UCLA History: Gathering
Students gather in front of Powell in 1929 as UCLA moves to Westwood campus.
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What’s the right headline?
The California Field Poll produced the table above. But what is the right headline? The news release from Field says PLURALITY OF VOTERS SEES PUBLIC PENSIONS AS TOO GENEROUS. MOST REACT POSITIVELY TO BROWN’S REFORM PROPOSALS, WANT PENSION CHANGES TO APPLY TO BOTH CURRENT AND NEW PUBLIC EMPLOYEES But the headline could have been that despite all of the bad PR public pensions have had, 49% of voters think public pensions are about right or not generous enough. The news media will follow the Field headline. Keep the alternative in mind if some proposition on pensions gets on the ballot….
President’s Pepper Panel Named
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…
The Governor’s Open (Electronic) Letter on His Tax Initiative
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…
Public Documents Request on Hotel: We Can Come Right Over!
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…
Some Hints for the Folks Who are Processing Hotel-Related Public Records Acts Requests
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?
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…
UCLA History: Return to “Normal”
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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Faculty Association Sends Report on UC Pension to Legislative Committee
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…