Chris Childs is a retired Assistant Commissioner for California Highway Patrol. During his nearly 28-year career, he worked throughout California, including assignments as a crash reconstructionist with the CHP’s multi-disciplinary Accident Investigation Team and his favorite assignment as a Motor Officer. He was the Commander of the Napa and Santa Rosa area offices, as well as Golden Gate Division’s Communications Center. Mr. Childs was promoted to Chief of the Information Management Division, where he served as the Department’s Chief Information Officer. His final assignment was as Assistant Commissioner, Staff, where he fulfilled the role of Chief Financial Officer and provided operational oversight of statewide training, policy development, the fleet, and all Information Technology systems. Mr. Childs currently consults for the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association, representing 18 of the world’s leading AV companies.
“Thank you very much for a comprehensive report. Thank you.”
Palm Springs
“Thank you so much for this training. This was the best PIO training I’ve ever received.”
S-403 Information Officer class participant
“We work with consultants, obviously, all the time, but the work that Citygate did on this report is some of the best I’ve seen in my tenure here.”
Retired Chief Administrative Officer San Diego County
“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 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
