Board of Trustees Meeting

Location

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

Minutes

Attendees

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

Executive Cabinet: Danielle Slota, Melanie Lawson, Jamilyn Penn, Theresa Duhart for Tim Wrye, Maribel Jimenez

Assistant Attorney General: Bruce Marvin

Meeting call to order: 9:09 a.m.

Discussion Topics

Opportunity for public comment

None

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 call to order: 9:10 a.m. until 10:15 a.m., extended to 10:30 a.m., extended to 11:15 a.m.

Executive Session adjourned at: 11:15 a.m.

Unscheduled Business

Adjournment

Meeting adjourned at 11:20 a.m.

Minutes Signed and Approved

The meeting minutes from July 10, 2025, were approved and signed into record by Chair Swenson and President John R. Mosby on July 24, 2025.

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