Please check the online agenda for the final meeting schedule, as topics and sessions may be added next week.
TUESDAY, MAY 13
Tuesday's agenda is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. with a closed session of the Regents' grounds and buildings committee to discuss litigation. In open session, the committee will consider budget and capital improvements approval for UC's telemedicine services program, the health sciences surge building at UC Riverside, housing projects at UC San Diego, UCLA Hedrick building repairs and refurbishment, the Stockton Boulevard Research Center renovation at UC Davis Medical Center, improvements at the Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food at UC Davis, and UCSF Mission Bay cardiovascular research building and clinical facilities as well as environmental and design approvals for the Helios energy research facility at UC Berkeley, the computational research and theory facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Berkeley campus, and student housing at UC Davis.
Discussion items include preliminary design review of the UCSF Mission Bay clinical facilities project.
Beginning at 4:30 p.m., the compensation committee will meet in closed session to discuss individual salary items and other compensation matters.
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, MAY 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' educational policy and health services committees will then meet jointly to consider the continued planning for a medical school at UC Merced.
The compensation committee will consider action on items discussed during Tuesday's closed session as well as an amendment to the UC Retirement Plan to help implement a new employee "reduction in time" (START) program.
The finance committee will discuss the governor's May revision to the 2008-09 state budget and consider action on a resolution about stabilizing student fees, proposed 2008-09 student fee increases, the 2008-09 budget of the UC Office of the President, appropriations of fee income for the Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories, the establishment of a Total Return Investment Pool, and the expenditure rate and administrative cost recovery rate for the endowment fund.
The governance committee will consider action to establish a special committee on student life and alumni affairs.
The audit committee will consider action on the 2008-09 internal audit plan and the appointment of the Regents' external auditor.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Regents' finance, compensation and governance committees will also meet in closed sessions to consider financial, personnel, real estate and legal matters.
THURSDAY, MAY 15
Thursday's meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with public comment, followed by an open session of the Regents' laboratory oversight committee to receive updates on activities at the national laboratories and to consider contract modifications as a result of changes in federal acquisition regulations.
The educational policy committee will meet to discuss a presentation by the undergraduate work team of the diversity study group, consider action on a resolution in support of alumni relations efforts and receive an update on community college transfers. The educational policy and finance committees will then meet jointly to consider action on changes in 2008-09 student fees for professional degree programs.
The finance and governance committees will meet jointly to consider action to amend Standing Order 100.4 about the president's duties related to real estate matters.
NOTES FOR REPORTERS
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Live audio broadcasts of each of the open-session meetings will be available via the Internet. For more information: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/may08.html
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