hazard on the slope above the Seacliff development. From the photos, it was clear to...

Happy to Ring Out 2022 – Happy New Year 2023! Mayor Tom Butt 2022 was my last year (except 10 days in January) of over 27 years on the Richmond City Council, including eight years as mayor. Special thanks to those who supported me politically all those years as well...

The District 2 recount was completed yesterday, and Cesar Zepeda prevailed by three votes because three votes previously recorded for Andrew Butt were disallowed for technical reasons. Andrew graciously congratulated Cesar and moved on.I want to congratulate Cesar...

I wanted to leave a few things as Christmas presents for Mayor-elect Eduardo Martinez. Most are items that were once essential but will no longer be needed by me. Figure 1 – I gift him the official generic Richmond “Office of the Mayor” jacket to keep him warm as he...

This is a sketch I made in Downieville CA from Thanksgiving 2021. For more sketches, see http://www.tombutt.com/Toms_Sketches/mobile/index.html#p=14.

This is a sketch I made in Downieville CA from Thanksgiving 2021. For more sketches, see http://www.tombutt.com/Toms_Sketches/mobile/index.html#p=14.

Antioch, Richmond recount process drags on, but tally of votes will begin Thursday Candidates question methodology of recount, prefer full search of all ballot boxes Contra Costa elections specialist Joel Paschall counts ballots during an internal check of the results...