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Please describe a project in which you played a major role in creating pathways for
improvement for those in your community.

Working with Tulare county - one of the biggest challenges that I had - we came to the point where we
had to shutdown one of our plant fills. Our budget was - we had $3m in our budget - our balance was
$3m. We had to decide what we were going to do to make our system - we had three landfills in a 30
mile radius of each other. We had to evaluate our programs and figure out how we can make things
better and determined we had to shutdown one of our landfills. We figured out how to reduce rates for
our community to benefit mom and pops coming to the landfill. We also reduced rates to our haulers. We
had guaranteed tonnage - that translated directly to the residents in that community.

The State of California has passed laws requiring increased recycling of Organic Waste, with the
goal of reducing disposal of organic waste by 50 percent compared to 2014 levels, by 2020.
Please provide your experience with recycling and solid waste in addressing this issue.

That is one of the main functions that I have been tasked with here. In Tulare when some of the first laws
came down around 2012 and 2016. I was sort of in the trenches of implementing those programs in
Tulare County. We started out on commercial - we put bins around and educated. We did trial projects in
our residential areas. We did composting so they could try doing a co-collection with the green waste.
We tried to make it as easy as possible for them. Educate them - make it as easy as possible. We did
that in a couple of pilot programs - we were able to implement a program - we were able to start
targeting different areas. We have been doing that for 5-6 years flawlessly. With Kings County - the
municipalities are a little more reactive vs. proactive so we are educating, providing outreach to the
community and then we are slowly rolling it out. In Tulare County we sent it to compost facilities and a
biomass facility. Right now - as we close down the MRF - we are looking at what kinds of programs we
have onsite to assist.

What is your experience managing diverse groups of employees, mentoring and growing them, and
what employment issues and challenges have you faced in communicating with different personality
types?

I have had the pleasure of reinventing agenices. Tulare County almost went bankrupt ­ I brought on a
brand new team around accounting, budget oversight ­ I brought in a team of different sorts of
professionals. What I really loved about that is I could teach. I got to watch my "babies" go and leave
the nest ­ I was able to promote them and they were able to find other jobs. I consider myself an
awesome leader because I have experienced crumby leadership. I have three direct reports and I have
to manage their workload.

What do you consider to be your greatest professional strength? What is something you
would like to improve?

I think that my biggest strength is - I have two that I like to tell - one is on the personal side and
one is professional. For me, the biggest thing is, I have a great fiscal background. I can manage
the money to make sure things are done properly and on time. I come from a position where we
almost lost it all.

On a personal level - I am a team player, I am a great leader. I'm here to serve my employees -
everything they do reflects on me. Supervising and managing them.

I definitely am very passionate about lots and lots of things - I tend to take a lot of that home
with me - I'm pretty hard on myself only because I want to do great. I want to not take things so
personally. When you go home at night you can really beat yourself up about it. We do the best
that we can - we get done what we can. You have to take that break - and I have a really hard
time doing that.