Meet the Candidates for
Mayor, City Council and School Board
Monday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Senior Center: 2525 Macdonald Avenue
Sponsored by
The North and East and Richmore Village Neighborhood Councils
Open to everyone

Everyone who lives or owns a business in the North and East is a member of the Neighborhood Council, including our several churches. The North & East Neighborhood Council is the largest of 37 neighborhood councils in the city of Richmond, CA. It serves as a forum for sharing information with residents, gives residents an opportunity for dialogue about important issues, provides feedback to elected officials and is a springboard for community activism.

	The North and East Neighborhhod: west to 23rd St., east to San Pablo Ave., north to the City limits, south to Macdonald Ave.

Our council is a dynamic gathering of neighbors who care about the community and want to help enhance life here. It's an incubator for new ideas and a platform for action. Join us!

Our Officers

Who is a Member

How to Participate

Our Successes

Organizations We Support

Map of Richmond with N & E neighborhood highlighted.

One way to describe the North & East Neighborhood Council is to highlight our activities and successes:

At most of our monthly Council meetings we have a guest speaker addressing a topic of interest to residents. In the past year, we've had Richmond Mayor Rosemary Corbin and the Richmond and San Pablo police chiefs, three City Council members and a National Park Service representative describing the new Rosie the Riveter National Park in Richmond. We've talked about Casino San Pablo, a new post office, reducing noise from jet planes and a planned gas station/liquor store at San Pablo and Barrett Avenues. We've also had regular reports from Congressman George Miller's office, the Senior Center and the Police Department.

A million pennies for Grant School

Working through our committees, we helped Grant Elementary School collect 1 million pennies and replace the drapes in their multi-purpose room. We worked with the school to establish family and student counseling services on campus and paint the outside of the school. We bought hundreds of pairs of shoes for needy students at the school and launched LINK, Linking the Interests of Neighbors and Kids, a volunteer speakers program. We also began distributing Albertson's Community Partners cards so that whenever anyone shops there, a percentage of the sale amount goes to Grant.

We started a new Planning Committee to make recommendations about proposed modifications or changes in buildings and businesses and a Good Neighbor committee to welcome newcomers to the community.

We won a national award for our "Don't Shoot" campaign.

We established a relationship with Coldwell Banker Bartels Realtor Barbara Urbanic, who donates money to our treasury whenever she sells a house in our neighborhood. Marvin Gardens, another local real estate company, sponsors our annual picnic. And Michael J of Security Pacific Real Estate is an active member of N&E and sponsored a challenge drive to raise funds for the Shoes That Fit Program.

We helped the City plant street trees. We met at our local fire station and heard about the Fire Department's five-year strategic plan. We sent a representative to have input to the design of the new middle school on Macdonald Avenue and are represented on the Richmond Farmers Market Board, the Crime Prevention Program and the Richmond Neighborhood Coordinating Council. We continued to monitor the city's commitment to carry on "Have Fun But Don't Shoot Your Gun," the campaign we created several years ago to discourage celebratory gunfire. This program won a national award.

The City Council has passed several resolutions supporting North & East programs.

Although our dues are modest and our budget is small, we provide support to the following organizations:

Oakland East Bay Symphony, Richmond Art Center, National Institute of Art and Disabilities, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond Museum of History, Masquers Playhouse, Los Cenzontles Mexican Art Center, Friends of Richmond Public Library, Friends of Recreation/Richmond Plunge Trust, and the annual Richmond Police Dept. Food & Toy Drive.