EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSAGE

Address Change:  WSPA  -  PO BOX 14459  -  Tumwater, WA  98511 (Please make sure to get this information to your business dept.)

Greetings,

Please join me in welcoming Jane Stencel, Director of Human Resources for East Valley School District (Spokane), as your WSPA President for the 2022-2023 school year.  As you may know, Jane is also our HELP and Professional Development Coordinator.  WSPA's president elect will be Doug Christensen, Associate Superintendent of Human Resources for the Kennewick School District.  He will be our president for the 23-24 school year, welcome Doug!  Last weekend Toni Neidhold, Director of Human Resources for the Kennewick School District passed the presidential baton to Jane.   Thank you Toni for your year of dedicated service as our WSPA President.  Janet Hodson, Executive Director of Human Resources for the Federal Way School District, turned over all secretarial duties to Traci Cox, Human Resource Coordinator for the West Valley (Yakima) School District.  Traci will serve a two year term as our secretary.  Thank you Janet for stepping in and helping when we had an unexpected opening at secretary.  Janet has served on our WSPA board for many years and we cannot thank her enough.  Lastly, thank you to Kim Holland, Executive Director of WSPA for the past two years.  Kim has grown our membership and brought many outstanding new ideas to our organization.  Good luck in your future endeavors!

Below are the region representatives for the upcoming 22-23 school year:

Region 1- Sabre Dahl, Keri Hutchins

Region 2- Sandra Villarreal, Kaylee Bolt

Region 3- Melissa Kreuder, Jenae Gomes

Region 4: Hosting the 2023 WSPA Annual Conference- Jennifer Koskovich, DeeDee Buckingham

Region 5- Vivian Jensen, Dan Dizon

Region 6- Eric DeJong, Maurene Stanton

As always, thank you for everything you do.  You are appreciated!  I hope you have an enjoyable Summer with family and/or friends.

Darrell Heisler

WSPA Executive Director