August 8, 2006

ATTENDANCE:

Regents present:
James Koch, President
Jack Fortner, Vice President
Sandra Begay-Campbell, Secretary-Treasurer
Raymond Sanchez
John “Mel” Eaves
Rosalyn Nguyen
Don Chalmers

Acting President present:
David Harris

Vice Presidents present:
Terry L.Yates, Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Susan A. Carkeek, Vice President of Human Resources
Elisio “Cheo” Torres, Vice President of Student Affairs
Michael Kingan, Interim Vice President of Advancement

University Counsel present:
Patrick Apodaca

Regents’ Advisors present:
Virginia Shipman, Faculty Senate
David Groth, President, Staff Counsel
Joseph Garcia, President, GPSA
Brittany Jaeger, President ASUNM
Roberto Ortega, President, UNM Alumni Association
Thelma Domenici for Robert Bovinette, Chair, UNM Foundation

Guests present:
Patricia Chavez, Bernalillo Mayor
Stephen Jerge, City Manager
Bill Sapien, Sandoval County Commissioner
Barbara Vigil Lowden, Superintendent of Bernalillo Public Schools
Mariann Jaramillo, Councilwoman

Others in attendance:
Members of the administration, faculty, staff, students, the media and others.

Regent James Koch presided and called the meeting to order at 1:00 pm.

ADOPTION OF AGENDA, Regent James Koch

Motion approved unanimously to adopt today’s agenda.( Koch, Eaves)

Motion approved to amend Agenda to include a Resolution for the Hospital and the County. (Koch, Eaves)

APPROVAL OF SUMMARIZED MINUTES OF THE June 13, 2006 UNM BOARD OF REGENTS MEETING

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Summarized Minutes of the June 13, 2006 UNM Board of Regents meeting. (Sanchez, Nguyen)

APPROVAL OF SUMMARIZED MINUTES OF THE June 20, 2006 UNM BOARD OF REGENTS MEETING

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Summarized Minutes of the June 20, 2006 UNM Special Board of Regents meeting. (Sanchez, Ngueyn)

PUBLIC INPUT:

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BOARD OF REGENTS RETREAT, August 22, 2006, James Koch, President

On August 22nd, we will be having a Regents retreat. The agenda on that will be released at a later date. The members outside the Regents that will be invited will be announced in the next week. It will be held at Los Poblanos Inn.

BERNALILLO PRESENTATION, Patricia Chavez, Mayor of Bernalillo

Thank you for including us on the agenda. Our purpose for being here is to facilitate and encourage your consideration of the proposed campus within the Town of Bernalillo. I have with me today, Commissioner Bill Sapien and Superintendent Barbara Vigil Lowden, Mariann Jarmamillo. Leonard Armijo, Governor of Santa Anna Pueblo, sends his regrets. We have a letter of support from the Commissioner, as well as from the Superintendent regarding the location of the campus at Bernalillo. Bernalillo is strategically located for a Westside campus. It is in the heart of regional transportation. The positives for the Board of Regents to consider building a campus on a site you already own is quite frankly, that ownership, along with the ownership of the water rights. So, the major investment cost you would have is to the building of the campus itself. There is easy access to the Rail Runner Station. There is water and sewer readily available, along with gas and electric. The current infrastructure lends itself well to having a campus located in the Town of Bernalillo. Mariann Jarmamillo stated that it would be a wonderful venture for UNM to be a part of Bernalillo. The site is a beautiful site right next to the Rio Grande. We welcome UNM. Mayor Patricia Chavez stated that we would see a campus within Bernalillo as an outreach to all the surrounding communities, even as far as Belen and Los Lunos because they could take the Railrunner.

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT, David Harris, Acting President

Our Freshman Convocation is scheduled to take place on August 20, 2006 at 4 pm in Popejoy Hall. Welcome Back Days will take place the week of August 21st. All Regents are invited to the Freshman Convocation.
Personnel:
Michael Kingan has been appointed Vice President for Institutional Advancement.
Michael Schwantes has been serving as Acting Associate Vice President for Financial Services and as University Controller, while our Controller, Bill Britton is on short term medical leave.
Peter White, Dean of University College, has been named Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. He will continue his duties as Dean of University College, and add new activities to his portfolio.
Amy Wohlert has been appointed Dean of Graduate Studies and Vice Provost for Graduate Education.
Dr. Catherine O’Neill is serving as the Interim Executive Director of the Taos Branch.
Tim Cass has recently been hired to be a Senior Associate Athletic Director.
Ty Singleton was announced last Friday to become our new Women’s Softball Coach, coming from University of Missouri.
Accreditation:
We are proud to announce the re-accreditation of our Doctor of Pharmacy for the College of Pharmacy for another three years.
Our Master of Public Administration Program, in the School of Public Administration received a full six year accreditation.
Our School of Architecture and Planning also received a full six year accreditation for the Master of Architecture Program.
Our Athletics Department has been awarded a ten year certification from the NCAA. This is an outstanding accomplishment to be granted certification with absolutely no conditions. It means the quality and integrity of UNM Athletics is recognized and applauded by our peers on a national level. This is a great tribute to the hard work of the Athletic Department, the student athletes, the faculty and staff and especially Breda Bova, who headed up our recertification effort.

DISCUSSION OF JOINT UNM AND NMSU BOARD MEETING SEPTEMBER 2006, David Harris, Acting President

President Martin and I had opportunity to work together last week at a retreat. We formulated a program for a joint board meeting to be held on September 9, 2006 at NMSU.
The joint meeting beginning at 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at the Corbett Center, Student Union Center at New Mexico State University. The UNM/NMSU football game will follow.
Carlos Romero stated that President Martin and President Harris met at the Council of Presidents and laid out common issues of the two institutions. Number one is legislative priorities for the Legislative Session ; the status of our branch campuses. (there has been talk about abolishing branch campuses) Mission differentiation, and professional schools, faculty and staff compensation, tuition credit, building renewal and replacement funding and endowment funding.
The next large header is discussion of joint program development: A) Rio Rancho and B) Graduate Programs. Specifically in the Graduate Programs would be a Pharmacy Program. This was taken to the Legislature last year and it was not funded, we are taking it again this year. Next would be discussion and collaboration on federal policy and research priorities. Provost Dasenbrock saw some opportunities for the two institutions: recruitment, minority organizations, advertising and joint proposals to national foundations.
This would be an historic meeting of the two Boards of Regents.

APPOINTMENTS TO UNM LABOR BOARD, Susan Carkeek, VP of Human Resources

I am here to ask your approval of the third and final member of our new UNM Labor Relations Board. The recommendation is coming to you from the other two appointees. Stephany Wilson was appointed on the recommendation of management and Carol Oppenheimer for labor. They recommend the appointment of Peter Mallery as the third member of the Board. A copy of Peter’s resume is included in your materials. He is a well respected member of the legal community and been active around the state for many years. If elected, he would serve as Chair of the Board. Regent Koch stated that he couldn’t think of a better person to serve and is really glad he’s accepted. Peter brings an awful lot of good support for us.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the appointment of Peter Mallery to the UNM Labor Board. (Koch, Eaves)

COMMENTS FROM REGENTS ADVISORS

Virginia Shipman, Faculty Senate
No report; I want to express my delight to have this opportunity. I look forward to us all working together.

David Groth, President, Staff Council
There are a couple of events I’d like to tell you about that we are excited about. Following your lead and getting the Presidents together and then the Board. UNM Staff Council sponsored the first Higher Ed Staff Summit at the end of last month. We got staff organizations from 13 higher education facilities around the state for a two day event. We had several very good speakers. We had never done it before; we have never gotten the voices of staff together. The idea was to network, collaborate, and meet our peers so we could talk about the issues we have in common. Some of the things that came up were a state-wide library system, easy transfer of credits from one school to another, institutional web-sites, and relations between branch campuses and main campuses. We had about 45 attendees. Coming out of that, a lot of the people that spoke for us suggested that we form a professional association for staff here in the state. The real outcome was that we are looking for an advocacy group for the State Legislature, as well as to Boards of Regents and governing bodies about the issues that are important for staff. One of our main thoughts was that if you look at it the staff comprise about 22,000 people in the state of New Mexico, which is a big voting block. We had a great summit.

Joseph Garcia, President, GPSA
I am going to re-read the statement I made earlier regarding the current state of affairs of the Latin-American Iberian Institute. As President of the Graduate Professional Student Association it is my personal and professional responsibility to raise certain questions about the Institute. It should be known that his is not a personal attack against anyone. I urge the Regents to conduct an independent investigation beginning with the departure of Dr. Gilbert Merkx, the former Director of the Institute. The investigation should ask why Dr. Merkx left the Institute and UNM. Why recently Theo Crevenna was forced to leave the Institute. Why the Office of International Cooperation was closed. Moreover, why has the International Science and Technology Consortium left the Institute. Furthermore, why is it that graduates students in the Latin American Studies program are not required to write masters thesis. Why is morale among students and personnel at the Institute so low. And finally, why in a state institution that receives public funds is everything done at the Institute with secrecy and mystery. Without an investigation, students and employees at the Institute will not describe their concerns. The problems at the Institute go further than the current Director, are systematic and pervasive. In addition to the questions I have mentioned, I would like the Regents to ask the current Director where she will be Spring Semester 2007. This time, this is the most unusual moment in the study of Latin America and we cannot allow the problems of the Institute to linger or to go about as if they do not exist. Once again I reiterate that this is my personal and professional responsibility as a student, an employee of UNM and an alumni of the Program to raise these issues.
James Koch asked Provost Dasenbrock to look at this and provide an appropriate answer for the Board.

Brittany Jaeger, President, ASUNM
I have been trying to get lights on the practice field. I think the last six years, the Student Body President, has ran on that platform. ASUNM is hoping to be more active within the entire University this year. I am trying to get more speakers for the meeting. Dean White will be speaking at the first meeting. We will also have the New Mexico Lottery Program coming to talk about the Lottery Scholarship and how it benefits students across the state. In the past there has been an organization of all the Presidents across the state of the student bodies. We had our first meeting a month ago. We don’t want it to be a governing board, where we actually vote on issues, but rather where we just talk about issues. We are all going to have different issues that effect our institutions in different ways. If there are certain issues that affect us across the board, every single institution, we’d like to mirror what the Council of University Presidents does and also push for those initiatives at the Legislature. I will be presenting at New Mexico State on tuition credit on Saturday at our second meeting.
On the housing initiative and lighting, I think that we really need to think about the entire package. Offering parking close to where people live, no one would ever buy a house where you have to park a mile away from your house. That is something we need to look at. You wouldn’t walk around in the dark at night going from your car to your house. They get a very plain apartment, cable and internet is extra. We offer cable TV and phone, it is standard. Most people use there cell phones, but they still pay for their dorm phone. There are ways we can become cost competitive with other apartment complexes.

Roberto Ortega, President, UNM Alumni Association
One of our primary goals is to strengthen collaboration with the campus constituents to meet the needs of the entire campus. Our Legislation Committee has endorsed the 1/16th gross receipts tax for Bernalillo County and has activated the Lobo Links to advocate for the needed funds for the Hospital. I am proud to announce that our Executive Committee also endorsed this today.
Another goal is to foster enduring involvement with pride and commitment to UNM’s colleges, schools and programs. We are planning to honor more UNM athletes on September 21st at a banquet held at the SUB.
Another goal is to engage students in ways that will develop lifetime ties to UNM. We are always active in freshmen orientation, as we have done throughout the summer. We hosted freshmen and their parents at various events. We’ve also announced 15 scholarships to senior athletes to help them finish their education at UNM. We will be serving free hotdogs to students, staff and faculty as part of the Welcome Back Days on Thursday, August 24th on the North Campus and Friday, August 25th on the Main Campus.
Another goal is to expand the tradition of philanthropy toward UNM among alumni. We are going to announce a new scholarship from the Alumni Association called Alumni Association Memorial Scholarship; it will be endowed to help a student who demonstrates significant civic engagement during their tenure at UNM.
Another goal is to communicate effectively with our diverse alumni. The Fall Mirage magazine has just been mailed out. The Encircle Social Networking Program will be launched this month and the electronic newsletter was sent out to 40,000 alumni.
We are continuing to work on securing Hodgin Hall as our permanent home. We have a Task Force or Subcommittee arranged to do the planning and implementation. We are also looking at both funding through the State and private funding to implement the changes we are proposing for that building.
We want to enhance services and benefits for alumni and we are about to start one of our most popular programs: the Annual Green Chili Roast that takes place across the country. There is over five tons of chili roasted at these events. The money comes back to the University in the form of scholarships.
Finally, one of our goals is to encourage community service and leadership among alumni and students. We are partnering with the Committee for Public Service and Civic Engagement from the University on pilot projects in the communities of Gallup and Espanola.

Thelma Domenici for Robert Bovinette, Chair, UNM Foundation
The UNM Foundation Board of Directors held its first Retreat. We had the most spectacular time and learned so much from our speaker on how to work and connect with the various contingencies. We had about 28 members attend. It was a very profitable and meaningful experience.
We also made a real effort in connecting consistency with the UNM Alumni Association. We had representation and participation at our Board Retreat.
For all of us that attended, we left with a better understanding of the responsibilities of being a member of the Board. We focused on the necessity of being fully supportive of the mission of the UNM Foundation –“To solicit, accept, and manage private contributions and grants for the purpose of promoting education, research and community service, commitments of the University.”
We left off with a real commitment to assist the staff in the whole advancement area.
We had key presentations made to us by key staff in the development structure. We hosted individuals from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who were in the final stages of determining funding for UNM. The Foundation is very interested in helping to educate PhDs and researchers for public policy involvement. They wanted a top research institution with ethnic diversity. We fill the bill.
Our closing luncheon was attended by all the staff from the Development Offices.
Robert Bovinette requested that the Presidential Search Committee consider having representation from the Foundation Board of Directors. We realize how closely connected the Foundation needs to be with the President of the University.
The Annual Fall Board reception is October 19th and our meeting is October 20th. The reception is going to be held at the Athletics West Pavilion.
Lastly and most importantly, the Board of Directors wishes to express gratitude and appreciation to all our fundraisers who this year reached an all-time record in fundraising.

COMMENTS FROM REGENTS

Sandra Begay-Campbell commented that as part of the ongoing development with the tribes of New Mexico, we have sent out letters to the President’s Office to invite all of the tribal leaders and their constituents to a Native American Recognition Day at the first football game on September 2nd. We are holding a tailgate party for the tribal leaders and they will be introduced at the halftime break.
James Koch commented that he, Regent Eaves and Regent Sanchez had lunch with the Robert Wood Johnson representatives. They mentioned it was very interesting that they sought when they did research throughout the country to find a university that included had a law school, medical school, diversity, that there was only one. I think we have a good chance of receiving that grant. The main reason we were selected was because we were the only university that met the criteria.

ACADEMIC/STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, Regent Rosalyn Nguyen

Our agenda this morning for Academic/Student Affairs was relatively short. In addition to the School of Pharmacy, the School of Architecture and Planning also received a six year re-accreditation.
Jim Brown, a distinguished UNM faculty member, was elected as Honorary Member of the American Society of Mammalogist.
There is also a committee to get together a parent relations center on campus.
We have two action items; the first is post-tenure review at the University of New Mexico. Dr Holder presented this report to us. Under New Mexico statute, there’s a post-tenure review policy for all tenured faculty members. The Department of Higher Education requires that the Board of Regents from the University of New Mexico file a report annually. So, in our report, there are 852 tenured faculty subject to your review.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Faculty Post-Tenure Review Report. (Koch, Eaves)

Under a Memorandum of Agreement that we adopted last May, membership of the governing boards of the Hardwood Museum of Art needs to be approved by the Board of Regents. There are three individuals that have been nominated to serve on this Board: Victor Goler, Deborah McLean and Wendy Stagg.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Appointments to the Governing Board of the Harwood Museum. (Koch, Eaves)

Information Items:

We have the last installment of the Dashboard Report. This Report was on a national study of student engagement performance measures. They posed twelve questions. The results from UNM are compared with our CHE peers and the student reference group.
KNME features task force report, and we had Mr. Ted Garcia, who is the Task Force Co-Chair and KNME General Manager and CEO. He came to us to discuss the steps they are taking to provide digital connections and allow access for students to get more resources. Specifically using digital TV as an educational tool and using it as a way for students to access further university programs.
There was a report by the Provost on the Latin American Iberian Institute funding.

PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH UPDATE, Raymond Sanchez, Chair

We will be announcing the Search Committee members in the near future. I would like to announce today that we have selected a search consultant; it is Greenwood and Associates, Inc. This is a female-owned firm, based in Miramar Beach, Florida, that provides executive search, consulting and training services to education and academic health center clients. Principals in the firm, President and CEO Dr. Jan Greenwood and Vice President and CCO Dr. Betty Turner Asher, are both former university presidents who have conducted successful presidential searches for Ohio State University, University of Florida, University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas-Pan American, among others.
Greenwood and Associates is committed to diversity and affirmative action as demonstrated by their client list, their presentation of diverse candidate pools and an impressive record of searches resulting in diversity hires.
They were selected as one of five respondents in a competitive bid process. We look forward to working with Drs. Greenwood and Turner Asher in helping us secure a new president for the University of New Mexico.
We also met with former UNM President Chris Garcia, who is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He has agreed to assist us in this search in a way that will be very beneficial. He will help us look at candidates, try to do some background checking and give us his thoughts as to what we should be doing and how to help us find someone who can epitomize what everyone has told us they want in terms of a president.
We met with four former presidents of the University last month and got their input on what they thought about the search process. They were very impressed with the way we were going about it.
At the Retreat on the 22nd, we will discuss the selection process. Hopefully by September we will have the committee in place.

ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE, Don Chalmers, Chair

The Advancement Committee met on July 17th. President Harris announced Mike Carroll’s intention to leave the University for another Position at another University and also his appointment of Michael Kingan to fill in as Interim Vice President of Institutional Advancement. We are all pleased that Mike Kingan was there and we have a lot of confidence that he’ll carry the ball without the least bit of interruption.
Carlos Romero provided a Government Affairs and Community Relations update. He outlined his vision, responsibilities and additions to his staff. He summarized his plans and ideas for engaging the Legislature this year, bringing them on campus as much as possible. He provided a matrix of roles and responsibilities of the current state and federal lobbyist that we employ.
Vice President Terry Yates produced a graph showing the significant increases in federal funding received and its correlation to the time the federal consultants were hired.
Dr. Yates and his Chief Economic Development Officer, John Garcia, provided an update on UNM Economic Development and their vision to be an economic engine that helps New Mexico grow. $295M worth of research grants and contracts were received in fiscal year 2005. 101 patents issued in the past five years, which is a significant increase in activity and seven start-up companies have been created, which helps our community in its economic vitality. They have an effort called Economic Development with Quality.
The University Communication and Marketing Department, Anne Monson, gave an update and unveiled a new website that is faster and more appealing to use. She also brought to us the new graphic for the new UNM logo, which will be consistent throughout all the schools and departments, with the exception of the Health Sciences Center.
Two senior communication representatives took prestigious awards from the New Mexico Public Relations Society for articles written for the Alumni publication, Mirage.
James Koch commented that last year they raised $48.6M and the goal this year is $68M.

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, Don Chalmers, Chair

The Development Committee met on June 28th. We welcomed Athletic Director, Paul Krebbs to the Committee.
They raised a total of $48.6M on a $47.1M goal, that’s 103% of the goal. It is the record number of dollars in one year. There are 35,000 transactions processed and 18,215 individual donors.
There is a reception at 5:00 pm today to celebrate this accomplishment in the SUB. There will also be a press release.
This committee is now included in its mission to serve as the University campaign planning committee for a comprehensive fundraising effort.
With the resignation of Mike Carroll there was a lot of question where we were going to be in that process and I think it is a tribute to the University and its strength of personnel and Michael Kingan to step in, that we believe that we are not going to miss too much of a step and we are going to continue along the same path.
The University executive team of David, Reed and Paul, have received the third draft of a needs assessment for such a campaign. They are reviewing that at this point in time. We are going to draft a preliminary case statement which will identify highlights and common themes from the needs assessment. A review committee will be established and I appointment Provost Dasenbrock and he’ll bring two or three names to the Committee for approval at the September meeting to provide University review and feedback of that case statement.
Michael Kingan will provide five or six names to the Committee to establish a sub-committee to review the plan to be approved by the Committee and the UNM Foundation on how we proceed on this capital campaign.
I have a Resolution that I would like to read. Whereas the University of New Mexico’s Board of Regents Development Committee has been designated to also serve as the University’s Campaign Planning Committee for comprehensive fundraising campaigns. Whereas the Committee will serve as ambassadors in these efforts and will provide leadership and guidance throughout the planning process. Whereas the University of New Mexico has successfully completed the groundwork to move forward with a Draft Preliminary Case Statement and Feasibility Study for a comprehensive campaign. Whereas a momentum has been created in harmony with these structural preparations. Now, therefore, the Regents authorize the University Campaign Planning Committee to establish a “Gifts in Anticipation of a Campaign Phase” for a Proposed Campaign, and to initiate measures to count campaign gifts pledged or received beginning July 1, 2006 from the Gifts in Anticipation of a Campaign Phase towards a Proposed Campaign.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the University of New Mexico Campaign Planning Committee Resolution. (Koch, Fortner)

James Koch commented that the University, under the leadership team of David, Paul and Reed, is moving rapidly to continue the pace we want to have as a strong university. We have already raised $48 M dollars and we have already said that we are going to get the capital campaign. I think it clearly shows that this University is in a great position. I think you will see that there are many individuals out there that would like to be president of this University. When a new president comes to the University, you will see that we have not lost a beat because of everyone working hard on their committees.

AUDIT COMMITTEE, Don Chalmers for Raymond Sanchaez, Chair

The Audit Committee met on July 18th. I met Christine Chavez, our new head of the Internal Audit Committee. This is not her first rodeo. She spent 15 years in the auditing of the LFC, and the last two years of that as the Audit Director.
We reviewed the status of the Internal Audit recommendations: past due and cleared or not past due. The University is doing very well to clear the audit recommendations that have been made.
We heard an update on the FY06 External Audit Contract. That’s going as planned.
We approved four audits for publication: National College Athletic Association – Audit of Student Athlete Eligibility, Ibero American Science and Technology Education Consortium – Internal Controls Audit, Emergency Medical Services – Audit of Cash Handling, and the Audit of Payroll Overpayments in the Department of Biology.
We discussed Audit 2007-01 Anderson Schools of Management Audit of Extra and Outside Compensation. The Committee directed Internal Audit to review all faculty, which expanded the scope, therefore, it is proposed that a status report be presented on August 22nd.

FINANCE AND FACILITIES COMMITTEE, John “Mel” Eaves, Chair.

Motion approved unanimously to approve Disposition of Surplus Property on List Dated 6/27/06 and 7/21/06. (Koch, Fortner)

Motion approved unanimously to approve Provost Reed Dasenbrock and Vice President Yates to serve as Directors of the New Mexico Research University Consortium and the New Mexico Consortium. (Eaves, Sanchez)

Motion approved unanimously to approve of the relocation of the Lobo Care and Senior Health Clinics to 1101-4 Medical Arts, Suite A. (Nguyen, Fortner)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Research Incubator Building Expansion. (Nguyen, Fortner)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the plan to construct the Lands West Utility Expansion (the land west of University Blvd.). (Nguyen, Fortner)

The action item regarding the purchase of the former Social Security Building located at the Science and Technology Park on the South Campus was deferred.
This project is proposed to be used for High Tech High which would take about 35,000 square feet. The remainder would be used for certain business units from the UNM Health Sciences Center. The project is dependent upon a $7.7M dollars being withdrawn from the Regents Endowment. This item was deferred for additional analysis and cash flow due to later occupancy dates. The owners of the property will be approached to postpone the closing of the transaction.
The faculty want High Tech High to be someplace on campus. High Tech High was told if they move someplace off the campus, the deal with UNM is off. It needs to be easily assessable to both our students that will be doing internships and to those student who will have concurrent enrollment.
The University owns the underlining ground, but it was leased to the present owners, so we are basically buying out the lease.

Motion approved unanimously to approve the contract for UNMH-State Coverage Insurance. (Sanchez, Eaves)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the contract for Imaging Suite Center, items 2 through 11 as listed in the July 24th memo from Bruce Cherrin to David Harris. (Sanchez, Eaves)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the Valencia Campus Mil Rate Resolution. (Sanchez, Eaves)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the development of UNM properties as revenues sources for University programs. (Sanchez, Eaves)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the use of Regents’ Endowment Fund relative to Regent’s Policy 7.19. (Chalmers, Begay-Campbell)

Carlos Romero stated that there are five Legislative priorities that will be discussed at the Regent meeting in conjunction with New Mexico State University.
The priorities are in conjunction with the Legislative focus areas that we would be focusing on responses from the campus community. “A” would be Educating New Mexico Healthcare Workforce and there are three proposals: BA/MD combined degree, College of Nursing program expansion and Cooperative Pharmacy program. ‘B” would be Growing a Successful and Diverse Campus: Navajo Language program, Native American Studies program, Chicano, Hispano and Mexicano Studies program, New Mexico International Education initiative, mentoring Institute and MAPS – Multiple Academic Pathways for Students. “C” would be Solidifying the Financial Stability of the School of Medicine and the University of New Mexico Hospitals: Instruction and General funding support at the School of Medicine, Out of County Indigent Fund, HSC Library Collections and UNM Young Children’s Health Center.
“D” is Advancing New Mexico’s Competitive Edge: Film and Digital Media program, Center for Radio Isotopes, Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Aerospace Engineering.
Building and Renewing Student Centered Campus – these are the capital projects you approved last month and I will not go through those unless you have specific questions.
The Information Technology Projects: Wireless Campus Project, Hosting Services Facility, National LambdaRail Membership.
UNM in the Community Across the State is UNM in public service. In each one of these focus groups we really focused on the core mission of the University in each one of these areas. These programs are areas in which the University interacts with the community.

Motion approved unanimously to approve 2007 Legislative Priorities ((Koch, Fortner)

Information Items:

Monthly Financial Report for the 12 Month Ended June 30, 2006
Ava Lovell discussed the Year-End Financial Statements. They are preliminary and unaudited. The Audit could make changes later. The first two columns are full-year budget and year-to-date budget and they are the same. The year-to-date actual is the third column over. The net of revenues over expenses is a positive $3,144,000 for the year. Although our tuition was less than budgeted, we were able to make that up with expense savings. There is favorability in Unrestricted Research. In Clinical Operations we did come out favorable by $7M. Under Public Service, we also came out favorable. On Independent Operations, they’re at a break even for the year. Student Aid came right in at budget. Auxiliary is showing a $500K favorable. On Sponsored Programs we break even. Overall we have done very well with an almost $19.5M increase in our balances.
Contract information: UNMH – Contract Renewals/Information and UNM Physical Plant – Natural Gas Purchase Update
Mel Eaves stated that he’s not going to take any time to review these items. Baring any question, I will just move onto the next item.
Senior Administrator Report
Susan’s report was identical to what is shown in the Memorandum. An Organization Chart was distributed showing in bold type the appointment made.
HED Funding Requests
There was some confusion because the new HED was requiring some submittals for which they had not prepared forms. As a result of that delay, Curt Porter and his staff were forced to work at the last minute to put together a list.
UNM Housing Task Force Update
We currently have 2,183 beds in our Student Housing. They range in age from five years to fifty years old. This will accommodate about 12% of our undergraduate students. The occupancy rate is 94%. We currently have no debt service left on 1,500 beds; on the remainder of the beds we about $2M per year debt service. There is a great need for renovation. We can’t just use up the parking lots without providing alternate parking.
Progress on Security Integration Report
Chief Guimond presented a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation to the Finance and Facilities Committee. This was a report on the progress to integrate all security services at the University to try and consolidate the use of outside vendors.
Portfolio Management at the Anderson School
There is a tremendous amount of detail here. Chuck Crespy reported on the bottom line progress of this program. We now have 27% of our total portfolio in student selected stocks. The remaining money is in an exchange traded fund called SPDRs. We are pleased with the progress we have made and the students have expressed extraordinary excitement about participating in the program.

ADDED AGENDA ITEMS, David Harris, Acting President

David Harris, Acting President, stated: that pursuant to your agenda based on an emergency situation that arose today, we are taking up two items dealing with Bernalillo County relative to two issues they brought to our attention today having to do with a vote they are going to take tomorrow. We were informed about 12:00 pm today that there were two items we needed to address today, these are of an emergency nature and I gathered while I was out you added them to the agenda (Jamie Koch confirmed)and that is covered by the provision that we can add to the agenda under an emergency.
Patrick Apodaca stated: that this is correct under Subsection F of the Open Meetings Act. There is an Emergency Provision that allows for exceptions to notice in situations where there is an unanticipated emergency, which is roughly defined to be where there is likely substantial financial loss to a government institution.
David Harris stated: the vote is up tomorrow, if this isn’t done we stand to lose a significant sum of money that would be delayed in coming through. President Harris asked Carlo Romero if this is correct..
Carlo Romero stated: it is correct, I spoke with the County Manager today about 12:15 pm and he stressed to me the importance of the Regents acting on this today. Failure of the Regents to act on these two documents today would be difficult.
Jamie Koch said he got a call about 11:30 am and he was faxed this information.
David Harris stated: they sent us this Agreement between Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners and the University of University. We will have a copy for the record. There were two minor changes made to the document. We added some language relative to the hiring of new nurses and other medical support. We added the language that it would be subject to the availability of personnel for those positions. Then we added another provision that we would provide quarterly reports to the County. We wanted to be sure it was a final report they were getting. It is my understanding that these changes are acceptable and they are going to vote on this themselves tomorrow and approve this also.
The other item they were interest in was a Resolution by the Board of Regents dealing with the governance issue that we have been working on. There is a provision in here that we will be adding new members to the Clinical Operations Board, it will be increased from nine to thirteen.

Motion approved unanimously to adopt the Agreement. (Koch, Eaves)

Motion approved unanimously to adopt the Resolution. (Koch, Eaves)

HEALTH SCIENCES COMMITTEE, Sandra Begay-Campbell

Motion approved unanimously to approve the permanent appointments to UNMH Medical Staff. (Fortner, Begay-Campbell)
Motion approved unanimously to approve the reappointments to the UNMH Medical Staff. (Fortner, Begay-Campbell)

Motion approved unanimously for expansion of privileges for Dr. Said F. Yassin in the Department of Surgery Cardiothoracic Division (Fortner, Begay-Campbell)

Motion approved unanimously for expansion of privileges for Dr. Warren K. Laskey in the Department of Internal Medicine Cardiology Division. (Fortner, Begay-Campbell)

Motion approved unanimously to approve the MOU between UNM and Carrie Tingly Hospital Foundation, Inc. (Fortner, Begay-Campbell)

Note: President Koch departed the meeting prior to Executive Session. He charged President David Harris and Regent Don Chalmers with any negotiations with Rio Rancho on a Western Campus for UNM.

EXECUTIVE SESSION:

Discussion and determination, where appropriate, of matters subject to the attorney-client privilege regarding pending or threatened litigation in which the University is or may become a participant pursuant to Section 10-15-1.H (7), NMSA.

Discussion and determination, where appropriate, of strategic and long-range business plans of public hospital pursuant to Section 10-15-1.H, NMSA.

Certification that only those matters described above were discussed in Executive Session. If necessary, ratification of actions, if any, taken in Executive Session regarding matters subject to the attorney-client privilege.

Adjournment at 4:00 pm

Re-opened at 4:08 pm

Final Adjournment at 4:15 pm

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Regent James H. Koch, President Regent Sandra-Begay-Campbell,
-Secretary, Treasurer