Below are details on upcoming public meetings in Richmond and Hanover County.
Richmond
Richmond City School Board Evaluation Committee
5 p.m. Tuesday
School Board chambers, 17th Floor, Richmond City Hall
301 N. 9th St.
Members are set to meet to plan a cumulative evaluation process for Board employees and hold a closed session “to consider the performance of specific employees of the School Board.”
Planning Commission
6 p.m. Tuesday
5th Floor conference room, Richmond City Hall
301 N. 9th St.
Commission members are expected to vote on whether to recommend conceptual approval of the master plan for The Shockoe Project, the city’s initiative to recognize the impact of American slavery and Richmond’s role in it.
The commission is also set to consider the approval of plans for the project’s proposed pavilion at the site of Lumpkin's Slave Jail.
The Shockoe Project, which aims to be done by 2037, calls for 10 acres in Shockoe Valley to be turned into a multifaceted space with a north and south campus that eventually includes a National Slavery Museum. It would also commemorate sites in the area, such as the Richmond Slave Trail.
Members are slated to consider conceptual plans to replace Woodville Elementary School in the East End with a three-story, 72,000-square-foot building built on the northern portion of the current structure.
Another scheduled commission vote is on whether to recommend approval of a proposal from Richmond Public Schools to expand the bus loop at Reid Elementary in Southside to mitigate traffic along Whitehead Road. City staff recommends approval, and for RPS to seek to add bike racks and trees to the area.
Members are set to vote on whether to recommend City Council approve the improvement plan for Brown’s Island, which has been updated since it was first approved in 2019.
“To streamline costs and focus efforts, the scope has been adjusted to exclude Tredegar Street improvements and Sturgeon Cove, concentrating solely on enhancements within the island,” city documents state.
A special-use permit to build an apartment complex on Snead Road with up to 180 units and a clubhouse is also on the commission’s agenda.
City staff recommended rejecting the proposal, finding it “antithetical to the spirit and intent of the Richmond 300 plan due to its overall intensity, location, scale, and form,” according to city documents.
Hanover County
Board of Supervisors
6 p.m. Wednesday
Board Room
7516 County Complex Road
The board is expected to hear from residents on the county’s budget proposal for the 2026 fiscal year and the proposed 2025 real property tax rate.
