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Social workers board seeks salary and contractual shifts, cites $1M cash balance
Summary
The Board of Examiners for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists told the Appropriations Subcommittee it needs authority to reclassify and raise staff salaries, to transfer $45,000 from salary authority into contractual services for temporary staffing, and asked to raise the executive director’s salary to $70,000.
The Board of Examiners for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists requested staffing and budget adjustments from the Appropriations Subcommittee, saying the agency has historically been underfunded despite a cash balance of roughly $1,000,000.
Patrick Johnson, the board’s executive director since October 2024, said the agency licenses about 42,100 social workers and roughly 225 marriage and family therapists. Johnson and budget staff told the committee the board’s five-year average revenue is about $327,000 while five-year average…
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