Community Safety & Quality of Life
Pandemic Response — Over the past year, the City of Hayward’s COVID-19 pandemic response focused on community resilience, adaptation, and recovery. Vaccination clinics helped push Hayward’s COVID-19 inoculation rate over 80 percent while new grant programs provided emergency relief to residents and helped small businesses retool.
Hayward Evaluation and Response Teams — In recognition of the importance of deploying appropriate levels of response to each 9-1-1 call, the Hayward Police and Fire Departments are involving behavioral and mental health professionals in emergency dispatch operations and partnering with them in the field.
Fireworks Enforcement and Fire Safety — Fireworks are illegal in Hayward. This year, the City began holding property owners responsible and issuing fines for fireworks activity emanating from their properties. At the same time, our Fire Department’s no-fee Residential Chipping and Assistance Program helps property owners gather and dispose of branches and vegetation before the height of fire season.
- 08/09/2022 | City issuing violation notices, fines in new approach to enforcement of Hayward fireworks ban
- 05/10/2022 | Applications now being accepted through May 31 for no-cost residential chipping program to reduce fire risk
- 05/10/2022 | Hayward Property Owners now responsible for illegal fireworks activity on their property
