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I'm just very unhappy about this whole thing,\" Butt said, also in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Butt returned to his home later in the evening, it was hard to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole area of southwest Richmond, including Point Richmond, was just in a toxic fog. There was limited visibility. It was so thick,\" Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The air was so bad, where I live, you literally couldn't take a breath. It was the worst I've ever seen. It was worse than the Chevron fire of 2012,\" Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the major fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond more than five years ago, thousands of residents went to local hospitals complaining of breathing problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around there were no reports of similar health complaints, and there were no injuries to workers, said Rodby, the Sims spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the wind patterns changed -- sending the smoke into different residential neighborhoods. 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The initial flaring there sent at least 12 people to the hospital and prompted a series of evacuation and shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chances that a problem at a refinery on one side of the bay could send toxic gas to another depends in part on which way the wind blows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the wind direction is not blowing the air towards you, you're not going to smell it,\" said Anthony Wexler, director of \u003ca href=\"https://aqrc.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winds the night of the Chevron malfunction were blowing between 5 and 10 mph from the north-northeast to the south-southwest, according to Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other weather facts at play, according to Wexler. 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The difference here is that it affected a wider area, including San Francisco,\" said John Gioia, a Contra Costa County supervisor and member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been used to some of these odor issues in Richmond,\" Gioia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center of Biological Diversity's Sullivan says the Chevron incident means there's a bigger risk to a larger part of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've always viewed these refineries as a serious hazard to the people who live around them, often those are low-income people, people of color who seem to bear the brunt of this sort of pollution,\" Sullivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron questions the air district's findings, in part because its refinery is so far away from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a complex issue, but given the small amount of H2S (hydrogen sulfide) released, the 11-mile distance across the bay, and the wide geography of the odor complaints, we believe it is unlikely that the flaring was the source of the odors,\" said Chevron spokeswoman Leah Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distance made it tougher for local air regulators to identify the source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was really a complicated issue, because it did span quite a distance and affect a big part of the Bay Area,\" said Tom Flannigan, an air district spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When such a large area is affected, we really have to look closely at all the sources that could have caused it,\" Flannigan said in an interview. \"In this case, that meant more time, that meant more energy, that meant more analysis. 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Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Patricia Scanlon sentenced each to three years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colton Leblanc and Chase Little, both from Texas, beat Maan Singh Khalsa through the window of his car at a stoplight in Richmond, knocking off his turban and cutting off a fistful of his hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184713\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11184713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303-240x182.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303-375x284.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maan Singh Khalsa was attacked near Hilltop Mall in Richmond on Sept. 25, 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Sikh Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Khalsa suffered an injured eye, damage to his teeth and head injuries. And one of his fingers needed to be amputated following the attack. Contra Costa County’s district attorney charged the two men involved in the assault with a hate crime because unshorn hair is considered sacred in the Sikh religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men showed no reaction when \u003ca href=\"https://www.sikhcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Maan_Singh_Khalsa_Impact_May_2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khalsa read a statement in court Thursday\u003c/a>. Khalsa — described by the Sikh Coalition as “a father, IT specialist, and caregiver to the elderly” — said his “life was changed forever” following the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recognition of the attack as a hate crime — as harm to my dignity and my entire community — is the first step in the process,” Khalsa said in court Thursday. “My Sikh faith is of utmost importance for me. As a Sikh, I believe that all of us are one human family, and that we must treat everyone as equals regardless of our many differences. Mr. Little and Mr. Leblanc, I hope one day you will come to share this view. I still consider you my brothers, and I hope that you will learn about me and my community, and one day consider me your brother, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalsa said he has experienced short-term memory problems and has been unable to perform his job at the same level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Physically, it’s still a lot of difficulties dealing with my life,” Khalsa said following the hearing. “Adjusting to a lost finger, and I just had a surgery done on my eye. Last week the stitches came out. I’m still a little tender and bothering me. I had a lot of sleeping issues and stuff like that, so it’s an ongoing battle. It will take a long time to heal out of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A restitution hearing will be held on July 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Acknowledging that this bias-based attack is a hate crime under state law both recognizes the deep dignitary harm to Mr. Khalsa, and ensures that we, as a society, confront the problems of Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia that make the Sikh community a target for violence,” said Sikh Coalition staff attorney Pawanpreet Kaur in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Assault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The altercation on Sept. 25 began when a half-full beer can was thrown out the window of a Ford F-250 truck at a stoplight near Hilltop Mall in Richmond. Five refinery workers, who were in the region doing contract work for Chevron, had been drinking alcohol and were riding in the truck. The beer can struck Khalsa’s car door. Khalsa testified on April 24 that he opened his door, reached down and tossed the can back toward the truck’s open window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”VXeYUfC3NEoX5FhjMxJMFTpLQSaWP4iS”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to testimony by Dustin Albarado, who was in the back seat of the truck, Little became angry and flung himself across Albarado’s lap and began “cussing” out the window at Khalsa. Albarado testified that Khalsa was also yelling obscenities … calling the refinery workers “stupid-ass punks.” Albarado says he wrapped his arms around Little to restrain him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The light changed and both cars moved ahead — the incident seemingly over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then Little’s hat flew out the truck window, Albarado testified. Little jumped out to retrieve it, but instead of getting back in the truck, he ran toward Khalsa’s car, which had stopped at the next light. Little’s cousin — and now co-defendant — Leblanc jumped out and followed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Khalsa testified, he didn’t see the two men approaching, but had already called 911 to report he was being harassed. He was on the phone with dispatch when Little and Leblanc began hitting him through the open window. Khalsa says they punched him 10 to 15 times with a closed fist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was during the beating that Khalsa says his two turbans fell off. One of the defendants pulled his bun, yanking his head down toward the window. One of the defendants began yelling, “cut his fucking hair,” Khalsa testified. He says he put his hands up, attempting to block his assailants and the 4-inch pocket knife. He sustained at least two deep gashes to his fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the entire episode, Khalsa says he never heard anyone yell a racial slur or make a comment about his religion or his appearance. 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Before the drug became illegal in October of that year, Stanley and his partners reportedly synthesized LSD that was 99 percent pure, which they called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-long-strange-trip-of-the-chemists-behind-the-legendary-lsd-orange-sunshine-1117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Lightning\u003c/a>.” At the Human Be-In in January of 1967, Stanley reportedly \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/owsley-stanley-the-king-of-lsd-20110314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave out between 10,000 and 30,000 hits\u003c/a> of the Richmond-made LSD. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px\">\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/480680057\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none\" rel=\"noopener\">Embed from Getty Images\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:84.006734% 0 0 0;width:100%\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//embed.gettyimages.com/embed/480680057?et=66ru062TSilTMcoLeMTTZw&tld=com&viewMoreLink=off&sig=kZ4y3XjgmicchOA8KLJjcmJX70G0NrNj5xiitJ2y00k=&caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"499\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The drug became illegal on Oct. 6, 1966, and Douglas and Scully headed to Denver to set up another lab, this one across the street from the Denver Zoo. 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After preliminary hearings, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cc-courts.org/locations/rich.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa County Superior Court judge\u003c/a> found there was enough evidence for the defendants, Chase Little of Beaumont, Texas, and Colton Leblanc of Winnie, Texas, to face charges of felony assault with hate crime enhancements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged victim, Maan Singh Khalsa, a Sikh, testified Monday that the two defendants attacked him and cut a fistful of his unshorn hair with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11184713\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11184713\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303.jpg\" alt=\"Maan Singh Khalsa, a Richmond resident, was attacked in Richmond on Sept. 25, 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303-240x182.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/MaanSinghKhalsa1-491x372-1-400x303-375x284.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maan Singh Khalsa, a Richmond resident, was attacked in Richmond on Sept. 25, 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Sikh Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Khalsa told the court that under his religion, “we never take scissor or knife to hair” because Sikhs believe that humans should “remain how God created us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution says this act was key in filing the hate crime enhancement because it was meant to “humiliate” Khalsa, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/203/District-Attorney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa County Assistant District Attorney Simon O’Connell.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalsa also suffered a black eye, damaged teeth and later had to have his pinky finger amputated due to an infection from a knife wound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/14/hate-crime-charges-filed-in-attack-on-sikh-man-in-richmond/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The altercation on Sept. 25\u003c/a> began when a half-full beer can was thrown out the window of a Ford F-250 truck at a stop light near Hilltop Mall in Richmond. Five refinery workers who had been drinking alcohol were riding in the truck. (The defendants were in the Bay Area doing contract work for Chevron). The beer can struck Khalsa’s car door. Khalsa testified he opened his door, reached down and tossed the can back toward the truck’s open window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”u2Ngl74tkpmGIaXsKNsVRInH1g74WoMi”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to testimony by Dustin Albarado, who was in the back seat of the truck, Little became angry and flung himself across Albarado’s lap and began “cussing” out the window at Khalsa. Albarado testified that Khalsa was also yelling obscenities … calling the refinery workers “stupid ass punks.” Albarado says he wrapped his arms around Little to restrain him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The light changed and both cars moved ahead — the incident seemingly in the rear-view mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then Little’s hat flew out the truck window, testified Albarado. Little jumped out to retrieve it, but instead of getting back in the truck, he ran toward Khalsa’s car, which had stopped at the next light. Little’s cousin — and now co-defendant — Leblanc jumped out and followed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point Khalsa testified he didn’t see the two men approaching, but had already called 911 to report he was being harassed. He was on the phone with dispatch when Little and Leblanc began hitting him through the open window. Khalsa says they punched him 10 to 15 times with a closed fist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was during the beating that Khalsa says his two turbans fell off. One of the defendants pulled his bun, yanking his head down toward the window. One of the defendants began yelling, “cut his fucking hair,” Khalsa testified. He says he put his hands up, attempting to block his assailants and the 4-inch pocket knife. He sustained at least two deep gashes to his fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the entire episode Khalsa says he never heard anyone yell a racial slur or make a comment about his religion or his appearance. Defense attorneys emphasized this several times — attempting to raise doubts this was a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Connell said outside court that no verbal slurs are needed to prove a hate crime. He said as soon as the defendants “grab his hair, pull it taut and use the expletive ‘cut his fucking hair,’ it is without question done to humiliate Mr. Khalsa based on his perceived natural origin or religion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Little’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarea-criminaldefense.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defense attorney, Julia Jayne\u003c/a>, said there is another side to this story. Outside court, Jayne said, she aims to show that Khalsa struck Little with his car, and it was only then that the physical altercation took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very different series of events if it’s in self-defense — if Mr. Khalsa committed assault with a deadly weapon, which would be a vehicle,” said Jayne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Monday’s testimony, \u003ca href=\"http://mcgeorge.edu/Danielle_Douglas.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Danielle Douglas \u003c/a>said she found Khalsa’s testimony to be “very credible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also commented that the defendants likely didn’t know Khalsa was Sikh and probably thought him to be Muslim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge went on to say she had “concerns about public safety” with the defendants out on bail and proceeded to up their bail to $250,000 and remanded them both to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are scheduled to be arraigned on May 18.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two separate malfunctions at Chevron's Richmond refinery that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/06/air-district-says-chevron-refinery-in-richmond-probably-caused-mysterious-s-f-odors/\" target=\"_blank\">may have sent toxic gas to San Francisco\u003c/a> in December were caused by a communication breakdown between plant workers and a clogged pump line, the company has revealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron recently handed over two reports to Contra Costa County health officials on flaring incidents that air regulators believe could have sent large amounts of hydrogen sulfide into the air hours before dozens of residents on the other side of San Francisco Bay complained of a sulfurlike smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odors are \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/28/air-district-launches-investigation-into-san-francisco-sulfur-smell/\" target=\"_blank\">under investigation by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District\u003c/a>, and the refinery breakdowns are believed to have \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/13/bay-area-refinery-malfunctions-lead-to-jump-in-gasoline-prices/\" target=\"_blank\">contributed to a temporary increase\u003c/a> in the state's average cost of a gallon of gasoline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by KQED's reporting on the probes into the fumes, San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/10/s-f-supervisor-wants-answers-from-chevron-on-toxic-gas-release-and-odor/\" target=\"_blank\">called for a hearing\u003c/a> into the Chevron malfunctions and their potential link to the odors across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problems have prompted Chevron to order its contract workers to do a better job of sticking by the company's standards on certain devices installed in the refinery, and they've led the company to consider upgrading some of the plant's alarm systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reports do not explain what led to those high toxic gas levels, disappointing Randy Sawyer, the county's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They did not address that issue,\" Sawyer said in a recent interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He asked the refinery why abnormally high amounts of hydrogen sulfide were detected by one of Chevron's air monitors in Point Richmond after at least one of the flaring incidents. Last week Chevron told his office that it had not completed its investigation into that issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Malfunction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial refinery breakdown took place at 11:45 p.m. on Dec. 27 when a gas compressor tripped offline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says the problem centered on a tank known as a liquid knockout drum -- a unit that strips liquid from gas before it enters a compressor. A line that automatically empties the drum became clogged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flow was restricted due to plugging in the 2-inch line, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480587-30-Day-Report-12-27-Flare-Attachment.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chevron's report stated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too much liquid then filled the tank. That high liquid level triggered an alarm, shut down the flare gas compressor for an hour and activated the refinery's backup flaring system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's always the potential for goo to plug up a line,\" said Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute. Smith read the company's reports for KQED and specializes in oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron did not say what caused the line to get clogged, which troubles Sawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You would like to find out what caused the plug so you can prevent that from happening,\" Sawyer said. \"It does not look like they're investigating what actually caused the plug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To avoid a repeat, the refinery is considering making its alarm system in its knockout drum more sensitive to the presence of liquid and adding a flow meter that could give a heads up before a similar line gets clogged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Second Malfunction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second problem took place 16 hours later, lasted much longer and was the result of human error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the refinery was restarting a unit that was shut down for maintenance, a compressor became \"starved for gas, which is why it started surging and acting up,\" Smith said. \"The compressor had nothing to compress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of high pressure activated the flaring system. Crews shut down the compressor, a closure that lasted more than three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron later learned that the problem centered on a device placed between two sections of pipe used to isolate the system during maintenance. A steel plate, called a blind flange, was left in the line that was feeding gas to the compressor after repairs were complete and the compressor had been reinstalled, the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron's standards call for such devices to have \"T\" shaped tabs so they're easily recognized. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the state auditor gauged the fiscal health of California cities in 2015, this port community on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay made a short list of six distressed municipalities at risk of bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond has cut about 200 jobs — roughly 20 percent of its workforce — since 2008. Its credit rating is at junk status. And in November, voters rejected a tax increase that city leaders had hoped would help close a chronic budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any chance we can avoid it,” said former City Councilman Vinay Pimple, referring to bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major cause of Richmond’s problems: relentless growth in pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for employee pensions, pension-related debt and retiree health care have climbed from $25 million to $44 million in the last five years, outpacing all other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, retirement expenses could exceed $70 million — 41 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a stark example of how pension costs are causing fiscal stress in cities across California. Four municipalities — Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have filed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/municipalities-declared-bankruptcy/\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> protection since 2008. Others are on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that there are cities all over the state that just aren’t owning up to all their problems,” said San Bernardino City Manager Mark Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, pension costs consume \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-squeeze/\">15 percent or more\u003c/a> of big city budgets, crowding out basic services and leaving local governments more vulnerable than ever to the next economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11318519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"RichmondChart\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a racially diverse, working-class city of 110,000 whose largest employer is a massive Chevron oil refinery. Like many California municipalities, Richmond dug a financial hole for itself by granting generous retirement benefits to police and firefighters on the assumption that pension fund investments would grow fast enough to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That optimism proved unfounded, and now the bill is coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Bill Lindsay insists that Richmond can avoid going off a cliff. Last year, financial consultants mapped a path to stability for the city by 2021 — but at a considerable cost in public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/06/facing-prospect-of-further-credit-downgrade-richmond-passes-budget/\">11 positions\u003c/a>, reduced after-school and senior classes, eliminated neighborhood cleanups to tackle illegal trash dumping, and trimmed spending on new library books — saving $12 million total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also negotiated a four-year contract with firefighters that freezes salaries and requires firefighters to pay $4,800 a year each toward retirement health care. Until then, the benefit was fully funded by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s a huge mess. I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.'\u003ccite>Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen some of my good friends go through it in Vallejo and Stockton, and what we found out during those [bankruptcies] is that your union contracts aren’t necessarily guaranteed,” said Jim Russey, president of Richmond Firefighters Local 188.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s consultants said the city had to find \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/richmond-five-year-budget-forecast-2016/\">$15 million\u003c/a> more in new revenue or budget cuts by 2021. Lindsay said the city has been looking hard for additional savings, and the police union recently agreed to have its members contribute toward retirement health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the five-year forecast, with reasonable assumptions, even with the growth in pension cost, it does start to generate a surplus,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Nation, a former Democratic state legislator who teaches public policy at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, is not so sanguine. He reviewed Richmond’s retirement cost projections and said they leave little room to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, every dollar the city collects in new revenue will go toward retirement costs, leaving little hope of restoring city services, Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an economic downturn of any kind, I can imagine that they could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy, if not bankruptcy,” Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s main pension fund, lowered its projected rate of return on investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent per year. That means Richmond and other communities will have to pay \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/calpers-circular-letter/\">more\u003c/a> each year to fund current and future pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to increase local government pension payments by at least 20 percent starting in 2018, according to CalPERS spokeswoman Amy Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1180x1320.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-960x1074.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the nonprofit news organization CALmatters indicates that Richmond’s retirement-related expenses could grow to more than $70 million per year by 2021. That represents 41 percent of a projected $174 million general fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city’s estimates of future pension costs are lower because of different assumptions about salary increases and other costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved a sales tax increase in 2014 to help stabilize the city’s finances. But in November, voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/39147\">an increase in the property transfer tax\u003c/a> that was expected to bring in an additional $4 million to $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city was never counting on the property transfer tax in its five-year plan. If the city needed more cash, he says Richmond has properties it can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Budget management is much more difficult in Richmond than in Beverly Hills, but you still manage it,” Lindsay said. “To say it’s spiraling out of control into bankruptcy does incredible damage to our community and it’s just not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is especially hard hit by personnel costs because of high salaries for public employees. The city’s \u003ca href=\"http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx\">average salary of $92,000\u003c/a> for its 938 employees was fifth highest in California as of 2015, according to the state controller. The city’s median household income is $54,857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers and firefighters in Richmond make more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$137,000\u003c/a> per year on average, compared with an average $128,000 per year for Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-police-2015.pdf\">police\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-fire-2015.pdf\">firefighters\u003c/a>, where housing prices are more than 60 percent higher than in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety salaries averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/oakland-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$115,000\u003c/a> in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/vallejo-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$112,000\u003c/a> in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, an architect and general contractor who has served on the City Council for two decades, says the city that was once among the state’s most dangerous has little choice but to pay higher salaries to compete for employees with nearby communities that are safer and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t convince anyone here that they deserve less than anybody in any other city,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the decision to offer higher salaries for public safety employees was strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council made a conscious decision to put a lot into public safety, in particular reducing violent crime. And largely, we’ve been successful,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crimes have been declining in the city over the past decade, with homicides dropping to a low of 11 in 2014. But Richmond is experiencing an uptick, recording 24 homicides in 2016, according to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge with public safety costs dates to 1999, when Richmond, like many local governments, matched the state’s decision to sweeten retirement benefits for California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers could retire as early as 50 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service, providing up to 90 percent of their peak salaries in retirement. Other police departments soon demanded and got similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond firefighters are eligible to retire at age 55 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service. Recent hires will have to work longer to qualify for a less generous formula under legislation passed in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1180x744.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-520x328.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">actuarial pension report\u003c/a> shows there are nearly two retirees for every police officer or firefighter currently on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, Richmond is a preview of what California cities face in the years ahead. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201609/financeadmin/item-8c-01.pdf\">CalPERS\u003c/a>, there were two active workers for every retiree in its system in 2001. Today, there are 1.3 workers for each retiree. In the next 10 or 20 years, there will be as few as 0.6 workers for each retiree collecting a pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because benefits have already been promised to today’s workers and retirees, cuts in pension benefits for new employees do little to ease the immediate burden. It “means decades before the full burden of this will be completely dealt with,” said Phil Batchelor, former Contra Costa County administrator and former interim city manager for Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Richmond’s taxpayers are spending more to make up for underperforming pension investments. CalPERS projects that the city’s payments for unfunded pension liabilities will more than double in the next five years, from $11.2 million to $26.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the lower assumed rate of investment return is projected to add nearly $9 million to Richmond’s costs by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge mess,” said Mayor Butt. “I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Judy Lin is a reporter at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters\u003c/a>, a nonprofit journalism venture in Sacramento covering state policy and politics. This story is part of an ongoing project involving the Los Angeles Times, CALmatters and Capital Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, retirement expenses could exceed $70 million — 41 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a stark example of how pension costs are causing fiscal stress in cities across California. Four municipalities — Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have filed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/municipalities-declared-bankruptcy/\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> protection since 2008. Others are on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that there are cities all over the state that just aren’t owning up to all their problems,” said San Bernardino City Manager Mark Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, pension costs consume \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-squeeze/\">15 percent or more\u003c/a> of big city budgets, crowding out basic services and leaving local governments more vulnerable than ever to the next economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11318519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"RichmondChart\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a racially diverse, working-class city of 110,000 whose largest employer is a massive Chevron oil refinery. Like many California municipalities, Richmond dug a financial hole for itself by granting generous retirement benefits to police and firefighters on the assumption that pension fund investments would grow fast enough to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That optimism proved unfounded, and now the bill is coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Bill Lindsay insists that Richmond can avoid going off a cliff. Last year, financial consultants mapped a path to stability for the city by 2021 — but at a considerable cost in public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/06/facing-prospect-of-further-credit-downgrade-richmond-passes-budget/\">11 positions\u003c/a>, reduced after-school and senior classes, eliminated neighborhood cleanups to tackle illegal trash dumping, and trimmed spending on new library books — saving $12 million total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also negotiated a four-year contract with firefighters that freezes salaries and requires firefighters to pay $4,800 a year each toward retirement health care. Until then, the benefit was fully funded by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s a huge mess. I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.'\u003ccite>Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen some of my good friends go through it in Vallejo and Stockton, and what we found out during those [bankruptcies] is that your union contracts aren’t necessarily guaranteed,” said Jim Russey, president of Richmond Firefighters Local 188.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s consultants said the city had to find \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/richmond-five-year-budget-forecast-2016/\">$15 million\u003c/a> more in new revenue or budget cuts by 2021. Lindsay said the city has been looking hard for additional savings, and the police union recently agreed to have its members contribute toward retirement health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the five-year forecast, with reasonable assumptions, even with the growth in pension cost, it does start to generate a surplus,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Nation, a former Democratic state legislator who teaches public policy at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, is not so sanguine. He reviewed Richmond’s retirement cost projections and said they leave little room to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, every dollar the city collects in new revenue will go toward retirement costs, leaving little hope of restoring city services, Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an economic downturn of any kind, I can imagine that they could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy, if not bankruptcy,” Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s main pension fund, lowered its projected rate of return on investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent per year. That means Richmond and other communities will have to pay \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/calpers-circular-letter/\">more\u003c/a> each year to fund current and future pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to increase local government pension payments by at least 20 percent starting in 2018, according to CalPERS spokeswoman Amy Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1180x1320.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-960x1074.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the nonprofit news organization CALmatters indicates that Richmond’s retirement-related expenses could grow to more than $70 million per year by 2021. That represents 41 percent of a projected $174 million general fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city’s estimates of future pension costs are lower because of different assumptions about salary increases and other costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved a sales tax increase in 2014 to help stabilize the city’s finances. But in November, voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/39147\">an increase in the property transfer tax\u003c/a> that was expected to bring in an additional $4 million to $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city was never counting on the property transfer tax in its five-year plan. If the city needed more cash, he says Richmond has properties it can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Budget management is much more difficult in Richmond than in Beverly Hills, but you still manage it,” Lindsay said. “To say it’s spiraling out of control into bankruptcy does incredible damage to our community and it’s just not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is especially hard hit by personnel costs because of high salaries for public employees. The city’s \u003ca href=\"http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx\">average salary of $92,000\u003c/a> for its 938 employees was fifth highest in California as of 2015, according to the state controller. The city’s median household income is $54,857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers and firefighters in Richmond make more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$137,000\u003c/a> per year on average, compared with an average $128,000 per year for Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-police-2015.pdf\">police\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-fire-2015.pdf\">firefighters\u003c/a>, where housing prices are more than 60 percent higher than in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety salaries averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/oakland-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$115,000\u003c/a> in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/vallejo-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$112,000\u003c/a> in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... 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One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, an architect and general contractor who has served on the City Council for two decades, says the city that was once among the state’s most dangerous has little choice but to pay higher salaries to compete for employees with nearby communities that are safer and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t convince anyone here that they deserve less than anybody in any other city,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the decision to offer higher salaries for public safety employees was strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council made a conscious decision to put a lot into public safety, in particular reducing violent crime. And largely, we’ve been successful,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crimes have been declining in the city over the past decade, with homicides dropping to a low of 11 in 2014. But Richmond is experiencing an uptick, recording 24 homicides in 2016, according to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge with public safety costs dates to 1999, when Richmond, like many local governments, matched the state’s decision to sweeten retirement benefits for California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers could retire as early as 50 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service, providing up to 90 percent of their peak salaries in retirement. Other police departments soon demanded and got similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond firefighters are eligible to retire at age 55 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service. Recent hires will have to work longer to qualify for a less generous formula under legislation passed in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1180x744.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-520x328.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">actuarial pension report\u003c/a> shows there are nearly two retirees for every police officer or firefighter currently on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, Richmond is a preview of what California cities face in the years ahead. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201609/financeadmin/item-8c-01.pdf\">CalPERS\u003c/a>, there were two active workers for every retiree in its system in 2001. Today, there are 1.3 workers for each retiree. In the next 10 or 20 years, there will be as few as 0.6 workers for each retiree collecting a pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because benefits have already been promised to today’s workers and retirees, cuts in pension benefits for new employees do little to ease the immediate burden. It “means decades before the full burden of this will be completely dealt with,” said Phil Batchelor, former Contra Costa County administrator and former interim city manager for Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Richmond’s taxpayers are spending more to make up for underperforming pension investments. CalPERS projects that the city’s payments for unfunded pension liabilities will more than double in the next five years, from $11.2 million to $26.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the lower assumed rate of investment return is projected to add nearly $9 million to Richmond’s costs by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge mess,” said Mayor Butt. “I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He is the first of the three defendants to face a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/307914921″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the election of President Trump, the Southern Poverty Law Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/18/update-incidents-hateful-harassment-election-day-now-number-701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> a spike in alleged hate crimes across the country. The FBI defines a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate crime\u003c/a> as “a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are many hate crimes reported each year, hate crime killings are relatively rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“According to the FBI, there were 18 hate homicides in the United States in 2015, which would be the highest number in about 15 years,” said \u003ca href=\"http://criminaljustice.csusb.edu/facultystaff/levin.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Levin\u003c/a>, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor of criminal justice at California State University San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of those were the nine individuals killed in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/dylann-roof-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charleston church shooting massacre\u003c/a>. Levin pointed out that the actual number is likely higher, as homicides may in fact be hate killings even if they are not identified or charged as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the district attorney announced that he would prosecute this case as a hate crime, William Sims’ fellow musicians, along with various community members, held a vigil in his memory. Friends described him as a gifted artist and a gentle young man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all see what type of person he was. This is not the type of individual that would walk in somewhere and start some problems,” said vigil organizer Kev Choice, who taught piano to Sims at \u003ca href=\"http://oaktownjazz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Jazz Workshops\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the DA hasn’t given the public details about his theory of the case. But in a preliminary hearing, Detective William Root of the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office presented testimony from a witness he interviewed alleging that at least one of the defendants used racial slurs while hitting Sims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For defendants convicted of hate crimes, the hate crime enhancement comes into play during the sentencing phase, where offenders can face heavy additional penalties. However, these cases can be difficult to prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One has to prove the specific intent of the defendant in making that decision to select a crime victim because of their status,” Levin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of William Sims, the prosecutor will have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants selected Sims to attack because of his race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is a complex case, even apart from the question of racial bias. There are three defendants charged with the murder. But only one man, Ray Simons, is alleged to have shot Sims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a key element in attorney Colin Cooper’s defense of Daniel Porter-Kelly, the defendant whose trial begins this week. Cooper said video surveillance shows his client driving away from the bar before Sims was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel Porter-Kelly left in his own car, alone, four or five minutes before the shooting took place,” Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter-Kelly’s long-term girlfriend, Erica Martinez, said the media and the DA have got the father of her 3-year-old son all wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not what they say,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to their mixed-race family and the mostly African-American neighborhood where they live, Martinez said the man she knows and loves isn’t a racist. 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