Community Services
The Community Services Policy Committee reviews issues related to childcare, parks and recreation, libraries, natural disaster preparation, cultural arts, and community and human services programs.
Policy Committee
2024 Vice Chair - Rachel Hernandez, Vice Mayor, Riverbank
The committee's membership is comprised of representatives from each of the Cal Cities professional departments, regional divisions, and caucuses, and appointments by the Cal Cities president.
The Community Services Policy Committee will meet in 2024 on the following dates and times:
- Thursday, January 18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Virtual
Agenda | Highlights
- Thursday, March 21, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Marriot Burbank Airport Hotel
Agenda | Highlights
- Thursday, June 20, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Virtual
Current Action in the Legislature
Resources for Cities
by Community Service Issue
- Governments Engaging Youth Toolkit (ILG)
- Engaging Youth: Resources for Local Officials to Develop and Maintain Youth Commissions (ILG)
- Youth Commissions and Councils Promote Leadership and Participation (ILG)
- Revitalizing Neighborhoods (ILG)
Expanding Early Education Programs (National League of Cities)
Federal
- U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
- H.U.D. Homelessness Assistance webpage
- Mayors Challenge to End Homeless Veteran Homelessness
State
National Organizations
Reports
California Grants Portal
The California Grants Portal (a project by the California State Library) is your one destination to find all grants and loans offered on a competitive or first-come basis by California state agencies.
Public Works Officers Institute
March 19-21, 2025
Sheraton Universal Hotel
333 Universal Hollywood Dr, Universal City, CA
Designed for public works professionals of all career levels, this conference provides you with the essential information and updates necessary to most effectively run city public works departments. Previous sessions cover a variety of topics such as road safety, bridge programs, legislative updates, and leadership topics.
Save the date for the next institute on March 19-21, 2025 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City.
For additional questions, please contact Associate Manager, Event Programming, Erin Wylder.
Please see our event and meeting policies.
Institute Information
View the 2024 Public Works Officers Institute program.
2024 Institute Session Materials
- An Anaylsis of the Brooks Act - 50 Years in Review
- Brief Look at the Evolution of Pubic Sidewalks
- Clean Fleet Deployment
- Fees, You Got Em! How do they Work Today
- Groundwater, Water Resiliency and the Challenges Do they Really Mix - Bucknam
- Groundwater Water Resiliency and the Challenges Do they really Mix - Kau
- Innovative Advancements in Fiber Deployment - Acosta
- Making work suck less healing workplaces through play
- Mulch Made to Order
- My Maintenance - Keeping Neighborhoods Clean
- On the Road to a Smoother Future
- Project Labor Agreements - What’s Good, What’s Bad and What’s Ugly
- Reduce Agency Liability, Prevent Busted Budgets Geotechnical Engineers of Record Policies - Berliner
- Tools to Electrify EnergIIZE Hydrogen Fact Sheet
- Tools to Electrify Your City Funding, EV Charging, and Collaboration
- Tools to Electrify EnergIIZE - Fact Sheet
- Tools to Electrify_Overall Project Factsheet
- Traffic Safety, Now!
- Understanding the Legislative Process
Previous Institute Session Materials
- Becoming Part of the Conversation Increasing Public Works' Public Perception
- Broadband Internet and Smart City Applications for Your City
- Case Study Broadband Internet and Smart City Applications
- Closing Session Leading High Performance
- Don't Throw Paving Dollars Out with the Trash
- Drought and Potable Reuse on California's Central Coast
- Effective Pavement Program Management for Cities and Counties
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Lancaster
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Rubin
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Olson
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery, Resilience - Pratt
- Going to the Well Discussing Municipal Water Issues - Bean
- Going to the Well Discussing Municipal Water Issues -Martin
- Leading Change by Changing the Way we Lead
- Making Public Works an Attractive Option in a Changing Workplace
- Public Construction and Contracting Law Update for California
- Project Labor Agreements for Local Public Works Projects
- Public Input That Works Strategies for Successful Community Engagement
- Public Works Officers Institute floor plan
- SB378 and New Innovations for the Deployment of Fiber Networks
- Speaker Bios
- State of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- The Changing Landscape of Recycling Local Market Development and Participation - Goncharoff
- The Changing Landscape of Recycling Local Market Development and Participation
- Becoming Part of the Conversation Increasing Public Works' Public Perception
- Broadband Internet and Smart City Applications for Your City
- Case Study Broadband Internet and Smart City Applications
- Closing Session Leading High Performance
- Don't Throw Paving Dollars Out with the Trash
- Drought and Potable Reuse on California's Central Coast
- Effective Pavement Program Management for Cities and Counties
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Lancaster
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Rubin
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Olson
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery, Resilience - Pratt
- Going to the Well Discussing Municipal Water Issues - Bean
- Going to the Well Discussing Municipal Water Issues -Martin
- Leading Change by Changing the Way we Lead
- Making Public Works an Attractive Option in a Changing Workplace
- Public Construction and Contracting Law Update for California
- Project Labor Agreements for Local Public Works Projects
- Public Input That Works Strategies for Successful Community Engagement
- Public Works Officers Institute floor plan
- SB378 and New Innovations for the Deployment of Fiber Networks
- Speaker Bios
- State of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- The Changing Landscape of Recycling Local Market Development and Participation - Goncharoff
- The Changing Landscape of Recycling Local Market Development and Participation
- What Public Works Professionals Need to Know about Finance
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Contact Staff
Caroline Grinder
Legislative Affairs, Lobbyist, Community Services
(916) 658-8250
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