March 5 Newsletter: Nonprofits navigate grant freeze
Plus, RPS lags well behind state averages in student vaccinations. What can be done? Plus other news from around the city, and an expanded weather forecast.
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Richmond youth lag the state on vaccination. School and health officials are pushing to reverse that.
For public health experts, low vaccination rates are a cause for alarm.
School Board chooses optimism as it sends budget for mayoral consideration
The new budget still contains $16.5 million to meet the collective bargaining agreements the school division has committed to.
Federal grant freeze is squeezing local nonprofits, who were counting on funds
“It’s horrifying. We’ve been counting on this grant.”
Kamras backs off proposal to split costs of health insurance increases with employees
Two unions representing RPS employees publicly criticized the idea, saying it would essentially act as a pay cut and would counteract major investments in salary increases that have occurred in recent years.
Wednesday storm will bring big winds, but not much thunder
Warm winds Wednesday arrive before rain and potential thunderstorms.
Richmond took ‘little proactive action’ to prep water plant for storm, according to updated report
Not all plant employees had radios when they were troubleshooting the outage, creating a lack of communication HNTB representatives called “dangerous” due to the lack of awareness of where workers were.
