City of Big Bear Lake, CA/ San Bernardino Mountains - Tourism Revitalization

Big Bear is a four-season resort community located in the San Bernardino Mountains. Surrounded by the most intensively utilized national forest in the nation, Big Bear serves a four-county market of 43,000,000 residents and visitors alike. Among comparable mega-markets of the world, the San Bernardino Mountains offer the only access to an alpine environment within a 1-2 hour drive.

directed the economic development program of that city for three years, during which the commercial district was revitalized. Businesses assessed themselves during a recession, a major earthquake and with an unfinished anchor hotel left standing for six years. Small business loans were provided by SBA, the county and city. The project was completed and has now expanded on private investment alone. The true testimonial to the success of the project is to ask any business person there whether it was worth the investment.

Village Streetscape w assessment district w Redevelopment plan amendment Completion of 114 room hotel w General plan amendment w specific plans Economic Base Study w small business loan program w Tourism and Recreation Strategy w Intermountain Trail System w Running Springs Downtown Revitalization w Suspended Light Rail Study w Trolley Bus System w annexation

also performed as a private consultant, serving as general manager of the Greater Running Springs Improvement Association, Inc., a non-profit corporation he established to administer a $500,000 federal revitalization grant. He successfully obtained a $100,000 "Village to Forest" TEA-21 trails grant for Running Springs, CA., and conducted a survey of Crestline, CA which resulted in the establishment of four eligible redevelopment areas. He has also worked with the San Bernardino National Forest and the National Children's Forest, and was instrumental in organizing four chambers of commerce, County of San Bernardino, Forest Service and the Sierra Club to sponsor the Fall Rendezvous '98 conference entitled, "Our Environment is Our Economy". He is a co-founder of the Rim of the World Trail Association.

County of Riverside, CA - Intergovernmental Cooperation at Work

resuscitated a moribund housing, community and economic development program as it its director for eight years. He arrived on loan from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, resolved nine major audit findings, and transformed the program from one of the least productive to one of the most productive in the nation. Working directly for the Board of Supervisors and serving 17 participating cities, he organized an advisory committee of city managers, county department heads and special districts to guide policy.

• Federal Receiver: Resolution of Management Audit
• Fire protection master plan
• Urban County CDBG Administration (including 17 cooperating cities)
• million budget
• Exemplary Affirmative Action Program
• Agua Mansa Enterprise Zone - largest and only 2-county enterprise zone in California(San Bernardino County, Riverside County, Cities of Riverside County, City of Colton, City of Rialto)
• Economic Development & Housing Loan Program (27 loans without default, leveraging $30 million
• HUD Disaster Loan, Norman Industries
• Redevelopment Agency Formation, Redevelopment Planning Areas, Feasibility Study
• Urban Parks Planning & Development Grant (Department of Interior UPARR)
• Housing voter referendum approval
• Housing rehabilitation and new construction
• Jurupa Community Services District - County Redevelopment Plan Amendment
• Urban Development Action Grant and economic development loan program (City of Coachella)

Northern California - Private Sector Leadership

applied his management talents as general manager of two non-profit economic development corporations, demonstrating private sector leadership and partnership with government. The Shasta Economic Development Corporation provided marketing, planning and financing assistance to the City of Redding, City of Anderson, Shasta County, Manufacturers, Bank, utility districts, manufacturers association and three chambers of commerce. The Superior Economic Development Council provided regional planning and a revolving loan fund to cities and the private sector in Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity, Modoc & Lassen Counties. He successfully recruited a private college, expanded his council to include Lassen County, Native American representatives and public utilities. His implemented a foreign trade initiative with Japan, promoting Shasta Beef. He cleaned up the administration of small business loans; particularly defaults and delinquencies. He also collaborated with regional tourism organizations to promote the area.

as a private consultant obtained funding to development the Dyer Mountain Ski Area under a contract with Lassen County.

Regional economic development plan (US Economic Development Administration) w Burney Industrial Strategy (EDA) w Small Business Revolving Loan Fund (EDA)/SBA certified development corporation w Industrial Recruitment (Simpson College) w Burney industrial plan w Enterprise Zone strategy w Airport Marketing w "Shasta Country" marketing brochure w Industrial park management/Manufacturers Association w Shasta Beef export to Japan

City of Coachella, CA and Environs - Affirmative Action

Coachella, CA is a predominantly Mexican-American community with a significant percentage speaking only limited English. Its agricultural economy is comprised of farm workers, making the city the sixth poorest in the State of California. Coachella is located adjacent to the affluent Palm Springs tourist region and four Indian reservations.

, as city manager successfully reformed local management practices, kept the city solvent during his three-year tenure and aggressively pursued economic development. He was very successful in recruiting of the agriculture industry for the city industrial park, selling redevelopment land at fair market value with no terms. He also focused the city for the first time on participating in the fast-growing tourism and recreation industry by adopting an entertainment district as part of the general plan and successfully achieving a voter-approved gaming initiative. He negotiated an historic agreement with the 29 Palms Band of Mission Indians to provide water and sewer to the new Spotlight 29 casino, employing more than 400 local residents.

instituted many management reforms in the areas of personnel and finance, including a complete overhaul of the police, finance, community development and public works departments. He undertook a General Plan Amendment that included economic development, design and agriculture elements for the first time and the creation of an entertainment zone. He prepared a fire protection plan and engineered voter approval of a fire assessment. He actively participated in intergovernmental relations with the Coachella Valley Association of Governments, Coachella Valley Enterprise Zone Authority and the Tri-Valley Alliance (Coachella, Imperial, Mexicali)

Agricultural Industry Recruitment (4 cold storage plants) w Entertainment Zone (General Plan Amendment) w Voter-approved Gaming Initiative w Spotlight 29 Indian casino assistance w Bridge funding and construction for the industrial and commercial centers w Family-owned business entrepreneurship training w Small business loan program w Entertainment District Development w Hotel and Attractions Market Analysis w Land Acquisition Strategy w Community Development Block Grant w Redevelopment

performed related work in the Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali Valleys as an economic development consultant. He provided a development strategy for private landowners and developers focused on the entertainment district. Clients included: Brandenburg Productions, Inc.; The DiMare Company; 29 Palms Band of Mission Indians; Cabazon Band of Mission Indians; Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Band; Pacific Indio Development Corporation (casinos, hotels, restaurants, theme park, shopping, waterway, annexation) - Coachella and Indio, CA.;

His work with the City of El Centro, CA included a border industrial strategy with the city of Mexicali, Mexico and an intermodal freight and passenger transportation study.

Mexico and the Pacific Rim

has worked with Korean, Japanese and Mexican industries as a private consultant, promoting international trade and investment. As a city manager, he promoted regional economic development with the Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali Valleys. Working with HUD International out of Washington, D.C. he assisted in the planning and development of the Pacific Conference on Urban Growth and the Inter-American Municipal Conference which involved the participation of President Lyndon Johnson, Inter-American Development Bank and Organization of American States.

BP Industries (Riverside, CA)
pineapple concentrate export/import w cement export/import w chicle export/import

Shasta Beef, Tokyo (Mexico, US, Japan)
Beef export & Japanese investment (cow-calf; feedlot; slaughterhouse) w Mexican quarantine beef (US-Mexican policy)

City of El Centro, CA
Mexicali Maquiladora Industry Study w Intermodal Freight and Passenger Transportation Feasibility Analysis

City of Coachella, CA
Tri-Valley Economic Development Coalition w NAFTA Highway (State Route 86)

Mariposa County (Yosemite National Park) - Resources Management

worked closely with Mariposa County, National Park Service, US Forest Service and the American Indian Council in analyzing the region economic, housing and transportation impacts of Yosemite National Park and the Gold Country. He participated in a feasibility for the California Mineral and Mining Museum, Bower Cave, Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System and the organization of the Mariposa County housing and economic development organizations.

Regional housing, economic development and transportation strategy w Bower Cave Marketing Strategy (Stanislaus National Forest) w Organization and Management of Economic Development w California Mineral & Mining Museum w Historic Preservation Grant (John C. Fremont Adobe)

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

represented HUD at the Washington, DC, Philadelphia, PA and Los Angeles, CA levels.

• Program Manager for the Southwestern United States Indian Reservations , producing 2000 housing units. He participated at the Federal Regional Council (San Francisco, CA).
• Community Development Representative for the Community Development Block Grant representing San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo and Mono Counties.
• Deputy Director of the 1970 California Fire Disaster Assistance team which housed 2000 victims.
• Urban Renewal Representative (Philadelphia, PA) - City of Baltimore, MD, City of Annapolis, MD
• International Training Officer for Latin America and Asia, Office of the Secretary (Washington, DC)