The University of California Board of Regents will hold its regular business meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 13, through Thursday, Nov. 15, at Covel Commons on the UCLA campus. The full agenda for the meeting is available at www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov07.html.
TUESDAY, NOV. 13
Tuesday's agenda is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. with a closed session of the regents' grounds and buildings committee to receive information about lawsuits related to the UC Berkeley stadium project and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In open session, the committee will consider budget and capital improvements approval for the South Valley Animal Health Laboratory and Medical Center Tower II at UC Davis, UC Irvine's hospital and medical center laboratory replacement buildings, graduate student housing at UCLA, the housing and dining services administration building at UC San Diego, and the cardiovascular research building and utilities and distribution improvements for UCSF-Mission Bay as well as environmental and design approvals for the Mt. Zion medical office building at UCSF and the telemedicine and PRIME-HEq facility at UC San Diego.
The grounds and buildings committee will also consider approval of UC Irvine's long-range development plan and EIR, UC's 2008-09 state-funded capital improvements budget, and development schedules for campus sewer system management plans. Discussion items include preliminary design review of Steinhaus Hall seismic improvements at UC Irvine, graduate student housing at UC Irvine, and the Computational Research and Theory and Helios energy research facilities at Berkeley as well as updates on telemedicine/PRIME-LC facilities bid results and design for the arts building at UC Irvine.
The regents' long-range planning committee will meet at 1 p.m. to discuss and consider action on University planning priorities.
The regents' compensation committee will meet in closed sessions on Tuesday afternoon, beginning at 3 p.m., to discuss individual salary actions, compensation for participants of bonus and/or incentive plans for FY 2006-07, base salary adjustments for chancellors as part of RE-61, the regents' competitive compensation initiative, and annual merit and equity increases for certain senior management consistent with the University's 2007-08 systemwide salary program for staff employees. The compensation committee will also meet jointly in closed session with the educational policy committee to discuss the appointment and compensation for systemwide vice presidents for research and for agricultural and natural resources (ANR).
Consistent with the regents' policy, 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, NOV. 14
Wednesday's meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with public comment, followed by an open session of the full board. The regents' finance committee will then consider approval of the UC annual financial report, the 2008-09 budget, leases and agreements for the Helios energy facility at UC Berkeley, and a working capital loan for UCLA's Geffen Playhouse and receive an update on UC restructuring efforts.
After the lunch break, the regents' compensation committee will consider action on items discussed during Tuesday's closed sessions and discuss the annual actuarial valuation for the UC Retirement Plan, an update of the pension plan transitions at the Livermore national laboratory and proposed changes to the governance model for senior leadership compensation policies.
On Wednesday afternoon, the regents' educational policy and finance committees will meet in closed session to consider financial, personnel, real estate and legal matters. The full board will meet in closed session to consider appointment of the ANR and research vice presidents. A closed session of the regents' presidential selection committee will discuss criteria for selecting President Dynes' successor and related candidate issues, and report on the criteria during an open session of the full board on Thursday.
THURSDAY, NOV. 15
Thursday's meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with public comment, followed by an open session of the regents' educational policy committee to receive information on the annual report on 2006-07 private support. This committee will then meet jointly with the health services committee for an update on medical school planning (including Riverside, Merced and Drew) and jointly with the finance committee to discuss and consider action on the California Community College initiative on the February 2008 ballot.
Later in the morning, the regents' finance and investment committees will consider action to amend the conflict of interest policy related to investment procedures.
The national laboratory oversight committee will receive informational updates on the Department of Energy facilities and activities by the board of governors at both the Livermore and Los Alamos labs.
NOTES FOR REPORTERS
A press room will be open across from the meeting room. Please register for a credential. Parking is available in the garage at Covel Commons. The press room phone number is (310) 206-0409 and the fax number is (310) 206-4661.
Live audio broadcasts of each of the open-session meetings will be available via the Internet. For more information: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov07.html
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