UC Merced is now officially a part of the City of Merced

MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The City of Merced conscionable got larger aft officially annexing UC Merced, the metropolis announced connected Friday.

Between the 1,040-acre ample field and the two-mile agelong of Bellevue Road that connects the metropolis to the school, officials accidental the annexation increases the Merced metropolis limits totaling to 1,140 acres.

The metropolis says the annexation aims to heighten collaboration with the assemblage and streamline services, benefiting students, faculty, and residents alike. 

“It’s an breathtaking caller epoch for some the metropolis and the UC,” said City of Merced Mayor, Matthew Serratto. “This isn’t conscionable astir expanding metropolis limits – it’s astir the shared aboriginal we’re creating together. Your creativity, energy, and innovation are indispensable to Merced’s spirit, and we look guardant to each that we volition execute together.”

The metropolis says the assemblage volition support its ain information services to guarantee a acquainted and unafraid environment; however, different services, specified arsenic occurrence protection, volition beryllium transferred to the city.

Students, staff, and module residing connected field volition beryllium eligible to ballot connected national, state, and region issues this year, but the metropolis says voting connected city-specific contests specified arsenic politician oregon metropolis assembly volition person to hold until adjacent year. This is due to the fact that annexation and the consequent alteration to voting precincts are required to beryllium successful effect for astatine slightest 125 days earlier the election.

The metropolis says students, faculty, and unit tin expect each different facets of field beingness to proceed arsenic usual.