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be removed to campus-administered oversight, please return a copy of the list to Associate Vice

President Judith Stillion, with proposed changes marked and with your accompanying

explanation of reasons for such changes, by no later than January 15, 1999. The President also

retains the option of recommending to the Board of Governors that a position be removed from

Board of Governors oversight to campus oversight.

All other SAAO positions established by the Board of Governors (i.e., other than those identified

in Attachment 5) also must now be assigned to the appropriate category under the revised SAAO

personnel policy: (1) Those recognized before November 13, 1998, and traditionally subject to

delegated campus oversight (e.g., associate and assistant vice chancellors, associate and assistant

deans); (2) the former SPA positions newly designated as SAAO by the Board of Governors on

November 13, 1998. The operative presumption is that all such positions are subject to campus

oversight under Section I.B. of the revised SAAO personnel policy, with applicable terms and

conditions of employment prescribed by Section III of the revised policy. Please review that

aggregate list of SAAO positions, as augmented by the recently approved additions (Attachment

4), to determine whether you believe any such position should be considered for reassignment to

direct Board of Governors oversight under Section I.A. of the revised SAAO personnel policy.

Any such proposed reassignment should be presented by you to Associate Vice President Stillion

by no later than January 15, 1999. Again, the President retains the option of recommending to

the Board of Governors that a position be removed from campus oversight to Board of

Governors oversight.

C.

Limiting enrollment in the Optional Retirement Program (ORP).

The November 13, 1998, action of the Board of Governors limiting the ORP enrollment

opportunity for “administrators” to members of the SAAO category of employment was

undertaken with the express understanding, based on advice from the Retirement Systems

Division of the Department of State Treasurer and the Attorney General, that for present the

enabling state statute will be interpreted by the University as requiring that any such

administrative officer concurrently have a faculty appointment under the provisions of the

relevant institutional tenure regulations, viz., only with the rank of instructor, assistant professor,

associate professor, or professor. Thus, until further notice, an administrative official is to be