Richmond, California
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2 September 2026
No September 1 regular Council packet appears on the agenda archive. The City Manager’s Weekly Report dated August 28, 2026 states the Council is in recess and will return to regular sessions on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
Source: City Council Agendas | ci.richmond.ca.us/Archive.aspx?AMID=30 | retrieved 2 September 2026. City Manager’s Weekly Report, 28 August 2026 | ADID 17867.
Community Police Review Commission special meeting, Wednesday, 2 September 2026, 7:00 p.m., Richmond Room, 450 Civic Center Plaza (Zoom webinar 899 9122 2368). Open business: which Richmond Police Department policies on artificial intelligence and related technologies to agendize for further review. Closed session titles only: conference with labor negotiators; public employee discipline/dismissal/release (investigations 2024-4, 2025-9, 2026-12; case summaries 2024-9, 2026-5, 14). Packet posted; action not yet on the minutes.
Source: 2 September 2026 Special Meeting | ADID 17864 | retrieved 2 September 2026.
The City’s Council meetings page, consulted 2 September 2026, lists the following as of 20 January 2026. Mayor: Eduardo Martinez. Vice Mayor: Doria Robinson. Council members: Claudia Jimenez, Cesar Zepeda, Soheila Bana, Sue Wilson, and Jamelia Brown. The same page names Jaycine Scott as a Housing Authority Tenant Commissioner and notes a vacant tenant-commissioner seat. This note records the City’s published roster. It will be wrong the day the City’s page is wrong.
Source: Richmond City Council Meetings | ci.richmond.ca.us/3181/Richmond-City-Council | retrieved 2 September 2026.
August 11 special (ADID 17812): closed session, public employee appointment, City Manager. Consent M.1, second amendment with Bob Murray & Associates, payment limit up $100,000 to $168,000, term through June 30, 2027. Granicus clip 6033 (2h 09m) and KCRT. No captions. Votes: UNCLEAR. Packet posted; action not yet on the minutes.
Source: ADID 17812. Granicus clip 6033. KCRT youtube.com/watch?v=HSGYJsTF9lA.
August 26 special (ADID 17860): closed session only. Titles: interim City Manager recruitment; City Manager recruitment; City Manager performance evaluation; City Attorney report-out. Granicus clip 6038 (1h 34m) and KCRT. No captions. Votes: UNCLEAR. City Manager Curl’s August 28 report states she attended that meeting.
Source: ADID 17860. Granicus clip 6038. KCRT youtube.com/watch?v=SaAX3UZy1RA. Weekly Report ADID 17867.
Latest Council minutes archive entry remains July 28, 2026 (ADID 17782, labeled public comments received). No August 11 or August 26 minutes.
Source: City Council Minutes | AMID=31 | retrieved 2 September 2026.
Design Review Board September 9, 2026 is labeled CANCELED (ADID 17841). The PDF is an empty agenda form listing next meeting September 23, 2026.
Source: ADID 17841.
City Clerk’s notice in the August 28 Weekly Report: mayor candidates for November 3, 2026 are Ahmad Anderson and Claudia Jimenez. Voter registration deadline October 19, 2026. Measure Q (GO bond, fire stations) arguments and rebuttals are posted on the election page.
Source: ADID 17867. Election page | /4988.
City Manager’s Weekly Report recap: RPD swearing-in August 19, 2026 of Officers Taylor Stiern, Alexander Quintero, and Dezmond Morales after academy graduation. Weekly snapshot August 17–23: 1,891 calls for service, 270 reports, 40 arrests, 28 collision reports.
Source: City Manager’s Weekly Report, 28 August 2026 | ADID 17867.
BAAQMD preliminary Health Risk Assessment for Chevron Richmond (A0010 / Rule 11-18) remains on notice. Written comments close Monday, November 23, 2026, 5:00 p.m. A Richmond public meeting is Monday, September 21, 2026, Richmond Memorial Auditorium, 403 Civic Center Plaza. Meeting time differs by source (Air District: 5:00–6:30 p.m.; city page: 5:30–7:30 p.m.).
Source: BAAQMD Rule 11-18. City /4719.
2 September 2026
The Council of Richmond meets, by its own rules, on the first, third, and fourth Tuesdays. There is an afternoon hour at which the public may speak before a closed session, and an evening hour at which the regular meeting begins. The times are ordinary. They are also easy to miss. The City itself warns that a given Tuesday may start at another hour, and that the agenda is the authority.
Watching a meeting from another room is not nothing. KCRT carries the session. A Zoom link is published. These are decent provisions. They are not the same as sitting in the chamber at 440 Civic Center Plaza, where the names are attached to faces and the clock is on the wall.
The Brown Act does not require the citizen to attend. It requires the body to meet in public, with limited exceptions, and to post its business. The rest is ours. A city is not well kept by people who know the law and never use the door.
If there is a single habit worth forming, it is this: read the agenda on the day it appears; note the items that touch land, money, or the police power; and go, once in a while, in person. The Record will say when the next Tuesday falls. It will not go in your place.
Called meetings. Confirm time and place on the published agenda before you go.