Monday Gazette: March 17, 2025
Hello Riverside, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Good luck and green beer await you all across town this evening! Check out Paint the Town Green: Riverside's St. Patrick's Day Guide 2025 or visit our calendar to finalize your plans. Here's a toast for your first drink, and it had better be a Guinness:
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
GOVERNMENT
This Week in City Hall: March 17, 2025
City Council does not meet this week. City commissions and council sub-committees will meet for general updates.
Welcome to our weekly digest on public meetings and agenda items worthy of your attention in the next week. This guide is part of our mission to provide everyday Riversiders like you with the information to speak up on the issues you care about.
Commission on Aging
The Commission on Aging meets on Monday, Mar. 17, at 9:00 a.m. (agenda) for regular business.
Park and Recreation Commission
The Park and Recreation Commission meets on Monday, Mar. 17, at 6:30 p.m. (agenda) to elect new leadership and review ongoing Parks Department projects.
Safety, Wellness, and Youth Committee
The Safety, Wellness, and Youth Committee (Councilmembers Perry, Conder, and Mill) meets on Wednesday, Mar. 19, at 1:00 p.m. (agenda) to review the 2024 plans of six different citizen commissions.
Cultural Heritage Board
The Cultural Heritage Board meets on Wednesday, Mar. 19, at 3:30 p.m. (agenda) for regular business.
Economic Development Committee
The Economic Development Committee (Councilmembers Robillard, Cervantes, and Hemenway) meets on Thursday, Mar. 20, at 3:00 p.m. (agenda) for regular business.
Commission on Disabilities
The Commission on Disabilities meets on Thursday, Mar. 20, at 5:30 p.m. (agenda) for a presentation from the Police Department on its Community Service Bureau's "You Are Not Alone" program.
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GARDNER GAUGE
Opinion: Making Conservation a California Way of Life
California tightens urban water conservation rules, affecting Riverside’s indoor and outdoor water use. Here's what it means for residents.
The California Department of Water Resources is implementing a long term, increasingly stringent set of urban water conservation measures. These impact both indoor and outdoor water use. The programs require retail water providers like Riverside Public Utilities and Western Municipal Water District to meet specific indoor and outdoor water use targets by specified dates. For the most part, the programs do not specify exactly how to meet the targets. This allows some flexibility to water providers that may have greater opportunity for additional conservation in one area of use than in others.
Lumped together, the program is known as the Urban Water Use Objective, or UWUO. The primary components of UWUO are the aggregate of indoor water use, the aggregate of outdoor residential water use, the aggregate of Commercial, Industrial and Institutional outdoor water through dedicated irrigation meters, and the aggregate of water loss.
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What's Happening in Riverside
Today
- Commission on Aging at Riverside City Hall
- Park and Recreation Commission at Riverside City Hall
- Riverside Official St. Patrick's Day Bar Crawl at Killer Queens Social House
Tomorrow
- Volunteer Interest Hour at Riverside Meals on Wheels, Inc
- Lunchtime Jazz at RCCD Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties
- Inland Empire Chorus Rehearsal at Temple Beth El Synagogue
- Sunrise on the Reaping Sunrise Release Party at Cellar Door Bookstore
- Tuesday Karaoke at The Hideaway
- CHICAGO at Fox Performing Arts Center
Save The Date
- March 21: Savvy Chic Kids Consignment Early Bird Shopping at Mission Grove Shopping Center - Former KMart ($Free- $16)
- March 22: "The Science of Scent" - Bath Bomb Workshop at Heritage House ($10)
- March 28: Goeske Spring Festival at Janet Goeske Center
- April 4: World Premier Melodrama by Westmont Village Masquers Theatre Club at Westmont Village
- April 5: Alzheimer's & Dementia Support Group at Discovery Commons Raincross
- April 5: 4th Annual Downtown Riverside Tweed Ride begins at Riverside Historic Courthouse
- April 5: In/VISIBLE, Un/HEARD: Riverside’s Civil Rights Stories at Multiple locations
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