Mike Frisbie, P.E. - Vice Chair

Mike is San Antonio’s City Engineer and Director of Transportation & Capital Improvements. He manages a department with over 800 employees who build and maintain the City’s infrastructure, including roads, drainage and buildings.

Frisbie joined the City of San Antonio in September 2007. During his 25-year career, Frisbie has been involved in many programs and projects and has fostered much teamwork amongst agencies, consultants and contractors. In San Antonio, Frisbie works with the engineering, architectural and contracting communities to produce excellent, long-lasting projects.

When he arrived in San Antonio, Frisbie managed the 2007-2012 Bond Program, a $550 million and 150-project bond program that was the largest in the City’s history. After successfully delivering this program, voters expressed their confidence in the City to manage bond programs by passing the 2012-2017 Bond Program, allocating $596 million for 140 projects. In the past seven years, the City of San Antonio has managed over 500 infrastructure improvement projects totaling an estimated $2 billion.

Some of the notable projects that were managed under Frisbie’s leadership include the renovation of Terminal A and building the new Terminal B at the San Antonio International Airport. The award-winning Public Safety Headquarters project, using the Design-Build delivery method, was finished on time and within budget. Along with remarkable projects like the Lila Cockrell Theater renovation, complex street projects like Broadway-Hildebrand Drainage and Market Street Realignment were finished on time or ahead of schedule.

Frisbie’s teams are currently managing several prominent projects including the $325 million Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center Expansion. This project, currently ahead of schedule and under budget, is the single largest capital improvement project undertaken by the City of San Antonio.

Frisbie’s department also maintains City infrastructure. He manages the Infrastructure Management Program (IMP), a five-year rolling program utilized to plan and schedule various street, alley, drainage, sidewalks, traffic signals, pavement markings and Advanced Transportation District (ATD) related projects.

Frisbie also oversees the continuation of the Traffic Signal System Modernization (TSSM) program, a five-year program created to upgrade the City’s traffic management communications network and re-time over 1,300 traffic signalized intersections city-wide. The TSSM program continues to optimize signal timing and decrease traffic congestion along major City corridors.

Frisbie began his career with the City of Sandy, Utah, working as a Staff Engineer and then Division Manager. He worked for the City of Phoenix for 14 years in leadership positions overseeing projects, operations and infrastructure maintenance. Prior to coming to the City of San Antonio, Frisbie joined the URS Corporation in Phoenix as the Municipal Engineering Manager, leading the Municipal and Traffic Engineering teams.

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Education

Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering, University of Wyoming

Professional Engineers License, State of Texas

Professional Memberships and Community Involvement

American Public Works Association

American Society of Civil Engineers

Concordia Lutheran Church

Construction Management Association of America

Construction Owners Association of America

Honorary Commander/Air Education and Training Command

Institute of Transportation Engineers

National Forum for Black Public Administrators

San Antonio-Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization/Transportation Policy Board

Society of American Military Engineers

Personal

Frisbie grew up in Sheridan, Wyoming. Frisbie and his wife are the proud parents of three children – Jacob, Zachary and Macey. The family enjoys the outdoors and spending time with friends and family.