Board of Trustees Meeting

Location

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

Minutes

Attendees

Board of Trustees: Chair Johnson, Vice Chair Swenson, Trustee Bowman

Executive Cabinet: Acting President Penn, Danielle Slota, Emily Lardner, Maribel Jimenez, Melanie Lawson, Michael Pham, Tim Wrye

Assistant Attorney General: Bruce Marvin

Absent:

Special Meeting call to order: 2:35 p.m.

Discussion Topics

Opportunity for public comment

None

Executive Session

Called to order at 2:36 p.m. for thirty minutes. Extended to 3:47 p.m.

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;

Action item(s)

Action to be taken after executive session concludes

• Action item a. Acting President contract

Trustee Exstrom Motioned, Trustee Swenson seconded, motion passed unanimously

WHEREAS the Board has confirmed the need to further amend the existing Co-Acting President Employment Contract to maintain operations of the College pending Dr. Mosby’s return as President, and

WHEREAS the second sentence in Article II of the amended Contract be further amended to extend the term of Dr. Jamilyn Penn’s appointment as Acting President to continue at the convenience of the Board and/or Dr. Penn, through June 30, 2025, or whenever Dr. Mosby returns from medical leave, whichever occurs earlier.

I MOVE that effective December 19, 2024, the Board extends the Supplemental Employment Contract of Dr. Jamilyn Penn, to the new expiry date of June 30, 2025.

Meeting adjourned at 3:48 p.m.

Minutes Signed and Approved

The meeting minutes from Dec. 19, 2024, were approved and signed into record by Chair Johnson and President John Mosby on January 16, 2025

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