Richmond City Council invites Richmond residents to submit proposed Richmond Voter District maps for consideration by 5:00 p.m. on April 15, 2011. Proposed maps will assist Council in determining Richmond Voter District boundaries as part of the 2011 Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting process. This is part of the ongoing open public process in which Richmond City Council is working to adopt a new 2011 Richmond Decennial Voter District Redistricting plan, which will be used as new Richmond Voter District boundaries for the next 10 years, by December 31, 2011.

Proposals are to be based on the 2010 Census population figures for the City of Richmond (available from the U.S. Census website, at www.census.gov).

According to the Richmond Virginia City Hall Review website, the City of Richmond has hired an attourney based in Norfolk to investigate recent allegations of discrimination in the City Council.

According to Style Weekly, the publication that first ran this story, the city has chosen Samuel J. Webster of the law firm Willcox & Savage in Norfolk, Va.

The scandal came to the fore when an aid in the office of Councilman Bruce Tyler, Jennfer Walle, accused David Hathcock, an aid to City Council President Kathy Graziano, of inappropriate sexual conduct.

According to the Willcox & Savage website, Samuel Webster's areas of legal expertise include "labor and employment law; railroad defense litigation; municipal liability, including employment matters and civil rights defense; general defense litigation."

Richmond City School Board Chair Kim Bridges and Vice Chair Dawn Page have been re-elected to lead the School Board for the current calendar year.  Board members tapped the two at their January 3 meeting.

Bridges, who represents the 1st District, is currently serving her second term on the Board.  During her tenure, she has chaired the Board’s internal audit and legal, legislative and policy committees.  In 2008, she was appointed to the Communications Task Force of the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE).  A graduate of the University of Virginia, Bridges currently serves as the public relations coordinator for FeedMore, the umbrella organization of the Central Virginia Foodbank and Meals on Wheels.  She has two children who attend Richmond City schools.

Page, a first-term School Board member, represents the 8th District.  A graduate of Jefferson-Hugenot-Wythe High School, Page holds a master’s degree in professional counseling