Lorna Vogt has fifteen years of leadership experience in municipal, county, and special service district roles in addition to leadership positions in the non-profit and private sector. Most recently, she served as the Director of the Department of Public Services for Salt Lake City, where she led a team of more than 400 employees to provide essential public and internal services to the city. She initiated a successful reorganization to create the city’s first standalone Park and Public Lands Department, elevating green space acquisition and development to the level demanded by a dynamic, growing city. Subsequently, city residents approved an $85 million bond measure for park and trail development. Prior to her role as Director, Ms. Vogt served as Deputy Director of Operations in the department overseeing street, facilities, fleet, and parking enforcement divisions as well as safety and emergency response functions. In addition to public works functions, Ms. Vogt worked in open lands conservation as the first manager of Salt Lake County’s $24 million open space bond to acquire and preserve critical lands.
Ms. Vogt is an agile leader capable of managing diverse teams based on a foundation of collaboration and trust. She has a wealth of experience managing the tension that exists in public agencies that need to meet demanding, day-to-day realities while constantly adapting to changing needs and charting a course for the future. Ms. Vogt grounds her work on a foundation of respect, integrity, curiosity, and a commitment to building strong communities that people are proud to call home. She is energized by opportunities to engage with employees at all levels of an organization and enjoys incorporating their firsthand experiences with data and objective observations to forge insightful and compelling narratives for decision-makers.
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Salt Lake City Council Meeting
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AAE, General Manager Monterey Regional Airport
“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 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 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 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