Rosie/Bay Trail Marker Dedication
MAKE A DATE WITH HISTORY AND CELEBRATE THE PRESENT 11 AM, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17 LUCRETIA EDWARDS PARK AT FOOT OF MARINA WAY SOUTH RSVP: Jacqueline Vaca, City of Richmond Redevelopment Agency, 510/ 307-8150 On Nov. 17, 2004, the City of Richmond dedicates a new series of...
Bay Trail Progress Reports
Following are two reports from TRAC. The first is the Third Quarter 2004 report and the second is announcement of a $301,000 grant and a summary of grant funding to date. An updated map is attached as a PDF file. TRAC_map_01-06-04.pdf Richmond Bay Trail Report Third...
Beware of Commercial Slate Mailers
During the last few days before an election, voters will receive a number of typically 8 " x 5 " cards single or double folded with slates of recommendations. The one I am looking at now proclaims "Attention Democrats" and "The Team for Democratic Voters" and comes...
Media Coverage of Point Molate Decision – ChevronTexaco Hires Willie Brown to Undo the Deal
Posted on Thu, Nov. 11, 2004 Casino far from done deal By Rebecca Rosen Lum CONTRA COSTA TIMES It's a tantalizing concept. California's second urban casino nestled into a plush hotel resort populated by gamblers debarking endless ferry runs across the Bay. But the...
Point Molate is a Go
Last night, the City Council voted 6-2-1 to approve the Land Development Agreement (LDA) with Upstream for an option to purchase Point Molate to construct a destination resort that is intended to include a casino. Dissenting were Maria Viramontes and Charles Belcher....
Full Text of ChevronTexaco Point Molate Offer
Attached as a PDF file is the full text of the ChevronTexaco offer for Point Molate. Many people have asked for this. The offer starts on page 10 following the City Manager"s memo. SCN_20041108163718.pdf
Hearing on Campus Bay Exposes Dysfunctional Environmental Agencies
On November 6, 2003, Assemblymember Loni Hancock chaired a Joint Hearing of Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials and the Select Committee on Environmental Justice at the UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station to discuss the participation of state...
Monarchs Return to Richmond Field Station
Thanks to Phil Maynard, I now know that like swallows to Capistrano, migrating Monarch butterflies stop over in Richmond. I have seen the Monarchs in Pacific Grove and Monterey, but little did I know they were staying over in our own neighborhood. Check out the...
Point Molate Back on the Hot Seat
Batchelor_Point_ Molate_ Memo_110504.pdf point_molate_comparison_110404.pdf With the Richmond City Council election barely over, Point Molate is back on the November 9 City Council Agenda. The new council members do not take their seats until January, so the old guard...
More Richmond Election Recap
Based on the total number of votes cast for measure Q (which slightly exceeded Measure R), there were at least 23,754 Richmond voters participating in the November 2 election. Although not verified, this is an all-time record, far exceeding the 13,667 votes cast in...
City Council Election Results
I would like to thank those who supported my re-election with your donations, your volunteer services, your endorsements and of course, your votes. As you may recall, I have been unsure for some time whether the voters would react to Richmond"s financial disaster by...
Go Vote!
Two of the great myths of Richmond city government are that (1) the City Council makes policy, and (2) five votes is all it takes. On July 20, 2004, the City Council voted 5-3-1 to authorize release of an RFP to evaluate Chevron"s energy usage (Item 0-3). Voting in...
Stealth Source of Richmond News?
An overlooked source of interesting news stories on Richmond is the North Gate News Online, a project of the U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism. I have noticed several young reporters at City Council meetings lately, and I sometimes get calls from U.C. School of...
Campaign Mailers and More
Times' questions critiqued CONTRA COSTA TIMES Posted on Sat, Oct. 30, 2004 By Scott T. Corey CONTRA COSTA TIMES A political action committee stumping for Richmond City Council candidate Kathy Scharff attacked the Times on Friday as unethical and unprofessional for...
Consternation Over Campus Bay
Tempers Flare Over Campus Bay Project: By RICHARD BRENNEMAN BERKELEY DAILY PLANET, OCTOBER 29, 2004 Long simmering anger burst into the open Wednesday night as anxious Richmond residents threw heated questions and charges at state officials and representatives of the...
Richmond Loses EIR Suit on Chevron’s LPG Project
According to a former CBE attorney, on October 29, 2004, the First District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of Communities for a Better Environment ("CBE"), holding that the City of Richmond should have prepared an environmental impact report ("EIR") for the Chevron...
Good News for MLK Community Center and Park
The Richmond Children"s Foundation announced yesterday that the City of Richmond is the recipient of a $2.5 million grant under the State of California Murray-Hayden Urban Youth Services Grant Program that will be used to rehabilitate the Martin Luther King, Jr....
Richmond Chamber of Commerce Politics Slips Under the Radar
The Richmond Chamber of Commerce, through its Board of Directors, has unanimously voted to endorse the ChevronTexaco proposal for Point Molate rather than the Upstream proposal. This is despite the fact that the latest ChevronTexaco proposal makes no commitment for...
ChevronTexaco Splurges on Richmond Campaign Mailers
As the election grows nearer, ChevronTexaco has moved its campaign to control Point Molate away from newspaper ads and TV spots intended to influence public opinion to campaign mailers for specific candidates for Richmond City Council. At about $10,000 a pop, the...
Waiting for Your Mail?
Mail service had declined rapidly in Richmond this week. One explanation was reported on the North and East Neighborhood Council Yahoo Groups website (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/North_and_East_News/) from USPS Safety Coordinator Maria Cannon (510/232-9582), who...