Kayla Barber-Perrotta Email & Phone Number

Albany, Oregon, United States

• Speaker, ICMA Annual Conference, October 2023
• Speaker, CML 101st Annual Conference, June 2023
• Speaker, ICMA Local Government Reimagined Conference, February 2023
• Speaker, ICMA 2022 Annual Conference, September 2022
• Speaker, ELGL 2022 Annual Conference, October 2022
• Inspiration Tent Presenter, ELGL 2021 Annual Conference, September 2021

Brighton, Colorado, United States

• Founded the Brighton Performance and Leadership Academy to educate employees on culture as a catalyst for innovation, the value of the employee cycle, and Lean process improvement.
• Manage the City’s $260M budget which services 388 employees across 15 departments including development, community engagement, presentations, and submission of official documents.
• Developed the City’s budgeting process with an emphasis on collaboration, transparency, and performance.
• Established the City’s performance management program including helping departments to establish metrics and training performance champions for each department on data analysis, data stories, and maintaining tidy data.
• Conduct analysis and provide recommendations for special projects including ward redistricting and negotiating the police department bonus program.
• Manage the City’s Strategic Plan including developing methods for measuring and reporting execution and overhauling the Annual Report process to celebrate successes.

• Navigated the Finance team through a significant transition.
• Identified department gaps and needs, and connected them with employee goals to enhance redundancy.
• Conducted process mapping and worked with teams to build standard operating procedures to setup them and the next director for success.
• Worked to rebuild trust within the department and throughout the organization and to mitigate employee disengagement and turnover

• Manage the City’s $138M budget which services 353 employees across 13 departments.
• Reinvented the City’s budgeting process with an emphasis on collaboration, transparency, education, and customer service. This includes developing policies to formalize the process, creating tools for departments to.
• Acted swiftly to overhaul the 2020 Budget to meet the sharp declines in revenues anticipated due to COVID-19 and moved the entire budget development and management process virtual.
• Developed the City’s first performance management program including helping departments to establish metrics and training performance champions for each department on data analysis, data stories, and maintaining tidy.
• Successful management of the City’s $4.2M passthrough of CARES Funding, including development and management of five residential and business assistance grant programs, and all documentation and administration for.
• Managed the City’s Strategic Plan including developing methods for measuring and reporting execution and overhauling the Annual Report process to celebrate successes.

Serve as the Emerging Manager representative for [Insert Region]; role includes organization of networking and professional development opportunities. The Committee’s charge is to ensuring Colorado is the best state in the country for developing talent and leadership in the city/county management profession.

• Served on the City's Comprehensive Planning Team including conducting public outreach, reviewing plan recommendations, and participating in strategic planning.
• Coordinated and managed City Council's annual trip to D.C. to lobby key Federal policy concerns. This included researching and creating policy briefings for Council and working with the City’s lobbyists to develop an.
• Tracked, researched, and prepared recommend positions for Council to take on State legislative issues.
• Successfully prepared and submitted the City’s Water Smart Grant application for which the City received $1.5M for AMI implementation, meter replacement, and other water conservation activities.
• Prepared recommendations for and monitored department budgets including Finance, City Development, Management Services, and Economic Development.
• Assisted in the creation and presentation of the annual budget recommendation to City Council.

Royal Oak, MI

• Entrusted as customer service champion tasked with designing and managing the City’s “Disney Way” customer-centric culture program. This included leading the Citywide training initiative, facilitating the creation of.
• Led development of the Royal Oak Next Plan which evaluated and made recommendations for improving the employee experience from recruitment to exit of the organization.
• Identified, reviewed, and developed successful applications for grants to facilitate city and community programs; and managed financial and reporting compliance of awarded grants.
• Engaged and leveraged outside agencies and neighboring communities as project stakeholders to expand the reach of grant opportunities.
• Managed development of the City’s first Hazard Mitigation Plan through a FEMA grant.
• Led the Royal Oak “Smart Park” crowdfunding campaign, raising $103,000 for the creation of a downtown pocket park. At the time, this was the most successful municipal crowdfunding campaign in the country

Royal Oak, MI

• Research and prepare policy and administrative recommendations for the City Manager, City Commission, and other departments
• Provided the initial concept for the Royal Oak Smart Park—a green connected park that makes smart use of a small space—and am an active participant in its ongoing design and execution
• Provide the highest level of customer service and information to the citizens of Royal Oak through management of the City Manager’s line and email inquiries
• Communicated with artists, and organized display of art pieces as part of the 2014-2015 Royal Oak Art Explored Project
• Actively participated in Royal Oak’s strategic planning process for 2015, helping to secure City Commission goals for creating a sustainability plan, updating the Emergency Preparedness Plan, and conducting customer.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

• Serve as the first line of communication with guests
• Successfully identify and respond to the special needs of guests
• Entrusted with executing confidential monetary transactions
• Responsible for training new employees to create and update reservations, and provide optimum customer service

Rock Hill, South Carolina

• Created and organized over one hundred lessons for students on water quality, recycling, and litter prevention
• Successfully completed applications resulting in national awards and grants for the City of Rock Hill’s Clean and Green Board
• Developed and executed the annual York County Green Business Conference
• Effectively coordinated the 1,000 Rain Gardens for York County Initiative and the Storm Drain Marking Initiative
• Active participant of the Rock Hill Green Team and Rock Hill Clean and Green Board

Rock Hill, South Carolina

• Successfully managed the 35th Annual Winthrop University Model United Nations Conference with record attendance
• Developed, updated, and organized a new website layout for the Winthrop University Model United Nations Program
• Trained and motivated the 2010-2011 Winthrop University Collegiate Model United Nations team that won ten awards in regional conferences
• Designed multiple lessons to help delegates refine their debate, research, and analysis skills
• Created the first institutional memory book for future Secretariat to use as their basis in preparing for conferences

Master Of International Affairs, International Relations And Affairs, Gpa: 3.79

Activities and Societies: Treasurer for the School of International Affairs Thon Committee, Represented the School of International.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Gpa: 3.76

Activities and Societies: Winthrop Model United Nations, Founder and President of Think! Speak! Act!, Student Representative for the.