PERSONNEL

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University, Advanced Training in Economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, 1988
• Iowa State University, Ph.D. Resource Economics, 1976
• Iowa State University, Full Research and Teaching Scholarship, one of the top three Resource Economic Programs in the country, 1971 to 1976
• University of California, Davis, B.S. in Applied Economics with High Honors, 1971
• University of California, Davis, Nominated for a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1971

Experience

• 20 years of Mobilehome Rent-control Financial Consulting

Former
Position(s)

• Director and Principal-in-Charge, Ernst & Young, LLP Public Sector Management Consulting Practice

Recent
Mobilehome
Rent-control
Financial
Consulting
Engagements

• City of Fresno - Served as a financial expert witness on a complex mobilehome rent control case (Galland vs. City of Fresno) that had been tied up in litigation for years
• City of Concord - Calculated fair returns for two mobilehome parks (Adobe Mobile Lodge and Diablo Mobile Lodge)
• City of Palmdale - Quantified and analyzed twelve factors in the City Ordinance that needed to be considered for a mobilehome rent increase, and rebutted the park owner’s expert financial analyses
• City of Oceanside - Calculated fair returns for two mobilehome parks (Mira Mar Mobile Community and El Camino 76 Mobile Estates), and presented oral testimony presentations before the Manufactured Homes Fair Practices Commission
• Contra Costa County - Served as the Hearing Officer on a trial for a petition for a mobilehome capital improvement rent increase

Education

• M.B.A., Finance, University of California, Davis, 1993
• B.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1989

Experience

• 10 years of Mobilehome Rent-control Financial Consulting

Former
Position(s)

• Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Financial Consulting Practice
• Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young, LLP, Financial Consulting Practice

Recent
Mobilehome
Rent-control
Financial
Consulting
Engagements

• City of Fremont - Performed a rent and vacancy decontrol analysis for South Lake Mobilehome Park and Niles Canyon Mobile Estates
• City of Escondido - Reviewed two separate rent increase applications to determine a fair return for the Town & Country Mobilehome Park
• City of Concord - Calculated fair returns for two mobilehome parks (Adobe Mobile Lodge and Diablo Mobile Lodge)
• City of Palmdale - Quantified and analyzed twelve factors in the City Ordinance that needed to be considered for a mobilehome rent increase, and rebutted the park owner’s expert financial analyses