A new building is under construction to house the Orlinda's Senior Citizens Center. The original structure, the old Orlinda School, was destroyed by fire in 1996. The Center is a gathering place and offers its senior residents many activities and social functions. Senior Center officials hope the new structure will be ready to host its programs sometime in early 1999. Today, with a population of nearly 600, Orlinda has a chartered City Manager-Commissioner form of government.
Council members elect their mayor.
The Orlinda City Council meets the second Thursday of each month. City officials include a city manager and recorder and volunteer fire chief. Orlinda residents got some good news earlier this year from the state's Insurance Service office. That means residents inside the city's corporate limits near a fire hydrant will see some reduction in their fire insurance rates. City officials are working on a new fire station to be located along Highway 31West and some improvements in the water system to help improve that rating in the future.