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The Sacramento Library Association was established in October 1857 as a public subscription library, and its first roster listed many prominent citizens, including E. B. Crocker, C. P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford. [4] In 1872, the association acquired a building on I Street between 7th and 8th and furnished a library on the first floor.
The Sacramento Regional Transit District, commonly referred to as SacRT (or simply RT), is the agency responsible for public transportation in the Sacramento, California area. It was established on April 1, 1973, as a result of the acquisition of the Sacramento Transit Authority. In addition to operating over 81 bus routes with connecting bus ...
The County government provides countywide services such as elections and voter registration, law enforcement, jails, vital records, property records, tax collection, public health, and social services. In addition the County serves as the local government for all unincorporated areas. It is composed of the elected five-member Board of ...
HUD has a goal for all public housing authorities across the country to have no more than 4% of its units vacant at any given time. For Sacramento, that would mean 120 units vacant at any given ...
All 58 California counties formed a joint powers authority to develop the system, and next week, the last wave of counties — Sacramento, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo — will migrate to ...
The Sacramento region’s two venerable public media outlets, KVIE television and CapRadio, are in a modern-day cold war. ... It was a curious term, given that the university under its authority ...
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is a community-owned electric utility serving Sacramento County and parts of Placer County. [3] It is one of the ten largest publicly owned utilities in the United States, generating the bulk of its power through natural gas (estimated 35.2% of production total in 2020) and large hydroelectric generation plants (29.1% in 2020).
The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior. Sacramento was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border.