{"id":6390,"date":"2025-06-24T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:50:02","slug":"june-19-2025-board-meeting-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/board-news\/june-19-2025-board-meeting-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"June 19, 2025 Board Meeting Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Board Orientation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board participated in &nbsp;a detailed orientation covering the College\u2019s mandate, the responsibilities of Board Directors, and an overview of statutory programs.&nbsp;Board Directors learned about work being done to leverage data to enhance efficiency and reporting.&nbsp; Board Directors also heard reports from each of the statutory programs on their workplan for the upcoming 2025-2026 College year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/clientsandthepublic\/protecting-the-public\/what-we-do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how the College works to protect the public<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Year in Review<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Accomplishments of the first year of the 2024-2027 strategic plan were shared by the Registrar &amp; CEO. The presentation is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/COTO-2024-2025-Year-in-Review.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">now available on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about key priorities for 2024-2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Operating Budget<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2025-2026 Annual Operating Budget was approved as presented by the Finance and Audit Committee. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/about\/who-we-are\/board-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more about the roles of Committees on our website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Governance and Finance Policies<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Revisions of College Governance and Finance policies were reviewed and approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/about\/who-we-are\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the structure of the College and the work we do.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Welcome to New Board Director<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board welcomed new public Board Director Jennifer Kerr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn&nbsp;about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/about\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Board and the role of public Directors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Farewell and thanks to Registrar &amp; CEO Elinor Larney<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of the Board, Chair Neelam Bal thanked Registrar &amp; CEO Elinor Larney for her outstanding leadership and contributions to professional regulation. The Board and staff extended their heartfelt thanks and best wishes for Elinor Larney\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board Orientation The Board participated in &nbsp;a detailed orientation covering the College\u2019s mandate, the responsibilities of Board Directors, and an overview of statutory programs.&nbsp;Board Directors learned about work being done to leverage data to enhance efficiency and reporting.&nbsp; Board Directors also heard reports from each of the statutory programs on their workplan for the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6516,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}