Cupertino Appoints Interim City Manager, Hires City Attorney

CUPERTINO, CA — The city of Cupertino appointed Greg Larson as the interim city manager on Tuesday after City Manager Deborah Feng announced her resignation last month.

Larson, who will start on July 14, has experience in the role at other Bay Area cities. He has served as Town Manager of Los Gatos, City Manager of Milpitas and Deputy City Manager of San Jose.

According to a news release, the search for a permanent city manager will continue and be coordinated by the recruitment firm William Avery & Associates.

Mayor Darcy Paul said that the city council is “highly enthusiastic” about working with Larson.

“The Cupertino City Council has located and retained an Interim City Manager with a tremendous breadth of applicable experience,” Mayor Darcy Paul said. “I feel confident that Cupertino will have a remarkably smooth and successful transition to a new permanent City Manager. We will benefit from an Interim City Manager with not just decades of local municipal managerial experience, but who also has a clear and abiding interest in the mechanics and underlying philosophy of local democratic governance.”

Feng, a Cupertino native, was appointed in June 2019 and worked with community leaders to mitigate the obstacles of last year's massive fire season and the devastating coronavirus pandemic in Cupertino.

“I have a profound respect for the local government structure,” Larson said. “As Interim City Manager, I will devote myself to continue strengthening the Cupertino organization as the Council recruits and appoints the next City Manager.”

Also on Tuesday, Cupertino hired Chris Jensen as city attorney, filling a role that had been vacant since 2019.

Jensen, a Stanford Law School graduate, is currently the Assistant City Attorney at Berkeley.