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Saturday, September 10, 2022

Upcoming Regents Meeting: The Good Stuff Will Be Behind Closed Doors

The UC Regents will be having an in-person and teleconference series of meetings September 20-22, 2022 at UC-San Diego. The item that will attract the most attention is the UCLA/Big Ten move. However, it will be overtly discussed only in closed session on September 22 by the full board. The only reference in open session will be indirect: a general discussion of delegation of authority.

The Regents are likely to be told in the closed session what they have already been told. Yes, they could order Chancellor Block to rescind the Big Ten deal, but there would be legal consequences, probably costly. 

Block had the delegated authority to act on behalf of the Regents in making the deal. We won't know if anyone from UCLA including the chancellor will be present in the closed session. In open session, the Regents could discuss why, in retrospect, it was a Bad Thing to have delegated the authority to Block and other chancellors and they could consider some alternative policy going forward. 

Another highlight of the meeting, which will take place in closed session of the Finance and Capital Strategies Committee, is what appears to be discussion of UCLA acquiring a satellite campus. Blog readers will know that Chancellor Block discussed the possibility of a satellite campus at the last regular Regents meeting in July. 

And finally, there is the mysterious Pension Administration Project, an item which appears regularly in closed sessions of the Compliance and Audit Committee. No one will quite say what that Project is.

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Agenda: Tuesday, September 20

10:00 am: Special Committee on Innovation Transfer and Entrepreneurship (open session - includes public comment session) 

Public Comment Period (30 minutes)

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of June 16, 2022

S1 Discussion: Update on the Project Plan and Schedule for Replacing the Patent Tracking System 

S2 Discussion: Update on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Funding Strategies 

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2:30 pm: Investments Committee (open session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of May 17, 2022

I1 Discussion: Review of Performance for Fiscal Year 2021–22 of UC Pension, Endowment, Blue and Gold Pool, Working Capital, and Retirement Savings

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Agenda: Wednesday, September 21

8:30 am: Board (open session - includes public comment session) 

Public Comment Period (30 minutes)

Remarks of the Chair of the Board

Remarks of the President of the University

Remarks of the Chair of the Academic Senate

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Concurrent Meetings

9:30 am: Public Engagement and Development Committee (open session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 20, 2022

P1 Discussion: UC San Diego in the Community

P2 Discussion: Federal Governmental Relations Update

P3 Discussion: State Governmental Relations Update

P4 Discussion: Conversation with Assemblymember Christopher Ward

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9:30 am: Compliance and Audit Committee (open session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 20, 2022

C1 Action: University of California Compliance with State Assembly Bill 481

Upon end of open session

Compliance and Audit Committee (closed session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 20, 2022

C2(X) Discussion: Update on Implementation of Recommendations from UCLA Health and Student Health Special Committee Report

C3(X) Discussion: Update on the Pension Administration Project

Note: This mysterious Project appears repeatedly in closed sessions of the Regents with no indication of what it entails.

The remaining items are reviews of various legal settlements, separation agreements, pending litigation including the People's Park matter, and claims for tuition remission due to COVID-19.

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12:45 pm: National Laboratories Committee (open session)

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 20, 2022

N1 Action: Approval of Use of Capital and Campus Opportunity Fund Monies to Support Development of Childcare Facility for Los Alamos National Laboratory Community

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Concurrent Meetings

1:00 pm: Academic and Student Affairs Committee (open session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 20, 2022 and the Minutes of the Joint Meeting of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee and the Finance and Capital Strategies Committee of May 19, 2022

A1 Action: Enhancing Student Transfer: CCC-UC Transfer Task Force Final Report

A2 Discussion: University of California Dual Admission Pilot Program

A3 Discussion: Update on Eligibility in the Local Context

A4 Discussion: “LIFTED”: The University of California’s First In-Prison Bachelor of Arts Program

A5 Discussion: Climate Change: The Research Imperative

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1:00 pm: Finance and Capital Strategies Committee (open session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 20, 2022 and the Minutes of the Joint Meeting of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee and the Finance and Capital Strategies Committee of May 19, 2022

F1 Action: Budget, Scope, External Financing, and Design Following Action Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, Academic Replacement Building, Berkeley Campus

F2 Action: Budget, Scope, Standby Financing, and Design Following Action Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, Bechtel Engineering Center Renovation and Addition, Berkeley Campus

F3 Action: Amendment of Preliminary Plans Funding and External Financing for the Entire Project; Working Drawings and Construction Funding, Scope, and Design Following Action Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act for the Site and Make-Ready Work Portion of the Project; Parnassus Research and Academic Building and West Campus Site Improvements, San Francisco Campus

F4 Discussion: Preliminary Discussion of the University’s 2023-24 Operating Budget

Upon end of open session

Finance and Capital Strategies Committee (closed session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 20, 2022

F5(X) Discussion: Acquisition of a University Main Campus and Residential Campus, and Use of External Financing, Los Angeles Campus

F6(X) Discussion: Acquisition of and External Financing for 2111 Morena Boulevard, San Diego, San Diego Campus

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3:30 pm: Special Committee on Nominations (closed session) 

S5(X) Action Appointment of Four Regents to Standing Committees

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3:35 pm: Governance Committee (closed session) 

Various executive pay and collective bargaining matters

Upon end of closed session

Governance Committee (open session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 21, 2022

Action: Approval of the various executive pay matters discussed in closed session

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Agenda: Thursday, September 22

9:30 am: Joint Meeting: Academic and Student Affairs Committee & Finance and Capital Strategies Committee (closed session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of January 20, 2022

J1(X) Action: Establishment of the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems 

Upon end of joint meeting

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Board (closed session) 

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 21, 2022

B1(X) Discussion UCLA Big Ten Membership – Potential Legal Issues and Financial Impacts

Upon end of closed session, approximately 11:00 am

Board (open session - includes public comment session) 

Public Comment Period (30 minutes)

Action: Approval of the Minutes of the Meetings of July 20 and 21, 2022

Remarks from Student Associations

President’s Outstanding Student Award

Regents Foster Youth Award

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12:45 pm: Board (open session) 

B2 Discussion: Overview and Discussion of University of California Delegations of Authority

B3 Discussion: Update on Implementation Progress of UC Community Safety Plan

Committee Reports Including Approvals of Recommendations from Committees:

   Academic and Student Affairs Committee

   Compliance and Audit Committee

   Finance and Capital Strategies Committee

   Governance Committee

   Health Services Committee (meeting of August 17, 2022)

   Investments Committee

   National Laboratories Committee

   Public Engagement and Development Committee

   Special Committee on Innovation Transfer and Entrepreneurship

   Special Committee on Nominations

Resolution in Appreciation

Officers’ and President’s Reports:

   Report of Interim Actions

   Report of Materials Mailed Between Meetings 

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2:15 pm: Joint Meeting: Academic and Student Affairs Committee & Finance and Capital Strategies Committee (open session) 

J2 Discussion: Strategic Campus Overview, Berkeley Campus

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Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/agendas/sept2022.html 

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You can hear the text above at the link below:

https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/regents%20sept.mp3

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