The University of California Board of Regents will hold its regular business meeting on Tuesday, May 15 through Thursday, May 17, at the UC San Francisco-Mission Bay campus’ community center, 1675 Owens St., in San Francisco. The meeting agenda is available at www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/may07.html

TUESDAY, MAY 15

On Tuesday morning, beginning at 11 a.m., the regents’ grounds and buildings committee will meet in open session to consider budget approval for the telemedicine PRIME facilities and police station replacement building at UCLA, UC Davis’ Graduate School of Management and Conference Center, UC Irvine’s social and behavioral sciences building, the UC San Diego Medical Center’s East Campus Bed Tower and student housing at UC San Diego as well as environmental and design approvals for the UC Berkeley biomedical and health sciences building and the UC Irvine humanities building.

The grounds and buildings committee will discuss site planning and design parameters for the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and the UC Irvine telemedicine/medical education building and preliminary design review of the Institute of Regeneration Medicine at UCSF. The committee will also meet in closed session to receive an informational update on litigation about the Berkeley stadium project and UC Santa Cruz long-range planning.

The regents’ compensation committee will meet in closed sessions on Tuesday afternoon, beginning at 3 p.m., to discuss individual salary actions, close-out actions associated with recent audits and management reviews, and the final annual reporting on outside professional activities. Consistent with the regents’ policy, all compensation actions will be discussed and then voted on in open session on Wednesday, first by the committee and then the full board. Open-session items slated for Wednesday’s meeting will be posted online as early as possible upon the conclusion of Tuesday’s closed committee discussion.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16

Wednesday's meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m. with public comment, followed by open session. On Wednesday morning, the regents’ educational policy committee will discuss academic planning, humanities and the arts, graduate student support and UC information technology.

The compensation committee will consider individual salary actions, the final annual reporting on outside activities, and other items from Tuesday’s closed committee meeting, as well as receive an update on the comprehensive review of compensation-related policies currently underway.

On Wednesday afternoon, the regents will meet in closed session to consider personnel, audit, investment and real estate matters.

THURSDAY, MAY 17

Thursday’s meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with public comment, followed by a presentation on the California Institutes for Science and Innovation and an open session of the finance committee, when the regents will consider approval of a postponement of adoption of a policy (RE-89) restricting funding from the tobacco industry and a policy amendment on conflicts disclosures by investment advisory committee members. The committee will also discuss the May Revision of the 2007-08 state budget and UC’s long-term debt strategy, and receive information about the organizational assessment and restructuring of UC’s administrative functions.

The compensation and finance committees will be in joint session to consider policy revisions for the UC Mortgage Origination Program.

The regents’ laboratory oversight committee will receive information about contract competition and other laboratory matters.

NOTES FOR REPORTERS

Media interested in attending are encouraged to register in advance with Alfred White (alfred.white@ucop.edu), UCOP Strategic Communications, before Friday, May 11, 5 p.m.

Reporters and members of the public will enter at the same point at the building. Reporters with visible press identification [business card or other identification from your media organization with photo ID] and who have registered in advance with UCOP Strategic Communications may enter without going through the screening process with the public.

The press room is Room 311-312, across the hall from the meeting auditorium. Please sign up for a meeting-room credential once you have arrived. The press room phone number is (415) 476-0619, and the fax number is (415) 476-0618.

Live audio broadcasts of the meeting’s open sessions will be available via the Internet. For more information: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/may07.html

Directions to the Mission Bay Community Center ( 1675 Owens St.):
http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/directions/#transit

Parking is available in the community center parking garage.

UCSF shuttles run regularly from the 16th St./Mission BART Station to the community center. For shuttle timetables: www.campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu/transportation/shuttles [red line]

For more news and information about the University of California:
www.universityofcalifornia.edu

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