Chandler Acting City Manager John Pombier has named Marge Zylla as the city’s strategic initiatives director to lead its government relations, transportation policy and grants teams.

Zylla also will serve as the principal person responsible for complex negotiations on behalf of the city.

She was set to begin her new position in Chandler on Oct. 6, succeeding Ryan Peters, who was promoted to Deputy City Manager in August.

Zylla has almost 20 years of experience in state and municipal public policy. She has been the Arizona Governor’s Office director of fiscal and legislative affairs since 2023.

Prior to that, she worked for 10 years as the City of Tempe’s Government Relations Director and six years as a senior fiscal analyst at the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee.

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