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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Focusing on the Proposed Hotel/Conference Center

Some background documents regarding the proposed hotel/conference center planned to replace the Faculty Center can be accessed below. There will shortly be focus groups on campus set up on the hotel/conference center issue. If you are part of such a group, or know someone who is, you (or he/she) should be acquainted with the documents below and many others. The Academic Senate website has many pertinent documents, for example.

A simple way to track the hotel/conference center issue if you are already on this blog is to type in "faculty center" in the search option and read the resulting entries.

NOTE: TWO OF THE DOCUMENTS CONTAIN HIGHLIGHTING WHICH DOESN'T WORK PROPERLY ON THE COMPUTER VERSION. AN UNHIGHLIGHTED VERSION IS ALSO INCLUDED FOR BOTH.

List of area hotels (as compiled by the UCLA hospital). As a prior post on this blog noted, none of the three larger hotels in the UCLA immediate area – the W, the Palomar, the Angelino – have as many rooms as proposed for the on-campus hotel/conference center.

List of area hotels Unhighlighted




UC Standards for Operating an Auxiliary Business highlighted


UC Standards for Operating an Auxiliary Business - no highlighting




UC Document Related to Internal Revenue Code Requirements Regarding Unrelated Business Income


Academic Senate/CPB Report Opposing Hotel/Conference Center

CPB rejected the proposed hotel/conference center because the business plan surrounding it was infeasible. The costs to support the project when its revenues do not pan out will be carried by the general campus in one way or another. Familiarity with these issues today will prevent heartbreak for the campus in the future:

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