MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
December 13, 2005

The Regents of the University of New Mexico met on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, l: 00 p.m. in the Student Union Building, Ballroom B. A copy of the public notice is on file in the Office of the President.

Regents present:

James H. Koch, President
Jack L. Fortner, Vice President
John M. “Mel” Eaves
Sandra K. Begay-Campbell
Raymond Sanchez
Douglas M. Brown (last meeting as Regent, currently New Mexico State Treasurer)
Rosalyn D. Nguyen, Student Regent
President Louis Caldera

Vice Presidents present:

David Harris, Executive Vice President for Administration
Dr. Paul Roth, Interim Executive Vice President of Health Sciences Center
Reed W. Dasenbrock, Interim Provost
Terry Yates, Vice President of Research and Development
Michael Carroll, Vice President for Advancement
Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, Vice President of Student Affairs

Regents' Advisors present:

Christopher Smith, President, Faculty Senate
Sabra Basler, President, Staff Council
Buckner Creel, President GPSA
Angela Vachio, President, UNM Alumni Association
Robert Bovinette, Chair, UNM Foundation
Brittany Jaeger, President, ASUNM

Guests:

Dr. James Brown
Dean Vera Norwood
Clyde Watkins
Erin Roth (Mrs. Paul)

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 p.m.

ADOPTION OF AGENDA, Regent Jamie Koch

Motion approved unanimously to adopt the agenda.

APPROVAL OF SUMMARIZED MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS MEETING

Motion approved unanimously to approve the October 11, 2005 meeting minutes.

INTRODUCTION OF NEW UNM POLICE K-9 “ULTRA,” Kathy Guimond, UNM Police Chief

• Chief Guimond introduced her newest officer. Ultra is a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois. He is bilingual; his commands are all in French. He is titled in French ring sport and is certified for patrol and explosive devises. He is also certified in handler protection, tracking, detention and apprehension of suspects. Chief Guimond introduced the handler, who is a critical component, Officer Eric Miller, who has been a police officer for 12 years. He came to UNM from APS police. Ultra is the only officer that never questions any direction. He responds to directions immediately. There are only 5 bomb dogs trained in the metro area and only 9 that are trained in the state. UNM's K-9 program was established in January 1999. The first dog that UNM had was one of only 5 in the country at universities. This has been a pioneering effort. Ultra will be checking the PIT before graduation to make it a safer place. Chief Guimond thanked the Board, the President and all the Vice Presidents for their support.

PUBLIC INPUT REGARDING ITEMS ON THE AGENDA

• Santiago Montoya, parent of UNM student, spoke about problem with professors at UNM who he feels are being bias. He says professors are rude to his daughters at the Department of Music. He wrote a letter to the President and he did not receive a response. The Professor's name is Paul Lombardi. He made remarks to Mr. Montoya's daughter regarding her academic classes in front of other students, which is unprofessional. She considered the professor's comments to be bias. Mr. Montoya met with Holly Sanchez before the Spring break. They setup a meeting for the following week for Mr. Montoya, his daughter, Professor Lombadi and Ms. Sanchez to meet. The meeting never occurred. Mr. Montoya questioned why Ms. Sanchez did not setup the meeting. His daughter received a letter from Ms. Sanchez saying that she had to follow a procedure. Mr. Montoya asked the Board of Regents to address professors who act the way they do. Mr. Montoya said the issue was that his daughter felt humiliated in front of the students. Paul Lombardi suggested that she drop the class. Mr. Montoya's daughter wrote the professor a letter, because she was sick, and asked that she could take a make-up test, and he never responded. Mr. Montoya's daughter has a file with the Disabilities Act. He spoke to Ms. Sanchez about this, but she was not very helpful. She went around in circles. Mr. Montoya told Ms. Sanchez that under the federal Disability Act, UNM is supposed to provide assistance to students. Ms. Sanchez said they would do the best they can. Mr. Montoya said that he has talked to the State Finance Committee about the amount of Hispanics in upper scale positions and salaries. Mr. Montoya said to the President, “Under the federal Information Act, I am requesting that I get a copy of all that information that regards how many Hispanics are in high-paying positions and also in job classifications.” As a parent of this child, Mr. Montoya is very concerned about some of the attitudes that some of the professors have at UNM. He is requesting that the Board address this issue with the professors. He says there is no need for them to act the way they do, they are here to teach. Mr. Montoya said he is unsure if he should put his request in a letter to the Board, but he will send a letter to President Caldera so it will be on file. Regent Koch asked Mr. Montoya to write two letters: one letter to President Caldera for the information request and one letter to the Board regarding the complaint from his daughter. Regent Koch asked Mr. Montoya what his daughter's disability is and Mr. Montoya said it is a learning disability. President Caldera said he was not aware of this particular situation and that there are ways of working with students if they have questions about how they were treated in the classroom or anywhere else at the University. President Caldera asked that Mr. Montoya meet with Breda Bova and leave his contact information so that Student Services individuals can follow-up with him. Mr. Montoya was also asked to have a student release signed by his daughter so that the person looking into this issue can access the student records.
• Gail Evans, New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty
  Ms. Evans spoke about the Resolution to be presented to the regents regarding the finances for the hospital and providing on-going analysis to the community about the hospital's uncompensated care costs. Ms. Evans wants it to be clear, on behalf of the Center on Law and Poverty and on behalf of the Community Coalition for Health Care Access, that there is specific information they are seeking. The information they were provided before the Health Summit, which was more information than they have ever received before, still did not answer all of their questions. There is further information they are seeking. They have proposed to the sub-committee leading up to the Summit and have re-raised the issue with Regent Eaves. They have been told that all the information they are seeking cannot be provided and they disagree. They have consulted with experts in hospital finance. They understand that this is information that should be accessible and they would like all the detail of the information they are requesting. They are pleased that the resolution will be passed, but there are specifics they would like to see included. They will meet with Ava Lovell to discuss further.
• Regent Eaves commented that some of the information that is not available is not part of the normal record keeping. He stated that at the meeting with Gail Evans, the Resolution was revised to read as it states today. The Resolution calls for the University to furnish the information that had been requested by the Governor's letter. The Committee approved the Resolution unanimously, along with Gail.

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT, President Louis Caldera

• President Caldera congratulated Regent Brown on his appointment by Governor Bill Richardson as State Treasurer. Regent Brown has served as a UNM Regent for the last 2 1/2 years. During that time he has chaired the Academic/Student Affairs Committee and the Development Committee. He was also a founding member of the President's Club. He has established a community service award, the Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Award, to honor his wife, a dedicated community servant. The first award will be given out in February at a Lobo home basketball game to both a faculty member and a staff member.
• President Caldera extended congratulations and welcome to Don Chalmers who has been appointed by the Governor to fill the term of Regent Brown. Don is an active member of the UNM community. He is a board member of the University of New Mexico Hospital Clinical Operations Board, and of the UNM Foundation. He is a former member of the Commission on Higher Education and has chaired the United Way campaign for UNM.
• This past summer, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the election of 72 new members at its recent 142 nd annual meeting and the list includes UNM Distinguished Professor of Biology James H. Brown. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a U.S. scientist engineer. Professor Brown is the third UNM professor to be elected to the National Academy. He joins current faculty member Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Jane Buikstra, who has been a member since 1987 and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Professor Jess Summers, a member since 2001, in the National Academy. Brown's research has always been driven by the curiosity about the diversity of life. He has conducted two major research programs over the course of his career including theoretical research in biological scaling and macroecology and experimental research in desert ecology. His research interests include community ecology and biogeography, with special projects on granivory in desert ecosystems; biogeography of insular habitats; and structure of dynamics of geographic-scale assemblages of many species.
• Professor Brown was invited to speak and was presented with a gift of a UNM clock. Professor Brown thanked the Board for this recognition.
• Engineering Professor, Manuel de Hermenegildo, who holds the Prince of Asturias Endowed Chair in Information Science and Technology at UNM, was honored with Spain's 2005 National Research Award for Mathematics and Information Technologies, known as the Julio Pastor Award.
• University of New Mexico's American Studies Professor Gerald Vizenor recently received the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Western Literature Association. The award was presented to him at their annual conference last month.
• Paul Biderman has been named director of the Institute of Public Law at the University of New Mexico's School of Law. He's previously been directing one of the institutes, Judicial Education Center, since its inception in 1991.
• UNM's highest staff award will be given to three employees: Pamela Agoyo, Linda McCormick and Joel Straquadine. The Gerald W. May Staff Recognition Award will be presented at a public ceremony on Thursday, December 15 th , 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm in the Student Union, Ballroom C.
• There were a number of significant University events. The Governor's Health Care Summit took place last Monday. It was a wonderful success and you will be getting a more in-dept report on the Summit. The Summit convened a vast diversity of members from the New Mexico community. There were representatives from the faculty, hospital, School of Medicine and Clinical Operations Board. There were government officials, including legislators and county commissioners.
• In the area of groundbreaking and new construction, the Digital Media Garage will house high-tech equipment for UNM's Arts Technology Center. ARTS lab and High Performance Computing held a grand opening ceremony for the public on Wednesday, December 7 th . President Caldera thanked Terry Yates, VP for Research and Economic Development, ATC and ARTS Director Ed Angel and CHPC Director Barney Maccabe.
• The groundbreaking for the UNM School of Architecture and Planning and Fine Arts and Design Library took place on November 29 th . The event honored New Mexico state legislature and in particular Rep. Ed Sandoval for their financial support of the new Facility. Additional recognition goes to Van Gilbert, Bob Stamm and Garrett Smith who led the capital campaign cabinet. UNM has received a $300,000 anonymous gift toward the additional fund-raising for the architecture building and another quarter of a million dollar gift that's about to be finalized.
• There was a ribbon-cutting ceremony with the UNM Regents and administrators for the UNM Business Center at the corner of Lomas and University. This building was brought in two months ahead of schedule and about one and a quarter million dollars under budget.
• There have been a number of wonderful holiday events. The Hanging of the Greens occurred on Friday December 2 nd – over 700 attended from the campus community. More than 30 student organizations setup about 20,000 luminaries throughout campus to celebrate the tradition that dates back to the 1930's. There was a community reception at University House on Saturday, December 3 rd – over 200 community guests attended. The Regents Holiday dinner was held last night. Over 70 guests attended including Regents, Vice Presidents and Deans.
• There have been a number of important items in Academic Affairs, including the New Mexico Management Dashboard Data Report. The Provost and his group have completed the interim report on the strategic plan bringing a lot of focus to our strategic planning efforts, as well as, a paper on our marked opportunities that begins to layout the areas that we as a University should be emphasizing our investments and building our faculty.
• In the area of fund raising, Mike Carroll and his team should be thanked. By the end of the year, we will have brought in $20 million dollars, which puts us on pace for our best fund raising year as a University. Clyde Watkins met with the Foundation Board where they previewed some of the information you are going to hear today. Mike Carroll and the President, at the request of the Regents, have been spending time on the road, New York Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Philadelphia visiting foundations, alumni individuals, and many of those gifts are in.
• The Council of University Presidents and the Legislative Finance Committee for the benefit of the University community met last week. At the meeting, the council endorsed our legislative priorities which included a 5% faculty and staff compensation request and zero credit for students. The council is recommending $50 million in a state endowed chair fund and $100 million in deferred infrastructure. The initial feedback received from the Legislative Finance Committee on their recommendations includes that higher education would receive $765 million, which is a $59 million increase over last year and they would recommend a compensation package of 4.5% for salary and 1.5% in employer and employee ERA contributions for a total of 6% compensation.
• UNM's fall commencement will be held Friday, December 16 th in the PIT. 1,768 students are projected to receive degrees follows: 1,236 bachelor's degrees, 395 master's degrees, one post-masters, 112 doctorates, nine juris doctorates, three graduate certificates, two medical doctorates, six pharmacy doctorates and four education specialists.
• Congratulation to Coach Jeremy Fishbien and the UNM Men's Soccer Team on a great season. They represented us well at the NCAA final four, finishing number 2 in the country. Congratulations to Coach Don Flanagan and the women's basketball team, ranked 18, on winning the Lobo Shootout this weekend.
• President Caldera expressed his sincere thanks and appreciation to all the faculty, staff and students who are working tirelessly along with our leadership team to make UNM a great University. He wished everyone a very blessed holiday season.

PRESENTATION OF NAMBO LOBO HEAD TO NM STATE TREASURER

•  Regent Koch presented Douglas M. Brown with a Nambo Lobo Head and thanked him for his service.

•  Regent Brown commented on what it is like to be a Regent.

COMMENTS FROM REGENTS

• Regent Eaves commented on what it has been like to be a Regent with Douglas Brown. It has been a very special experience. Doug came to UNM with a very special perspective and an incredibly rich educational and business background.
• Sandra Begay-Campbell stated that she appreciated Doug Brown's diplomacy and for being a gentleman. She also is very thankful for the way he captured the Academic Affairs report in such an articulate way. She thanked him for his service.
• Regent Koch stated that Regent Brown will be missed.
• Regent Brown told everyone that he appreciated their kind words and it has been a joy to be part of a group that is so supportive.

COMMENTS FROM REGENTS ADVISORS

Jackie (replacing Christopher Smith, President, Faculty Senate)

• Jackie thanked Chairman Koch and Regent Eaves for attending the November Faculty Senate meeting. Regent Eaves attended the October meeting.
• On November 30 th , the Faculty Senate had a reception for legislators and about 20 faculty and 10 legislators attended. It was a social event to build relationships.
• There is a report on junior faculty mentoring. It was completed by a committee charged by the President.
• The Provost talked about the salary survey at the Operations Committee meeting of the Faculty Senate. The Provost has asked the Economics Department to conduct the survey and gain information on how to hire and retain faculty.

Sabra Basler, President, Staff Council

• Staff Council also thanked Doug Brown for his service.
• The Gerald May Award is coming up tomorrow at the SUB, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm.
• They are working on the Whistle Blower Policy with David Harris and the Auditing Department.
• They are working on the Paid Time Policy for the Work Life group. They had a benefits educations meeting for staff counselors.
• Ms. Basler was approached about making UNM a smoke-free campus, but she needs a larger group to support this issue before putting it on the agenda.

Buckner Creel, President, GPSA

• Buck congratulated his colleagues who are graduating this year.
• Buck is glad to see that the University administration has been increasingly encouraging the graduate/undergraduate students to participate in many of the governance activities on campus. This primarily is with advisory councils and the Provost Search Committee, allowing students to participate.
• OGS Task Force report should be coming out soon and will generate positive activities.
• The Student Fee Review Board will be making recommendations to the Board of Regents in March regarding any changes that will take place with the student fees.
• The medical students are not paying any of the student fees.
• Their lobbying efforts are on the University's agenda. They are trying to assist the neediest graduate students, particularly parents, with being able to attend college and have access to the state low-income childcare system. A graduate student making $14,000 or less cannot receive assistance, but an undergraduate student or someone receiving job training can.
• There have been 65 applicants for the graduate research development grant. About 40 students will be funded with a grant and be able to complete their degree.

Angela Vachio, President, UNM Alumni Association

• The Alumni Association also congratulated Doug Brown on his new position.
• The Alumni Association has begun its legislative home receptions. This will be a continuous process. They also held an information session and advocacy training workshop to make sure that everyone supporting the University agenda knew it well. About 58 people attended.
• On Monday, January 23 rd the Alumni Association will hold a legislative appreciation reception in Santa Fe, at the El Dorado Hotel, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm.
• This week there was an open house at Hodgin Hall for the fall graduates.
• There will be an awards dinner recognizing outstanding alumni's on February 2 nd at the Hotel Albuquerque in Old Town.

Robert Bovinette, Chair, UNM Foundation

• On fundraising, the first 6 months of the fiscal year has been phenomenal. They are at $19.3 million. A year ago it was $15 million.
• For the first time, the University will be executing an advanced annual giving e-mail solicitation. This effort will reach 40,000 alums. Currently, they only receive gifts from about 10% of alums.
• The Development Office has worked diligently to inform donors about the limited federal legislation.
• A big challenge and a major goal for the Foundation this year is to strengthen the volunteer infrastructure.
• On the investment side, the combined endowment assets of the University of New Mexico and the Foundation are known as the Consolidated Investment Fund and that is managed by the Investment Committee. It is a fully diversified endowment fund, structured to pursue a variety of different investment strategies. Fiscal year to date, there has been a 2.2% return, which is well ahead of all their benchmarks.

Brittany Jaeger, President ASUNM

• Regarding the undergraduate lobby efforts in Santa Fe this year, the biggest priority is keeping the lottery scholarship in place. Brittany drafted a joint resolution with the Senate expressing what they would like to see happen with the lottery scholarship. Brittany distributed the resolution to the Board, the committee and to the governor.
• There will be bus to take students up to Santa Fe. Also, Brittany is trying to get entire classes to go to Santa Fe to lobby.
• There is a scholarship plaque now up in the SUB.
• Brittany presented Regent Brown with a gift.

ACADEMIC/STUDENT AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, Regent Jamie Koch

Motion approved unanimously for ratification of Summer and Fall 2005 Degree Candidates.

• Provost Dasenbrock gave a breakdown of the graduates for Fall and Summer. Fall : 1236 bachelor degrees, 395 masters degrees, one post-masters degree, 112 doctorates, nine J.D.'s, three graduate certificates, two M.D.'s, six Pham. D's, and four education specialists Summer : seven associate degrees, 324 bachelor degrees, 600 undergraduate certificates, nine educational specialist, one graduate certificate, three J.D.'s, 380 masters degrees, one Pham.D and 51 PhD's.

Motion approved unanimously for approval of Associates Arts Degree in Education at UNM-Taos.

• UNM Study Abroad – there will be a meeting in February of the Academic/Student Affairs Committee to discuss a full proposal for the finance and facility of this program. 6% - 7% of undergraduate students (about 300 each year) have an overseas experience. Dean Dasenbrock will present the proposal at the February meeting.
• The New Mexico Management Dashboard Data Report was presented. A selection of material from the Performance Effective Report, which each institution from New Mexico submits to the state, was reviewed. First time new freshman from New Mexico (2001-2005) - four of the six institutions had a decline. UNM is the second largest in percentage, but in actual terms the largest we have increased (650 freshman from New Mexico) in four years for a remarkable 30% increase. UNM has approximately half of the first time freshman in New Mexico who are entering universities. Community Colleges are not included. There was an increase in transfer students, but transfers need to be a higher priority. There are on-going conversations with TVI. The retention rate is rising in all ethic groups. UNM has approximately half of the students and half of the graduates for the state.

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE REPORT, Regent Douglas Brown, Chair

• Clyde Watkins presented “Toward the Campaign: Status of University Development.” Mr. Watkins stated that UNM has great potential for increased fund raising. UNM has academic quality, innovative teaching programs, research strength, rapid growth in funding over the last decade, ethnic diversity and its geographic location offers opportunities for working relations in academic and business partnerships and it's a great place to live. Albuquerque's rich history over the last four to five centuries makes UNM unique in the national forum in terms of the cultural crossroads.
• The alumni participation is low (9.6%) and needs to be increased.
• 52% of dollars were gifts of $50,000 and up. This is somewhat lower than the norm, which is about 70%.
• There has been enormous success in institutional development. UNM receives about $10 million dollars a year from corporate and foundation relations.
• There was no development program at HSC in 2002. There were various levels of development programs at the schools and colleges.
• It was recommended that UNM start a 5-year campus-wide structured development initiative to create a unified program.
• UNM has had some promising results, but there is still more work to be done before the University is ready for its major campaign.
• The goal this year is close to $50 million. Mr. Watkins hopes that UNM could achieve $60 - $70 million a year. To accomplish this, there needs to be 20% participation by UNM's alumni.
• For UNM to achieve the development goal, UNM will need the following: a shopping list of giving opportunities, a campaign goal, a campaign gift table, a campaign timetable and an appropriate goal for each source of support.

Rio Rancho Discussion

Representative Tom Swisstack from District 60. Mayor Jim Owen from Rio Rancho, and City Administrator Jim Palenick were introduced to the President and the Board of Regents and attended the meeting to discuss UMN's involvement in Rio Rancho. UNM had sent a letter to the Land Office for 440 acres and UNM is getting 386 acres. A draft of the letter being sent to Commissioner Lyons was reviewed by Regent Eaves. The matter was discussed thoroughly at the Finance and Facilities Committee meeting. The Committee adopted a Resolution recommending the Regents authorize the making of an offer to the Commissioner of Public Lands for the purchase of approximately 236 acres in section 36 and 204 acres in section 32. The draft of the offer letter was submitted to the Regents for consideration.

Motion approved for the offer letter regarding UNM West Campus at Rio Rancho be adopted.

Note: Regent Doug Brown abstained from voting

Administrative Consolidation Report, Executive Vice President David Harris

• Finance activities, risk management, and legal have been successfully been integrated. Facilities took a longer because it needed additional ingredients.
• Steve Beffort thanked Roger Lujan, Mary Vosevich, Mary Keeney, Kim Murphy, Mark Kisner, Andrew Cullen and Carolyn Thompson for their team work on the facilities project. The University has over nine million square feet of space with an asset value of $2.689 billion in facilities and real estate that this team oversees and manages. The scope of this project is very large. Mr. Beffort reviewed the Report to the Regents on Facilities and Real Estate Management (“FREM”) Consolidation. There are two objectives 1.) Aggressively address current capital project workload and deliver projects on time and on budget. 2.) Develop and implement a “lifecycle” approach to planning, project development, implementation, and ongoing management that is integrated with and responsive to the University's goal and direction. The first Deliverable is a Lifecycle Diagram outlining and programming how projects are going to be articulated. The second Deliverable is a Project Status Report . The third Deliverable is a Quarterly Report that will be brought to the Regents. The fourth Deliverable is Project Management . They want to add a Director of Project Management who will provide specific focus. The fifth Deliverable is Project Delivery Processes. The Sixth Deliverable is Co-location Feasibility. The operation is currently in six different locations and there needs to be co-location feasibility. The seventh Deliverable is Formal Integration of Financial Oversight with FREM and the eighth Deliverable is Information Warehouse for Decision Support.

FINANCE AND FACILITIES COMMITTEE, Regent Mel Eaves, Chair

Motion Approved unanimously to approve the equipment disposition surplus property list dated 10 – 11/2005.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve the Fiscal Watch Report to be submitted to the Department of Higher Education.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve the following contracts: UNMH-Sole Source Procurement of Primary Care and Cardiology Visits, UNMH-Cardiac Ultrasound Systems and UNMH-Procurement of Computer Mainframe.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve Proposed Regents' Policy Statement on Budgets and Fund Balances.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve I & G Tax for FY 2005-06.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve Annual Meeting of the Regents of UNM as the member of Lobo Energy, Inc. Approval of Summarized Minutes of January 11, 2005 and approval of External Audit for FY ending June 30, 2005.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve the following for the Physical Plant Department: Central Campus Electrical Upgrade to 15kV, Phase 4, Campus Water System Renewal, Phase 4 and Tow Diehm Administration Facility, HVAC Renovation.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve the following for the Real Estate Department: Real Estate Acquisition – 2811 Campus Blvd. NE (Huber), Ground Lease Expansion – Casa Experanza & Ronald McDonald House, New Building Site – State of New Mexico Court of Appeals and Sale of Real Property – 108 Cornell SE (Tamarind Institute).

Motion Approved unanimously to approve the following Facilities Projects: UNM-Gallup, Phase II Health Careers/Advanced Technologies Regional Network Facility, UNM-Valencia- Vocational Career Facility, Architect/Contractor Team Selection for Communication and Journalism Renovation Project and UNMH – Fluoroscopy Suite Renovation.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve revision to Rudy Davalos' contract addendum.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve Audit Report for the Year Ending June 30, 2005.

Motion Approved unanimously for to approve Healthcare Summit Finance Subcommittee Resolution.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve Investment Policy (7.21) for Operational Funds and Bond Proceeds.

Information Items:

• Summary of FY 2004-05 Ending Balances. The University continued to make progress in overall Current Funds balances. UNM has committed to using $675,000 of the I&G balances in the I&G budget. The $675,000 represents less than 9% of the designated fund balances available on June 30, 2005.
• Monthly Financial Report
• Contract Information: Employment Training Services for Classes at Valencia, HSC Library – Dell Marketing and CIRT, SCOS – Mainline Information System, Inc.
• Information on UNM Security Consolidation
• Senior Administrator Report
• The City of Albuquerque Light-Rail Transit Project Briefing – a light rail transit line along Central Ave. from Unser to Louisiana Blvd. and along Louisiana from Central to Uptown. The rail line will provide an important mass transit link from activity centers along this route to UNM. Mel Eaves encouraged the Board to review the memo from Steve Beffort regarding the Transit Project.
• The existing UNM Press Building is being sold to Albuquerque International. Sandia Foundation, in partnership with the University is building a new UNM Press Building.

ADVANCE MENT COMMITTEE REPORT, Regent Raymond Sanchez

• The Advancement Committee met on September 28, 2005. They now have University Communications and Marketing. The consolidations of the Health Sciences Center communications and the Main Campus are under progress. John Garcia's role is still be defined on what he's going to do as Chief Economic Development Officer for UNM.
• Regent Sanchez proposed a Board of Regents web site for the Board to consider.
• It was discussed where Public Records Requests are deposited and who has to provide them. It is provided by Communications right now. They do not want to do it because it has a lot to do with Legal. They want to move it to the Vice President's office, but they do not want it. It may be moved over to the Library.

SUMMIT REPORT, Regent Jamie Koch

• After the Governor issued that letter asking for the Health Summit, it was apparent that nobody (legislature and the community) believed UNM's financial data.
• Regent Eaves put in many hours and effort to get a financial resolution. Regent Koch thanked Regent Eaves for his hard detailed-work.
• Regent Koch also thanked Paul Roth for all his efforts in his negotiations and discussions.
• Regent Koch thanked Ellen Wenzel for all her hard work in preparing for the Summit. Regent Koch also thanked Carolyn Thompson, Susan Otter, and Connie Beimer for their hard work related to the Summit.
• Carolyn Thompson is preparing a report of the Summit and it will be ready on the 21 st .

HEALTH SCIENCES EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT , Regent Jamie Koch

Motion Approved unanimously to suspend the search and look inward at UNM for an Executive Vice President of the Health Sciences Center.

Motion Approved unanimously to approve the appointment of Dr. Paul Roth as Executive Vice President of the Health Sciences Center and the establishment of a Task Force to address the Executive Vice President of the Health Sciences Center contract. Regent Sanchez (Chair), Regent Begay-Campbell and Regent Eaves will work with President Caldera to develop a contract.

• Dr. Paul Roth ( and his wife Erin) enthusiastically accepted the position of Executive Vice President of the Health Sciences Center. Dr. Roth thanked everyone involved in preparing for the Health Summit. There was a shared vision for a healthier New Mexico.

HEALTH SCIENCES COMMITTEE, Regent Sandra Begay-Campbell

Motion Approved unanimously for approval of permanent appointments to medical staff.

Motion Approved unanimously for approval of permanent reappointments to medical staff.

Motion Approved unanimously for approval of expansion of staff privileges.

Motion Approved unanimously for approval of amendment to the bylaws of the University Physician Association to add a member to the Board of Cancer Research and Treatment Center.

MESA DEL SOL UPDATE, John Salazar, Esq.

• Discussions took place with Forest City as to why they could not sign a promissory note. The Accountant for Forest City said maybe they could sign a Note that reflects the obligation contained in the Installment Sale Agreement. Following the discussion, they were able to draft a Note that is acceptable to Forest City. The Note was presented to the Board of Regents.

Motion Approved to approve promissory note signed by Forest City and UNM.

Note: Regent Raymond Sanchez abstained from voting.

Executive Session: discussion of limited personnel matters pursuant to section 10-15-1.H (2), NMSA and litigation matters pursuant to section 10-15-1.H (7), NMSA.

Adjournment