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Board hears midyear budget and performance updates; CFO cites healthy fund balance and two-year licensing revenue boost
Summary
CFO Jeff Mutter reported midyear financials showing positive revenue and expense variances and forecasted revenue increases driven by implementing a two-year licensing cycle; staff also briefed on IT upgrades (Microsoft 365 E5), the ELVIS verification automation pilot, and midyear licensing and enforcement performance measures.
Jeff Mutter, the board’s chief financial officer, presented the second-quarter budget report and a draft FY27 budget. Mutter said both revenue and expenditures are running with positive variances year to date and attributed a significant revenue increase to the board’s implementation of a two-year licensing-renewal cycle for RLS, PE and firms. The draft budget anticipates modest expenditure increases to fill current vacancies and cover IT and building updates, but projects a healthy fund balance out several years and no immediate fee increases.
Board members asked about a statutory transfer to SDSI (about $373,000); staff said that transfer amount is written into statute and has remained stable, though it could be changed only by the Legislature.
Operations and IT: Director of operations reported an upgrade of the agency’s Microsoft 365 licenses from E3 to E5 to increase security visibility and enable Teams Phone licensing; the agency is completing a required bianual information-security assessment. Staff also described the ELVIS verification automation project intended to streamline interstate and Texas verification requests and reduce manual verification workload.
Performance measures: Licensing and enforcement staff reported midyear statistics: licensing application volume remains high (~5,000 applications/year), average application processing time is approximately 80 days, and exam pass rates (TSSE, FE, PE) align with national rates (TSSE ~45%, FE ~46%, PE ~50%). Enforcement reported 108 new cases and 120 closed in the quarter, with 242 pending at the end of April; continuing-education noncompliance audits are rising modestly.
Why it matters: The combination of revenue effects from a new licensing cycle, staffing vacancies, planned IT improvements, and continuing education compliance trends shape the agency’s capacity to process applications and manage enforcement workload.
What happens next: Staff will return in August with updated year-to-date budget numbers; the ELVIS pilot and security assessment will proceed and staffing/hiring efforts continue.
