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March 21, 2005

Long Beach, Chancellors Meeting, and San Bernardino

Tuesday morning was the first day of the Board of Trustees meeting. Ginger and I sat in and attended the meeting for Vi San Juan's presentation. She gave a very brief reportback (a couple of sentences) on the Sustainability Committee. Student Trustee Corey Jackson asked whether the draft report would be done before it was brought to the Board, allowing time for students, faculty, etc. to evaluate and offer changes to it. Vi clarified that it would be available 2-3 days in advance. Trustee Kathleen Kaiser also commented and thanked the committee for the important work that they were doing.

Wednesday was the big day. Ginger and I got to the Chancellor's Office early, and we set up the Rolling Sunlight in the main parking lot. We served solar coffee and donuts to all of the folks as they walked by, into the building. Some of the folks were very receptive and offered words of support and encouragement.

In the late morning, there was the public comment/open forum session. People offered there thoughts and comments to the Board of Trustees regarding all sorts of issues, including tuition hikes, faculty/staff unions, and student health. Courtney Voss from Chico State spoke on behalf of the RenewCSU campaign. She thanked the board for their work, but urged them to do a feasibility study soon. Shakti Maisen, who's been working on the campaign at Northridge, presented Chancellor Reed with the 2300 postcard petitions signed by CSU students in support of the renewable initiative. Manal from CSSA also said a couple of sentences in support of the campaign and thanked the trustees for their hard work. The students also encouraged the committee and board to release a partial draft policy as it was written. Chancellor Reed really didn't have much to say in response to the two speakers and quickly ended the public comment period.

CSU San Bernardino was our stop on Thursday. CSUSB was in their dead week, in preparation for their upcoming finals, so traffic on campus was fairly scarce. However, we did give away solar slushies. And Felicity from the Green Campus program was also giving out energy efficient light bulbs. Our trip to San Diego on Friday was cancelled as they, too, were in the middle of their dead week. And unfortunately, we didn't go to Burbank on Saturday for the EV1 vigil as the EV1 cars were taken away from the site. The crew decided to move the vigil to local auto dealerships instead.

Posted by at March 21, 2005 03:38 PM