What Will I Learn About?

RCI participants will visit different departments each week:

• City Manager's Office
• Introduction of RCI
• History of Reno 
• Overview of the City Manager's Office | Community Relations | Special Events | Legislative Affairs
• Q&A with the City Manager & Elected Officials
• City Attorney's Office | Reno Municipal Court
• Overview of City Attorney's Office | Reno Municipal Court
• Overview of Domestic Violence program
• Q & A with City Attorney
• Mock Arraignments with participants as defendants
• Tour of Reno Municipal Court
• Community Development
• Overview of Planning | Engineering | Building | Code Enforcement
• Mock Planning Commission Exercise 
• Finance | Human Resources | Communications & Technology
• Overview of Finance | Human Resources | Communications & Technology
• Parks, Recreation & Community Services - session is held in one of the City's park facilities to promote park interaction
• Department overview
• Participants will tour a park & assess it as if they were a Park Supervisor
• Park planning activity (participants will be challenged to build a park with a given budget and requirements)
• Public Works
• Overview of Sanitary Engineering & Environmental Control | Capital Projects | Traffic Engineering | Maintenance & Operations | Streets
  Maintenance | Sewer & Storm System Maintenance
• Tour of Fleet Maintenance
• Redevelopment
• Overview of Redevelopment
• Tour of Downtown Reno
• Public Works Facilities Maintenance
• Fire Department - session is held in a bay of one of the fire stations so that participants can witness fire personnel being dispatched
• Department overview
• Golden Hotel and the Reno Fire Department video
• Fire Prevention discussion
• Apparatus/Equipment demonstration
• Police Department 
• Department overview
• Q&A with the Police Chief
• K-9 presentation and demonstration
• Taser presentation and demonstration
• Truckee Meadows Water Authority - session is held at a fresh water treatment plant!
• TMWA overview
• Water treatment plant overview and tour