Understanding Your City

The City of Brea is excited to offer, Engage Brea, Understanding Your City, a community engagement program! To enhance community input and involvement, the City offers Engage Brea as a tool to connect with your local City government and further understand your City. This program is ideal for those interested in an opportunity to engage further with your local government and gain beneficial knowledge about how City government is organized and managed. It also seeks to encourage citizen involvement, input, and participation in the various City projects, committees, and commissions.

Engage Brea is an eight-week program, hosted by the City, in partnership with California State University, Fullerton Professor Scott Spitzer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science. This unique opportunity provides participants with a general overview of City operations, departments, and external agencies that affect our community. This program offers one-on-one experiences with City staff, local elected officials, and academic leadership to promote community engagement and offer beneficial skills and knowledge to address community issues and work together for the enhancement of our community.

All members of the Brea community, 16 years or older, are invited to participate. We welcome all segments of the community to participate, including those with varied educational and cultural backgrounds, and future leaders interested in local government participation. The program is open to Brea residents as well as non-residents.

2027 Engage Brea Program

Engage Brea is moving to a biennial schedule to continue delivering a high-quality and impactful experience to our community. The next Engage Brea Cohort will launch in 2027, with program details to be published in Winter 2026. If you are interested in the program or have any questions, please contact Executive Assistance to the City Manager/City Council Karlee Martinez, at cmadmin@cityofbrea.gov. 

Click here to view past Engage Brea graduates.