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California SLPA board reports tight budget, plans postcard renewals and flags rising enforcement and CE audit failures
Summary
The Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board reported tight near-term finances but said an approved augmentation will cover enforcement costs; staff will move to a postcard renewal notice to save printing and postage while continuing recent licensing improvements.
The Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board reported tight near-term finances but said an augmentation approved by the Attorney General’s office will cover higher enforcement costs while staff pursues recurring savings.
Board Executive Officer Charice Burns told members the board’s augmentation request to cover Office of the Attorney General expenditures was approved, and that after the augmentation the fund will have only a “tiny sliver of a reversion of 0.19%,” about $6,000, remaining at fiscal year end. “I am very happy to report that our augmentation is approved,” Burns said.
Why it matters: Board staff said enforcement cases taken to the Office of Administrative Hearings have driven spending above estimates; without an approved augmentation the board…
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