"Asked and answered" with Greg Rikhoff 06/16/2013

"Asked and answered" with Greg Rikhoff

  

Professor Harbaugh,
I’ve had opportunity to talk with the Office of the General Counsel so please consider this your clarification. Public meetings and public records law will apply to a university just as it does now without interruption.  They will apply to the governing board as soon as the board is confirmed by the State Senate.

Hope this helps,
Greg Rikhoff

They could still weasel out by saying that the law applies, but doesn’t require open meetings until the board actually starts governing in 2014. And looking at UO’s current practices, that would hardly be a surprise.

I’ve still only got a partial answer on President Gottfredson’s “Budget Advisory Group” asked on 5/21/2013. Neither Rikhoff, Moffitt, or Shelton will give the BAG charge or agenda. However the faculty union did learn a little – see page 4 of this doc, which they were able to extract from Moffitt during bargaining. Basically the BAG deals with the small change that’s leftover from Shelton’s budget allocation model. If UO even has a process for setting long-run budget priorities they aren’t letting the faculty get within a mile of it.

6/11/2013: Samantha Matsumoto has a story in the ODE on Greg Rikhoff’s appointment as Chief of Staff, here.

5/22/2013: It’s well known on campus that President Gottfredson ignores emails from the faculty. But now he’s got a new chief of staff, Greg Rikhoff. In celebration I’m starting a new “Asked and Answered with Greg Rikhoff” column. If you have a question you’d like to see answered, or at least formally asked and then ignored, I’m happy to act as intermediary.