Dr. Pinhey has over 33 years’ experience in the management of municipal utility and public works departments, and he has served as a Director of Public Works or Assistant Public Works Director for the majority of his career. He recently served as Interim General Manager for the Stanislaus Regional Water Authority. Dr. Pinhey has managed full-service public works departments in cities serving populations ranging in size from 45,000 to 215,000. Dr. Pinhey has experience in water and wastewater utility operation and management, has direct experience in all aspects of public works maintenance activities, and has directed engineering functions and major capital projects. He is certified by the State of California as a wastewater treatment plant operator Grade IV, surface water treatment plant operator Grade 3, and a water distribution system operator Grade 3. He is also certified as a wastewater collection systems maintenance technician Grade 3 and an environmental compliance inspector Grade 1 by the California Water Environment Association. He has extensive experience in the training of professional and technical competencies in public utilities. Dr. Pinhey received as Master of Public Administration degree and doctorate from the University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy. He also serves as an adjunct teacher in the Graduate Public Administration Program at California State University, Stanislaus.
“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 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
“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
“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 wanted to offer my compliments to Citygate, to Mr. Gary for this very comprehensive report.”
San Luis Obispo Council Member