Local Government & Police Services Specialist
Alan Piombo is an innovative and collaborative leader with 31 years of progressive and responsible city government experience. He recently retired after serving as the City Manager for the City of Mill Valley, where he managed a broad array of services for 30,000 area residents—including oversight of eight city departments, a $47.8 million budget, and 156 full-time and 150 part-time employees. Mr. Piombo took the helm as the city’s chief executive during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he distinguished himself by proposing budget reductions and modernizing fee structures to balance the city’s general fund. Prior to serving as the City Manager, Mr. Piombo served as the Chief of Police for the Mill Valley Police Department and had an extensive law enforcement career with the City of San Rafael.
Mr. Piombo has 14 years of experience with administrative, management, and chief executive responsibilities; with strong qualifications in budgeting, strategic and succession planning, labor and employee relations, collective bargaining, employee development, and emergency response and preparedness. He has hands-on experience with community outreach and education, developing partnerships with business organizations and civic groups and implementing new technologies. Mr. Piombo is skilled at collaborating with regional, state and federal partners on complex issues and shared resources. He interacts effectively at various social levels, business environments and within diverse cultural groups.
Mr. Piombo received his Master of Arts in Leadership degree and Bachelor of Arts in Management degree from Saint Mary’s College of California. He also holds several certificates from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Mr. Piombo served as an elected board member to the Marin County Employees’ Retirement Association for seven years. He was recognized by the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce as Business Citizen of the Year in 2021 for his collaboration and efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I am very much appreciative of Citygate’s comprehensive view of all the issues. And you have been very candid and very forthright in the problem areas that you have identified and we appreciate that. Quite often sometimes people choose to gloss over those issues and therefore we never can get a real good handle on the problem to resolve it. And I very much appreciate your insight and your intuitive natures that you have all experienced in your government services and trying to identify where our problem areas are so we can identify for the public. I very much appreciate the idea and the comments that you made that we are talking about the citizens who come to the planning Department as customers. And so you’ve done a great service for us and we are certainly appreciative of all your efforts.”
Commissioner Jackson County
“I wanted to offer my compliments to Citygate, to Mr. Gary for this very comprehensive report.”
San Luis Obispo Council Member
“I was absolutely thrilled with the report because it was very comprehensive, very detailed. I call it the ‘time-in-motion study’ almost and some of the aspects [are] ‘how does your paper flow? How can you make your processes better? . . . As a government agency, how can we provide better service to the constituents?’ And to us we think that this study identifies those things down to all of the small paper processes and flows.”
Retired City Manager City of Vista, CA
“I really want to express my appreciation for this work that’s been done in a collaborative way in which the study was put together. . . . I’ve seen a number of studies start in the fire department and this is the first one I can remember that has actually been fully completed and brought to the council, and it was done in a very thorough fashion. This is the best assemblage of comprehensive information about the fire department today, as well as what our needs might be in the future, that I have seen. So thanks to everyone. Thank you, Stewart, for giving us our money’s worth on our consultant contract with you.”
City Manager City of San Luis Obispo
“Thank you so much for all you have done. And it’s so comprehensive, I know it’s going to take a while for us to digest it all, but I think you’ve come up with some really good recommendations.”
Pro Tempore City of Vista, CA
“I really, really enjoyed reading your Word product. I appreciate the fact that it was direct, it was constructive, and . . . it wasn’t finger-pointing, it was just . . . the facts. And I think that the money was well spent.”
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