🍊 Friday Gazette: February 21, 2025
Friday Gazette: February 21, 2025 Hello Riverside, and Happy Friday! Tomorrow is National Margarita Day. Whether you like your limey
Letter urges Riverside to reconsider approved transmission line project due to wildfire risks, without addressing additional costs.
City Council does not meet this week. Riverside's city boards and commissions will discuss a proposal to shift crossing guard program costs to school districts and the strategy to transform the newly named Arlington Village stretch of Magnolia Ave. in Ward 5.
Committee recommends a 12-month pilot program offering 64-gallon bins at 15% discount to 300 residents
Riverside's city boards and commissions are set to discuss a range of topics, from library programs to industrial zoning changes.
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.
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