Lorie Tinfow, hired just a year ago as the city’s Administrative Services Director, quit this week to become Assistant City Manager of Walnut Creek with expanded responsibilities as also the head of its Administrative Services Department.
Her last day on the job here will be Friday, Oct. 27, with a start date n Walnut Creek the following Monday.
Tinfow won high praise from those who worked with her as well as members of volunteer committees that she directed. Among these is the Blue Ribbon Committee, a City Council-structured group representing a wide range of individual interests in trying to find an acceptable alternate roadway for golfers to use to reach Callippe Preserve Golf Course. The city agreed in a Specific Plan in 1998 to build a bypass so that golf course traffic would not use Sycamore Road and Alisal Street, as it now does.
Tinfow said that she has agreed to continue directing the Blue Ribbon committee at upcoming meetings, including one on Nov. 9, to help the group reach a consensus on where the bypass road should go and how it will be financed.
Tinfow also was put in charge of analyzing the issues involving the city’s acquisition of Pleasanton Memorial Gardens cemetery on Sunol Boulevard. The council followed her recommendations top buy the cemetery from the International Order of Odd Fellows for $1, and to develop a maintenance and future growth plan. That work will have to be assigned to another staff aide, which
In her new job, Tinfow will report to Walnut Creek City Manager Gary Pokorny, and she will handle his duties whenever he is away from the office.
Tinfow once worked for Walnut Creek as assistant to the city manager. Prior to joining the Pleasanton staff, she was the assistant city manager for Saratoga.
Tinfow, 45, and her husband Greg, who works in Walnut Creek, recently sold their home on the Peninsula and moved into an apartment in Pleasanton.
