FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 19, 2011
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA APPOINTS INTERIM CITY ADMINISTRATOR JOHN GOSS EFFECTIVE APRIL 19, 2011
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, CA — Carmel-by-the-Sea City Council unanimously selected John Goss from 19 applicants to act as Interim City Administrator effective Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Goss will serve until a permanent Administrator has been selected.
Having served as City Manager for two California cities as well as Assistant County Administrator and Interim Planning Director for a large California county, Goss brings substantial experience and leadership to the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea. In addition, Goss has first-hand experience of Carmel-by-the-Sea through his earlier analysis work on the library and business license tax.
“We believe John is a nice fit with staff and our city,” Mayor Sue McCloud said. “His familiarity with Carmel will be particularly helpful in tackling the budget that has to be balanced and approved by the end of June.”
As a recipient of the International City/County Management Association’s (ICMA) 40-year Service Award, Goss has managed the budget process during challenging times for cities, including major revenue loss due to the adoption of Proposition 13 and the recession of the early 1990s. He also has extensive community planning experience such as a parking plan to support a historic downtown and applied “smart growth” concepts to various projects as part of implementing best practices and quality of life issues.
“Besides offering the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea extensive experience and background as a city and county manager, I will analyze the current issues and give the City Council practical, well thought out solutions,” Goss explained. “My strength is in solving problems and giving elected officials guidance.”
“With particular knowledge of Carmel, I am also familiar with the police and fire service being headed by a Public Safety Director and I have worked with George Rawson your former Chief,” Goss continued. “Additionally, I also became familiar with Carmel’s fire contracts with Pacific Grove and Monterey in a study prepared for the City of Albany which, in part, examined the potential of outsourcing or jointly providing fire management and other services in cooperation with other nearby cities. Finally, my specific understanding of fire operations and in evaluating different ways to finance, organize, and provide fire services is reflected in the fire studies prepared for a City with an “in-house” fire department (Orange) and one that contracts for fire service (Thousand Oaks).”
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2 comments:
John Goss appears to be a good fit for the short-term issues facing the city. I am encouraged that he is familiar with Carmel's fire contracts with PG and Monterey, although I do not know of Albany's study, and his experience with Orange and Thousand Oaks fire services studies and all different solutions to fire services.
Since his firm was hired years ago to do the search for a planning director maybe he can jump start that process so we finally have a planning director to properly staff the planning department.
Hopefully he will be a big improvement over what we have had for the last decade.
I cannot believe it took the 5 clowns on the city council 19 days after the city manager (Guillen) left before appointing a replacement. They all need to GO!
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