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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...

Last night was my last Richmond City Council meeting ever, termed out after over 27 years and some 1,300 City Council meetings, not including committee and other meetings, and not including regional board and committee meetings. If you added all of them in, it would...

This was a joint effort of the Richmond Rotary Club, the Mayor’s Community Fund, Way2Love, and the Richmond Community Foundation with a grant from Chevron. Thanks to Paul Morris, agent for the owner, for offering an apartment. It takes a village. VIDEO: Bay Area mayor...

Applications are being accepted for innkeepers at East Brother Lighthouse. After two years of extraordinary service, our current keepers, Stephanie and Bryan Wesolek will be leaving at the end of March 2023. East Brother Light Station, Inc., a non-profit corporation,...

Three days from now, December 20, 2022, is my last Richmond City Council meeting. Frankly, I can’t wait. I look forward to leaving with about the same level of enthusiasm I had to leave Vietnam 52 years ago. In a functional City Council, members could, or even should,...

On the surface, the story of the District 2 election is that it was a tie between Cesar Zepeda and Andrew Butt, and Zepeda eventually won when his name was drawn from a paper bag. End of story. A recount is in progress and will be completed sometime next week. No one...

Beginning in January 2023, City Council members will be barred from accepting, soliciting or directing contributions of more than $250 from anyone who had business before their body in the 12 months before or after a final decision in that matter. Anyone found guilty...

Your local renewable electricity provider. Powering communities since 2010. I am beginning to take the off ramps from regional agencies on which I serve after nearly 28 years as an elected official. Yesterday was my final meeting as a member of the ABAG Executive...

Brianni Peters, currently living in an RV at the Castro encampment, signed a lease today for a 2 BR apartment in San Pablo, thanks to Richmond Rotary's Housing First program. Peters and her 13 year-old daughter Adria, currently attending Richmond High School, will be...