This message is being sent on behalf of Interim City Manager Shasa Curl Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending March 4th, 2022. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 15th, 2022. Enjoy...

Press Release 02/28/22 Chevron Announces Agreement to Acquire Renewable Energy Group Expected to build strength and accelerate growth across renewable fuels value chain Projected to be accretive to earnings and free cash flow Cynthia (CJ) Warner, REG CEO, expected to...

Richmond mayor raises Ukraine’s flag at City Hall in show of solidarity February 28, 2022 https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2022/02/28/richmond-mayor-raises-ukraines-flag-at-city-hall-in-show-of-solidarity/ After raising the Flag of Ukraine at City Hall in a show...

Back a couple of years ago when I challenged Richmond’s ten largest employers to create a $1.5 million to address unsanctioned homeless camps, Sims Metal was the only one to step up, providing the largest single donation to the Mayor’s Community Fund that is now the...

The sad part about the current Richmond City Council is that you don’t have to be anti-business and anti-housing to be environment friendly and improve the quality of life for Richmond residents, particularly underserved residents. The knee-jerk Richmond Political...

I plan to hoist the Ukraine flag City at Hall tomorrow to show solidarity. Ready-made flags are hard to come by and backordered, so I bought fabric this morning. I need a volunteer to sew it into a flag by tomorrow. It’s a pretty simple flag. Any takers out there?...

Thanks to Claudia Citroen, flagmaker extraordinaire, we will be raising the Ukraine flag tomorrow, Monday February 28, 2022, at Richmond City Hall to show solidarity with the people of the Ukraine. Figure 1 - Tom Butt and Claudia Citroen with the Ukraine flag she made...

The Mayor’s Housing First Initiative, in partnership with the Richmond Rotary Club, has already housed approximately 10 percent of the people living in cars and RVs at the Richmond Parkway/North Castro Street RV Camp. Unfortunately, new people are moving into and...

MCE update. Read about MCE's largest solar plus storage project and our McGlashan Advocacy Award winner. Board and Municipal Update February 2022 Dear Directors Butt and Johnson, Samantha, and Ruben, I hope all is well! I wanted to share some recent news, achievements...

One of Richmond’s enduring mysteries is how to get speed bumps installed on your street. This was resolved by the long-lost Resolution 62-96 of 1996. Here are the criterial for speed bump applications: The street must be a residential, neighborhood street with no...

Apparently, with the full backing of the RPA City Council majority, the Reimagining Public Safety Community Task Force is rapidly setting itself up as an autonomous body immune from any laws. The 22 (originally 24) person organization has split itself into four...

The good news is that the City of Richmond has been awarded a $4.8 million grant to “rehouse 100 individuals.” That’s $48,000 per person. The bad news is that most of it will be frittered away simply perpetuating existing encampments, leaving only $1.8 million to...

National Park Service News Release Date: February 23, 2022 Contact: PWR_Public_Affairs@nps.gov K. Lynn Berry selected as superintendent of four Oakland area national parks SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service (NPS) has selected K. Lynn Berry to serve as the...

The Housing First Initiative, a partnership of the Richmond Mayor’s Office and the Richmond Rotary Club, just placed another family who moved into their new apartment over the Presidents Day weekend. Corliss and her son were living in a rental apartment in Alameda in...

Richmond is part of the problem. The RPA-controlled City Council abandoned street sweeping because people are too lazy to move their cars. Both Gayle McLaughlin and Eduardo Martinez live in the Richmond Annex, some residents of which led the movement to stop effective...

Despite $1.5M allocated, Richmond encampments remain vexing issue February 22, 2022 https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2022/02/22/despite-1-5m-spent-richmond-encampments-continue-to-be-vexing-issue/ An RV at the Castro Street encampment in September, 2021. (Photo...

When the RPA dominated City Council utterly fails in a policy initiative and get criticized for it, they blame it on “political polarization” instead of fessing up to bad judgment. The City Council is spending $1.5 million of public money on sole-source contracts that...

This message is being sent on behalf of Interim City Manager Shasa Curl Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending February 11th, 2022. Meeting Notes The next Regular City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 22nd,...

This is about Santa Clara, but it could just as well be Richmond. The RPA dominated Richmond City Council has made differences with other City Council members and the mayor into personal vendettas. The City Council has condemned me twice, censored me once, spent...

Affordable housing continues to be a challenge for many, and some are even forced into homelessness because they can’t afford rent. An effective solution has been the emergence of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units (JADUs) that provide...