What you’ll be able to count on when you find yourself coping with the CSLB Software Investigation Unit
I acquired a name immediately from one in every of my readers. He instructed me that his utility was despatched to the Software Investigation Unit or AIU. He acquired the AIU letter simply days earlier than his take a look at date. Thankfully, he made the right alternative and took the exams… as a result of he handed! Congratulations on passing the State assessments your first time.
Simply to refresh you, the appliance is reviewed by a license technician. At this stage, the tech can ask for corrections to the app, or further expertise documentation relying on if the classification is taken into account to be “important class.” Within the reader’s case, he was requested to ship them transcripts of his 5 yr Architectural diploma. The License Classification Deputy, which is normally at a minimal (or speculated to be) an Enforcement Consultant, or ER1 is the person who makes the willpower that his 5 yr diploma was price 3 yrs in direction of the 4 yr minimal requirement. So his app was posted and take a look at date assigned.
Now the Software Investigation Unit steps in.
The investigator assigned is Roland Garcia. ER1 Garcia informs the reader that he now has to offer permits and contracts. The M.O. today for the CSLB. Mr. Garcia additionally gave the reader the brand new get together line… withdraw your app or I am going to deny you. Moreover, he instructed the reader that if he withdrew his utility, it might value him much less when he goes to re-apply. I am pondering? What’s Mr. Garcia smoking? Withdrawing an app doesn’t suggest you are going to get your $300 app submitting charge again. That’s gone perpetually. So when the reader re-applies, he’ll should pay that $300 once more, plus the $180 preliminary license charge if his app is accepted. So, he could have paid a complete of $780!!
Might or not it’s the CSLB is denying these apps to allow them to get folks to pay the $300 submitting charge greater than as soon as! As I said in an earlier put up, denying apps decreases the revenue the CSLB takes in. They’re going to lose out on renewal charges, and so forth. So, being a self-funded company, they’re both reducing their very own funds, or this can be a grand cash making scheme.
My opinion is that they did not hassle to take a second to look far sufficient down the street to find out what impact their actions may need. Cart earlier than the horse, so to talk.
To proceed, Mr. Garcia, who at this level both does not know his job very effectively or must be working the fry machine, tells the reader that HE will solely grant him 2 yrs for his schooling, as an alternative of the three yrs given to him by the Classification Deputy on the Licensing facet of the constructing. Um… I am sorry Mr. Garcia; you’ll be able to’t un-ring that bell. As soon as the licensing division critiques the transcripts and awards the applicant 3 yrs credit score, you aren’t getting to alter it! I might adore it if somebody within the CSLB Software Investigation Unit may give me a Authorities Code Part or Enterprise and Professions Code Part that offers Mr. Garcia the authority to make that willpower and overrule the Classification Deputy.
In conclusion, this reader is sadly discovering out that the CSLB makes up the principles as they go alongside, and till somebody with some kind of authority takes them to process, they’ll proceed to roll over these exhausting working folks with impunity.
Closing thought, I began my enterprise in 2005 (I used to be nonetheless employed by the CSLB, however transferred in order that I may begin the enterprise) as a result of I noticed first-hand how the candidates have been being handled by the CSLB. I felt the applicant wanted somebody on their facet. Trying again now, how issues have been 8+ years in the past was nothing in comparison with how issues at the moment are.
My purpose, outlook, perspective, want, was, is and at all times shall be… as a shopper advocate. I too am a shopper, and I too have handled State businesses. Authorities is right here to guard and serve, not dictate or purposefully limit the power of a free society to earn a dwelling.
Till subsequent time…