STEVEN A. PRESTON, FAICP: Deputy City Manager
Steve Preston is the deputy city manager for San Gabriel, overseeing economic development, planning, building and safety, housing, engineering and public works. He has been with San Gabriel since January, 1999. Steve represents California and Nevada on the American Planning Association’s (APA) national board of directors.

Winner of its 2000 Distinguished Service Award, Preston is also a former president of APA’s California chapter; past president of the California Planning Roundtable; chair of APA’s legislative and policy committee; Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners; former chair of AICP’s Multi-Media Task Force; and an occasional lecturer in the graduate planning program at Cal Poly in Pomona.

Co-Chair for the past four years of the UCLA Extension Land Use Law and Planning Conference, he has bachelor and master degrees in planning from Cal Poly Pomona with an emphasis in policy administration and communications. Steve also has served with the Asian Youth Center;La Casa de San Gabriel; and is active in historic preservation issues.

JACKIE WONG : Community Development Assistant

Jackie works directly for the deputy city manager, provides assistance to the Planning Commission and each of the department’s six divisions (economic development, planning, building and safety, public works, and engineering) as well as supervises the departmental clerk. 

With a skilled eye for fine food and beverages, Jackie brings more than outstanding organizational abilities to the table: she has a Bachelor of Science degree in Dietetics and Food Service Administration from Cal State Long Beach. She also has a Nonprofit & Public Organization Marketing & Fundraising certificate from her alma matter where, prior to joining San Gabriel, she specialized in planned giving and donor relations for a non-profit agency. Jackie lives in the San Gabriel Valley with her family and their toy French poodles. She enjoys traveling, shopping and baking.

LAURA CASTILLO : Community Development Clerk

Laura Castillo is one if the newest additions to the San Gabriel Community Development Family. She received her Bachelors degree from the Cal State University of Los Angeles in Sociology. She began her interest in local Government with the City of Whittier in 1997. Since then, has had experience working with the Community Development Department as well as in the CDBG loans process. On her spare time she enjoys traveling, painting and spending time with her family.