From the 5CAT FaceBook page: The next 5CAT (5th District Community Action Team) meeting is this Friday 5/10/13. We will be meeting at the Randolph Community Center, 1415 Grayland Ave. @7:00 p.m. The agenda will be posted by Thursday. Please be prompt so that we can start on time. Pass this information along to others [...]
Excerpt from Times Dispatch article, “$24M ISSUE: Utilities’ payments to Richmond take backseat in water/wastewater rate debate Richmond has utilities make special payments into general fund”: Historically, the council has been reluctant to tackle the payments to the city that are a built-in component of water, wastewater and gas bills. According to Richmond’s City Charter, [...]
Neighbor Charles Pool sent this email to members of City Council yesterday. (Ed. note: He received permission to send them an attachment of the “Tiller” magazine article, but I have not received permission to post that here. If I do receive it or a public website link to it, I will be sure to post [...]
There is a May Day Immigration Rally planned for Wednesday in Monroe Park. I reported the Living Wage rally earlier. Please share with your contacts: What: May Day Immigration Rally & March When: May 1st at 2:00pm Where: Monroe Park (corner of West Main and Belvidere Streets) March will leave the park and proceed downtown [...]
From email announcement: The VCU Living Wage Campaign is holding a May Day rally, Wednesday May 1st in the VCU Commons Plaza. The living wage campaign wants students, workers, and educators to be more involved in the Universities allocation of the budget. We do not believe that any university employee (Service workers, Contracted workers, Adjunct [...]
Please consider and share the following as City Council goes over the budget. FACT SHEET: Richmond’s proposed $26.11 monthly water/sewer service charge At $26.11, Richmond’s minimum monthly water/sewer service charge would still be one of the highest in the nation. It is a burden for every senior citizen getting by on Social Security and every [...]
In case you are wondering why there are people dancing at Kanawha Plaza on a Sunday afternoon, From the Virginia Sierra Club website: WHEN: Sun., April 14 at 1 – 3 PM WHERE: Kanawha Plaza, 7th & Canal Streets Join us in sending a message to Dominion and the State Corporation Commission saying “No more [...]
Randolph resident Gregory Day has posted an agenda for the April 12th meeting of the 5th District Action Team. More information is available on their FaceBook page. 5th District Community Action Team Meeting (5CAT) Friday April 12, 2013 7:00p.m. Melvin A. Fox Manor 18 W. 27th St. 23225 Meeting Called to Order Prayer Minutes of [...]
Today the Sierra Club Falls of the James group released the following statement in response to Mayor Jones’ announcement earlier this month: Sierra Club Declares Only “A Partial Victory” On Richmond Water Rates and Calls For More Reform The Sierra Club Falls of the James group’s Executive Committee listened to Mayor Dwight C. Jones’ budget [...]
From RPEC announcement: Join the Richmond Peace Education Center for a timely community forum, “The Cost of War: Dismantling the Military-Industrial Complex and Building a Peace Economy,” Tuesday, March 19th, in the VCU Commons Theater on the Monroe Park Campus. The timing of the event–as Tax Day approaches–is intended to underscore the large proportion of [...]
