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President’s Pepper Panel Named
Byadmin December 6, 2011

President names members of task force Date: 2011-12-05 Contact: UC Office of the President Phone: (510) 987-9200 OAKLAND — University of California President Mark G. Yudof today (Monday, Dec. 5) appointed 12 students, faculty, alumni and staff members to serve on a task force formed to investigate the Nov. 18 pepper-spraying incident at the University of California, Davis. As previously announced, the task force will be headed by former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, a professor emeritus at the UC Davis School of Law. Most task force members are affiliated with UC Davis and were nominated by relevant campus…

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The Governor’s Open (Electronic) Letter on His Tax Initiative
Byadmin December 6, 2011

Governor Jerry Brown has sent out a mass email regarding plans – that have been reported in the news media – to file a tax initiative. The same message was posted on his official website. The key word is “initiative” since – as last year’s budget process indicated – he would be unlikely to get a two-thirds vote in the legislature to put the proposition on the ballot. He is planning to go the signature route, which means he has – or expects to have – the $1-$2 million needed to pay signature gathering firms. The initiative would go on…

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Public Documents Request on Hotel: We Can Come Right Over!
Byadmin December 5, 2011

See prior posts for the Faculty Association’s request for the business plan of the proposed hotel/conference center. 12/4/11 Dear Ms Felker, Thank you for your response to my request for public records. Since it might take 8 weeks or more to provide me with the information I requested, and since the chancellor has already mentioned that there is a written study by a consultant, would it be possible for me to stop by Murphy Hall in person and pick up that report? That way I would be able to get some part of the information requested in a more timely…

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Some Hints for the Folks Who are Processing Hotel-Related Public Records Acts Requests
Byadmin December 4, 2011

The state attorney general has prepared a summary of the rules governing (timely) processing of Public Records Act requests. See below. As a prior blog post has noted, the Faculty Association has requested the business plan under the Act. See http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/11/waiting-for-plans-on-conceptual-hotel.html —————————————————- California Public Records Act CPRA (Attorney General’s Summary): Excerpts In enacting the CPRA, the Legislature stated that access to information concerning the conduct of the public’s business is a fundamental and necessary right for every person in the State… Records may be inspected at an agency during its regular office hours. The CPRA contains no provision for a…

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More pension hearings?
Byadmin December 3, 2011

We posted audios from the legislature’s public pension hearings on December 1. Apparently, according to the State Worker blog of the Sacramento Bee, there will be more hearings to come. Although the special pension committee was supposed to have concluded its work by January, …”This cannot be a two-hearing answer,” said Democratic Sen. Gloria Negrete-McLeod, co-chair of the panel. A spokeswoman for Democratic Assemblyman Warren Furutani, also a co-chair, said the committee will probably end up holding at least four hearings in all “in order to get through all of the information.” … Whatever the motives of the committee, if…

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UCLA History: Return to “Normal”
Byadmin December 2, 2011

The photo above of Japanese-American students at UCLA after World War II was apparently used to show that the former residents of the forced internment camps were back to “normal.”

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Audio of Legislative Hearing on Public Pensions
Byadmin December 2, 2011

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Faculty Association Sends Report on UC Pension to Legislative Committee
Byadmin December 1, 2011

The UCLA Faculty Association has submitted a report to the members of the legislative committee studying the governor’s proposals for public pensions. (See an earlier blog post.) The cover letter to the committee members is reproduced below. Below that is a link to the report which details the history of the UC pension system. ===== To: Members of the Conference Committee on Public Employee Pensions AB 340/SB 827 From: Faculty Association at UCLA Date: Dec. 1, 2011 Subject: Examining the Governor’s Twelve Point Pension Reform Plan Dear Representative Furitani, On behalf of the Faculty Association at UCLA, an independent association…

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Not Quite So Bad
Byadmin November 30, 2011

It won’t be quite so bad as the picture suggests. But if you are a night owl at UCLA and use the 405, you may have a problem: The northbound 405 Freeway will be closed between Getty Center Drive and Ventura Boulevard for construction starting Tuesday night. Crews will be reconstructing the Mulholland Bridge. Ramps were expected to close as early as 7 p.m. and freeway lanes may close as early as 10 p.m. The closure could continue for several nights. The southbound side was expected to be closed in the same area beginning Saturday night. Source: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=resources/traffic&id=8447786

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Testimony in Sacramento Coming Up on UC Pension
Byadmin November 30, 2011

Two UC officials will be testifying tomorrow about the UC pension at a legislative hearing on the governor’s public pension proposals. We don’t know what the UC reps will be saying. Hopefully, it will be a polite version of “no thanks; we have our own plan.” If more info becomes available, we will post it. Meanwhile, the hearing agenda can be found below. Pension Agenda(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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President’s Pepper Panel Named

The Governor’s Open (Electronic) Letter on His Tax Initiative

Public Documents Request on Hotel: We Can Come Right Over!

Some Hints for the Folks Who are Processing Hotel-Related Public Records Acts Requests

More pension hearings?

UCLA History: Return to “Normal”

Audio of Legislative Hearing on Public Pensions

Faculty Association Sends Report on UC Pension to Legislative Committee

Not Quite So Bad

Testimony in Sacramento Coming Up on UC Pension

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