Richmond City Council Informal Meeting - June 22, 2026: Docket Review and Continuances
Richmond City Council Informal Meeting - June 22, 2026
The Richmond City Council held an informal meeting on June 22, 2026, primarily to review the docket and address continuances for numerous items. No public comments or substantive discussions were held. The meeting focused on scheduling items for the next regular meeting on July 27, 2026.
Consent Calendar
- No items were adopted from the consent agenda during this informal meeting; several items were continued or retained for the regular agenda.
Docket Review
- Item 1 (Ordinance 2026-102) continued to July 27 per request.
- Item 2 (Ordinance 2026-109) continued to July 27 per request, despite Planning Commission recommendation for approval.
- Item 3 (Ordinance 2026-113) continued to July 27.
- Items 5 and 6 (Ordinances 2026-125 and 2026-126) – Land Use Housing and Transportation Standing Committee recommended approval, no continuance mentioned.
- Items 14-18 (Ordinances 2026-134 through 138) – Committee referral waived, retained on consent agenda; Education and Human Services Standing Committee recommended approval.
- Items 25 and 26 (Ordinances 2026-145 and 146) – Land Use Housing and Transportation Standing Committee recommended approval.
- Item 27 (Ordinance 2026-176?; transcript says "ordinance twenty, twenty six, one hundred seventy six, one forty seven") – Planning Commission recommended approval.
- Items 28-31 – not detailed.
- Item 32 (Resolution 2026-R024) – Land Use Housing and Transportation Standing Committee recommended continuance to July 27; previously amended on June 8 and retained on regular agenda.
- Item 35 (Ordinance 2026-081) – Finance and Economic Development Standing Committee recommended continuance to July 27.
- Item 36 (Ordinance 2026-090) – Amended at June 8 meeting, retained on regular agenda.
- Items 37 and 38 (Ordinances 2026-092 and 096) – Continued from June 8, retained on regular agenda.
- Item 39 (Resolution 2026-R019) – Continued to July 27.
Key Outcomes
- Numerous items were continued to the July 27, 2026 council meeting.
- Several items were retained on the regular agenda for the evening (presumably to be taken up later in the formal meeting).
- No votes were taken during the informal meeting; it was solely a procedural review.
Meeting Transcript
Madam Clerk. Good afternoon, everyone. The informal meeting of the Richmond City Council will now come to order. Madam Clerk, if you will provide the chamber emergency evacuation announcement, followed by the roll call and then the docket review. Upon activation of the emergency alarm signal, all persons should immediately exit the building. Please use the exits to the left or right front of the council chamber or the north or south stairways outside the rear doors of the chamber. Do not use elevators or escalators. After exiting the building, security would direct everyone down ninth street to the fenced area located between Clay and Lee Streets. Able person should visually and should assist visually and hearing impair visitors with exiting the building. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's proceed with the document review. Starting with the consent agenda, item number one, ordinance twenty twenty-six one oh two. This paper is to be continued to the July twenty-seventh council meeting per A request. Item two, ordinance twenty twenty-six one oh nine, planning commission recommended approval. However, this item is also to be continued to the July 27th council meeting per A request. Item three, ordinance twenty twenty-six one thirteen. So this item is to be continued to the January to the July 27th council meeting. Items five and six, ordinance twenty twenty-six, one twenty-five and twenty twenty-six, one twenty-six, land use housing and transportation standing committee recommended approval. Items fourteen through eighteen, ordinances twenty twenty-six one thirty-four, one thirty-five, one thirty-six, one thirty-seven, and one thirty-eight. Committee referral was waived on all five items, and all five items will be retained on this evening's consent agenda. Education and Human Services Standing Committee recommended approval. Items twenty-five and twenty-six ordinances twenty, twenty-six, one hundred forty-five, and one forty six, land use housing and transportation standing committee recommended approval. Item twenty seven, ordinance twenty, twenty six, one hundred seventy six, one forty seven. I'm sorry, Planning Commission recommended approval. Items twenty eight through thirty-one. Item thirty two, resolution twenty twenty-six or zero twenty-four, land use housing and transportation standing committee recommended a continuance. So this item is to be continued to the July twenty-seventh council meeting. This paper was amended at the June eighth council meeting and is currently being retained on this evening's regular agenda. Item thirty-five, ordinance twenty twenty six, zero eighty-one, finance and economic development standing committee recommended a continuance of this item. And so this item is to be continued to the July twenty seventh council meeting. Item thirty six, ordinance twenty twenty six zero ninety. This item was amended at the June eighth council meeting, and it's currently being retained on this evening's regular agenda. Items twenty thirty-seven and thirty-eight, ordinance twenty twenty six, zero ninety two, and twenty twenty-six zero ninety six. Both items were continued from the June eighth council meeting, and both are currently being retained on this evening's regular agenda. And lastly, item thirty nine, resolution twenty twenty-six R019. So this item is to be continued to the July twenty-seventh council meeting. And Madam President, that concludes the reading of the docket. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I don't believe we have any referral of service delivery. We do not. Thank you. We have to be a good one.
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