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Mayor Jones approves ordinance request without departmental approvals
Mayor Jones approves ordinance request without departmental approvals: O&R request lacks initials of any department heads. Ordinance 2013-7 7.
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Council Ignores Own Resolution
City Council adopted tax exemption ordinances with retro-active effective dates, even though a Council resolution states that such ordinances must have a future effective date. No response received...
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Richmond Inspector General hands Dwight Jones scathing report
For one reason or another, the City of Richmond seems incapable of living up to its true potential. Whether it’s corruption, incompetence, negligence, abuse, and everything outside or in-between, the...
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City Council Meeting in Disarray
City Council Special Meeting – May 8 2013 Meeting recessed twice because documents not ready. Samuels disappears. District discretionary fund expenditures expedited. Councilors instructed to leave...
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Mayor’s security detail focal point of budget vote
Trammell said she felt betrayed by Samuels. “If it’s legal, it should not be legal, because I have not seen this done before,” she told Samuels and the rest of the council. “You did this to me. You...
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More on the Mayor’s Security Detail
City Council voted to cut $100,000 from the mayor’s security detail. Councilor Samuels privately directed a city employee to change “mayor’s security detail” to the “311 Call Center.” The following...
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CBS 6 investigation prompts exit of Richmond finance director
June 28 2013. On Tuesday, after our encounter with Ochei, we handed our findings over to the man who ultimately hired him, Byron Marshall. Two days later, on Thursday, he sat down for an interview and...
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Councilor Samuels 14 Months Late
June 28 2013. APRIL 26, 2012 TIMES-DISPATCH UPDATE: CITY CLOSING RICHMOND JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER The closure is after concerns about “staff and management shortcomings and allegations of criminal...
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Councilor Baliles responds to Freedom of Information Act notice
Request for record send to councilor Baliles: To: Jonathan Baliles <jonathan.baliles@richmondgov.com> Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2013 6:56 AM Subject: Baliles – Budget Amendments Dear Mr. Baliles...
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Samuels misunderstands duties of President
Dear Mr. Samuels, You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of your duties as City Council President. You said “[b]ecause I choose to lead by building consensus as much as possible, and to show...
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Richmond’s highest paid employee makes even more than you know
This past February, Marshall got a bonus check for nearly $26,700 thousand dollars. The extra earnings were never announced to the public and city council members were never told about it. Jones more...
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Richmond’s spending among highest in Va.
Price tag for government administration came to $35.6M for fiscal year 2012. Link
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Group not working on city jail programs
Richmond still paying consultant that has not addressed overcrowding. Link
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Company challenges city auditor findings
American Traffic Solutions attorneys is calling the investigation “shoddy” and asking the city auditor to immediately correct the records and notify media. Link
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VA ACLU Calls Out City Council’s Meaningless Commitment to Protect LGBT City...
Additionally, there is no mention of sexual orientation or gender identity in the city’s employment manual under the grievances section which lists what classes are protected and how to file a...
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Richmond won’t disclose terms of pipefitters settlement
Richmond officials won’t talk about the cost to taxpayers of settling a lawsuit filed against the city by eight pipefitters over racial harassment and discrimination in the Department of Public...
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Removal of Landmark organ strikes a passionate chord
Samuels was told by the administration that the approval for removal came from Richmond CAO Byron Marshall, who was at the time unaware of the organ controversy. Link
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Richmond paid $1 million to pipefitters to settle suit
Richmond said today it paid $1 million to the eight pipefitters who filed a suit against the city in federal court over racial discrimination and harassment in the Department of Public Utilities. Link
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No response from Charles Samuels
No response received from Charles Samuels in request for legal authority supporting his statement: “But Samuels said council members could not discuss the settlement without a majority vote to permit...
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