Are you interested in finding a way to participate in your community? Then consider applying for appointment to the City of Burlingame Planning Commission! The City invites applicants to offer their interest, experience, and enthusiasm in service of their City.

           

Commissioners offer their ideas and recommendations to the City Council and staff in order to help them to make the finest, most informed decisions in the best interest of everyone living, working, and visiting our community.

 

The City is seeking to fill three (3) vacant seats on the Planning Commission. The application deadline is Friday, March 16, 2018.  Click here for the application and supplemental questionnaire.

View a list of new  #OptUpBurlingame heroes here.

Are you ready to #OptUpBurlingame?

• Residents can win prizes, get recognized!
• OPT UP NOW to lower carbon emissions & drive green tech growth!
• Contact us to get involved or displayed on our Hero pages

Students in grades 4 through 12 who live or attend school in Burlingame are invited to enter the first CEC Student Film Fest cosponsored by the Citizens Environmental Council of Burlingame (CEC) and the Burlingame Environmental Club of Burlingame High School. CEC is providing cash prizes that will be awarded to student filmmakers in three categories: grades 4-5 ($75), grades 6-8 ($150), and high school ($300).

 

Students who wish to enter should submit an original video, not more than five minutes in length, on the environmental topic of their choice by March 12, 2018. The final entries will be screened and winners will be announced at the CEC Student Film Fest at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 19, in the Burlingame High School Auditorium at 1 Mangini Way. The festival is open to the general public and admission is free.

 

Students may register prior to submitting a video and learn more on the CEC website by clicking here. They can submit their video by clicking here.

 

Students and their parents are invited to learn tips on creating videos at a Film Workshop from 10:15 a.m. to noon on Saturday, February 10, in the Lane Room at the Burlingame Public Library, 480 Primrose Road. Snacks will be provided. For more information, click here.

 

The Citizens Environmental Council of Burlingame is a group of volunteers whose mission is to champion a more environmentally and economically sustainable community. For more information about the CEC, visit cecburlingame.org or email [email protected].

 

• Cardboard trays in food packaging
• Chinese take-out boxes
• Wine corks

• Foil cardboard tubes for biscuits - ends can be removed and recycled and cardboard composted
• Plastic lids on coffee cups

Tip: Recycling items should not be placed into plastic bags. The plastic bags are not recycled and jam the conveyor machines

 

• Packaging airbags - or can be recycled at grocery shopping bag kiosks or at the Shoreway Environmental Center
• Padded envelopes with bubble wrap on inside
• Styrofoam, including popcorn and cubes - or can be taken to Green Citizen for recycling
• Black plastic - the Shoreway Environmental Center cannot recycle any black plastic

 

Eight high school students have been selected to receive paid environmental internships offered by the Citizens Environmental Council of Burlingame (CEC) in partnership with the City of Burlingame. All are current sophomores and juniors who live or attend school in Burlingame.

 

The eight students selected from among 29 applicants are: Gus Brocchini of Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough; Mark Habelt of Serra High School in San Mateo; Jessica Johnstone, Brennan McDonald and Maya Silver of Burlingame High School; Spencer Kishiyama of Design Tech High School on the Oracle campus in Redwood City; Christopher Noll of San Mateo High School; and Grace Zhang of Mercy Hill School in Burlingame.

 

The program is designed to help motivate and nurture the next generation of environmentalists. The interns will explore, individually or in small teams, the sustainability of their own school's culture and operations, and they will research best practices and innovative programs at other schools. Monthly meetings with mentors will take place during the spring and fall semesters of 2018, and a $300 stipend will be paid to each intern upon completion of the program.

 

The program is supported by a grant from the Morris S. Smith Foundation.

 

Meet humorist and blogger, Jen Mann, who wrote the book, Working With People I Want to Punch in the Throat.  Enjoy an irreverent evening of observations about the workplace from the perspective of a working parent.  Best to leave the kids at home for this grown-up discussion.

This film workshop is for students in grades 4 through 12 who plan to enter the CEC Student Film Fest described above. Free snacks, parents welcome. For more information, click on this link. 

Please join the Beautification Commission and help celebrate Burlingame's thirty-ninth annual Arbor Day Celebration. Staff from Cal Fire, City Council, school students and more, will be participating in the ceremony. The City of Burlingame has proudly been a "Tree City USA" for 39 years - the fourth longest in the State.

The Burlingame Library Foundation, Trustees and staff welcome public radio's Ira Glass, in the historic Reading Room of the Burlingame Library. 

The creator and host of the groundbreaking radio program This American Life will be the inaugural guest at Guess Who's Coming to the Library! Special thanks to our community sponsors, The Sharp Group and Boston Private.

 

General Admission ticket sales will begin Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. General Admission seats are $20 (limit 2). VIP Premier tickets have sold out. Tickets will be sold online only at  www.burlingamelibraryfoundation.org/events.

HEART of San Mateo County has arranged to have a First Time Homebuyer Workshop in Burlingame!  This will be an opportunity to come find out how you may be able use the HEART loan to buy a market-rate home or condo in San Mateo County.

 

HEART offers down payment loans for qualified first-time homebuyers up to $119,278, which, together with a first 30-year, fixed rate mortgage from Meriwest Mortgage, enables the borrower to finance their first home with 5% down and no PMI (private mortgage insurance).

For more information about HEART and to download guidelines and applications, click on this link.  To register for the event, click here.