Mission Statement :

Protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents.

Ensure high quality residential, commercial and industrial development that preserves the community's character and is in harmony with the City's unique small-town environment.

Deliver high quality, responsive and customer-oriented City services in an efficient and effective manner.
Develop and encourage a culturally diverse community.

Promote a diversified commercial and industrial sector to foster a vibrant City economy and ensure the future financial stability of the City.

About The City :

Livingston is a City on the move and is in a period of transition and transformation due to new residential and commercial development. The community is rapidly becoming a premier ethnically diverse, residential, commercial and industrial center in Merced County and the Central Valley. It is strategically located along one of California's major freeway arteries and is just two hours from San Francisco, the Pacific Coast and the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains.Merced County covers 2,000 square miles and has a population of 247,000.Livingston's economy is intertwined with the economy of Merced County which is enjoying an industrial renaissance that has brought approximately 3,000 new jobs with an estimated impact of $100 million into the County within the past two years. In addition, Merced was selected in 1995 to be the site of U.C. Merced (the 10th campus in the University of California system). The university will eventually be home to over 20,000 students. U.C. Merced will probably have to split into two locations. Environmental restrictions are bound to hold back expansion efforts north and east of the two-year-old campus. The University's new dorms, lecture halls and classrooms may need to be built at le