City Manager’s Office

Grayson Path serves as City Manager, where he oversees a budget of approximately $531 million and over 2,300 employees.

Greetings! My name is Grayson Path and I have the honor and privilege of serving you as the Amarillo City Manager. As the Chief Executive Officer in service to the City Council, it is my responsibility to provide efficient administration of all municipal departments.

Since receiving a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2009 and a Master of Public Administration degree from Arkansas State University in 2012, I’ve had the wonderful fortune of working for the City of Jetmore, KS (2013-2015) as City Administrator, City of Nebraska City, NE (2015-2020) as City Administrator, and City of Paris, TX (2020-2024) as City Manager. It has been a very exciting and busy career, filled with a wide variety of challenges and tasks that have given me the skills and experience I know will serve the City of Amarillo well.

During my career, I’ve had the pleasure of working on hundreds of millions of dollars in capital improvement projects, including roadways, facilities, treatment plants, and utilities. The communities I served were awarded tens of millions of dollars in federal and state funds, grants and donations, while in turn were able to offer funding through incentive programs to attract and maintain industry, businesses, and housing. I have been responsible for the development and implementation of significantly sized budgets and have overseen a wide array of departments such as emergency-based Police, Fire, and EMS, to infrastructure-based Public Works, Utilities, and Engineering, to operation and community-based Finance, Library, Parks and Community Development. Using a team approach, we tackled important community-advancement projects such as Comprehensive Development Plans, Revitalization Plans, Housing Assessments, Economic Development Programs and City Council Strategic Plans. But I’m particularly proud of the partnerships we formed among many entities within the communities I served; as well as the outstanding teams of City workers that I’ve been privileged to oversee. I understand the importance of empowering staff, thorough communication at all levels, and giving my employer (the city council) the information they need to make informed decisions as they lead the community, and it is my wish to serve the citizens of Amarillo, the city council and the team at the City of Amarillo, with the same vigor.

Public service continues to be my passion. While my position is one of leadership and management, I know the importance of putting those I serve first and foremost in all the decisions we make. To accomplish this, I rely heavily upon the community, the city council, and the staff because only through teamwork can we truly do great things. My role in this has been and will continue to be, one who stands in the gap and brings all these groups together to accomplish our goals. It is a challenging, yet rewarding, calling in life.

I have greatly enjoyed building coalitions and working with caring and industrious people within the communities I have served. Under God’s guiding hand, these individuals, as well as the mentors in my life, have helped mold me into the honest, hardworking, open-minded, quick-learning, determined, experienced, and strong-willed man I have become. These are the skills, as well as the experience I’ve gained along the way, that I bring in service to the people of Amarillo.