New Board Members Handbook

2.1 Board Roles Chair The Chair ’s role is to work closely with the Executive Director and staff to set meeting agendas. The Chair also works with the Executive Director during the legislative session to review bills as well as to grant or deny requests for continuance from Respondent’s required to appear at hearings. In addition, the Chair attends meetings, including the Annual Chair ’s Meeting, association meetings and regularly scheduled Board/Committee meetings. At the beginning of each year, the Chair will appoint members to the various committees. Vice-Chair The Vice-Chair ’s role is to substitute for the Chair when the Chair is not in attendance or is recused from a disciplinary hearing due to participation on the probable cause panel. The duties of the Vice-Chair include anything that may be of assistance to the Chair in fulfilling his/her responsibilities. Board Members Members are required to vote on all issues, unless recused because of a possible conflict of interest. A board member who sits on the probable cause panel may have already heard some evidence in disciplinary cases, and therefore, that member is automatically recused from voting on the case when it appears before the full board. Board members review hundreds (sometimes thousands) of pages of records prior to a typical board meeting. Since the Board serves as a “quasi-judicial” entity on licensure issues, contact with members may cause the members to be recused from administrative proceedings. Direct correspondence or inquiries to board staff. Staff will direct inquiries to the full board for review when appropriate. Executive Director The role of the executive director is to act as liaison between the Department and the board. Duties of an executive director are to execute and carry out decisions made at board meetings, implement rules into policy and procedure, advise the board on budget matters, submit legislation from the board to the Department’s legislative package. The executive director serves as the official custodian of records and may be required to certify documents and testify in hearings. This person is responsible for the over-all functioning of the board office. The office staff prepares the agenda in concert with counsel and prosecuting attorneys, organize and schedule the meetings, publish notices, provide public copies of documents and maintain records of the proceedings. The staff also processes applications for licensure or examination, monitors statistics for annual reports and prepares various reports as requested. Other board administrative or support staff may be present during a meeting. 6 New Board Members Handbook 2. Health Care Practitioner Boards 2.1 Board Roles 2.2 The Board 2.3 Decorum 2.4 Meeting Procedure 2.4.1 ImageAPI User Guide