Editing Pacifica, California (section)

==Government==
Governed by a city council of five elected members, with each council seat in turn serving as mayor for a one-year term. A city manager, city attorney and city clerk are appointed and serve in support of the council to enact the ordinances passed by the council, which meets biweekly on the second and fourth Mondays of the month.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofpacifica.org/government/default.asp|title= City Government|website=City of Pacifica, CA |access-date=March 19, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170505202352/http://www.cityofpacifica.org/government/default.asp |archive-date= May 5, 2017 }}</ref>

===Departments===

The major City departments, ranked by cost:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofpacifica.org/government/budget.asp|title= Adopted Budget: Fiscal Year 2016-2017 |website=City of Pacifica, CA |access-date=March 19, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170320145541/http://www.cityofpacifica.org/government/budget.asp |archive-date= March 20, 2017 }}</ref>
* 32% - Police and Communication Services
* 23% - Fire and Emergency Services
*  6% - Development and Engineering
*  6% - Childcare programs
*  5% - City Attorney
*  5% - Public Works
*  5% - Parks, Beach & Recreation
*  5% - Finance and MIS
As of August 1, 2011, the South San Francisco Police Department took over the Pacifica emergency calls dispatch.<ref>[http://psc.apcointl.org/2011/06/29/pacifica-city-council-approves-outsourcing-police-communications-to-south-san-francisco/ Pacifica City Council Approves Outsourcing Police CommunicationS to South San Francisco | Public Safety Communications]. Psc.apcointl.org (June 29, 2011). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.</ref>

===State and federal representation===
In the [[California State Legislature]], Pacifica is in {{Representative|casd|13|fmt=sdistrict}}, and in {{Representative|caad|23|fmt=adistrict}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html |title=Statewide Database |publisher=UC Regents |access-date=December 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201113744/http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html |archive-date=February 1, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the [[United States House of Representatives]], Pacifica is in {{Representative|cacd|16|fmt=district}}.<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|16|access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref>

According to the [[Secretary of State of California|California Secretary of State]], as of February 10, 2019, Pacifica has 25,029 registered voters. Of those, 13,404 (53.6%) are registered [[California Democratic Party|Democrats]], 3,290 (13.1%) are registered [[California Republican Party|Republicans]], and 7,154 (28.6%) have [[Decline to State|declined to state]] a political party.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2019/politicalsub.pdf|title=CA Secretary of State – Report of Registration – February 10, 2019|website=ca.gov|access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref>