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All Richmond residents are invited and encouraged to attend all Richmond City Council Formal, Informal, Standing Committee, Budget, and Special Meetings. Meetings are held, unless otherwise posted, in Richmond City Council Chambers; Richmond City Hall, 2nd Floor; 900 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

All Richmond City Council meetings are live-streamed and archived on Legistar.

Occurrence & Time	Month
Informal meetings: 4:00 p.m. Formal Meetings: 6:00 p.m. 2nd and 4th Mondays during the months of:	January February March April May June September
Informal meetings: 4:00 p.m. Formal Meetings: 6:00 p.m. 2nd Monday during the months of:	October November December
Informal meetings: 4:00 p.m. Formal Meetings: 6:00 p.m. 4th Monday during the month of:	July
Informal and Formal meetings are not held during the month of:	August
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All Richmond City Council meetings are live-streamed and archived on Legistar.

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Carrier	VPM PBS	VPM Plus	VPM PBS KIDS	VPM World	VPM Create
Over-the-air	23.1	23.5 / 57.1*	23.4	23.3	23.2
Verizon Fios	523	524	475	469	470
Comcast	803	797	1156	202	201
DISH	9391	9392	-	-	-

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The most recent Richmond City Council Formal Meeting is typically replayed twice daily for two weeks on Richmond Government Access TV Cable Channel 17 in Richmond; beginning at Noon and 7:00 p.m.

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Last Updated 7/27/2026

RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL STANDING COMMITTEE DESCRIPTIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Standing Committee	Committee Information
Organizational Development	Meetings: First Monday of each month - 4:00 p.m. Members: All 9 Members of Council Left to right: Chair Cynthia Newbille, Vice Chair Katherine Jordan, Member Sarah Abubaker, Member Andrew Breton, Member Kenya Gibson, Member Nicole Jones, Member Stephanie Lynch, Member Ellen Robertson, Member Reva Trammell Description: The Committee is responsible for reviewing the operations of every department, bureau, agency and other unit of City government and for making such recommendations for operations and organizational development as may be appropriate.
Education and Human Services	Meetings: Second Thursday of each month - 2:00 p.m. Members: Left to right: Chair Stephanie Lynch, Vice Chair Nicole Jones, Member Andrew Breton Alternate Member Ellen Robertson Description: The Committee monitors and recommends to Council official policy in the areas of recreation, social services, public health, mental health, substance abuse, advocacy, and public education. The Committee also balances the primary role of the School Board in crafting policy for Richmond Public Schools against the responsibility of Council for oversight imposed by the appropriation of public funds.
Finance and Economic Development	Meetings: Third Wednesday of each month - 2:00 p.m. Members: Left to right: Chair Ellen Robertson, Vice Chair Nicole Jones Member Stephanie Lynch Alternate Member Sarah Abubaker Description: The Committee monitors and recommends to Council an official policy on the financial health of the City, including its budgetary processes, revenue and expense structures, and its internal fiscal controls.
Land Use, Housing and Transportation	Meetings: Tuesday following the third Monday of each month - 3:00 p.m. Members: Left to right: Chair Nicole Jones, Vice Chair Ellen Robertson, Member Andrew Breton Alternate Member Kenya Gibson Description: The Committee monitors and recommends to Council an official policy on land use planning, environmental issues, housing and transportation in the City.
Public Safety	Meetings: Fourth Tuesday of each month - 1:00 p.m. Members: Left to right: Chair Reva Trammell, Vice Chair Stephanie Lynch, Member Sarah Abubaker Alternate Member Nicole Jones Description: The Committee monitors and recommends to Council an official policy in all matters concerning law enforcement, the judiciary, fire safety, ambulance service, and emergency communication.
Governmental Operations	Meetings: Fourth Wednesday of each month - 1:00 p.m. Members: Left to right: Chair Katherine Jordan, Vice Chair Sarah Abubaker, Member Kenya Gibson Alternate Member Andrew Breton Description: The Committee reviews City issues and policies that are not related, or assigned, to the other Standing Committees. The Committee is also tasked with the review and recommendation of issues assigned by the Organizational Development Standing Committee.
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Standing Committee Assignments	Res. No. 2025-R004

The Public Comment is an opportunity for citizens to present comments and information to the Council. Council may request that the Chief Administrative Officer or a Council appointee prepare or cause to be prepared a report or take other action in response to any comments; or Council may instead decide to put the matter on a subsequent agenda for further discussion or action or both.

Each person desiring to present any matter concerning such services, policies and affairs shall be allotted such time within the thirty-minute period as determined and allotted by the President of the Council, but not to exceed three minutes.

Every person desiring to present a matter to the Council as herein specified shall, no later than 12:00 noon on the date of the meeting at which such person desires to be heard, make request to the City Clerk for an allotment of time. No person shall speak on any matter of business which is the subject of an ordinance or resolution included on Council’s docket for that day.

Speakers shall supply the Clerk, when requesting time, a detailed and complete description of what their topic will be that provides the Clerk with an understanding of which City agency the comments pertain to or affects, their full legal name and address (including street name and zip code), and home and business telephone numbers, if applicable, and then they shall speak on that subject. Failure to stay on that topic will result in forfeiture of the remaining time that had been allotted to the speaker. No person who refuses to provide any of the information required by this paragraph shall be permitted to speak during the Public Comment period.

An individual may appear before the Council during the Public Comment period no more than four times per year and no more than once within a three-month period. If a person requests to appear before Council and fails to appear or fails to notify the Clerk of an intention to cancel by 12:00 noon on the date of the meeting at which such person desires to be heard, such person shall not participate in Public Comment again until ninety (90) days from the day on which that person failed to appear.