Finance and Economic Development meeting summary
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The committee forwarded most items to the June 22 City Council meeting with recommendations to approve several grant acceptances and new special funds (including cemetery preservation, opioid settlement funds, park improvements, and a recovery court grant), approved a Right-of-Entry for tree work in Byrd Park, recommended procurement and tax-code amendments, and continued two items (payment register amendment and an investigation resolution) to the July 15 meeting.
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What this means
Committee members recommended that City Council accept multiple grants and create new restricted funds to pay for cemetery preservation, opioid-response programs, Broad Rock Creek Park improvements, and recovery court services. They also recommended approval of a tree-improvement agreement for Byrd Park and changes to procurement and a commercial/industrial tax-exemption rule. Two items about publishing the city payment register and authorizing an investigation were delayed until July 15, so no action will happen on those yet. If Council approves the recommendations, the listed grant-funded projects and code changes will move forward and the city will spend the grants for the stated purposes.
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- Continued ORD. 2026-081 (payment register amendment) to the July 15, 2026 Finance and Economic Development Standing Committee meeting.
- Forwarded ORD. 2026-130 to the June 22, 2026 Council meeting with recommendation to approve accepting $69,920 from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and creating a Historic African American Cemeteries Special Fund.
- Forwarded ORD. 2026-131 to the June 22, 2026 Council meeting with recommendation to approve accepting $611,807.50 from the National Opioid Settlement Fund and increasing the National Opioid Settlement Special Fund for opioid abatement.
- Forwarded ORD. 2026-132 to the June 22, 2026 Council meeting with recommendation to approve accepting $1,000,000 from the National Park Service Land and Water Conservation Fund and creating the Broad Rock Creek Park Grant Special Fund.
- Forwarded ORD. 2026-133 to the June 22, 2026 Council meeting with recommendation to approve a Right-of-Entry Agreement with Capital Trees for tree improvements in Byrd Park (5th District).
- Continued RES. 2026-R019 (authorization for an investigation into failure to publish the monthly payment register) to the July 15, 2026 Finance and Economic Development Standing Committee meeting.
- Forwarded ORD. 2026-148 to the June 22, 2026 Council meeting with recommendation to approve accepting $150,000 from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services and creating the Byrne SCIP Grant Special Fund for the Richmond Recovery Court.
- Forwarded ORD. 2026-149 to the June 22, 2026 Council meeting with recommendation to approve amendments to City Code §21-4 (procurement definitions).
- Forwarded ORD. 2026-150 to the June 22, 2026 Council meeting with recommendation to approve amendments to City Code §21-40 to conform cooperative procurement to the optional provisions of Va. Code §2.2-4304.
- Forwarded ORD. 2026-151 to the June 22, 2026 Council meeting with recommendation to approve amending City Code §26-610 to extend the expiration date for a partial tax exemption on certain rehabilitated commercial/industrial structures to June 30, 2027.
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