On behalf of Maribel Rodriguez, Director of Development and Communications for the Richmond Promise, and our entire team, I am pleased to share that the Richmond Promise was recently awarded an elite grant from the Kresge Foundation as a part of the nationwide College...

In Richmond, it’s all drama -- about conflicts, accusations, investigations, litigation, condemnations censures, restraining orders, terminations, resignations, staff shortages, and much more. If you follow the news, the blogs, NextDoor and Facebook, you would think...

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 December 17th, 2021. Meeting Notes The next Regular City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 21st,...

The latest and long anticipated biannual Richmond survey results are in, and they are not pretty. See Item M-3 on the December 21, 2021, Agenda (RECEIVE a presentation and report on the City of Richmond's 2021 Community Survey results; and PROVIDE direction to staff...

In Richmond, it’s all drama -- about conflicts, accusations, investigations, litigation, condemnations censures, restraining orders, terminations, resignations, staff shortages, and much more. If you follow the news, the blogs, NextDoor and Facebook, you would think...

This is more renewable energy to help power Richmond. I represent the City of Richmond and serve as chair of the MCE board of Directors. ______________________________________________________________ MCE Announces Largest Renewable Energy Project in Solano County Lake...

You can view the current City Manager's Weekly Report here: City Manager's Weekly Report 12/10/2021

Following are two news articles on the city attorney’s crusade to silence me. There is also the RPA spin, Mayor Butt Hit With Restraining Order. This morning, Superior Court Judge Jill Fannin denied my ex parte application to intervene in my personal capacity into an...

Heavy rain is generally good news, but the downside is that it typically overburdens Richmond’s aging sanitary sewer system, causing infiltration of ground water into pipes that don’t have the capacity to handle it in a phenomenon called “inflow and infiltration.”...

North Coast Rivers Alliance has filed a petition (Click Here) asking the Marin County Superior Court to order that MMWD vacate and set aside all approvals and stop all actions to implement their transbay water pipeline project due to violations of CEQA, the Delta...

It appears that the allegations that kicked off the hapless two-year complaint and investigation involving me (City Finally Admits Easting Time and Money on Dead End Investigation, November 16, 2021) has taken another confusing turn with City employee Lori-Reese Brown...

Another storm is on the way probably with power outages. For those who may be concerned, I want to direct you to the Independent Living Resources of Solano and Contra Costa. MCE worked with them to disseminate the off-grid Yeti 3000 batteries and they are still...

Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin placed the following item on the December 7, 2021 Agenda: M-4. DIRECT staff to return with a contract amendment with Housing Consortium of the East Bay (HCEB) to allow additional time for unhoused vehicle dwellers at Rydin Road and at...

Dear Friends: It's back! Richmond Rotary's Annual Holiday Auction is back and will be in person at the Richmond Country Club on Friday, December 10 (See Holiday Auction 2021 | (richmondcarotary.org) for details) Join in the FUNdraising to support our many local...

The Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA), which now controls the Richmond City Council through its Gang of Four (McLaughlin, Jimenez, Willis and Martinez), not only lives in an alternate universe, they continually embellish it by rewriting history in way that would...

We are pleased to announce that the City of Richmond received two Prop 68 grants as noted below in a total amount of $9,117,000. Thanks to City staff for their continued efforts to improve the built environment and environmental quality in partnership with local CBOs....

About the onset of WWII, my son Andrew transcribed the following from my father in 1991: I was in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on a Sunday afternoon on December 7, about two o'clock. My roommate and I had just finished a late lunch and were just starting to play bridge...

If you want to watch the hearing this morning beginning at 7:30 a.m. (PT) involving, among other bills, HR 1117 adding Nystrom School to Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, use the livestream on the Committee’s website or YouTube page....

See the Press Release below for more exciting news concerning MCE, on which I serve as chair of the Board of Directors. _______________________________________________________________ Local MCE Program Inspires Statewide Effort to Prevent Summer Blackouts $161 million...

Environmental Marin Municipal Water District: Reservoir outlook improving By TortLawNewsOn Dec 6, 2021 The Marin Municipal Water District will likely avoid depleting its main reservoir supplies next summer, according to new projections following last week’s heavy...