BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: May 4, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
AB
2386 (Williams) - As Amended March 15, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill requires that one of the Governor's sixteen
appointments to the California State University (CSU) Board of
Trustees (BOT) be a nonfaculty CSU employee appointed to a
two-year term. The appointee must be a permanent employee who is
not in a management personnel plan, a confidential
classification, or an excluded classification. The bill also
requires an independent system staff council, funded by CSU
employee organizations, to provide the Governor with a list of
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two nominees for the position.
FISCAL EFFECT:
As it does for the faculty BOT representative, CSU would buy out
the represented staff member's time while in service on the BOT.
Those costs would depend on the type of employee appointed to
the board. Represented staff annual salaries range from $33,000
(groundskeeper) to $220,000 (physician), though relatively few
staff are at the high end of this range.
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose. According to the author, the Trustees are represented
by alumni, faculty, students, administration, ex officio
members, and Governor appointees. The author contends that
classified employees are the only unrepresented entity on the
Board. The author states that, "This bill is necessary as
there has never been an appointment of a classified employee
in the Boards' 34 year existence. An appointment would give
voice to the 20,000 classified staff members employed by the
CSU."
It should be noted that the California Community College Board
of Governors includes a nonfaculty appointment.
2)Background. The BOT consists of the following:
a) Five ex officio members: the governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Assembly Speaker, Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and the Chancellor;
b) An Alumni Trustee appointed by the CSU Statewide Alumni
Council.
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c) A Faculty Trustee appointed by the governor from a list
of nominees proposed by the Statewide Academic Senate.
d) Two student trustees appointed by the governor from a
list of nominees proposed by the California State Student
Association. One has full voting powers; the second,
non-voting student trustee succeeds to the voting position
upon the expiration of the term of the first.
e) Sixteen remaining trustees appointed by the governor,
subject to Senate confirmation, and serving eight-year
terms.
3)Prior Legislation. AB 2721 (Pan), which was similar to this
measure, was vetoed. The Governor stated, "Since the Board of
Trustees was established in 1960, there have only been 4
additions to the Board. The last of these was the addition of
the non-voting student member in 1999. I am not persuaded that
increasing the membership of the Board beyond 25 is
necessary."
4)Opposition. While not opposed to having a non-faculty staff
member as a Trustee, CSU believes the position should be open
to all non-faculty, rather than excluding certain
classifications as in AB 2386. CSU also argues that the staff
council should be formed by the Chancellor and operated
consistent with that of the Faculty Senate and the California
State Student Association for their respective trustees.
Analysis Prepared by:Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081
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