Costa Mesa City CEO Tom Hatch presented Administrative Secretary Marian Stueve with the December CEO Leadership Award for her continued support of the Maintenance Services Division by working through budgeting and personnel issues.

“She is a team member with a very strong work ethic and dedication to assist,” Hatch said. “To the Corporate Yard employees, she is known as the Yard Mom, always willing to share her knowledge with fellow employees.”

Stueve began her tenure with the Costa Mesa City Clerk’s Office in August of 2004, She was an integral part of the City’s early voting process, in which Costa Mesa was one of the few cities participating in the use of a new technology for voting, the e-slate (electronic voting).

She assisted residents in providing instruction to all who came to our City Hall to participate in early voting, processing over 1,000 electronic ballots.  Only four months after she started her job, she was recognized for this work by the Mayor at a City Council meeting in December 2004.

In June 2005, Stueve was promoted to Administrative Secretary in the Public Services Department.  Within a few months of being promoted she quickly streamlined processes that provided increased customer service for maintenance related concerns.  She collaborated with the IT Department and was instrumental in the development of Costa Maintenance, a system which greatly improved the customer service and efficiency in responding to and tracking maintenance related concerns, both internal and external.  It’s also a system the city still heavily relies upon to this day.

Stueve came to the City of Costa Mesa from the private sector.  Her educational background is in nursing and still maintains her licensure with the State of California as a Vocational Nurse.

In addition to Stueve, Hatch welcomed several new full-time employees, including Arzo Azad, who went from a part time webmaster to Website Coordinator in the CEO’s Office, Frances Thorpe a new office specialist working with the City Clerk’s office.

From Parks and Community Services he also welcomed Shawna Salgado – Recreation Leader II and Maria Urquiza Sanchez to Recreation Leader III. From the Police Department Hatch welcomed Roxi Fyad as the new Public Affairs Manager and four new police officers, lateral hires from Fullerton PD Frank Nguyen and Bunnath Phot and Sheriff Academy grads Mark Garcia and Eric Molina.

Hatch also congratulated several employees for their recent promotions, including Janet Hauser, Administrative Secretary with Parks & Community Services, Rene Macias, Senior Code Enforcement Officer and Elena Martinez Recreation Leader III.