Rainbow MWD to utilize excellence coins for staff

The Rainbow Municipal Water District will be providing its employees with recognition coins if those employees meet specified district objectives.

A presentation rather than a vote Dec. 6 explained the program to the Rainbow board as well as to members of the audience for that meeting.

"We're trying to take what we did with the strategic plan and make it part of our day-to-day work," said Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy.

The military tradition of challenge coins is used to reinforce pride of membership within a unit through the presentation of such tokens. Rainbow operations manager Darren...