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Council transfers community engagement manager position from Police to City Manager; manager to report back after consulting police

6435683 · October 8, 2025
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Summary

The council approved moving one community engagement manager FTE from the Police Department to the City Manager's Office and added a requirement that the city manager report back on consultations with the police department; the motion passed with one no vote.

The Richmond City Council voted Oct. 7 to transfer an existing vacant community engagement manager position from the Police Department to the City Manager's Office to support communications and community outreach work. The motion passed with Councilmember Bana casting the lone no vote.

City Manager Shasta Krolls told the council the position originally sat in the city manager's office under a prior manager, was later moved to the Police Department and is currently unfilled. "Originally, the position was in the city…

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