Marin County taps new director of finance

Mina Martinovich, a veteran of county finance, has assumed a new position as head of the division right after getting the reins from her manager, who retired soon after more than 30 several years this spring.

Employed by Roy Offered in June 2011, Martinovich served 7 several years as assistant director of finance just before getting named director last month. Her yearly income is $235,102.

Provided retired as director of finance — a work that included the posts of auditor, controller, treasurer and tax collector — in April and moved with his wife to Sonoma County, shut to his son and daughter who reside in Rohnert Park.

He said he determined retire when he did so that he could support treatment for his 9-month-outdated granddaughter. That allowed his daughter to return to her career as a kindergarten trainer in Novato.

Given claimed the only detail he disliked about operating for the county was commuting to get the job done from Novato.

“I truly liked what I did,” he claimed. “I just found a little something that I felt was additional significant to do with my time.”

A indigenous of Novato, Specified grew up one of 8 small children. His father worked as a taxi driver and his mother was a homemaker.

“My father labored truly difficult,” Given mentioned. “He did not make good dollars, but we always had enough to take in. He was equipped to save and acquire a dwelling. It showed me how critical it was to perform difficult.”

Given believes that having a mum or dad at house viewing more than him and his siblings was essential. “I consider that made a big big difference in the way we grew up,” he said.

Soon after functioning his way through school earning a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Sonoma Condition University in 1990, Given switched to accounting following initially finding out pc science simply because it was tricky for him to get entry to the computer lab and get the job done at the exact time.

Soon just after graduating, Given started operating for Marin County as an entry level accountant. He labored his way up, 1st to senior accountant, then tax supervisor, then main deputy auditor-controller and then assistant treasurer-tax collector just before staying appointed director of finance in 2011.

A significant aspect of Given’s work, and to some degree remarkably, his favourite portion, was interacting with associates of the public who experienced inquiries about their tax expenses.

“Nobody likes spending taxes or not finding facts they will need,” Specified said. “I really do not like paying taxes, and I’m a tax collector.”

Given can take satisfaction, however, in the actuality that when associates of the public left his workplace, “most of the time they at minimum felt that they experienced been served.”

In the course of his sendoff, Marin County Administrator Matthew Hymel claimed, “Roy exemplifies the principles of superior federal government and buyer service. There are so a lot of illustrations wherever I’ve referred another person to Roy, and they’ve gotten their issue taken care of since Roy listened to them. They may well not have liked paying the approach of paying out taxes but they recognized it.”

Like Supplied, Martinovich also worked her way up the ladder to her present-day placement.

She grew up in Belmont, and attained her bachelor’s in accounting from the University of San Francisco. Right before starting off function at the county, she worked for 4 a long time in the private sector for KPMG International Constrained, a multinational skilled services network.

“There are matters that the county features that aren’t financial that appealed to me,” Martinovich mentioned. “It’s not about earning a gain. It is about functioning for the collective good. That is anything that resonates with me really significantly.”

Martinovich life in Sebastopol with her partner and two sons, who are 6 and 8. She reported her spouse was a firefighter but experienced to retire thanks to an injuries.

“Things occur for a purpose,” Marintovich said. “The silver lining is he has been in a position to stay at home with our two boys.”

As finance director Martinovich qualified prospects a group of 61 entire-time equal staff members positions and manages an yearly departmental spending budget of $10.3 million.

As the county’s main fiscal officer, she is billed with keeping the accounts of county govt, the county’s college districts, and the dozens of specific districts inside Marin County. She administers the county’s important money, budgetary, payroll, set asset and tax apportionment/assortment systems.

Provided mentioned, “The supervisors produced a fantastic final decision by hiring Mina. She worked truly hard. I have very little but good issues to say about her.”