Explore City services related to maintaining our streets, sidewalks, sewers, and utilities. Learn about how the City maintains and improves public streets,…
Explore key city services, report issues online, or pay parking tickets. Find resources to help you with trash pick-up, street and sidewalk repair, residential parking permits, and more. Document your domestic partnership, a death, or a birth. Report issues to the City, including abandoned vehicles, graffiti, broken parking meters, and more.
Berkeley’s vision is to be a model pedestrian and bike-friendly city where traveling on foot, bike, or with an assistive device is safe, comfortable and convenient for people of all races, ethnicities, incomes, ages, and abilities. The …
Prepare for disasters, report a crime, or access homeless services.Use these services to keep yourself and others safe and healthy. Prepare yourself and your community for wildfires, earthquakes, and other disasters. Report a crime or submit a complaint or commendation for a police officer. Access mental health and homeless services.
Get around Berkeley by walking or rolling, biking, taking public transit, driving an electric car, or borrowing a shared car, bike, scooter, or other vehicle. Find safer routes using bicycle boulevards, or request the City install bicycle parking. Get involved in the City's efforts to make it easier to get around on public transit. Find resources to help you switch to an electric car, bike, or…
Explore news and events, adopt a pet, or visit a city park or pool. Find programs and services for all ages to enrich your life and our community. Register for recreation programs, visit a park, or reserve time at a pool or sports field or court. Visit a senior center, volunteer, adopt a pet, enjoy public art, or find affordable housing…
Read reports, policies, and budgets that describe how the City of Berkeley spends public funds. Read financial policies that guide how the City manages its money, and examine reports that describe how money was spent. Explore the budget to understand how the City plans to allocate resources over the next fiscal year.
Read the plans and policies that guide the City's work, and get involved with projects and plans that are being developed. The City undertakes capital projects to improve infrastructure, including roads, parks, City buildings, and more. Adopted plans set strategic priorities for various topics, such as what types of development the City will allow in certain neighborhoods, how the City will…
Vendors provide the City of Berkeley with supplies, equipment, software, construction, consulting services, and other key products and services that help the City run. Companies, non-profits, and individual consultants can submit a proposal to work with the City of Berkeley on an open bid or contracting opportunity. Vendors help enable the City to provide a full range of municipal services and…
Contact a City of Berkeley Department, visit a City office or facility, or contact a specific City service or program. Berkeley residents are the highest level in the City’s organization chart. Residents elect: