🍊 Friday Gazette: February 7, 2025 (Corrected Calendar)
📆Correction: This morning’s newsletter included an incorrect weekend calendar. We apologize for the mix-up! There are so many wonderful
Council approves ordinance to protect seniors and low-income residents from excessive increases.
Council greenlights $891,000 for fire department software while residents urge underground transmission lines, citing wildfire risks.
City Council will meet Tuesday to receive $9.3 million in grants for street safety improvements and discuss potential updates to mobile home rent control rules.
Patricia Lock Dawson highlights city's economic growth, public safety improvements, and leadership in green technology during her fourth annual address.
The Housing and Homelessness Committee reviewed successful programs in other cities as potential models for Riverside's provision of secure lots, basic amenities, and pathways to permanent housing for unhoused community members.
A quarterly review of the City's budget proposed City purchasing reforms intended to create opportunities for local businesses, and considering a program to provide secure overnight parking and support services for residents living in their vehicles are all on this week's agendas.
City Council does not meet this week. The Police Review Commission will review the Racial Identity Profiling Act Annual Report for 2024.
Council cites full-time demands of job in approving first pay increase since 2023; monthly car stipend also increased to $500.
Approving new contracts for RPD and considering a potential raise to the Mayor and Councilmembers' salaries are on the City Council agenda this week.
Concerns over dispensary concentration prompt 90-day delay.
Public safety improvements, infrastructure investments, and economic development initiatives take center stage in an annual update from Mike Futrell.
A year-end financial review, approving drones for anti-illegal fireworks policing, and a one-year pilot project to reduce cut-through traffic on Redwood Drive are on the City Council's agenda.
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