The board overseeing licensing for private career schools postponed action on applications from Corteva Institute to add barber and cosmetology programs after members said they had not received the full materials needed to review the proposals.

Speaker 1, board member, said, “I did not receive that information,” and later added that the board had received the materials only the previous afternoon. Speaker 3, board member, clarified the body's role: “Because this board doesn't actually approve or deny the application. It simply makes a recommendation to the Department of Public Health as to whether or not it should be denied or approved.”

The omission appears to be limited to application attachments: speaker comments indicated the packet included a barber curriculum but that cosmetology materials were limited to tuition and fees. Speaker 1 said they could only find “tuition and fees” and that the curriculum for cosmetology was not present in the materials they had reviewed. Speaker 2 said staff had exchanged documents with applicants since January and that both applications had been kept separate in earlier submissions but were being forwarded together in recent months.

After discussing timelines and access to email, the board directed staff to circulate the complete application files (both barber and cosmetology) that Miss Vitesse had provided. Speaker 3 proposed a short recess and the group agreed to reconvene at 9:30 a.m. to give members time to review the full submissions before any discussion or formal recommendation.

No motion to approve or deny the applications was made at the meeting, and no vote was taken. Board members noted scheduling constraints: one member said they needed to leave by 10:30 a.m. for a legal appointment, and another requested about 10 minutes to review documents once they arrive.

Next steps described in the meeting were procedural: staff were to forward the complete files to all board members, the board would resume the meeting at 9:30 a.m. to discuss the applications, and then the board would vote on a recommendation to the Department of Public Health to approve or deny the applications.

Background provided in the meeting was limited. Speakers referenced an ongoing exchange of documents with the applicant dating to January and indicated the applications for barber and cosmetology had been handled as separate submissions at times. The record in this meeting does not include details about curricula content, facility plans, licensing fees beyond the reference to tuition and fees for cosmetology, nor any substantive evaluation or findings by the board. The board's authority in this matter is advisory to the Department of Public Health, per the remarks recorded in the meeting.