(a) The Kansas state board of cosmetology shall meet immediately after appointment and determine policies of the board and conduct any business that may be before such board, and said officers thereafter shall meet as required by law, at times designated by the board and shall also meet on the call of the chairman. The executive director shall not be entitled to vote at such meetings. Said board shall keep a record of its proceedings and a register of the names of applicants for licenses, showing whether the licenses were granted or refused. Said board shall have a seal, and each of said members of said board shall have the authority and be empowered, for all purposes and duties of said board in connection therewith, to administer oaths. The chairman with the approval of the board shall have the power to appoint inspectors who shall perform all of the inspection duties of the board and may employ such additional help as may in his or her judgment be necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this act.

(b) All employees appointed as herein authorized, except the executive director, shall be within the classified service of the Kansas civil service act. The executive director shall be within the unclassified service of the Kansas civil service act and shall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the board, with the approval of the state finance council. Members of the state board of cosmetology attending meetings of such board, or attending a subcommittee meeting thereof authorized by such board, shall be paid compensation, subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses as provided in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-3223.