This course is intended to provide understanding of how the municipal government delivers essential and valued services such as water, wastewater treatment, streets, public safety, building safety and regulation of development, forestry and smoke management, infrastructure, parks, managing the local economy and community identity, as well as how these services are financed. The role of city staff will be explored. Each session will consist of a 20 to 30-minute presentation on a particular topic by relevant city staff, followed by time for questions and answers, and discussion moderated by the Interim City Manager/Deputy City Manager, Sabrina Cotta. This course is about how the city functions operationally. It is not a course on policy issues or political statements.
NOTE: There is no class session on Thursday, October 3.
