City Council does not meet this week. The Economic Development Committee will consider billboard rule changes allowing digital displays in exchange for revenue sharing, and the Safety Committee is reviewing a shopping cart tracking pilot program.
Welcome to our weekly digest of public meetings and agenda items worth your attention for this 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.
Safety, Wellness, and Youth Committee
The Safety, Wellness, and Youth Committee (Councilmembers Perry, Conder, and Mill) meets on Wed, Jan. 21, at 1 p.m. (agenda) to review results from a three-month pilot program that tracked over 1,300 abandoned shopping carts citywide in a transition from an outsourced service to an in-house operation operated by the Public Works Department.
Economic Development Committee
The Economic Development Committee (Councilmembers Robillard, Cervantes, and Hemenway) meets on Thu, Jan 22, at 3 p.m. (agenda) to consider whether to change City rules that currently ban new billboards, after an advertising company offered to replace 10 older signs with digital displays and share revenue with the City.
City Council does not meet this week. The Safety Committee will consider restrictions on nitrous oxide and kratom products after police found extensive sales and health officials linked them to fatal overdoses.
City Council will discuss two potential lawsuits related to the rejected University Terrace homeless housing project and review the 2026 Book of Work outlining major city priorities.
