As blog readers will know, Governor Newsom showed up at a closed session of the Regents in July to discuss the UCLA/Big Ten issue. With the exception of Jerry Brown, governors rarely appear at the Regents. Whether Newsom will attend this time, and whether - if he does - it will be in a closed or open session, is unknown.
We did note in a review of the Regents' July meeting that closing the discussion of the UCLA/Big Ten appeared to be unjustified.* The official rationale back then was that there were confidential "litigation" issues involved, which seemed to be a stretch. What issues? Since anyone can sue anyone about anything, virtually any topic the Regents discuss could be closed on that rationale.
There will be both open and closed discussion of the UCLA/Big Ten issue on August 17th, with the closed portion again justified on the grounds of possible legal issues. No actual lawsuits are listed, however, and as far as yours truly knows, none have been filed. There have been some questions about travel of athletes to states to which use of state funds for travel is banned because of abortion, etc., rules. But there are work-arounds for that issue involving non-state funds.
Below is the agenda for August 17th:
Centennial Ballroom, UCLA Luskin Conference Center and teleconference meeting conducted in accordance with California Government Code §§11133
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9:00 am Board (open session)
Agenda – Open Session
Public Comment Period (30 minutes)
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Upon end of Board open
Health Services Committee (open session)
Agenda – Open Session
Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of June 15, 2022
H1 Discussion: Update from the Executive Vice President of UC Health
H2 Action: Proposed Request for Approval of the Parnassus Research and Academic Building and West Campus Site Improvements, San Francisco Campus
H3 Action: Approval of Addition of Quality Performance Metrics Recommended by the University of California Health Clinical Quality Committee to the Clinical Quality Dashboard
H4 Information: UC Health Fiscal Year 2021-22 Report on Covered Affiliations
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Upon end of Health open
Health Services Committee (closed session)
Agenda – Closed Session
Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of June 15, 2022
H5(X) Discussion: UC Health Litigation Update
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12:30 pm Board (open session)
Agenda – Open Session
B1 Discussion: UCLA Big Ten Membership Report
Upon end of Board open
Board (closed session)
Agenda – Closed Session
B2(X) Discussion: UCLA Big Ten Membership Report – Legal Issues
Closed Session Statute Citation: Litigation [Education Code §92032(b)(5)]
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Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/agendas/aug2022.html
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-governor-is-annoyed-about-big-ten_22.html. The litigation justification for closing the meeting is based on a proviso of the education code that reads:
The Regents of the University of California may conduct closed sessions when they meet to consider or discuss any of the following matters:
...Matters involving litigation, when discussion in open session concerning those matters would adversely affect, or be detrimental to, the public interest.
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