Mayor and Councilmembers:

This is the weekly report for the week ending May 28th, 2010.

• Meeting Notes

 

The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 1st.

• Engineering Services Launches Twitter

 

Engineering Services is launching a new public outreach campaign to provide up-to-date information on Engineering Services capital improvement projects (CIP) during construction.  When an Engineering Services CIP construction contract is approved by City Council, postcard notifications will be mailed out to affected community members to sign up at http://twitter.com/CoR_Engineering so they can follow the construction status and potential impacts.  The first project is the upcoming Sinkhole Emergency 2-Lane Access Road.

• Bike to Work Day

 

Hundreds of thousands of bicyclists all across the Bay Area celebrated Bike to Work Day 2010 on May 13th.  In Richmond, more than 200 bicyclists passed through one of four "Energizer Stations" in the morning to receive free refreshments, a Bike to Work Day bag, and information about commuting by bicycle.  The City of Richmond’s Richmond Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Richmond Spokes, and SunPower coordinated to promote Bike to Work Day and to host Energizer Stations under the leadership of the East Bay Bicycle Coalition, whose mission is to promote bicycling as an everyday means of transportation.  Stations were located on the Ohlone Greenway at San Pablo Avenue and MacDonald Avenue, Richmond BART, Bay Trail at Marina Bay Park, and Ohlone Greenway at 15th Street.  Throughout the East Bay, bicycling counts on Bike to Work Day were up 10% over 2009!  View http://ebbc.org/btwd for more information about Bike to Work Day.

The City of Richmond thanks this year's Energizer Station sponsors, which include Catahoula Coffee, Clif Bar, Costco, East Bay Regional Parks, Fehr and Peers, Mountain Hardwear, National Parks Service, The Pedaler, Safeway, SunPower and World Centric.

• Community Meetings on FY 2010-11 Budget

 

On Wednesday, May 12th, the third of seven scheduled community budget presentations was conducted during the Marina Bay Neighborhood Council meeting.  Councilmember Ludmyrna Lopez; City Manager, Bill Lindsay; Finance Director, James Goins and City staff were in attendance.  Mr. Lindsay provided an overview of the newly approved Tax Settlement Agreement between the City of Richmond and Chevron.

City Manager, Bill Lindsay & Finance Director, James Goins
speak at the Community Budget Hearing

Listed below are the remaining meeting dates and locations:

May 27th	7:15 p.m.	Annex Senior Center 5801 Huntington Avenue
May 27th	8:00 p.m.	Sojourner Truth Church 2621 Shane Drive

• 18th Annual Senior Night Out

 

The Recreation Department is co-sponsoring the Commission on Aging’s production of the 18th Annual Senior Night Out to be held at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 28th, at the Richmond Auditorium.  A special evening of dining and entertainment, including live music, will be presented at $5 per person.

• Bayview Library Branch Update

 

The Bayview Branch Library has been closed since a sewage backup in February.  This week, work began to replace the flooring with a treated concrete product selected by the librarians, along with Public Works staff, to mitigate any future problems.  The Library staff will be able to access the building on June 7th and plan to reopen the branch by June 14th, in time for this year's Summer Reading Game.

• Richmond Rosies in Bay to Breakers Race

 

This past weekend, 10 City of Richmond employees participated in the 99th Annual Bay to Breakers Race in San Francisco.  The “Richmond Rosies” showed their “We Can Do It” spirit while highlighting the City’s positive history.  After completing this year’s 12K course in 2 hours and 48 minutes, the Rosies are looking forward to next year’s race, with a larger team.

• Web Fun Fact

 

Text message alerts are now available for our website under the E-News Signup heading.  When you are signed up to receive notifications you can login using your email address.  A field will then be available for you to enter your phone number.  Just click on the telephone icon next to any list name.

Example of signing up for the Employment and Training Event Calendar item list:

Happy Memorial Day!

 

Lisa Carter, Executive Secretary II, for
Leslie T. Knight, Assistant City Manager/HRM Director, for

Bill Lindsay
City Manager
City of Richmond
450 Civic Center Plaza
Richmond, CA  94804

Phone:   510-620-6512
Fax:        510-620-6542

e-mail:   bill_lindsay@ci.richmond.ca.us