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Zaneta Luna

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 1:04 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?

I would say that I am sort of passively looking, I’m not really actively looking. I decided to apply for the
position because I feel that all of my work experience has centered around administration or being
clerk. When I saw the posting, it really jumped at me so I decided to take the opportunity to apply.
Where I am employed it is a pretty small organization. This would be a great career growth
opportunity to grow in my career and personally.
Position Specific Questions

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

With City of Walnut Creek I provided support to the City Manager. Here I support the General Manager
of Castro Valley Sanitary District. My job entails human resources, IT Support, public outreach, as well
as administrative support. I help the GM in all of those areas. Because I do oversee the department I
ensure that the support we do provide is as good as or to the best of our abilities in terms of what our
department can provide.

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

Currently supervises 7 with Castro Valley. I have a wide range of supervisory levels. The most
challenging HR issues - anytime you work with people there can be quite a few issues. I think I have
been fortunate that I haven't had anything too egregious. I will say one of the employees came up to
me and mentioned that a general managers comment about her appearance made her feel
uncomfortable. My advice to her was that if she wanted to pursue an investigation we can do that.

4. Please describe your experience in coordinating, tracking and reporting out on the implementation
of organizational goals, objectives, policies and procedures.

Castro Valley Sanitary District has a strategic plan. We have what we call developmental performance
index. DPIs. Every department develops their own DPIs every year. Apart from that we also have a
workshop for all of the executive team to make sure we are checking in on all goals and objectives. The
DPIs are presented to the Board of Directors so they can see how well we are doing. The DPIs include
goals and objectives within the specified plan. We also develop a working plan to make sure we have a