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May 05, 2025

RPA Membership Roundtable May 10, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM12929 San Pablo Ave, Richmond, CA 94804

April 09, 2025

Hello, District 6 residents! I hope you are all doing well. This month, I want to update you on recent developments in Richmond, including street sweeping enforcement, upgrades on McBryde Avenue, and upcoming research to save $117 million in our city’s budget. ¡Hola, residentes...

April 09, 2025

Stronger Sanctuary City, Community Budget Meetings, Early Debt Repayment, and More Street sweeping tickets will start again on April 15. Full story and helpful hints at the very bottom of this very long newsletter. Read the headlines as you scroll down!

March 18, 2025

Richmond, CA – On March 17, 2025, the City of Richmond filed a lawsuit against two major investment banks, JP Morgan Chase and Royal Bank of Canada, as well as against the city’s former financial advisors, Public Resources Advisory Group and The Majors Group. The...

March 12, 2025

The City of Richmond to Vote on Strengthening Sanctuary City Protections Richmond, CA – Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez and the City Council are set to vote on a Sanctuary City ordinance update, reinforcing the City's commitment to protecting immigrant communities. Scheduled for Council consideration...

March 11, 2025

Hello, District 6 residents! This month, I want to update you on important topics and issues around Richmond, including our ongoing efforts to support our immigrant community. ¡Hola, residentes del Distrito 6! Este mes, quiero ponerlos al día sobre algunos temas y problemas importantes...

March 04, 2025

There’s so much I want to tell you about, but I know most people don’t want to read a long email newsletter, which this is. I encourage you to use the headlines below to find the topics you care about and just skip the...

February 28, 2025

Mayor Eduardo recently sent out a helpful memo in which he articulated how our city’s budget process will be guided by the city’s strategic goals. They plan to garner community input, so we thought we might start that conversation in a Roundtable. The main...

February 27, 2025

By Kathleen Wimer The Richmond City Council meeting was FABULOUS! Discussion of dredging the port (Item N.2.) offered every reassurance that the DDT at the bottom of the target area will not be disturbed nor mixed with other environments, including the Bay, either in...

February 19, 2025

No amount of tobacco use by children is safe because tobacco contains nicotine which has been established to be dangerous to health. Direct smoking and second-hand smoke result in poor health conditions and impair proper brain development in children. Every year, transnational Tobacco Companies...