SC.04.07
February 16, 2004
University of Illinois
Board of Trustees Meeting
UIC Union Room B & C
Thursday, 15 January 2004
Chair Eppley called the meeting to order at 8:45am
Public Comments
Damian Kogan, UIUC PRC
- Eliminate the chief
Tracy Welsh, UIUC
- Eliminate the chief
- Eliminate "Fighting Illini"
Joe Palesic, American Indian Center of Chicago
- Eliminate the chief
Election of Board Chair
- Nominations for Eppley were moved, seconded and voted unanimous (MSV)
- Nominations for the following:
Controller Steve Rugg
Legal Counsel Tom Bearrows
Secretary Michele Thompson
MSV
Authorize Chair and Secretary to sign vouchers
MSV
Resolution Commending U of I Employees for Active Duty Service
MSV
Chancellor Cantor presented three items:
- Establish Department of Bioinformatics
- Discontinue B.S. in Economics
- Discontinue B.S. in Teaching Computer Science
Chancellor Manning presented one item:
- Revoke B.S. degree of student in Mathematics and Computer Science
VP Gardner presented one item:
- Change enrollment deposits
Controller Rugg presented three items:
- West Campus Recreation Center UIC for $9.8M
- Job Order Contracting (JOC) UIUC for $14M deals with renovation, small construction and
remodeling of campus facilities
- Purchases: $5.7M for diagnostic imaging equipment UIUC; $ .6M for Material Research Lab UIUC Scanning Electron Microscope System (ASEM)
All these items MSV
University Senates Conference Report
- Meetings
- Budget
Non-tenure track faculty usage
Same sex partners benefits
Evaluation of fitness to work - report to President
UIC Senate Report
- Budget
- Revisions of Constitution and bylaws
- Classified research not to be performed on campus
- Reading day before finals - dropped
- Sanctions less than dismissed
- Free speech policy
U of I Alumni Report
- 120K members
- On line directory has 40K users
- Alumni Center on UIUC Campus groundbreaking will be held during graduation weekend 2004
U of I Foundation
- New gifts $187M in 2003
- $168M cash flow 2003, 119,275 total gifts
- Endowment $1.4B June 2003, 12% return per year for past decade
- UIC Medical Center, Hospital and College of Medicine to have own development centers
- Planning for new campaigns "One Great U, Three Distinct Campuses"
- Extended discussions by the Board of endowments (restricted and unrestricted) and substitutions of private giving to replace budget cuts was viewed as a bad idea
Legal Affairs Committee, Trustee Bruce
State Ethics Legislation
2 Bills passed in January 2004: House - PA 93-615; Senate - SB PA 93-617
Key Changes for U of I
- External entities created
- Gift provisions strengthened
- New restrictions
- political activities
- lobbying
- employment with outside vendors
- protection for whistle-blowers
- increase public access to statements of economic interest
Ethics Training - annual program 2004 will be presented on line
Personnel Policies must be adapted to IBHE by 02/01/04
Procurement - cannot work for vendor for one year after leaving U of I if involved in > $25,000 of work
- Spouse and immediate family restrictions
Political Activity
- Prohibited on state time and property
- Exception for collective bargaining
Gift Ban
- "No state employee may solicit or accept a gift from a prohibited source"
U of I Ethics Officer - Executive Director of Audits
Approval of 12 July 2003 minutes
MSV
Authorization for Settlements: $ 3M Samuel vs. Jackson; $ .575m Coney vs. Yoo ET. Al.
MSV
Board adjourned for Executive Session
Lunch
Board reconvened at 1:45pm
Building and Grounds Committee, Trustee Shah
Teng & Associates presentation on "Micro and Nanotechnology Lab Addition and Remodel" UIUC
3 Part Addition:
I Entrance
II Research Lab/Offices
III Offices
Chancellor Cantor spoke in support:
- Cross discipline initiative
- Signature building for the campus
- Technology transfer opportunities
Design was MSV. Project to be completed in October 2006
Finance and Investment Committee - Trustee Gindorf
Moody's presentation of "Assessment of U of I's Debt Capacity"
- U of I rated Aa3 - excellent
- Plans for 2004 will approach limit of debt capacity
U of I Debt Policy - Doug Bechman
- Draft proposal for a debt policy was presented for information
Academic Affairs Committee - Trustee Schmidt
- Presentation of UIUC faculty: Professor Onyuksel, College of Pharmacy, Drug Delivery
Professor Brian Hales, College of Architecture, Levittown
Next Meeting
- 11 March at UIUC
Adjournment 3:00pm
Respectfully submitted,
Joseph E. Finnerty, UIUC Senate Observer
15 January 2004
