Board of Trustees Meeting

Location

Hybrid Meeting Format: offering both in-person and virtual meeting access

Minutes

Attendees

Board of Trustees: Chair Johnson, Trustee Bowman, Trustee Exstrom

Executive Cabinet: Danielle Slota, Emily Lardner, Jamilyn Penn, Melanie Lawson

Assistant Attorney General: Bruce Marvin

Study Session call to order: 3:34 p.m.

Opportunity for public comment

Persons wishing to testify must sign up and limit testimony to three minutes. Opportunity to testify will be offered for both in-person and virtual attendees. Speakers are encouraged to sign-up in advance of the start of the meeting using this form link.

Executive Session

The Board, as and when deemed necessary, may call an Executive Session for appropriate purposes under the Open Meetings Act.

(g) To evaluate the qualifications of an applicant for public employment or to review the performance of a public employee. However, subject to RCW 42.30.140(4), discussion by a governing body of salaries, wages, and other conditions of employment to be generally applied within the agency shall occur in a meeting open to the public, and when a governing body elects to take final action hiring, setting the salary of an individual employee or class of employees, or discharging or disciplining an employee, that action shall be taken in a meeting open to the public;

Executive session called to order at 3:36 p.m. for thirty minutes. Extended to 4:28 p.m. Adjourned executive session at 4:30 p.m.

Action item(s)

Action to be taken after executive session concludes

• Action item a. Acting Co-President contracts

Trustee Exstrom Moved that

WHEREAS the Board has confirmed the need for Co-Acting Presidents to maintain operations of the College pending Dr. Mosby’s return as President, and

WHEREAS the Co-Acting Presidents may be called upon to assume additional duties and responsibilities by the Board as issues arise, and

WHEREAS the existing Vice President of Student Services and Vice President of Academic Affairs contracts will continue in full force and effect during the term of this supplemental contract and should survive after the term of this supplemental contract has expired,

I MOVE that effective August 1, 2024, the Board enter into Supplemental Employment Contracts with Dr. Jamilyn Penn and Dr. Emily Lardner with annual salary amounts of $62,500, prorated to $5,208.33 per month. The supplemental employment contract will terminate on November 1, 2024 or sooner at the convenience of the Board and/or the Co-Acting President.This supplemental contract will run concurrently with the existing employment contracts of Dr. Penn and Dr. Larnder, which terminate on June 30, 2025, with the understanding that during the term of the supplemental employment contracts, the Co-Acting Presidents will continue to serve in the roles of Vice President of Student Services and Vice President of Academic Affairs with the authority to reassign personnel as necessary to ensure that the responsibilities in that role are adequately covered during their tenure as Co-Acting Presidents.

Trustee Bowman seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Special Session was adjourned: 4:32 a.m.

Minutes Signed and Approved

The meeting minutes from July 25, 2024, were approved and signed into record by Chair Johnson and Acting President Dr. Penn on September 12, 2024.

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