This is a Notice of Meeting of the University of California Board of Regents on Tuesday, Nov. 14 through Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006. This regular business meeting of the board will be held at Covel Commons on the UCLA campus, in Los Angeles.

TUESDAY, NOV. 14

Tuesday’s agenda is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. with a closed session of the regents’ grounds and buildings committee to discuss construction claims related to UCLA Westwood and Santa Monica hospital projects, followed by public comment. The grounds and buildings committee will then meet in open session to consider action on UC’s 2007-08 state capital budget. The committee will also consider budget and capital improvements approval for the UC Davis’ Stockton Blvd. Research Center, UC Irvine’s humanities building and Arroyo Vista repairs, the California NanoSystems Institute’s Court of Sciences building at UCLA, UCLA’s Westwood and Santa Monica/Orthopedic replacement hospitals, a commons expansion at UC Riverside, UC San Diego’s music building, UCSF’s Osher Building, and UC Berkeley’s biomedical and health sciences building.

The committee will consider approval of the UC Davis Long Range Development Plan EIR addendum and approval of its West Village implementation plan. Environmental and design approvals will also be considered for UC Berkeley’s Southeast Campus Integrated Projects and Student Athlete High Performance Center (the stadium project), King Hall renovation and expansion at UC Davis’ law school, and north campus housing at UC San Diego.

Grounds and buildings discussion items include preliminary design review of the structural and materials engineering building at UC San Diego and the UC Santa Cruz biomedical sciences facility as well as an update of the UC system’s Soft Cost Audits.

Following the grounds and buildings session, the regents’ educational policy committee will meet to discuss a UC report on future growth of the health professions in California and consider action to establish a law school at UC Irvine and to proceed with the next phase of planning for a proposed medical school at UC Riverside. The committee will also receive an annual update on the University’s private support program.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15

Wednesday's meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. with public comment, followed by a brief update on the University’s long-range academic planning activities. The regents will then meet as a board to discuss the establishment of a law school at UC Irvine. The regents’ finance committee will then consider approval of UC’s 2007-08 budget and receive an update on the education bond measure (Proposition 1D).

On Wednesday afternoon, the regents will meet in closed session to consider personnel and real estate matters, including the appointment of a new general counsel and a new systemwide vice president for student affairs, guidelines for corrective actions for those employees who approved compensation packages noted in the various audits and management reviews, annual merit increases for senior management and salary increases for certain senior managers, interim job slotting for positions related to restructuring at the UC Office of the President, and collective bargaining matters.

THURSDAY, NOV. 16

Thursday’s meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with public comment, followed by an open session of the regents’ committee on compensation. In open session, the committee will consider action on the guidelines for corrective actions noted above, annual merit increases for senior management and salary increases for certain senior managers, interim job slotting for selected UC Office of the President senior positions, compensation for the general counsel and the vice president for student affairs, compensation for participants of campus bonus and incentive plans, an amendment of the UC Retirement Plan’s buyback rules for Livermore National Laboratory employees, and amendments to the regents’ bylaws and standing orders to reflect actions to implement recommendations by the Task Force on UC Compensation, Accountability and Transparency.

The finance committee will then consider approval of the annual budget for the UC Office of the President, followed by sessions of the special committee on regents’ procedures, which will consider action to establish new regents committees on governance and long-range planning. The laboratory oversight committee will then receive an update on contract competition and other laboratory matters.

On Thursday afternoon, the regents’ audit committee will meet in open session to consider action on the FY 2005-06 report of external auditors and to discuss the 2005-06 internal audit report, a review of audit governance documents, and an update on the UC ethical values and conduct program. In closed session, the audit committee will discuss senior personnel performance with the regents’ auditors.

NOTES AND ACCOMMODATIONS:

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 telephone number is (310) 206-0409 and the fax number is (310) 206-4661.

-- The full agenda for the meeting is available online:
www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov06.html

-- Live audio broadcasts of each of the open-session meetings will be available via the Internet. Please click on the above agenda link for more information.

-- University officials will be available during the meeting to speak with reporters.

This notice is issued to comply with the state's pertinent open-meeting laws.

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