{"id":8719,"date":"2010-08-03T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8719"},"modified":"2010-08-03T10:18:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T17:18:18","slug":"city-of-carlsbad-names-new-finance-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8719","title":{"rendered":"City of Carlsbad Names New Finance Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/KC43007_.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/KC43007_.jpg','popup','width=499,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/KC43007_-tm.jpg\" height=\"160\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Kc43007 \" \/><\/a>Marine Reserve Lieutenant Colonel <strong>Charles H. McBride<\/strong>, a C.P.A. with more than 10 years of financial management experience, has been named Finance Director for the City of Carlsbad, according to the Ciy of Carlsbad.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCharles has hands-on experience in all aspects of financial administration for a full service city,\u201d said <strong>Cynthia Haas<\/strong>, Deputy City Manager for the City of Carlsbad. \u201cHe is a proven team leader who will carry on the city\u2019s excellent track record of responsible budget management.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McBride is filling the position left vacant in April 2010 by former finance director <strong>Lisa Irvine<\/strong>. Follow the jump for the rest of the details.<!--more-->McBride named City of Carlsbad Finance Director<\/p>\n<p>CARLSBAD, Calif. \u2013 Charles H. McBride, a C.P.A. with more than 10 years of financial management experience, has been named Finance Director for the City of Carlsbad. He will start August 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles has hands-on experience in all aspects of financial administration for a full service city,\u201d said Cynthia Haas, Deputy City Manager for the City of Carlsbad. \u201cHe is a proven team leader who will carry on the city\u2019s excellent track record of responsible budget management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McBride most recently served as Assistant Director of Finance for the City of Santa Monica, Calif., which, like Carlsbad, holds a AAA credit rating. In that role he was responsible for the preparation and oversight of a more than $500 million annual budget. In Santa Monica, McBride also oversaw more than $600 million in investments in the city\u2019s portfolio, prepared financial forecasts and oversaw the city\u2019s 85-person finance team.<\/p>\n<p>Other experience includes serving as the Accounting Manager for the City of Oceanside and JC Resorts, a resort management company. McBride has served as a U.S. Marine attack helicopter pilot since 1991, and continues to serve in the Reserves, currently holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. <\/p>\n<p>As the City of Carlsbad\u2019s Finance Director, McBride will oversee the preparation of the city\u2019s approximately $250 million budget as well as advise the City Manager and City Council on financial planning, revenue projections, and local, state and national economic forecasts. He will oversee a team of approximately 30 full and part time staff, who handle such duties as financial reporting, purchasing, payroll, internal auditing, accounts payable and utility billing.<\/p>\n<p>McBride holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern California. He succeeds Lisa Irvine, the city\u2019s previous finance director who left the city in April. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. McBride, a C.P.A. with more than 10 years of financial management experience, has been named Finance Director for the City of Carlsbad, according to the Ciy of Carlsbad. \u201cCharles has hands-on experience in all aspects of financial administration for a full service city,\u201d said Cynthia Haas, Deputy City Manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}