The featured speaker at the May 11 noon meeting of the Hayward Rotary Club will be Jennifer Ott, Hayward city manager.
The featured speaker at the May 11 noon meeting of the Hayward Rotary Club will be Jennifer Ott, Hayward city manager. The meeting will be held at 1074 B St.
She was selected as city manager for Alameda in 2022 after serving as Hayward's assistant city manager beginning in 2018. She re-joined Hayward as city manager in December of 2025 and has more than 25 years of experience working on local government issues. Before her service to Hayward from 2018 to 2022, Ott worked for 13 years in numerous capacities for the City of Alameda. Earlier, she was vice president at Economic & Planning Systems of Oakland, a land-use policy and real estate development consultancy to local governments and private developers.