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. Review of May 11th Agenda.

3. Approval of April 13th Minutes.

4. Introductions & Neighborhood Reports (1 minute per neighborhood).

5. Reports:

• Planning Dept.-Lamont Thompson.
• Public Services Dept.-Rich Davidson.
• Mayor’s Office-Marilyn Langlois.
• City Manager/Community Affairs-Bill Lindsay or Rochelle Monk.
• Police Dept.-Chief Chris Magnus.
• Environmental Manager Lynn Scarpa.

6.  Break-(Refreshments provided by Panhandle Annex and Pullman Neighborhood Councils).

7.  Tentative Presentation:

• Review of County Budget Cuts-Supervisor John Gioia, speaker.

8.  RNCC Executive Board Announcements.

·         Naomi Williams, PIO.

·         REACT Training-Bea Roberson.

  9. Old Business:

·         Committee Reports-President Loynd and RNCC Board.

·         NUSA Reps. May 20^th-23^rd-Spokane, WA.

10. New Business: Request to close Bay Trail opening at S. 35^th Street-Naomi Williams, speaker.

11. Adjournment: Approximately 9:30 p.m.

Next RNCC General Meeting: Monday, June 8th, 2009.

Next RNCC Executive Meeting: Monday, May 18th, 2009.

1.  MEETING CALLED TO ORDER by President Loynd at 7:00 p.m.

 

2.  Addition of 2 items to published agenda under new business:  report on meeting re Skate Park at Nicholl Park; report on proposed Fire Dept. consolidation between cities and county.

 

3.  MSP approval of minutes of meeting of March 9th Approved unanimously.

 

4.  Neighborhood Reports and introductions: Carriage Hills North, Castro Heights (name is wrong on letterhead and is not currently a member); Cortez/Stege; Downtown Association; Fairmede/Hilltop; Greenbriar; Hilltop Village; may Valley; North & East; Panhandle Annex; Point Richmond; Pullman; Quail Hill; Richmond Annex; Richmore Village, and Southwest Annex.

 

5. NEIGHBORHOOD REPORTS: Carriage Hills North, Fairmede/Hilltop, Iron Triangle, Laurel Park, May Valley, North & East, Panhandle Annex, Parchester Village, Point Richmond, Pullman, Quail Hill, Richmond Annex, Richmond Heights, Santa Fe.

 

6. REPORTS-CITY OF RICHMOND:

• PLANNING DEPARTMENT: LAMONT THOMPSON – Moving back to City Hall, 2nd Floor.

 

• PUBLIC WORKS: RICH DAVIDSON; Discussed lighting on San Pablo Avenue from El Cerrito to City of San Pablo – try to make it match; 3 dumping sites; Bldg. Dept. in charge of road grading; Engineering and Bldg. Regulations also moving to 2nd floor of City Hall.  New item in operations budget (2009 – 2010) = Traffic Safety Improvements.  Will survey NCs; take top 3 concerns, hire a consultant and create a pro-active traffic plan.

 

• MAYOR’S OFFICE: MARILYN LANGLOIS – Upcoming events.

 

• CITY MANAGER’S OFFICE:  ROCHELLE MONK, Community Affairs Coordinator – moving to City Hall, so please submit newsletters next week (week of April 20) and use City P.O. Box address until May.  City Council will move in June.

 

• POLICE DEPT.: CHIEF MAGNUS, Annual Report.  RPD Centennial celebration on Saturday, May 16th, 11:00 to noon.  Next OBAT on June 13th in Coronado.  Easter egg hunt at Nevin Park had 175 kids.

 

• ENVIRONMENTAL MNGR.: Lynne Scarpa – Handle waste so it doesn’t end up in creeks.  What to do with your old TVs after June 12th.

 

Break-Approx. 8:30 p.m.

 

7. PRESENTATIONS:

• CA Youth Energy Services – Alexander Cotton. Rising Sun Energy Center, Berkeley.  Free service:  get bulbs, showerheads, and they employ local youth.  Wants to visit NCs to sign up homes to visit.
• Youthworks – Jay Leonhardy – Hopes to employ 500 youths this summer; largest program per capita in California.
• General Plan – Lori Reese-Brown, no show, no message.

      

8. ANNOUNCEMENTS – PIO Williams-No announcements.

 

9. NEW BUSINESS:

• Genser-Maack report on Skate Park meeting.
• Loynd report on proposal to consolidate Fire services throughout county.
• Holland passed out copy of Refreshment list.

 

Meeting Adjourned by President Loynd at 9:30 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted-Sandi Genser-Maack, Recording Secretary

 

NEXT RNCC GENERAL MEETING:  May 11th, 2009.

NEXT RNCC BOARD MEETING: May 18^th, 2009.