Ms. Bristow has more than 25 years of experience in high-level management, working with city councils, boards of directors, commissions, developers, unions, communities at large, special districts, and homeowner associations. She has experience in both the public- and private-sector, having served Alameda County for 16 years and the City of Hayward for more than 10 years in a variety of capacities, as well as serving as an Executive Director for West Coast Code Consultants since 2018. As the Neighborhood Partnership Manager in Hayward, she developed and managed the Mural Arts Program, which won the 2011 Helen Putnam Award for Excellence in the area of Community Services and Development. She also facilitated and executed the settlement agreement between Caltrans and various third parties. Before working for the City of Hayward, Ms. Bristow served Alameda County in the roles of Deputy Planning Section Chief in the Office of Emergency Services and Redevelopment Specialist for the County’s Community Development Agency. Ms. Bristow is skilled in crisis management, advanced mediation, and comprehensive facilitation. For more than 35 years, she has served as Chief Executive Officer of Energy Company, which, in part, provides organizational and executive life coaching. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Administrative/Criminal Justice from California State University, East Bay (formerly Hayward), and is currently working on her master’s degree in Organizational Leadership and Innovation from Grand Canyon University.
“I think this is one of the most comprehensive reports and I think probably one of the best presented reports I’ve seen in my years in government service. I want to start off by commending you for that and acknowledge that the work that you were able to do with cooperation from all of the different firefighting agencies in this region was second-to-none.”
Supervisor First District 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
“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 think Citygate has done a great job. It seems like you’ve been most thorough and even-handed in your evaluations and you’ve given us certainly a lot of suggestions and guidelines to work with.”
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
“I wanted to offer my compliments to Citygate, to Mr. Gary for this very comprehensive report.”
San Luis Obispo Council Member
