Board of Directors Meeting
- Via Conference Call -
December 2, 2005
MINUTES
Present: Grace Mims, Dave Johnson, Woody Schrenk, Steve Blair, Larry Porter, Pam Kettering, Terry Dosch, Jim Carlon, Brett Koenecke, Jim Kinyon, and Joyce Vos.
The meeting was called to order at 9:07 am and a welcome was extended to new board members Terry Dosch and Pam Kettering.
M/S/P Mims/Schrenk to move into Executive Session at 9:08am.
M/S/P Mims/Konecke to move into General Session at 10:15am.
Assistant AG, Blair will send his packet on Case #2005-04 to the Board immediately after this meeting. The Board needs to review the material and make their finding at the next Board meeting.
M/S/P Schrenk/Dosch to dismiss Case #2004-05 due to lack of response for additional information. Carlon will send the appropriate letters.
Staff provided the last piece of evidence that the counselor in Cases #9905, 06, 08, 09 complied with the stipulations. Staff asked about removing the Reprimand from the counselor’s file and the Board’s Website, per the counselor’s request. Carlon noted that reprimands are essentially permanent unless the Board wanted to develop a different policy. It was decided to table this issue until the next meeting. We will poll some of the other States while at the AASCB meeting in January.
M/S/P Mims/Koenecke to recommend that the corrective action in Case #2002-02 be accepted as meeting the Board’s stipulations. The question raised by the counselor to remove the Reprimand will be addressed at the next meeting. Carlon will send the appropriate letters. Staff will require the counselor complete an updated application. The supervision timeframe will be accepted toward licensure but needs to be documented on Attachment A.
M/S/P Kinyon/Schrenk to dismiss Case #2005-03 due to lack of ethical violations. Carlon will send the appropriate letters.
Carlon and Blair left the meeting at this time.
1. M/S/P Mims/Schrenk to approve the August 19, 2005 Board Minutes as presented.
2. Mary Pat Mueller joined the General Session at this time. She reported SDCA hired Mitch Richter as their lobbyist; that he was looking for Bill sponsors; that he was meeting with Rep. Frost today about the proposed practice Bill; that SDCA had put our legislative committee’s Bill draft on their Web and got three responses or questions. She said SDCA’s governmental committee was ready to talk to legislators and January 27, 2006 was scheduled as their Day on the Hill.
Schrenk mentioned he was waiting for a response from Carlon to his question whether a “contract” service person is exempt from licensure if working for a non-profit agency.
Koenecke and Dosch said they were also set to meet with Rep. Frost next Tuesday so would like to know if Richter needs reinforcement on any part of the issue. Mueller offered to pass that along to Richter.
Dosch suggested the MH Coalition be kept updated and Mueller said she could since she was a member. He said he also heard that the Social Work Board was considering legislation to strengthen their practice act. Staff offered to contact their Exec Secretary and find out more. Mueller said she was going to meet with Steve Lindquist (SW member of Coalition) next week and find out more also. She said the main Bill sponsor needs to take the Bill to the LRC soon.
Staff asked Koenecke what his opinion was of Schrenk’s question on contract persons. He said the difference is employees are W-2’s and contract person’s are 1099’s and he didn’t think we wanted contract people to circumvent the law by attaching to non-profits.
3. Mims gave a summary of her conversation and email with Krista Herren-Graber, the Executive Director of the SD Network Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault. We were invited to participate with a proposed draft for custody evaluations, although DSS is very educated in domestic violence and could readily develop the Bill. Kinyon wondered if this would perhaps bias the Bill’s language with primarily domestic violence. There’s no question a standard is necessary to protect the public. Mims had forwarded the list of resources available on the Web to Graber that she had found for the board months ago so as not to “reinvent the wheel.” It was suggested Mims let Graber know the board was interested in seeing her draft Bill.
4. A motion was made by Schrenk and seconded by Mims to deny Judith McNamara’s request for an exception to the Psychopharmocology requirement. During the discussion, Mims suggested McNamara should provide documentation for each seven claims she listed. Dosch suggested we expedite the process when she provides the evidence. Upon the call for the vote, there was a tie. President Johnson broke the tie by denying the exception with the spirit we will revisit her file when she provides documentation. M/S/P Dosch/Schrenk that McNamara be offered the opportunity to provide supporting documentation of her education she listed as number one in her letter. Mims offered that if her evidence of the graduate course meets our educational requirement, she can be reviewed for licensure.
5. Staff presented the current financial as informational. Johnson asked her, for the benefit of the new board members, to give some background history on the budget.
6. M/S/P Schrenk/Mims to approve Colleen Hunter’s request for an extension of the CE compliance until June 1, 2006. It was noted that in accordance with ARSD 20:68:07:14:(2), she’s required to provide a brief letter from her physician verifying her condition. It was agreed that upon receipt of the physician’s letter, Staff was to extend her compliance as motioned.
7. A. The email forwarded from Angela Kennecke, which was generated by Johnson’s appearance on KELO, was discussed. There were many concerns about the subject matter but not within our jurisdiction so the Board chose not to offer a response.
B. M/S/P Schrenk/Porter to send a letter to Lyn Collver alerting her that the use of Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor in her advertisement is not consistent with the license she holds. That’s not only a Statute violation but also an ethical violation. And, that the Board requires a response from her and evidence she’ll change her advertising.
C. Staff notified the Board that out of the 500+ licensees, 320 still need to renew before the end of the year, which is not a comforting thought for our office.
The Board decided to hold the next Board meeting on January 27 to coincide with SDCA’s Day at the Hill. The meeting will start approximately 10 or 10:30am if we want to be at the Capitol earlier. Staff will try to reserve the meeting room at the Comfort Inn for the meeting.
M/S/P Mims/Porter to adjourn the meeting at 12:07pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Joyce M. Vos
Executive Secretary