A panel charged with reviewing hundreds of boards and commissions created by Iowa law met for the final time Monday and approved an amended report of its recommendations to eliminate, combine or modify hundreds of those boards. That final report is expected to be made public by Wednesday, said Boards and Commissions Review Committee Chairman Kraig Paulsen, who is the director of the Iowa Department of Management. The Legislature ordered the review this spring, and the six-member panel met several times over the summer and took public comment on its preliminary recommendations at a forum earlier this month. Committee members said at today’s meeting that they were amending their recommendations in response to concern about specific proposals. Among the changes: keeping standalone licensure of athletic trainers and of nursing home administrators, and retaining the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service, which advocates had said is necessary to continue receiving millions of dollars in federal funding for the AmeriCorps program. The committee’s recommendations to legislators and Gov. Kim Reynolds are not binding; the Legislature can consider changes to state law after it convenes in January. Members of the public had also criticized a recommendation to eliminate Iowa’s law requiring state and local boards to have balanced numbers of men and women, but no changes to that provision were mentioned Monday. See more in Fearless on Oct. 2 about the possible consequences of Iowa’s gender-balance law being eliminated.