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City Of Ventura Gets New City Manager

A South Coast city has picked a new City Manager.

The Ventura City Council selected Alex McIntyre for the vacant post. McIntyre is currently City Manager for the Northern California community of Menlo Park.

Before that, he was an executive with Marin County, and two other Northern California cities. The City Council still has to officially finalize the agreement. It’s on the October 8th City Council agenda.

McIntyre will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Mark Watkins in December of 2017. He stepped down after five years on the job.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral. 
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