Community Development Principal Emeritus
Mr. Corey has served at the senior executive level in cities for over 30 years. He specializes in organizational structure and staffing issues, financial stabilization plans, municipal wealth creation, and performance management. He began his association with Citygate in 1999, taking leave in 2002 to be of service to the City of Richmond, California, as Assistant City Manager, Acting Finance Director, and Interim City Manager. He has had oversight responsibility for all municipal functions, including the City Manager’s Office, Economic Development, Housing, City Clerk, Public Works, Finance, Community Development, and Recreation and Community Services. As such, Mr. Corey has had leadership responsibility for day-to-day management and operations, project management, budgeting, scheduling, workload balancing, costing, contracting out, coordination with private sector and internal department/customers, and delivery of complex infrastructure projects. Mr. Corey holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He received his undergraduate education from the University of California, Davis, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science.
“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
“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 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.”
Salt Lake City Council Meeting
“I wanted to offer my compliments to Citygate, to Mr. Gary for this very comprehensive report.”
San Luis Obispo Council Member
“Thank you very much for a comprehensive report. Thank you.”
Palm Springs
“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