Final Workshop on Future of Civic Center
The final public workshop on the future of the Richmond Civic Center will be held 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Monday, October 21, 2002, in the City Council Chambers, 260o Barrett Avenue. Whether the Civic Center is rehabilitated, replaced or moved somewhere else, the cost will...
Richmond Loses Will to Keep City Safe, Clean and Solvent
Like many cities, Richmond has a bevy of ordinances designed to compel property owners to keep up their property in a manner that will make for a safe, clean and attractive city. The costs of enforcing these ordinances, typically, are intended to be recovered through...
Chronicle Columnist Chip Johnson Pans Chief
Today"s San Francisco Chronicle had a column by Chip Johnson regarding Richmond Police Chief Joseph Samuels. See http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/18/EB67648.DTL, or read below: Richmond's police chief feeling heat Chip Johnson...
Stop the Asphalt Plant
Many E-FORUM readers have asked what can be done to dissuade the City Council from proceeding to build an asphalt plant on Canal Boulevard. Individual contacts with City Council members via phone calls and snail mail is always important. Email will be read by some...
Richmond Planning Topics in San Francisco Business Times
During the past week, Richmond has been mentioned twice in San Francisco Business Times articles about planning and economics. The articles are copied herein. There is no mention of the current administration"s ambition to re-expand Richmond"s industrial base by...
Medlock for West CCC Health Care Center Board
Please join me in supporting John Medlock for the West CCC Health Care Center Board. Party October 24th in the DeWitt Gallery (5:30-7:00pm) at Baltic Square,,, 121 Park Place in Point Richmond.
A Chief’s Chief or a Disappointment?
When it comes to Richmond"s chief of police, neutral assessments are hard to find. Nineteen thousand of his peers, worldwide, elected him to the highest office a police chief can hold. Presumably, that makes him a chief"s chief and a source of pride to Richmond...
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Richmond Police Mobilize to Fight Terrorism on Land and Sea
If you had nothing better to do than watch the October 1 City Council meeting, and if you tuned in early for the Study Session, you would have heard a presentation on how Richmond was contributing to America"s homeland security. The police chief and mayor had just...
Sierra Club to Consider Sudden Oak Death and Clark Road Project
" Sudden Oak Death and other Introduced Forest Pathogens by Professor Tom Bruns of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley. Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002 at 7:30 p.m. Makamie Hall, Northminster Presbyterian Church 545 Ashbury Street, El Cerrito....
Final Public Meeting on Future of Richmond Civic Center
RICHMOND INVITES COMMUNITY INPUT FOR SECOND WORKSHOP ON CIVIC CENTER MASTER PLAN PROJECT Consultant team will present process and alternatives derived from concerns expressed by community. A San Francisco-based consulting group hired by the City of Richmond will hold...
Target Targets Richmond Site
The following story about a prospective Target store in Richmond appeared in the September 30, 2002, issue of the San Francisco Business Times. Cities typically salivate over big box stores for the sales tax income they bring in. In this case, the City of Richmond is...
Governor Signs Legislations Canceling Attendance Audits and Findings
Richmond, Calif. " Superintendent Gloria Johnston announced today that Governor Gray Davis signed legislation yesterday which cancels the state attendance audits of California school districts initiated by the State Controller"s Office (SCO). The West Contra Costa...
Student Safety Upgraded at Richmond Elementary School
Students to Celebrate Flashing Crosswalk in Dangerous Intersection A group of East Bay students has a lot to celebrate Wednesday as the country marks Walk to School Day to underscore the importance of pedestrian safety and exercise. Students at Grant Elementary School...
Richmond to Save Energy
The following article appeared on the Rebuild America newsletter (http://www.rebuild.org/news/newsdetail.asp?NewsID=1310): Rebuild America is a program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that focuses on energy-savings solutions as community solutions. Rebuild...
It All Starts With Your Image
The following article appeared in the September 9, 2002, edition of Nation"s Weekly, a weekly publication of the National League of Cities. What is Richmond"s image? What instant impression jumps into the minds of people in other parts of the Bay Area when they hear...
General Chemical Plant Safety Evaluation Meeting
The public will have a chance to review and make suggestions about a draft work plan to evaluate safety at a chemical plant in the East Bay that has been the scene of a series of recent accidents. MRS Environmental Company will present its plan for a safety evaluation...
Asphalt Plant Update
On September 23, 2002, I received (as did other City Council members) the following email letter from Jim Worden of Owens Corning: September 23, 2002 The Honorable Thomas K. Butt 2600 Barrett Avenue Richmond, CA 94804 Dear Mr. Butt, Thank you for taking your time to...
General Chemical Release
The city manager was called by Jeff Kanzen, environmental manager for General Chemical at 11:40 a.m. today. He stated that General Chemical had a chemical release lasting 10 minutes consisting of sulfur trioxide. Sulfur trioxide (also called "sulfuric trioxide") is a...
After 70 Years, Ford Motor Company Turns Out Lights In Richmond
According to an article in the San Francisco Business Times (James Temple, August 30, 2002), Ford Motor Co. is marketing its Richmond distribution center, a 15,100-square-foot office building and a 248,100-square-foot warehouse on 25 acres of land, for $15 million....