Administration, which is scheduled for early December. In order to assure ample time for
individual interviews and individual employee elections as to status, no affected employee will
move from SPA to exempt SAAO status before February 1, 1999.
Until further notice from this office, no change is to be made in currently authorized levels of
compensation for any of the positions subject to transition from SPA to exempt SAAO status by
virtue of the November 13, 1998, action of the Board of Governors, either for incumbents or for
new hires into such positions.
Arraying SAAO positions within the revised SAAO personnel policies.
As noted above, the revised SAAO personnel policy (Attachment 3) recognizes two categories of
administrative employment, for which different terms and conditions of employment obtain.
One category (defined in Section I.A. of the revised policy) is subject to direct appointment and
compensation oversight by the Board of Governors; the other (defined in Section I.B. of the
revised policy) is subject to delegated campus oversight.
All SAAO positions at your campus--both those that were established on November 13, 1998,
and those that were established previously by action of the Board of Governors (e.g., vice
chancellors, associate and assistant vice chancellors, deans, and associate and assistant deans)--
now must be assigned to the appropriate category under the revised SAAO personnel policy and
made subject to the correspondingly different terms and conditions of employment.
Attachment 5 lists all SAAO positions at your campus, designated prior to November 13, 1998,
that in the past have been subject to direct Board of Governors oversight (e.g., vice chancellors
and deans). The operative presumption is that such positions remain subject to Board of
Governors oversight, within the purview of Section I.A. of the revised SAAO personnel policy.
However, with respect to any position on your list that is marked by an asterisk, please review
the position to determine whether you believe it actually still qualifies for and should remain
subject to board oversight (Section I.A. of the revised policy) or, under the revised board policy,
should be removed and made subject to campus-administered oversight (Section I.B. of the
revised policy). If, following such review, you conclude that one or more of the positions should
