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Daly City

Daly City is a city of 104,000 at San Francisco's southern border — the largest city in San Mateo County, a dense, diverse, and majority Filipino American community serving as the Bay Area's urban gateway to the Peninsula. Incorporated 1911, governed by a five-member Council.

CivicCause organizes issues, meetings, elections, and public activity around Daly City so you can see what is happening locally and how it connects to broader county decisions.

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Daily Summary
2026-10-21

Daly City City Council has an upcoming meeting on 2026-09-14

The Daly City City Council's October 8 treatment plant advisory committee centered on Treatment Plant Advisory Committee. These are agenda-based signals, not confirmed meeting outcomes, but they show where council attention is moving.

Residents can use the September 14 closed session page to follow the latest council business in this summary window.

Meeting: Daly City City Council • Daly City City Council - Closed SessionMeeting: Daly City City Council • Daly City City Council - Regular Meeting
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Parks & Open Space — A Small City, Big Ambitions
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Despite its dense urban fabric, Daly City is making meaningful investments in parks and open space — a quality-of-life priority for a city where residents have limited private outdoor space. The city recently celebrated the ribbon cutting …
Community Identity & Civic Pride — The Most Filipino City in America
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Daly City is home to the largest concentration of Filipinos of any city in the United States — a demographic identity that shapes everything from the city's food culture and commercial corridors to its civic organizations and political rep…
Vision Zero & Traffic Safety — Deadly Streets in a Dense City
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Daly City has committed to eliminating serious and fatal traffic crashes by 2035 through its Vision Zero Action Plan — but progress has been difficult in one of the most densely populated and heavily trafficked cities on the Peninsula. The…
Serramonte Del Rey — The Biggest Development in Daly City History
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The 22-acre Serramonte Del Rey campus redevelopment is the most consequential development project in Daly City's recent history — and it is finally moving from planning to construction. The project, led by the Jefferson Union High School D…
Sheriff's Office Aftermath — Rebuilding Accountability & Trust
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San Mateo County is still working through the fallout of one of the most dramatic law enforcement governance crises in the Bay Area in recent memory. In May 2025, an independent investigation found evidence of conflicts of interest, misuse…

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11/3/2026 November 3, 2026 California General Election
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Member, Board of Supervisors, District 5 (Short Term)
Measures
San Mateo County Charter Amendment Measure – Affirmation of RightsSan Mateo County Charter Amendment Measure – Extension to Call a Special Election or AppointSan Mateo County Charter Amendment Measure – Extreme Weather EventsSan Mateo County Charter Amendment Measure – Reapportionment of Supervisorial DistrictsACA 20: Save for California's Future Act

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Daly City City Council - Regular Meeting
6/8/2026 • 7:00 PM
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Meeting agenda overview The agenda for Daly City City Council - Regular Meeting on 2026-06-08 listed Accept and Receive the Report Regarding Implementation of the City’s Existing Utility Users Tax as it Applies to... an…
San Mateo County Board of Supervisors
9/29/2026 • 9:00 AM
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What's Scheduled San Mateo County Board of Supervisors's 2026-09-29 agenda is scheduled to cover 26-802 Adopt a resolution authorizing Amendment No. 3 to the Agreement with Vista Environmental Consulting for on-call...,…

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San Mateo County elections officials issue ballot warning after mail theft
ABC7 News Bay Area / KGO • 2026-10-16
San Mateo County election officials are warning voters after mail was stolen from a Daly City post office, raising concerns that some ballots may have been among the stolen items.
San Mateo County voters urged to check ballot status after mail theft at Daly City post office
KTVU FOX 2 • 2026-10-16
San Mateo County voters were urged to check the status of their ballots online.
San Mateo County elections officials issue ballot warning after mail theft in Daly City - ABC7 Bay Area
Google Los Altos Hills • 2026-10-16
San Mateo County elections officials issue ballot warning after mail theft in Daly City ABC7 Bay Area
San Mateo County elections officials issue ballot warning after mail theft in Daly City - ABC7 Bay Area
Google Woodside • 2026-10-16
San Mateo County elections officials issue ballot warning after mail theft in Daly City ABC7 Bay Area
Officials investigate possible ballot thefts in San Mateo County
KRON4 • 2026-10-16
SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) -- Federal authorities are investigating the possible theft of voters’ ballots from a Daly City USPS location, according to the San Mateo County Assessor-Cou…
San Mateo County voters urged to verify ballot status after theft in Daly City - Local News Matters
Google San Mateo • 2026-10-16
San Mateo County voters urged to verify ballot status after theft in Daly City Local News Matters
San Mateo County voters urged to verify ballot status after theft in Daly City
Bay City News / Local News Matters • 2026-10-16
The U.S. Postal Service is investigating after vote-by-mail ballots for San Mateo County were stolen from a Daly City post office, the county’s Registration & Elections Division said Thursd…
CivicCause budget overview

Daly City Budget Overview

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Daly City's adopted two-year budget uses reserves to maintain services while General Fund spending exceeds revenue in both approved years.

General Fund spending · FY2026 to FY2027
$129.8M approved$134.3M approved year two+$4.4M