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City Council Updates   -   Sep 16, 2026 Staff reports deficit, council votes to start process on how to spend Chevron settlement funds
Staff reports deficit, council votes to start process on how to spend Chevron settlement funds

The Richmond City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with a public process for spending the city's $550 million settlement with Chevron, after city officials disclosed that Richmond's day-to-day operations ran $9.8 million in the red this year. The council also rejected a

City Council Updates   -   Sep 14, 2026 On the agenda: a data center ban, Polluters Pay funds and new police cameras
'No Data Centers' posters on a mural wall at South 6th Street in Richmond

The Richmond City Council's first regular meeting after summer vacation has a full agenda Tuesday, with a temporary ban on new data centers at the top. The council will discuss how to spend money from the Polluters Pay settlement. Police want to replace the city's Flock

On the agenda: an interim city manager, more police cameras, and 168 tons of trash
City Council Updates   -   Sep 18, 2026 On the agenda: an interim city manager, more police cameras, and 168 tons of trash

Richmond's City Council will formalize its choice of an interim city manager Tuesday, consider replacing the city's Flock license plate cameras with Axon technology and take up a proposal for an outside review of the city's financial numbers. The agenda also includes a resolution

by Soren Hemmila
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City Council Updates   -   Sep 18, 2026 On the agenda: an interim city manager, more police cameras, and 168 tons of trash
On the agenda: an interim city manager, more police cameras, and 168 tons of trash

Richmond's City Council will formalize its choice of an interim city manager Tuesday, consider replacing the city's Flock license plate cameras with Axon technology and take up a proposal for an outside review of the city's financial numbers. The agenda also includes a resolution

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Sep 16, 2026 Staff reports deficit, council votes to start process on how to spend Chevron settlement funds
Staff reports deficit, council votes to start process on how to spend Chevron settlement funds

The Richmond City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with a public process for spending the city's $550 million settlement with Chevron, after city officials disclosed that Richmond's day-to-day operations ran $9.8 million in the red this year. The council also rejected a

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Sep 14, 2026 On the agenda: a data center ban, Polluters Pay funds and new police cameras
'No Data Centers' posters on a mural wall at South 6th Street in Richmond

The Richmond City Council's first regular meeting after summer vacation has a full agenda Tuesday, with a temporary ban on new data centers at the top. The council will discuss how to spend money from the Polluters Pay settlement. Police want to replace the city's Flock

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Sep 11, 2026 Richmond council to weigh replacing Flock license plate readers with Axon
Richmond council to weigh replacing Flock license plate readers with Axon

Richmond police want to replace the city's Flock Safety license plate readers with a new system from Axon, citing problems with Flock's equipment, repairs, and data-sharing practices. The Richmond City Council will consider the change Tuesday, along with a $3.5 million increase to Richmond&

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 31, 2026 The candy gauntlet shrinks: 33 Richmond retailers to face healthy checkout rules
The candy gauntlet shrinks: 33 Richmond retailers to face healthy checkout rules

About 33 Richmond businesses will have to change what they sell at the checkout counter after the City Council voted Tuesday to align its healthy checkout ordinance with a Contra Costa County measure. The Healthy Options at Point of Sale ordinance, first introduced in 2022, sets nutrition standards for food

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 29, 2026 Chevron settlement emerges as city's 'plan B' for fire station upgrades
Richmond Fire Station 67,

Richmond City Council voted Tuesday to place a $120 million fire station bond on the November ballot. City officials also said that if voters reject it, the city could fall back on Chevron settlement money to pay for the same upgrades. The admission came only after a councilmember asked directly.

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 25, 2026 On the agenda: AC Transit budget deficit, homeless outreach and policing proposals
On the agenda: AC Transit budget deficit, homeless outreach and policing proposals

Richmond City Council will weigh a wide-ranging agenda Tuesday that includes a warning about looming AC Transit service cuts, a $1.66 million expansion of homeless outreach services, an independent fiscal review of a proposed police funding charter amendment and a $120 million fire station bond headed for the

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 22, 2026 Richmond council advances fire station bond toward November ballot, rejects ethics commission measure
Richmond council advances fire station bond toward November ballot, rejects ethics commission measure

The Richmond City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with a $120 million fire station bond measure headed for the November ballot, then fell one vote short of doing the same for a measure that would have created an independent ethics commission. Tuesday's vote was a first reading.

by Soren Hemmila
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