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!
GOVERNMENT
This Week in City Hall: September 22, 2025
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.
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.
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MUSEUM MONDAYS
How Repatriation and Museums Can Work Together
The Museum of Riverside's approach offers lessons for cultural institutions nationwide.
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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What's Happening in Riverside
Today
- Assistance League Thrift Shop Accepting Donations at Assistance League Riverside Thrift Shop
- Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful Business Closet at Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce
- Clean Campus Competition Art Contest at Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce
- Housing and Homelessness Committee at Riverside City Hall
- Men's Soccer vs. Loyola Marymount at UCR Soccer Stadium
- RCTC Programs and Projects at County Admin Center 4080 Lemon St. 1st
- Volunteer Interest Hour at Riverside Meals on Wheels, Inc
Tomorrow
- Family Storytime at Riverside Public Library | Marcy Branch
- Women's Volleyball vs. UC Davis at Johnson Family Practice Center
- Inland Empire Chorus Rehearsal at Temple Beth El Synagogue
- Tuesday Karaoke at The Hideaway
Save The Date
- September 24: Beginning Square Dance Lessons with Line Dancing at Cowtown Square Dance Center ($5- $7)
- September 25: Full Circle Players Fall Repertory Productions at The Box Riverside ($22- $25)
- September 26: Concert Under the Stars at Private Residence ($200)
- September 28: Free Christian Art Exhibit: Icons in Transformation at Immanuel Lutheran Church
- October 4: Tombstone Cinema: Hocus Pocus 2 at Evergreen Memorial Historic Cemetery ($15)
- October 5: Local History Book Fair and Silent Auction at Riverside City Hall
- October 6: Moon Festival at Heritage House
- October 15: Fifty & Better Health Fair at Janet Goeske Center
- October 18: Pink on Parade Breast Cancer Awareness Walk at Ryan Bonaminio Park ($22.20 - $32.80)
- October 18: The Riverside Citrus Classic Bike Ride at Riverside Plaza ($15- $80)
- October 25: Aquamotion Aquathon at Shamel Park Pool
- October 25: Friends of the Mission Inn Present: Nosferatu - a Silent Movie at The Mission Inn ($30- $35)
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