Here’s an update of what we’ve done and what we’re doing next to better serve San Rafael. Done Developed draft content for smaller department pages (City Attorney, City Clerk, City Council, City Manager, Human Resources, IT, and Finance). Provided feedback on design options for color palette, image gallery, iconography, typography, and overall look & feel … Continued
The Police Department is offering the Parent Project program again this September. This award-winning program helps parents raising strong-willed or out-of-control adolescents. Parents of kids ages 11 – 18 meet once a week for ten weeks and learn how to manage their child’s decisions in regards to: drugs and alcohol use, running away, gang involvement, … Continued
It may seem early, but our Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebrations will be upon us before we know it! We invite you to participate in this powerful and meaningful celebration of life and honor. The community event will be held at the Albert J. Boro Community Center on Saturday, November 5, … Continued
On Sunday, August 14, our very own Cory Bytof, Volunteer and Sustainability Program Coordinator, received the Sustainability Hero award at Sustainable San Rafael’s summer celebration. He was honored with this award “for his sustained energy, creativity, care, intelligence and fun in guiding our city towards a lighter impact on our planet and a fuller embrace … Continued
What do you do for the City? Carol Jacobs-Courtz began working with the City in 1971/72 as a Recreation Leader with the Parks and Recreation Department, now the Community Services Department. Carol has a degree in Sociology and an Associate Degree in Gerontology. Soon after she began her work with the City, she was put … Continued
The City-Ritter Memorandum of Understanding At the August 15th City Council Meeting, the Council approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ritter Center to work in partnership on a number of operational changes at Ritter. In an effort to continue to provide critical resources for people experiencing homelessness, while simultaneously addressing the growing concerns … Continued
Describe your volunteer activity with San Rafael? As weather permits, I pull French broom from the 15 acre Gerstle Park open space. This project started about 25 years ago. At that time, nobody knew this area was public open space. The primary entrance was marked with no trespassing signs. Even if a hiker didn’t heed … Continued
Here’s an update of what we’ve done and what we’re doing next to better serve San Rafael. Done Wrote a post about our current site analytics. Decided the team needed a Trello board for better coordination and communication. It’s already helping. Pretty much finished all the answers content! Whew! There’s a few we still need … Continued
Understanding our current site analytics is a piece of our new content strategy. Although they don’t tell the whole story, they provide insight on what people are looking to do on the current site and how they are getting there. Over the past year, our site had almost 371,382 unique page views and 56.4% exited … Continued
If you’re a local-government manager or elected official, by now you’ve probably heard a fair amount about the need for better citizen engagement in government decision-making. You may even have your own success stories about times your city or agency made a special effort to involve community members in policies that affect them. And you … Continued
