Richmond Neighborhood Coordinating Council
Building Neighborhoods Block by Block

Richmond Works/East Bay Works, 330 25th Street, Conference Room 1, 7:00 p.m.

1.  Call to Order.

2.  Approval Minutes of December 14, 2009 meeting.

    3.  Introductions & Neighborhood Reports (Announce Your Name and affiliation and one (1) person per neighborhood give your neighborhood report.

4.  Reports From City Staff:

• Planning Dept.-Lamont Thompson.
• Public Works Dept.-Edric Qwan.
• Mayor’s Office-Marilyn Langlois.
• City Manager/Community Affairs-Rochelle Monk.
• Police Dept.-Chief Chris Magnus or Rep.
• Environmental Manager Lynn Scarpa.

5.  Break

6.  Presentations:

• Kimley-Horn and Associaties, Jim West PE.: Firm selected by City to conduct a traffic study to identify intersections & streets where there is inadequate traffic safety.

7.  RNCC PIO Announcements.

·         Correspondence and Announcements, Naomi Williams, PIO-If you have any announcements for any other entity other than your neighborhood please give any information you have to our PIO.  She will make the announcements and post them so that anyone who is interested in the event can take notes.  There will be a place where they are displayed rather than hand out copies of paper that we just throw away.

  8. Old Business:

·         Curfew.

9.  New Busniness: Noise Ordinance.

10. Adjournment

Next RNCC General Meeting: Monday, February 8, 2010.

Next RNCC Executive Meeting: Monday, January 25^th, 2010.

1.  MEETING CALLED TO ORDER by President Loynd at 7:05 p.m.

2.  Agenda addition:  Mayor, Gayle McLaughlin, thanked the RNCC for their service and community spirit.  Ingoing and outgoing officers congratulated.  The Mayor announced her new Richmond Youth Job Corps for 2010.  Green initiatives now on City website. “Meet the Mayor” is January 8, 2010.

3.  MSP approval of Minutes of meeting of November 9, 2009.

4.  Eighteen Neighborhood Council representatives introduced themselves and gave a positive report from their neighborhoods.

5.  The City Clerk, Diane Holmes, installed the new officers:  President: Bea Roberson, Vice President: Don Woodrow, Recording Secretary: Kaye McKleroy, Sergeant-at-arms:  George Schmidt, Public Information Officer:  Naomi Williams, Directors-at-large:  Pamela Wimberly, Janie Holland and Garland Ellis.  Treasurer, Judie Lowman and Corresponding Secretary, Jerry Yoshida were absent.

6. The outgoing President, Eleanor Loynd presented the gavel to incoming President, Bea Roberson.  The incoming President thanked and presented gifts to Eleanor Loynd, outgoing President, and Paul Miao, outgoing Corresponding Secretary. Sandi Gense-Maack, outgoing Recording Secretary, was thanked in absentia.

7. City Department Heads and City Official Reports:

·         Planning:  Lamont Thompson handed out list of active projects.

·         City Manager’s Office:  Rochelle Monk, no report.

·         Police Department:  Beginning in January, Beat officers will organize meetings with various neighborhoods.  Staffing levels beginning to reach goals & more officers to be hired, study sessions on daytime and nighttime curfews will begin in January, new noise ordinance being worked on, crime is down 11% in 2009.

·         Fire Department:  Michael Banks updated the investigation of the vehicle fires in El Sobrante & Richmond, emphasized fire safety during the holidays, and reported on promotions and hiring.

·         Other agencies not present.

8.  Board Announcements:

• Janie Holland:  sign-up for food for 2010
• Eleanor Loynd:  new PG&E meter installation slated for 2010
• Naomi Williams:  Crime prevention meeting on Dec 16, 2009 at 330 25th Street.
• RNCC representatives thanked for donation of toys to Police/Fire program.

 9.  Adjourn:  8 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Kaye McKleroy, Recording Secretary

NEXT RNCC GENERAL MEETING:  January 11th, 2010

NEXT RNCC BOARD MEETING: January 25th, 2010