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Daily
Bruin Editorial: UC Regents should meet more often, spend more time reviewing
projects: Before issuing approval, housing council should take measures to
improve diligence (excerpt)
By EDITORIAL
BOARD
The University of California Board of Regents needs to improve its
process of approving capital projects on its campuses, especially expensive and
controversial ones such as theUCLA Luskin
Conference and Guest Center. Despite the
regents’ approval, members of the community still have concerns about the $162
million project. Moreover, the time that the regents spent discussing and
approving the center was not extensive enough.
Save Westwood Village, a neighborhood nonprofit organization, has filed
suit with the Los Angeles County Superior Court to block plans to build the
facility. The organization alleges UCLA officials
did not objectively analyze alternatives to the proposal, according to court
documents. When such serious concerns
still exist, the question arises: Why wasn’t the regents’ approval enough to
convince community members?
Capital
projects are approved by the regents on a case-by-case basis during bimonthly
meetings.
…There is a distance between the campus-level organizers and the
regents that makes it difficult for the regents to figure out exactly what is
going on, said Daniel Mitchell, a professor emeritus of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The regents need to implement a mechanism for
monitoring campus expansion that includes objective and independent review from
expert sources before, during, and after projects are presented to the Regents’
Committee on Grounds and Buildings.
Simply
meeting once every two months and discussing issues for an hour is not enough
when reviewing projects such as this one.
As the trustees of the UC, it is the regents’ duty to exercise more
diligence in its approval process.
Full
editorial at http://www.dailybruin.com/article/2012/10/_editorial-uc-regents-should-meet-more-often-spend-more-time-reviewing-projects_
Do we really have to say the obvious?
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