Riverside Weighs $35 Million Conversion of Hotel into Permanent Supportive Housing
City could secure state HomeKey Plus funding to transform struggling hotel, though newly opened businesses express concerns about timing.
Council will hear the latest updates for the Mission Inn Festival of Lights and receive legal counsel for a lawsuit filed against the city by the Historic Mission Inn Corporation.
With only three meetings scheduled, one would expect a quiet week at City Hall, but a proposal to reduce the number of monthly City Council meetings and an ethics complaint against Councilmember Cervantes are likely to generate some noise.
Councilmembers Conder and Hemenway are preparing to recommend the Riverside Transmission Reliability Project Working Group be allowed more time to secure federal funding to underground the project.
Council will review the latest proposed retail cannabis business permit procedure guidelines, consider approving a $2.3 million agreement for the Arlington Park Pickleball Complex Project, and adopt the Citywide Community Engagement Policy and Toolkit.
Council will consider a 'security pilot program' to expand contracted services aimed at keeping the Galleria, Auto Mall, Plaza, and Downtown business areas safer.
It will be a slow week for Council, commissions, and committees. City Council will review $2.87m in street improvements for Wards 3, 6, and 7.
City Council doesn't meet this week. Other committees meet to discuss the reallocation of Measure Z funds to better address homelessness, plans and budgets for RPU infrastructure upgrades, and design plans for the renovation of the Museum of Riverside.
City Council to finalize RPU rate increases, consider new contractor requirements, a small-business COVID recovery grant program, and a 247-unit apartment complex on University Ave.
City Council to review the City Clerk's office performance and move funds to establish the Department of Housing and Human Services.
City Council is back after a two-week hiatus. Council will discuss discontinuing RPD's Crime Free Multi-Housing Program and a potential agreement to bring autonomous vehicle manufacturing to Riverside.
The City Council doesn't meet this week. Committee will review results to combat homelessness, and RPU Board will hold a public hearing on proposed rate increases.
City Council doesn't meet this week. Other committees meet to consider approving a new permanent art installation in White Park and presentations on Riverside's housing challenges and racial profiling in the police department.
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