Mill Valley Taps Sean McGrew For New Administrative Role

MILL VALLEY, CA — Mill Valley has tapped Sean McGrew as the city’s new Arts and Recreation director.

City Manager Alan Piombo announced McGrew’s appointment at Monday’s City Council meeting.

McGrew has headed Arts and Recreation on an interim basis since early 2020, when he replaced Jenny Rogers.

“During his many years in Recreation, Sean has demonstrated visionary and collaborative leadership and the ability to lead and motivate staff, as well as working with a diverse workforce and community,” Piombo said.

Sean has over 40 years of recreation experience, which began at 14 years-old, cleaning pools and teaching swimming for San Francisco Recreation and Parks.

Over the past 16 months, as Interim Arts and Recreation Director, he has managed the Recreation Department’s response to the pandemic, providing emergency shelter for fire evacuees, and the re-envisioning of the City’s Arts and Recreation programs.

“This past year completely upended the departments that offer in-person programming such as Recreation,” Mayor John McCauley said.

“But under Sean’s leadership, we continued to serve our community with innovative Recreation and Arts programming to keep us connected and active. I want to thank Sean for his unflappable resilience through it all.”