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Alaya White

Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:04 PM

Vallejo Flood & Wastewater District
Director of Administration / Clerk of the Board
Phone Screen Questions

General Questions
1. Why are you interested in the DOA opportunity with Vallejo Flood &
Wastewater? Why are you actively or passively looking for a new position?

Interested because I came across the position - and it encompasses a lot of the
experience that I've had. I live in the City of Vallejo. It's very convenient for me to
commute. I was a contract administrator for a program in Oakland. I am looking for
something that is career based and not contract based. I worked with facility and
maintenance under the same City.

ACTS Community Development - it has various programs - owns a few properties.
My position was to hire a contract to apply for a grant, which we got with Alameda
County to get counseling services for the jail. I oversaw the contracts and
maintained our partner relationships with different agencies who were apart of
that. We had about 13 employees who were under us who I oversaw daily. Private
corporation. I worked on a program and property management. I was called in to
develop a program in the system so that we could track data. As far as counseling
services, dieting, welfare programs. I implemented a program through Sales Force,
where employees could go in and enter in information. It could be tracked. They
were able to see the trends of inmates and things like that. I represented the
program with Board of Supervisors, volunteer training, prepare our agendas, I also
served to the executive team in terms of calendaring, scheduling travel. I worked
with the property management side. Took renal payments and things like that.
Maintained highly confidential records.

Position Specific Questions
2. Please describe your highest level administrative support role to an Executive,
Director, General Manager and/or Board.

3. Please describe your supervisory experience and the most challenging human
resources issue you have addressed.

I was the manager of those who worked with Alameda County at the jail. I
managed a team of 13. On the property side I managed a team of two. The most
challenging human resources issue - I had one employee who had an issue with
calling out again. Because of my previous experience working with Kaiser - I knew