Richmond Rising reports progress on $35 million TCC grant; city, partners outline near-term deadlines and project milestones

Richmond — City staff and partner organizations on Aug. 6 updated the Richmond Rising stakeholder committee on implementation of the city’s $35,000,000 Transformative Climate Communities grant, reporting grant submissions, project design milestones, budget-to-date figures and a series of near-term deadlines for invoices, evaluation data and community outreach.

Beatrice Guerrero, a City of Richmond staff member leading the meeting, summarized program-wide progress and finances. “Richmond Rising ... will receive $35,000,000 to bring health, economic, and environmental benefits to the Iron Triangle, Santa Fe, and Coronado neighborhoods,” Guerrero said, adding that partners provide guidance but the community steering committee does not hold final decision-making authority.

Why it matters: The Strategic Growth Council’s TCC grant is funding multiple city-led and partner-run projects — from streets and trails to solar installations, workforce training and community engagement. Several projects reported being close to contractual or design milestones that affect when construction, hiring and community programs can begin or scale.

Key fiscal and schedule updates

- City-level finances and grant submissions: Guerrero said the city submitted a $155,000 request to the Active Transportation Capital Design Technical Assistance program and provided budget estimates to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) for Regional Measure 3 (RM3) funding. Guerrero said an MTC hearing the next day would consider a roughly $10,000,000 RM3 allocation that the project team expects would cover remaining costs for neighborhood complete-streets work and related wellness fields.

- Project totals and remaining budgets reported in the meeting (as stated by speakers): city-level expenditures to date $341,000…