City planners question local impact of transit housing mandates, Riverside offers micro luxury escapes and the city debuts AI assistant Rivy on its website.
No City Council meeting this week; other agendas include $1.44M for Wilderness Substation upgrades and affordable housing updates. Plus, the Museum of Riverside explores how repatriation and museums can collaborate.
Early morning sherbet colors paint the Riverside sky, as the city awakens. (Luke LĂłpez) Have a photo that captures the spirit of Riverside? Share it with us and help celebrate the beauty of our community!
Monday Gazette: September 22, 2025
Hello Riverside, and Happy Monday! With a high of 89° today, it’s officially the first day of fall! How do you do fall? Do you dive in with pumpkin spice, boots, sweaters and flannels as soon as you can? Or do you keep summer going as long as the weather allows, with sandals, sundresses, shorts and beach days? Maybe something in between? Reply to this email and let us know.
No matter how you celebrate, Happy Fall, Riverside!
City Council does not meet this week. Other meetings include consideration of $1.44 million for the new Wilderness Substation's second power grid connection and review of reducing future mobile home rent caps to 3% and progress on 497 affordable housing unit.
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Welcome to our weekly digest on public meetings and agenda items worth your attention in the coming 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.
Housing and Homelessness Committee
The Housing and Homelessness Committee (Councilmembers Cervantes, Mill, and Robillard) meets on Mon, Sep. 22, at 3:30 p.m. (agenda) to review the Housing Authority's progress on 497 affordable housing units in development while considering whether to recommend reducing future mobile home park rent increase caps from 4% to 3% and adding protections for residents transferring ownership to family members.
Board of Public Utilities
The Board of Public Utilities meets on Monday, Sep. 22, at 6:30 p.m. (agenda) to consider approving $1.44 million for equipment at the new Wilderness Substation that will provide Riverside's second connection to California's power grid and $3.29 million to install underground cables along Mission Grove Parkway.
Museum of Riverside Board
The Museum of Riverside Board meets on Wed, Sep. 24, at 3:00 p.m. (agenda) to accept new items into its local history collection.
Community Police Review Commission
The Community Police Review Commission meets on Wed, Sep. 24, at 5:30 p.m. (agenda) for continued review of an Officer-Involved Death case.
The Museum of Riverside's approach offers lessons for cultural institutions nationwide.
Museum staff repatriated resources to representatives of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, Tachi-Yokut Tribe. (Courtesy of the Museum of Riverside)
Long before the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) passed in 1990, North American Indigenous leaders and culture bearers had begun the campaign to obtain the respect that NAGPRA was intended to codify. Maria Pearson, a member of the Yankton Dakota, is credited with leading the charge beginning in the 1970s to demand the kind of protective legislation that NAGPRA was established to be.
NAGPRA has gradually—indeed, in some cases, glacially—moved toward the intended goal of restoring to Indigenous peoples their own ancestors’ remains, ceremonial objects, and other artifacts of sacred cultural importance. A few of the imperfections of this federal legislation are glaring. It applies only to federally recognized tribes and only to institutions that receive federal funding. It does not apply to individuals or private institutional collectors who receive no federal funding. California is among the states that have passed their own legislation to address some of these gaps in part, the latest iteration being AB-275 (passed in 2020), which applies to all Indigenous peoples in California, not just federally recognized tribes. Dubbed “Cal-NAGPRA” and building on legislation that was first passed in 2001, AB-275 provides more clarity regarding what to do and when but, like all other legislation mandating tribal consultation toward the goal of repatriation, it provides no funding for either party to complete the processes.
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