Board reviews budgets and begins early planning for 2028 sunset review, weighing fee and enforcement options
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Summary
Budget staff presented fund condition statements showing projected reserves and emphasized considerations for a forthcoming sunset review (board scheduled to sunset Jan. 1, 2028). Staff outlined options including fee-structure changes and enforcement fine range review to reduce reliance on WDO-related fees.
Budget analyst Kayla Van Lint presented the Structural Pest Control Board’s fund condition statements and expenditure projections, describing projected revenues and reserves across the board’s three funds and flagging drivers of future expenditure increases.
Van Lint told members the board began 2024–25 with a base budget near $6.5 million and projected to spend roughly $6.2 million in the current projection, which would create a reversion of about $283,000 (approximately 4.35 percent). She reviewed fund balances across the three reported funds, including a reserve of about $1.45 million projected in one fund and a multi‑month reserve in another. Van Lint and DCA staff cautioned that the fund condition is a snapshot that includes conservative 3 percent escalators for salary and retirement adjustments and that projected interest income assumptions may change during the May revise.
Separately, the executive office outlined early work on the board’s sunset review, which is scheduled for Jan. 1, 2028; the draft sunset report will evaluate enforcement activity, finances, program needs and potential statutory changes. Staff said the board currently receives roughly 85 percent of revenue from WDO‑related fees and is examining options to reduce that reliance, including changing renewal cycles (annual or biannual), reassessing statutory fee caps and converting one‑time company registrations to recurring renewals. Staff said they will return to the board with more detailed proposals at summer and fall meetings.
