June 13, 2024, Edition

Santa Rosa Water Is Always On When You Need It

Santa Rosa runs on water, and the Santa Rosa Water Team is here to make sure your water is always on when you need it. Every day, around the clock, safe, clean, high-quality drinking water is delivered to your tap. After you have used that water, it is transported to Laguna Treatment Plant for recycling and reuse. Santa Rosa’s extensive public water system is a network of over 1,200 miles of water and sewer pipe, 6,500 fire hydrants, 20 water pump stations, 22 water reservoirs (tanks), 17 sewer lift stations, and more. Our community’s water system is valued at over $5 billion. To keep your water flowing now and into the future, Santa Rosa Water continually invests your water rates into the resiliency and reliability of our shared public water system. It also requires a team of highly trained and skilled water employees that are dedicated to monitoring, maintaining, and modernizing our community’s critical water infrastructure. LEARN MORE

What to Read

Nominate an Outstanding Community Volunteer for a City of Santa Rosa Merit Award by June 14

Howarth Park Summer Hours Begin Monday, June 17
 

Finley Aquatic Center to Reopen Monday, June 17, for Summer Programs
 

Visit SRCity.org/News for more news.

What to Do

• Apply by Friday, June 14, to become a vendor for the 2024 Senior Expo. APPLY NOW
  
  
• Dispose of your working and non-working electronics at the Zero Waste Sonoma and Conservation Corp North Bay free electronics collection event, June 14-16, at the Luther Burbank Center. RECYCLE
  
  
• Learn about garden insects at the WaterSmart Insect Investigation Workshop on June 15, 10 a.m. to noon. Suitable for all ages; presented in Spanish and English. REGISTER
  
  
• Join the City of Santa Rosa at the MLK Juneteenth Festival this Saturday, June 15! LEARN MORE
  
  
• Help preserve the historic Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery at a volunteer workday this Saturday, June 15, from 9 a.m. to noon. SIGN UP
  
  
• Join us for Summer on the Square’s Monday Movie Night with The Little Mermaid (2023) screening Downtown on June 17. LEARN MORE
  
  
• Need Compost? Stop by Zero Waste Sonoma’s year-round Free Compost Hub at the Children’s Museum of Sonoma County on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. COMPOST HUB
  
  
• Become a vendor or junior maker for the 49th Annual Handmade Holiday Crafts Fair. APPLY NOW

Did You Know?

You Can Borrow a Creek-Friendly Community Car Wash Kit to Make Your Fundraiser a Splash!

If you’re planning a fundraiser, a car wash is a great way to bring your community together. However, when water from a car wash flows freely into storm drains that lead to our creeks and rivers, it can introduce harmful metal shavings, vehicle fluids, and road contaminants into our waterways. That’s why we include storm drain mats, temporary berms, and a sump pump in our kit, along with other essentials like hoses, buckets, cones, and sponges. With these supplies, your event can run smoothly without sending harmful runoff into our watershed. LEARN MORE

Join Our Team

The City of Santa Rosa offers great career opportunities with competitive salaries and excellent benefits, such as health, vision, and dental insurance. Check out these positions below or visit SRCity.org/Jobs for many other great opportunities with the City.

Building Inspector
Oversees day-to-day building inspection activities in the field and office, exercising considerable independence, professional judgment, and sound decision-making. The recruitment closes on June 18 at 11:59 p.m.

Communications Dispatcher Trainee
Simultaneously perform various duties accurately, including receiving, triaging, and processing emergency and routine calls, tracking police unit statuses, and using a Computer Aided Dispatch system. Interrogate callers, relay information, monitor police radio frequencies, and communicate tactfully under pressure with the public and department employees. The recruitment is ongoing.

Single Role Paramedic
Serves as part of the coordinated City InRESPONSE team, participating in calls for service for mental health, homeless advocacy, and social services, and provide basic and advanced life support medical care and treatment, including Advanced Life Support (ALS) care and transport to non-emergency facilities. The recruitment is ongoing.