Orinda’s tree-studded hillsides and community gathering places give local materials a distinctive setting. LCP coordinates design, print, mail, signs and web from your final copy and photographs. Local setting: Semi-rural, tree-studded hillsides. Council: Five members serving staggered four-year terms. Orinda combines a semi-rural setting in southwest Contra Costa County with a city government incorporated in 1985. Its council sets policy while an appointed manager carries it out; the City Clerk is the municipal election contact. A young city with an established hillside identity. Orinda incorporated in 1985 after more than a century of gradual development. The City's own description emphasizes its semi-rural setting and tree-studded hillsides, rather than a dense urban center. The City identifies land use, infrastructure and public safety among its service priorities. Public planning workshops and budget documents offer a useful route to understanding how those responsibilities are organized. Council responsibility, not a separate executive mayor. Orinda uses a council-manager system. Five elected officials serve staggered four-year terms without monetary compensation. The council establishes policy, adopts ordinances and votes on appropriations, while hiring a professional City Manager to implement its decisions. The mayor is a council member and presiding officer. Council-appointed commissions and committees offer another way to understand how residents participate in local government. Public planning, meeting materials and the Clerk. The council typically meets on the first and third Tuesdays, and publishes agendas before meetings and minutes after approval. Orinda also sets major goals through public strategic planning workshops before adopting its operating budget. The City Clerk preserves public records, provides public information and conducts elections impartially. Use the City's election-information page for council candidacy materials, keeping official filing work separate from campaign communications. Gathering places and community information. The City’s Building Community page highlights city-sponsored events, including the year-round farmers’ market in front of Orinda Community Park and its food-truck program. Use that official page for current schedules when preparing a community calendar or event publication. A hillside-community publication and production brief. For an Orinda community booklet, provide dated hillside or gathering-place photographs, final captions and current City resource links. LCP can organize your text into a readable print edition and matching web pages. For campaign materials, send the exact Council office wording, approved disclosure copy, piece sizes, quantities and delivery requirements. What Local Campaign Pros can produce for Orinda 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 Orinda’s mayor a separate executive office? The council page describes the mayor as a council member and presiding officer in a council-manager government; the appointed City Manager implements council policy. Where should an Orinda council campaign start on official paperwork? Start with the City Clerk and the City’s Election Information page for municipal candidacy information. Where can I learn what Orinda is working on? Read council agendas and approved minutes, and follow the public strategic planning workshops that establish major goals before budget adoption. Where can I find Orinda community-event information? The City’s Building Community page lists city-sponsored activities and the farmers’ market in front of Orinda Community Park. Consult that page for current event details.