Public Works Department
The Street Maintenance crews are responsible for general maintenance and repair of City streets and signs; including hazardous conditions, potholes, right-of-ways and city owned parking lots.
Crews remove illegally dumped trash and debris; respond to emergencies such as vehicle accidents and flooding; eradicate weeds along city maintained roadways; respond to after hour calls for service; remove graffiti, install new and maintain existing roadway signs and road markings.
City in California
Description
Antioch is the third-largest city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The city’s population was 115,291 at the 2020 census. The city has grown substantially more diverse since the 1970s.
Antioch, California, and a name from the book of Acts
Antioch already bears a name from the early church. It was in Antioch of Syria that “the disciples were called Christians first” (Acts 11:26). That history makes a John the Baptist Boulevard in Antioch, California, especially fitting. John prepared the way for the Christ those disciples followed. He preached repentance, baptized in the Jordan, and made ready a people for the Lord (Luke 1:17; 3:3). The California city sits, as this page already notes, in the East Bay along the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. A community named Antioch, already living near water, is a natural place to remember the baptizer who stood in the river and pointed to Jesus.
We are asking Antioch’s mayor and city leaders to rename a local street John the Baptist Boulevard. A road near the river or the shoreline would tie the name to the water that already shapes the Delta, the way John’s ministry was bound to the Jordan. The city can keep every other name it already honors. This would only add the forerunner of Christ to the map, so that ordinary traffic has a chance to remember the call he preached.
If Antioch is your home, please write your mayor, share this request with believers and neighbors, and consider a local petition. This ministry will help. Reach John Arwood at (904) 305-7534 or [email protected].