Special District Risk Management Authority is a not-for-profit public agency formed under California Government Code Section 6500 et seq. and provides a full-service risk management program for California’s local governments. For over 25 years, SDRMA has provided members comprehensive coverage protection for workers’ compensation, general liability, public officials errors and omissions, employment practices liability, auto, property, boiler and machinery and crime and fidelity coverage with rates that are consistently 15% below average market rates.

Our mission is to provide renewable, efficiently priced risk financing and risk management services through a financially sound pool and to ensure all services are delivered in a timely, cost-efficient, responsive manner. Our combined membership totals over 580 individual diversified member agencies.

Since November 2005, SDRMA has been accredited with Excellence by the California Association of Joint Powers Authorities (CAJPA). The CAJPA accreditation program has been operating since 1989 and reviews the organizational structure and activities of a joint powers authority (JPA) comparing the JPA with standards adopted by the Association believed to be advantageous to the preservation and performance of the individual JPA and JPAs in California as a whole.

The purpose of the program is to promote professional management and fiscally sound practices, provide industry standards, assure governing boards of management’s compliance with accepted standards, and maintain a self-regulating process that is ultimately less expensive and more meaningful than State or Federal regulation.