Belvedere’s islands, lagoon and waterfront give community materials a distinctive local setting. Bring LCP your final story, photographs and project details for coordinated print, mail, signs and web. Incorporated: 1896. Local setting: Two islands and an artificial lagoon; approximately 0.5 square miles of land. Council: Five-member City Council. Clerk: City Clerk & Elections, 450 San Rafael Avenue. Two islands, a lagoon and a compact waterfront community give Belvedere a civic identity all its own. Incorporated in 1896, this Marin County city combines a small residential footprint with its own municipal government and public services. An island city with a long civic history. Belvedere incorporated in 1896, making its municipal history much older than its small size might suggest. The City describes a community with fewer than 1,000 residences and very little retail or commercial activity: residential life, rather than a large business district, shapes its local setting. Its two islands and artificial lagoon occupy about half a square mile of land north of San Francisco. The waterfront is also part of its institutional identity: a 2016 twin-city agreement with Portofino, Italy, links two yachting communities. A small city with its own governing responsibilities. Belvedere’s municipal departments include police, public works, planning, building, finance and administration. Five council members serve four-year terms, with elections alternating between three seats and two seats. The Council adopts policy, ordinances and the annual budget; the City Manager implements those decisions. Council members select a mayor and vice mayor annually rather than residents electing a separate executive mayor. City Hall, public meetings and the Clerk. Regular Council meetings are listed for the second Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m., in Council Chambers at 450 San Rafael Avenue and on Zoom. Meeting materials provide a useful starting point for understanding decisions about a compact waterfront city. The City Clerk is the local election filing officer and custodian of City records. The office prepares and posts agendas and related documents, maintains the municipal code, and handles minutes, ordinances and resolutions. This is the municipal contact for council candidacy and access to the legislative record. Connecting local candidacy with county voter services. For a Belvedere council campaign, the City Clerk and Marin County Elections serve different roles. The Clerk handles the local municipal filing function; the County supplies voter-registration services and publishes countywide election information. Marin’s local-candidate status page explains that city and town clerks report their own candidates, while the County verifies signatures for those contests. Use the municipal record for the office being sought and county voter resources for registration and election participation. A waterfront community publication and production brief. For a Belvedere community booklet, provide the final waterfront or lagoon story, dated photographs, permissions and concise City resource links. LCP can organize your material into a readable print edition and matching web pages. For a council campaign, send the exact Council office wording, disclosure text, approved photographs, sizes, quantities and delivery requirements. Before you brief us on a Belvedere project. Provide dated local photographs, captions and reproduction permissions. Supply the exact Council office wording and final disclosure copy. Confirm piece sizes, quantities and delivery requirements. What Local Campaign Pros can produce for Belvedere campaigns. Campaign direct mail: Postcards, letters and folded mailers designed, printed and mailed to the addresses you approve, with postage and mail-house handoff planned in. Lawn signs and walk pieces: Yard signs, stakes, door hangers and walk cards sized for your district, using the name, office and ballot designation you confirm. Campaign printing: Palm cards, flyers, envelopes and event pieces, proofed before anything goes to press. Websites and text artwork: A simple candidate website plus matching graphics for texts and email, built from the same approved copy and photos. How a project gets started. Approved content: Your name as it will appear, the office, a photo and any copy you have approved, including a candidate statement if you file one. Office and boundary confirmed: The exact office, district or seat, checked against the official election source for this place. Quantities: How many signs, pieces or mail addresses you need. We help estimate; you approve the final counts. Artwork and proofs: We design or adapt artwork and send proofs. Nothing prints until you sign off. Production schedule: We plan print and mail dates backward from the official deadlines and election dates you confirm. Is Belvedere part of Tiburon’s municipal government? Belvedere is its own incorporated city, with a five-member City Council and its own municipal departments. Do voters choose Belvedere’s mayor separately? The five council members select a mayor and vice mayor from their ranks each December for one-year terms. Where can I follow a Belvedere Council decision? Use the City Council meeting materials and the Clerk’s agendas, minutes, ordinances and resolutions. Regular meetings are listed at City Hall and on Zoom. Who is the local filing contact for a council run? The City Clerk administers local elections and acts as local filing officer at 450 San Rafael Avenue. Marin County Elections separately provides voter-registration resources.