Richmond City Councilmembers spent more than two hours Tuesday night hearing a detailed report on the police department's rifles, drones, and other specialized gear, but time ran out before they could vote on it.
Councilmember Cesar Zepeda asked the council to schedule a follow-up meeting next week
The Richmond City Council will meet Tuesday, July 7, to consider placing a government ethics measure on the November ballot, review the Richmond Police Department's annual military equipment report, and vote on closing a street segment near Alvarado Park.
GATE Act would create an independent ethics commission
Councilmembers
Richmond City Council faces its largest new business agenda of the summer on Tuesday, with six discussion items on the table. Two of the biggest, a $120 million fire station bond and a ballot measure creating an independent ethics commission, are both racing the same deadline to make the November
Richmond City Council faces its largest new business agenda of the summer on Tuesday, with six discussion items on the table. Two of the biggest, a $120 million fire station bond and a ballot measure creating an independent ethics commission, are both racing the same deadline to make the November
Richmond City Councilmembers spent more than two hours Tuesday night hearing a detailed report on the police department's rifles, drones, and other specialized gear, but time ran out before they could vote on it.
Councilmember Cesar Zepeda asked the council to schedule a follow-up meeting next week
The Richmond City Council will meet Tuesday, July 7, to consider placing a government ethics measure on the November ballot, review the Richmond Police Department's annual military equipment report, and vote on closing a street segment near Alvarado Park.
GATE Act would create an independent ethics commission
Councilmembers
The Richmond City Council will meet on Tuesday to adopt the city's final budget for fiscal year 2026-27, review polling on a potential November ballot measure to fund paramedic-level fire service, and revisit five items continued from its June 16 meeting. Those include a proposed permanent
Union leaders told the Richmond City Council Tuesday that the city's persistent staffing shortages are the result of a deliberate choice, not a hiring pipeline problem, escalating a public dispute over whether Richmond is using vacant positions as a budget tool at the expense of city services.
The
The Richmond City Council meets Tuesday taking up a full budget session ahead of a June 23 adoption deadline, an annual review of the police department's military equipment inventory, a potential November tax measure tucked into the consent calendar, a $2.6 million homeless services contract, and direction
City Manager Shasa Curl told the Richmond City Council on Tuesday that the city can no longer afford to hire new employees unless an existing employee retires first due to increasing workforce costs.
“In the absence of retirements, we are at a point where new personnel cannot be added because
Richmond’s citywide electric bike share program could be shut down by the end of the month after city staff recommended the council move to conclude it and redirect remaining funding to a competing e-bike lending library.
According to Richmond public works staff, the Today bike share program has
