Tuesday, September 11,
2012
Meeting Agenda,
University of California Regents
Part 1
1:00 pm Committee on
Compliance and Audit (Regents only session)
1:10 pm Committee of
the Whole - Public Comment (open session) – includes public testimony on UCLA
hotel project
1:30 pm Committee on
Compliance and Audit (open session)
Part 2:
3:00 pm Committee on
Grounds and Buildings (open session)
Since our earlier posts outlined what went on in the
sessions on the hotel and teaching center, much of the agenda has been
described. However, the Committee on
Compliance and Audit discussed a variety of issues related to the child abuse
scandal at Penn State with the theme of whether such events could occur at
UC. There were also reports on tech
initiatives including common payroll and personnel systems across the
campuses. There was also discussion of
the outfall in terms of safety issues that resulted from an agreement between
the DA of Los Angeles and the Regents arising out of a case in which a student
lab assistant died in a fire at UCLA. As
noted on other prior posts on this blog, a UCLA faculty member is still being
prosecuted by the DA despite the deal with the Regents.
Apart from the two UCLA building projects, Buildings and
Grounds dealt with two other projects at UC-Santa Barbara and UC-San
Francisco. The latter was interesting
because there was a discussion of a “dean’s tax” on that campus to provide a
financial backstop to the project. There
is a contrast between that approach and the approach taken to the UCLA
hotel. Various deans at UCLA have been
cited as supporting the hotel project, but no dean has been asked to provide
any backstop funding. It is easy to
praise a project the central administration wants if you have no skin in the
game.
Part 1 of the meeting (which runs up until Building and
Grounds) can be heard at the link below: [Public testimony on the UCLA hotel comes at the start of this part]
Part 2 of the meeting (Building and Grounds) can be heard
at:
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