The Medical Board of California makes a huge production of its "public outreach" quarterly meetings.  They travel to a different California city, stay one or two nights in a high-end hotel, where they rent a conference room, and presumably have meals and other expenses paid by the State.  Usually, about 10 board members and 10 staff members attend these meetings, so they are sending 20 people, and that doesn't come cheap, especially for an organization that constantly whines that it doesn't have enough money to do its job.