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          Date of Hearing:   April 28, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                 AB 2482 (Furutani) - As Amended:  February 19, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              Higher  
          EducationVote:6-3

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Board of Governors (BOG) of the  
          California Community Colleges (CCC) to include two classified  
          employees-one from each of the two statewide collective  
          bargaining organizations representing such employees-on the  
          BOG's Consultation Council.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible costs to provide orientation and agendas to  
          additional Council members.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Background  .  Current law requires the BOG to establish and  
            carry out a process for consultation with institutional  
            representatives of CCC districts in order to ensure their  
            participation in the development and review of policy  
            proposals.  Through Standing Orders, the BOG established the  
            basic structure of the consultation process and required the  
            CCC Chancellor to adopt Executive Orders to implement the  
            consultation process, including convening and regularly  
            meeting with the Council to discuss various policy matters.   
            The Chancellor's Executive Orders establish Council  
            membership, the respective responsibilities of Council members  
            and the Chancellor's staff, the Council meetings process and  
            participant training, and the availability of consultation  
            materials.

          2)Purpose  .  According to the author, the present Council  
            disproportionately represents CCC faculty and administrators.  








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            The author argues that legislation is necessary to include  
            additional membership that represents classified employees.   
            The author notes that this bill is intended to create parity  
            in the representation of classified employees, in order to  
            ensure that the development and review of policy proposals  
            affecting CCC is adequately informed by its respective  
            constituencies.

           3)Precedent  ?  This bill statutorily mandates the inclusion of  
            specified representatives on a body that is not currently  
            identified in statute.  Is it appropriate to establish such a  
            requirement when neither the Council nor its membership is  
            currently defined in state law?  Moreover, the Chancellor  
            could administratively revise the Council membership, as  
            outlined in the Executive Orders. 

           Analysis Prepared by :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081