North Carolina Interpreter/ Transliterator Licensing Board
DHHS, 1100 Navaho Dr.
Raleigh, NC
9:00am
Dec. 11, 2009
Board Members Present:
Connie Jo Lewis - Vice Chair
Danette Steelman-Bridges – Secretary, Interim Treasurer
Valerie McMillan
Jane Dolan
Jan Withers
Wayne Giese
Ashley Benton
Board Member Absent:
Robert Taylor
Keith Cagle
Staff Present:
Jim Wellons – Attorney
Laurie Shaw – Executive Secretary
Interpreters:
Karen Magoon
Lee Williamson
Deborah Roberts
Visitors:
Diane Green
Call to Order:
9:08am
Flexible Agenda agreed upon for ALL MEETINGS
Conflict of Interest Statement: “Does any member have any known conflict of interest or
appearance of conflict with respect to any matters listed on this agenda?”
(none noted)
Announcements/ Order of Business:
 Introductions and welcome to Wayne Giese, newest member of NCITLB
 Board information notebooks were distributed to members (Thanks to Laurie Shaw)
 Ethics Training: Needed with the State Board of Ethics within 6 months of your
appointment and then every 2 years thereafter
 Agendas should be distributed in advance of all future meetings to see if anyone has a
conflict of interest ahead of time
Sept 2009 Meeting Minutes:
Minutes and financial reports are sent via email so that will info can be read PRIOR to our
meeting.
VOTE: Minutes from 9-18-09 were accepted with the correction that Linda Harrington was NOT
present at that meeting.
Meeting dates for 2010
(Start time is 9:00am )
Feb 26
May 14
August 27
Nov 5
(Location:
DSDHH Woodoak Building, Raleigh,NC )
Elect officers for 2010 – Connie Jo Lewis
Connie Jo announced it was time to elect officers and nominated herself for the chair position.
She then suggested Valerie's name for Vice Chair and asked Danette if she wanted to continue as
secretary. Jane Dolan was encouraged to take the treasurer's position.
MOTION:
Jan Withers moved to propose a slate of officers.
Seconded by Ashley Benton.
Chair: Connie Lewis
Vice Chair: Valerie McMillan
Secretary: Danette Steelman-Bridges
Treasurer: Jane Dolan
Committee Appointments by the chair:
Web Committee (ad hoc)
(to be determined)
Education Committee (not currently needed)
(ad hoc)
License Review Committee (see below)
Ethics Liason (Jan Withers)
Research Committee (Jan Withers) …..develop questionnaire to determine reasons
for a lapse in a person's license
License Review Committee appointments – Connie Jo Lewis
License Review Committee members can serve 3 consecutive years.
Members currently are:
Connie Jo Lewis (has served 2 years)
Danette Steelman-Bridges (has served 1 year)
Valerie McMillan (has served 1 year)
The chair appointed Jane Dolan to serve on the License Review Committee.
Therefore, the new Lic. Review Committee will consist of:
Danette Steelman-Bridges, Chair (as appt by the Board Chair)
Valerie McMillan
Jane Dolan
Plaques/certificates for outgoing Board Members – Connie Jo Lewis
Last year the Board presented recognition plaques to 3 of the original NCITL Board members
who completed their terms. The remaining 4 original Board members who have completed their
terms are:
Jim Sewell
Lorene Roberson
Kathy Beetham
Linda Harrington
Laurie will arrange for the 4 plaques.
SOP’s for Transitioning on/off the Board – Connie Jo Lewis
Thank you to Laurie for taking care of making the SOP books for all Board members.
Financials/ (Audit) – Danette Steelman-Bridges, Laurie Shaw
 Danette:
Reports are sent to Board members from Adrienne Fox from the
Management Co.
 Laurie:
Financial Audit completed on 11-18-09
Report from Central Office – Laurie Shaw
 Annual reports sent to Department of Justice on 10-16-09
 Completed and mailed SBI Audit on 11-30-09
 Updates to the licensee list on the website are finished
 Need officer signatures so that I can put them legibly on the paper copy of licenses
 Have not needed to purchase a scanner yet
 New licenses issued: Full =2 and Provisional = 9
 License status as of 12-11-09: Renewed/Active=394 and Lapsed=42
Report from Board Attorney – Jim Wellons
Session Law 2009-458
House Bill 1411 amendment
21 NCAC 25.0203 (c)
21 NCAC 25.0204 (f)
21 NCAC 25.0205 (h)
21 NCAC 25.0406
21 NCAC 25.0501
93B-15 Section 1 (b)
105-249.2 (a)(b)
1. Can we post license numbers on the website? It is probably legal, but it gives someone
an opportunity to commit fraud. Not recommended.
2. Jim will research the idea of needing to hold a public hearing. I will report later.
3. Idea of a “conflict of interest”……gave a “real life” example
RID Alternative Pathway to Eligibility – Connie Jo Lewis, Valerie McMillan
Tabled to an indefinite date
National Certification for Transliterators – Jane Dolan
No such thing as NCSA certification (this organization does not certify). TECUnit (national
certifying body for Cued Language Transliterators) gives the CLTNCE (Cued Langauge Translit
Natl Certif. Exam). TECHnit established the state-level eval (CLTSLA- Cued Lang Trans.
State Level Assess). In NC this test is administered by DPI.
The wording in the Gen Statute needs to be changed b/c the NCSA does NOT CERTIFY. And,
will the CLTNCE and/or the CLTSLA be accepted by the NCITLB?
Distributed a sheet providing a comparison of the TECHnit of the CLTNCE and CLTSLA.
Suggestion: Instead of having “40 hours of Cued Language coursework”, have a requirement of
achieving a level 3 or 4 on the CLTSLA in the GS.
Jim Wellons: General Statutes Commission could POSSIBLY make a technical (not a
substantive) change in the statute if we can convince them we made an oversight in the original
bill by naming the NCSA instead of the TECHnit.
Cited: GS90D-7 (a3c).
This spring will be a legislative short session. If by Feb, the Board has something to present
that can be tacked onto another bill or use a “shell bill” to make the changes in the GS regarding
the Cued Language info.
Years of experience for Licensure – Connie Jo Lewis, Danette Steelman-Bridges
Not discussed
Sanctions – Danette Steelman-Bridges
Discussed in the Sept 2009 meeting; don’t know why this was added to the Dec agenda
CEU Bearing Workshop – Danette Steelman-Bridges
Discussed in the Sept 2009 meeting; don’t know why this was added to the Dec agenda
License Review Committee Report – Connie Jo Lewis (Laurie gave the report.)
Jim reported on the reciprocity of licensing from other states as it relates to NC.
Website (all) updates – Connie Jo Lewis (Danette Steelman-Bridges gave the report)
Danette will send the web change suggestions to all the Board members (via email) for their
review.
Education Committee Report – Valerie McMillan, Robert Taylor
(no report)
Expenses Reimbursement (just a reminder) - All
Old Action Items:
Laurie: Will send an email to Jennifer Johnson in response to her email about the Cued
Language
Transliterators and CLTSLA and CLTNCE……..tell her that the law has standards that
can be met for a Provisional License on this issue but the Board will do more research and
the Board will need to contact Martha Alexander ,our sponsor/liaison, to get the Lic law
amended if that is what is needed.
COMPLETED?
Laurie and Jim: Discuss adding the draft of The Rules amendments to the Website
INCOMPLETE
Connie Jo and Jim: Identify the date and time of the Public Hearing on the draft of The
Rules amendments (suggested to have the public hearing AND a Board mtg on the same
day IF at all possible)…….they are to target the Dec 11 date (daytime NCITL Board mtg)
and then have the Public Hearing that afternoon or evening OR have the Public Hearing
on another date with at least 1 board member present at the Public Hearing. Connie Jo
and Jim are authorized by the Board to make the final determination on the date and time
on behalf of the Board.
INCOMPLETE
Laurie: Will respond to Phillip Fisher to say that NCITLB is interested in receiving
more information about the training for Licensing Board members
COMPLETE
Connie and Val: Spend time as an ad hoc committee discussing the issue of RID’s
Alternative Pathways as related to Licensure
COMPLETE
Laurie: Will change (on the website) the Dec 11 meeting date to 9:00a instead of 10:00a
COMPLET
Connie & Danette: will review the suggested website changes that Laurie has and will
GET BACK to Laurie ASAP
COMPLETE
Laurie: will send the suggested website changes to Connie and Danette so that a decision
can be made about these changes
COMPLETE
Laurie: will put the “SOP’s for Transitioning on/off the Board” on the agenda for the
Dec 11 meeting
COMPLETE
Contiuing Action Items
Laurie and Jim: Discuss adding the draft of The Rules amendments to the Website
Connie Jo and Jim: Identify the date and time of the Public Hearing on the draft of
The Rules amendments (suggested to have the public hearing AND a Board mtg on
the same day IF at all possible)…….they are to target the Dec 11 date (daytime
NCITL Board mtg) and then have the Public Hearing that afternoon or evening OR
have the Public Hearing on another date with at least 1 board member present at the
Public Hearing. Connie Jo and Jim are authorized by the Board to make the final
determination on the date and time on behalf of the Board.
Accomplished?
New Action Items
Accomplished?
All Board members are to review the informational notebooks given out by Laurie
Jim: Will check to see if any changes have been made to the ethics related to NC
boards were made this week by Gov Perdue
Who will see if the informational brochure can be downloaded to the website?
Laurie will take care of securing 4 plaques.
Jim will send a WORD doc to Laurie re: “The Rules” to be posted on the website.
Jan will develop a questionnaire to send to licensees whose license has lapsed.
Jim will determine if we need to hold a public hearing or not. If we need to have a
public hearing, then Jim will schedule it for 2:00pm on Feb 26.
Board authorized Jim to proceed as needed.
Jane will check with other states to see how the CLTNCE and CLTSLA factors into
their licensure law requirements.
Jan and Jane will draft the changes/amendments/modifications for the 2 clauses in the
GS related to Cued Language to be ready by the Feb NCITLB meeting.
Danette will send a copy of the website proposed changes to all the Board members.
_____________________________________________________________________
ALL members:
Review the proposed changes.
Yes
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Danette will send the questions from Martha Ingel to the Board (via Keith Cagle)
_____________________________________________________________________
All members: Review the questions and be ready to discuss at Feb. meeting.
Yes
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ALL: Will have individual pictures made of each Board member at the Feb meeting
Next Meeting:
Adjournment:
Feb 26
(DHHS office)
1:45pm