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Micki Callahan

Micki Callahan Micki Callahan was appointed as the Director of
Human Resources for the City & County of San Francisco on
October 9, 2007. Ms. Callahan first joined the Department of Human
Resources in October of 2005 as the Employee Relations Director. In
this capacity Ms. Callahan was responsible for directing the
negotiations of labor agreements covering the City's 28,000
employees and managing the City's labor relations program,
including labor contract administration, dispute resolution, and
training. Prior to joining the Department of Human Resources, Ms.
Callahan spent ten years with the State Mediation and Conciliation
Service, and served as the Supervisor of Conciliation from 2000
through 2005. Before she became a mediator, Ms. Callahan spent
fourteen years working as a union representative with the Service
Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association.
Ms. Callahan was born and raised in Massachusetts, and has been
a California resident since 1984. Ms. Callahan received her BA from
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Bill Chiat

Bill Chiat is Dean of the CSAC Institute and president of Alta Mesa
Group, LLC. His expertise spans 35 years in local and state
governments. He served as County Executive Officer of Napa
County and Director of Organizational Effectiveness in Santa
Barbara County. Mr. Chiat has held executive positions in city and
special district governments, including several regional agencies
and joint power authorities. From 2004 to 2012 Mr. Chiat served as
Executive Director of the California Association of Local Agency
Formation Commissions. At the state level, he served as Executive
Director of the Arizona Governor’s Office for Excellence in
Government and led the state’s executive education program.

Mr. Chiat provides facilitation services and organizational
development, leadership and governance consulting to local
governments throughout the West through his consultancy, Alta
Mesa Group, LLC.

Mr. Chiat has a B.S. from the University of Minnesota and a M.S. in
natural resources administration from the University of Michigan. He
is a graduate of the Senior Executives in State and Local
Government Program from the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University. He has research and taught numerous courses in
public agency leadership, organizational structure, governance
and operations over the last 30 years. In 2012 Mr. Chiat received the

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