Government Transparency
Elected and Appointed Positions
The City of Rocklin’s Council/Manager form of government is a system founded on the balance of an elected City Council and the management expertise of an appointed City Manager. The City Clerk, City Treasurer, and City Attorney are also appointed positions.
Boards and Commissions
The City of Rocklin encourages citizen participation through involvement on committees and commissions and conducts extensive outreach efforts to be sure that every resident who wants to be heard has a voice. Boards and Commissions play an important role in City Government by assisting and advising the City Council in formulating and implementing policy, and in some cases functioning as the decision-making body.
Meetings, Agendas, Minutes, and Public Hearing Notices
The City of Rocklin conducts its business in compliance with Government Code Section 54950 (the “Brown Act”). The intent of the Act is to ensure that deliberation and actions of local public agencies are conducted in open and at public meetings. A meeting takes place whenever a quorum (generally three or more members) is present and information about the business of the body is received. Social functions (e.g., receptions, dinners) do not fall under the Act unless City business is conducted.
Requests for Proposals and Bids
Periodically, the City of Rocklin will issue a Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Qualification (RFQ), and/or Notice to Bidders for professional services and/or Public Services construction projects.
SB 272
This bill requires local agencies, except a local educational agency, to create a catalog of enterprise systems, to make the catalog publicly available upon request in the office of the person or officer designated by the agency’s legislative body, and to post the catalog on the local agency’s Internet Web site. The bill requires the catalog to disclose a list of the enterprise systems utilized by the agency, the current system vendor and product, unless, on the facts of the particular case, the public interest served by not disclosing that information clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure, in which case the local agency may instead provide a system name, brief title, or identifier of the system.