Project List

Client:
City of Calistoga, CA
Project:
Scope of work: Interim Planning and Building Director services to the City of Calistoga. Citygate oversaw the performance of all relates duties in the absence of the City’s permanent staff member.
Client:
Harris County Emergency Services District #9
Project:
Scope of work: Development of a Fire Master Plan for the Cy-Fair community of the northwest Houston metropolitan area. This engagement—based on Harris County Emergency Services District #9’s unique Fire and EMS fact pattern and varied risks—included a community risk assessment, a standard of cover study, and a compliance audit. The Master Plan also included the development of a strategic plan to ensure goals are actionable and categorized by priority over the long term.
Client:
City of Reno, NV
Project:
A collaboration with Stantec to develop a Parks, Recreation and Open Space Master Plan for the City of Reno. The Master Plan will serve to forecast responsible expansion of the existing parks and open space network to accommodate growth, enhance pedestrian and bicycle connectivity within the City and to open space and public lands, ensure parks, recreational facilities, trails, and open spaces are well maintained and accessible, and conserve and protect Reno’s natural resources. Citygate’s scope of work for this engagement includes review and analysis of the City’s existing draft Master Plan document and relevant regional plans, Level of Service alternatives, financing alternatives (capital and operating), urban forestry initiatives, and recreation services for the City.
Client:
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, CA
Project:
Citygate completed an organizational review of the Planning Department for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District in the Bay Area. As part of this review, Citygate evaluated the existing organizational structure and staffing functions, appraised the Department’s current operational policies and procedures, identified redundant systems and inefficient procedures or practices, assessed and identified operational areas that can be streamlined, and assessed how technology is currently used and how it might be better utilized to enhance project processing.
Client:
City of Goleta, CA
Project:
Citygate completed an organizational and operational review of Goleta’s Planning and Environmental Review (PER) Department, with the strategic objective of enhancing organizational operations for current and future needs. Additionally, to help guide the incoming PER Director once that position was filled, the review was also designed to make strategic recommendations that were the most urgent and most achievable given the many pressures and time constraints experienced by the Department and City during that time.
Client:
City of Grants Pass, OR
Project:
Citygate completed an operations plan for Community Development Programs for the City of Grants Pass, Oregon. The study focused on the operations of the Grants Pass Community Development functions (Planning Services, Building Services, and Parks and Community Development management divisions), an organizational structure review of the Public Works Department, and customer feedback, culminating in an Operations Plan for Community Development functions.
Client:
San Diego County, CA
Project:
Citygate assisted the County of San Diego’s newly-formed Planning and Development Services Department with an organizational change management program emphasizing customer-centric service.
Client:
San Diego County, CA
Project:
Citygate was retained to develop and analyze reorganizational structures of the departments and functions involved in the County’s development permit review process as they prepared for relocation to a new facility. Citygate’s review focused on identifying a customer-friendly and cost-effective approach to organizing the functions and departments around the development permit review process, rather than having the process adapt to the existing and historical multi-departmental operational silos.
Client:
City of Corona, CA
Project:
Citygate Associates conducted rotating departmental management and staffing studies for the City of Corona, including the Public Works Department, the Utility Services Department, the Public Library, the Housing and Development Department, the Police Department, the Building and Planning Departments, the Fire Department, the Department of Management Services, Parks, and a Citywide Overview of Implementation Status. Each study evaluated management, staffing, organization structure, resource deployment, maintenance service levels, operations, equipment, technology, human resource management, training, management information systems, performance measurement, and policies and procedures. We recommended specific performance measures for use in several departments. As a part of each management audit, we surveyed a number of comparable cities to develop comparative data and to identify best practices. In a follow-up analysis, Citygate found that over 95 percent of our approximately 250 recommendations had been implemented.
Client:
Salt Lake City, UT
Project:
Citygate facilitated two one-day workshops with the Salt Lake City Planning staff and Council staff on character-based leadership principles.

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