November Newsletter now available on the Web

Learn more about Winter Watering Schedules, Leaf Season Green Waste Pickup, and other important Utility news in our monthly City Beat Newsletter.

Inside this Edition

• Water Rate Assistance Programs for Senior, Disabled and Low Income custom...

Holiday Garbage Collection Schedule - Thanksgiving

There will be no garbage collection on Thursday, November 22.  During this week: Thursday customers will be serviced on Friday, and Friday customers will be serviced on Saturday.

Holidays observed by Modesto garbage companies

• New Years Day
• 4th of Ju...

Modesto Soars to #33 in Milken Institute's 2017 Best-Performing Large City Ranking

The Milken Institute's Best-Performing Cities - Where America's Jobs are Created and Sustained report for 2017 documents Modesto's rapid rise in rank among the 150 largest cities in the United States.   The Milken report released in January 2018 ...

Pursuing a New Perspective on Downtown

I am very pleased to announce a new initiative aimed at refreshing the city's perspective on what our downtown could and should look like.  A few months ago, my team set out to re-imagine and re-design one of our key downtown streets, and in the ...

Organic Recycling and Modesto's Green Can

Since 1997 Modesto residents have used both a black and green can as part of their standard garbage service.  They’re the same size, picked up the same day of the week (sometimes even by the same truck), and taken to the same transfer stations in...

Police Investigate Sunday Night Homicide

 Modesto, CA- A 37-year-old Modesto man is deceased following a Sunday night shooting that occurred in the 400 block of Donegal Drive in southeast Modesto.

At about 8:00 PM on Sunday, October 21, 2018, Officers responded to the southeast neighborh...

Abducted Child Located Unharmed

Modesto, CA –On Monday, September 24, 2018 at approximately 7:25am, patrol units responded to a home on Poinsettia Drive for the report of a child abduction.  The investigation revealed, 41- year old John Cosso and five others, forced their way i...

Modesto Police Move Quickly to Locate and Arrest Kidnapping Supsect

On Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at approximately 4 o’clock in the afternoon, a fourteen-year-old female reported that a man approached her in a vehicle as she walked along Tokay Avenue. She indicated the man attempted to grab her and she was able to ...

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Volunteers Needed for Holiday Events!

We are gearing up for another great Holiday Season and looking for volunteers to help us with two of our largest events of the year. We would like to invite you to volunteer at this year's events!  Our volunteers make these events a success every...

2018 Fall Activity Guide Available Now

Sign up for your favorite activities offered through the City of Modesto's Parks, Recreation and Neighborhoods Department.  The Fall Activity Guide is now available and can be viewed online, or print copies are available at the Parks, Recreation ...

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Holiday Garbage Collection Schedule - Thanksgiving

There will be no garbage collection on Thursday, November 22.  During this week: Thursday customers will be serviced on Friday, and Friday customers will be serviced on Saturday.

Holidays observed by Modesto garbage companies

• New Years Day
• 4th of Ju...

Weekly Traffic Impact Report

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Volunteers Needed for Holiday Events!

We are gearing up for another great Holiday Season and looking for volunteers to help us with two of our largest events of the year. We would like to invite you to volunteer at this year's events!  Our volunteers make these events a success every...