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CLEAR co-founder Charlie Barner remembered

CLEAR has learned of the passing of Charlie Barner, one of the co-founders of CLEAR and the inaugural recipient of the CLEAR Regulator of the Year award in 1987. Charlie is the former Chief of Bureau of Records, Deputy Secretary, then Acting Secretary of the Florida Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. He was CLEAR's president in 1982-83.  The memorial service for Charlie will be held on Saturday, November 6 at 1:00 p.m. at Culley's Meadow Wood Funeral Home and Memorial Park, 700 Timberlane Road, Tallahassee, FL 32312.

Obituary

State Regulatory Structures Report released

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the Council for State Governments (CSG), and the National Governor’s Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) partnered with CLEAR on a comprehensive resource covering regulatory structures in use in the United States. The State Regulatory Structures report is informed by a survey conducted by CLEAR asking respondents to indicate which of five regulatory model(s) best represented their current regulatory organization. These models range from licensing boards that are autonomous with little influence by state actors, to boards that serve in an advisory-only capacity under a state agency that retains full authority for both decisions and operations. Results from the 46 jurisdictions have been documented based on several different factors, including number of models in place within the jurisdiction, responsibility for decision-making authority, and responsibility for operational functions.

The goal of the report is to provide information to facilitate discussions about the utility of the various models, including the benefits and challenges of each.

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In Memoriam: David Montgomery, past CLEAR President

CLEAR was sad to learn of the passing of David Montgomery, former CLEAR Board Member and Past-President (1995-1996). David was a long-time member and supporter of CLEAR, serving as chair for a number of committees. He was instrumental in the development of CLEAR’s Executive Leadership Program for Regulators and frequently served as faculty for that program and the Board Member Training program. David had a long career with the Nebraska Department of Health (1974 until his retirement in 2013) and served on several state and national groups related to health professional licensure.

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President's Message by Marc Seale

As my term as CLEAR’s president draws to a close, I look back with pride on our organization’s accomplishments over the past year. At a time when the role and value of professional and occupational regulation is being closely scrutinized, it has been my pleasure to lead the organization in its pursuit of regulatory excellence, for the benefit of the public we ultimately serve. Central to our mission are the CLEAR Learning educational programs that equip us to better protect the public with efficiency and effectiveness. Over the course of the past year, CLEAR has trained over 1,000 regulatory stakeholders, representing numerous jurisdictions, professions and occupations. Recognizing that the opportunity to travel to CLEAR’s educational events can sometimes be limited, we have brought more educational programming to you, whether in the form of National Certified Investigator and Inspector Training Programs offered in 12 locations, Board Member Training programs offered in five cities or one-day symposia delivered in three North American cities. As we plan for 2015–16, we will continue to move in this direction, and welcome additional invitations from host jurisdictions and organizations.

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CLEAR Toronto Regional Seminar recap

CLEAR hosted the Toronto Regional Seminar - Openness and Transparency in Professional Regulation: How Much Is Too Much? - earlier this month. Speakers discussed the reasons why transparency is essential for regulators, how regulators benefit from informed participants and how transparency fosters continuous improvement, criteria for making decisions on openness, legal principles about transparency, and risk management principles as related to policy and process transparency and releasing information about individual practitioners. The question and discussion segment also brought up some debate about the risks and benefits of the use of social media by regulators.

Read a summary of the seminar from Richard Steinecke's Grey Areas.

CLEAR Regional Seminars on Openness and Transparency will also be held in Raleigh on April 30 and Vancouver on May 14.

CLEAR Past President Receives Honor for CLEAR-CLARB Collaboration

(From L to R, Amy Kobe, Ohio Landscape Architects Board, CLARB President Stephanie Landregan, and Kate Nosbisch, photo courtesy of CLARB)

 

Virginia Regulatory Member Receives International Organization’s Most Prestigious Award

RESTON, VIRGINIA (UNITED STATES) – October 28, 2014 – Kathleen (Kate) Nosbisch, Executive Director of the Virginia Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects (APELSCIDLA), is this year’s recipient of the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards’ (CLARB) President’s Award. 

CLARB President Stephanie Landregan (2013–2014) presented the award to Nosbisch at CLARB’s Annual Meeting September 24–27 in Reston, Virginia, in recognition of Nosbisch’s willingness to provide continual support to CLARB.

“Kate has been a terrific force in connecting CLARB with the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR), opening opportunities for CLARB to provide richer members training sessions. Her dedication to the landscape architecture profession is shown through her continuous service—volunteering whenever we've needed it and advocating on behalf of CLARB’s initiatives,” said Landregan.

Having served as President for CLEAR, Nosbisch has been instrumental in connecting CLARB with CLEAR, adding regulatory expertise, training and best practice resources to the organization’s meetings and members. In addition, Nosbisch served on the MBE Committee (2010–2012).

 

In 2013, Nosbisch served on the Welfare Regulation Workgroup and has been an advocate for CLARB’s welfare initiative ever since. In September 2014, she presented CLARB’s welfare initiative story at the CLEAR conference as a case study for innovation in regulation. 

About CLARB
Since 1970, CLARB has been dedicated to ensuring that all individuals who affect the natural and built environment through the practice of landscape architecture are sufficiently qualified to do so. CLARB and its members work together to establish standards for education, experience and examination required for the professional licensure of landscape architects. CLARB’s members include the licensure boards that regulate the profession of landscape architecture in the United States; Puerto Rico; and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.  

Reminder - Call for proposals for 2012 conference

CLEAR is still accepting session proposals for the 2012 Annual Educational Conference - September 6-8 in San Francisco, California.  To ensure consideration, proposals should reach CLEAR's office by November 1, 2011. 

CLEAR's annual conference is structured to provide an open forum for balanced discussion with varied perspectives to illuminate issues in regulation.  This will expand our collective understanding of issues and inspire CLEAR members and conference attendees to more creative solutions in our regulatory environments.  The 2012 Program Committee invites proposals for conference sessions supporting the theme "Promoting Regulatory Excellence."

Each year CLEAR explores opportunities to enhance and improve the annual conference experience, and we are excited to announce the launch of a brand new track in 2012: Entry to Practice Issues. The four educational tracks for the 2012 conference will include: Administration, Legislation and Policy; Compliance and Discipline; Testing and Examination Issues; and Entry to Practice Issues.

Session Submission Guidelines and Proposal Form

Remember: the deadline is November 1

Call for session proposals: 2012 Annual Conference

CLEAR's 2012 Annual Educational Conference and Tradeshow will take place September 6-8 in San Francisco, California.  The 2012 Program Committee invites proposals for conference sessions supporting the theme “Promoting Regulatory Excellence.”  CLEAR’s annual conference is structured to provide an open forum for balanced discussion with varied perspectives to illuminate issues in regulation.  This will expand our collective understanding of issues and inspire CLEAR members and conference attendees to more creative solutions in our regulatory environments.

To ensure consideration, proposals should reach CLEAR's office by November 1, 2011.

More information and the proposal form  

Memorial Resolution for Jim Guffey

A Memorial Resolution was recently introduced in the Virginia General Assembly, celebrating the life of former CLEAR President James L. Guffey.

CLEAR 2009 Annual Conference Luncheon Keynote: preview

CLEAR is pleased to have Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne from the University of Melbourne as the keynote speaker for the Friday luncheon in Denver.  Professor Hawthorne recently shared with CLEAR some information about her current research and a preview of her keynote address.

"The context of your conference is very timely because the world is experiencing unprecedented flows of people who are very highly skilled, often disproportionately skilled compared to domestic populations, and this shows no signs of abating. . . . We must find ways of making our system be receptive enough to the people arriving in high demand fields such as medicine, so we're using rather than wasting their skills, and the issue of regulation is absolutely core to this."

In her keynote, Professor Hawthorne will address recent changes to the Australian model which includes four pathways to licensure for international professionals trained in very diverse systems.  She will share some of the challenges and the new efficiencies these regulatory options are creating.

Listen to a preview of Professor Hawthorne's keynote.