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Gary Thompson

Managing Principal

Mr. Thompson has over 15 years of experience in municipal government finance and management, with extensive experience in formulating and managing municipal government budgets, setting municipal level policy, and in the development and analysis of comprehensive incorporation and annexation fiscal models. Mr. Thompson’s expertise includes extensive knowledge of the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Re-Organization Act of 2000, special assessment district financing, state and local government financing mechanisms and regulations, municipal governmental accounting and capital financing plans, and specialized experience in new city start-up and transition processes and cash flow management. Mr. Thompson also is conversant in all aspects of conducting and analyzing municipal services and sphere of influence reviews, and in the performance of municipal service fee analysis.

Mr. Thompson’s firm, GST Consulting, was formed in 2005, although Mr. Thompson recently spent two years with Winzler & Kelly as a Project Manager and Municipal Financial Analyst until reactivating his firm in 2009. Mr. Thompson has performed fiscal services for several LAFCOs, counties, municipalities and the private sector throughout the state over the last several years, and is the author of the CALAFCO white paper “Newly Incorporated Cities- Successfully Transitioning to Cityhood”.

Mr. Thompson is also a former city councilman for the City of Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County having been elected to the city’s first city council in November of 1999 during the city’s incorporation election, and has served as the city's Mayor in 2003 and 2009. Mr. Thompson also served on the boards of two joint powers authorities and one independent special district in Orange County, and is a recent past board member of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Mr. Thompson holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach and an Associate in Science Degree from Long Beach City College.