On Tuesday, August 2, the Riverside City Council voted 6-1 to pass an ordinance amending the Riverside Municipal Code, that would prohibit encampments in high fire areas in the city of Riverside, particularly the Santa Ana River bottom.
Tuesday, June 28 City Council Item 8 – Solid Waste Division positions Staff will present a report on job openings in the Solid Waste Division, the number of open positions, reasons for difficulty in filling the positions, strategies for filling the positions, and the use of routing and navigation so
Monday, June 13 Land Use, Sustainability and Resilience Committee – 3:30 p.m. Item 2 – Warehouse development regulations On Monday, staff will give a presentation to committee members on “current development regulations and best practices” for warehouse and distribution centers throughout the city.
TUESDAY, JUNE 7 City Council (Special Meeting) The council will carry over its closed-session discussion from June 1 regarding the recruitment and hiring of a new city manager to replace Al Zelinka, who resigned the position effective June 3. City Council Item 12 – COVID-19 safety proceduresThe coun
City Council focuses entirely on homelessness prevention, and a potential resource guide for residents and local businesses on the topic of homelessness is considered.
Plumes of yellowed smoke rose up and out of Riverside over the weekend after 14 acres in Ward 1 burned when a bonfire in a homeless encampment grew out of control. Riverside Fire Department battled the flames and waited to make certain they were extinguished from Thursday until Sunday morning. Its o
Tackling the homelessness crisis in Riverside County has been named as a top priority by local officials, including Riverside’s mayor, its city council and county board of supervisors. Among the programs and initiatives available to California municipalities to address the issue, the Assisted Outpat
Today at 10:30 a.m., Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson and fellow Big City Mayors (BCM) will virtually ask the governor and legislative leadership to include a historic $16 billion over four years in the state budget to house nearly every Californian who entered a homeless shelter in 2020. (Office of the M
While the most noticeable effects of the worldwide pandemic were projected on screens throughout the year, the growing homeless population was a casualty behind the scenes. There was a 20 percent increase in Riversiders experiencing homelessness during the pandemic, according to Path of Life Ministr
