I strongly suggest the experience requirements for AL administrator licensure be reduced if not entirely eliminated.  In my opinion, it is the responsibility of the Licensed AL facility to hire competant individual(s) to serve as administrator of the facility not the State.  The only state imposed requirement should be the sucessful completion of an accepted AL licensing examination. 

There is no way to ensure that a person is a competant administrator based upon how much experience they have.  There are incompetant administrators who meet the current experience requirements as well as administrators in place for less than a year who are very competent.  Both of which could probably get a passing grade on  the state exam. 

If the elimination of the experience requirement does not occur, it should at least be reduced to "6 months to one year of the past ten years".  Many people have excellent experience as an administrator in years prior to the "past 4 years".    The requirements are too restrictive and will prohibit many good candidates from getting licensed in a timely manner. 

Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion on this very important matter.