Business View Civil & Municipal - May 2023

50 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 5 PREFERRED VENDOR/PARTNER n Onyx Paving Company Inc. www.onyxpavingco.com n West Coast Civil, Inc. www.westcoastcivil.com much to offer from whale watching to great beaches to our beautiful harbor. Tourism in the city brings over a million visitors each year.” Through negotiations with the state of California, the city took control of a section of the Pacific Coast Highway to beautify it. Killebrew shares the city’s reasoning for this effort, saying,“If you’re running a town, and you want to capture somebody’s interest and make it an experience, you want to slow the speeds down and provide an opportunity for people to kind of catch their breath, see something, and pull over and check it out. So, we put medians almost north to south, they’re all palm tree-lined, and they’re beautiful.” He adds,“During the holidays, we light them up. The city spends a lot of money on our holiday lighting program.” The city also partners with entities such as Visit Dana Point and the Dana Point Chamber of Commerce to market all that it has to offer, with the Assistant City Manager sitting on the board of each as a nonvoting member, looking for new opportunities to collaborate with the hotel and local business sectors. With an official motto that states,‘Harboring the Good Life,’ the city of Dana Point is moving forward into continued success. As for what drives him personally, Killebrew, a resident of Dana Point for nearly 25 years, offers, “The passion for me is to foster whatever makes the community a community where people get together and celebrate life. I’ve got a sign in my office that says,‘It’s a Beautiful Day in Dana Point.’ It could be the gloomiest day, I could be having the hardest day ever, for whatever reason dealing with whatever issues, and I’ve always got a top of mind that we are very blessed to live here.”