Trustees approve schematic design and financing for SDSU life sciences building; CSU funding briefing deferred to March

The California State University Board of Trustees' joint committee on finance and campus planning, buildings and grounds approved the schematic design and financing for San Diego State University's life sciences building, which the Committee on Institutional Advancement named the Durand Science Building. The committee also postponed an information item on funding for the California State University system until March.

Chair Clark opened the joint committee and asked members to consider two items on the agenda, saying the funding briefing would be put over so it could “get its proper consideration” at a later meeting. The committee then moved to the action item seeking approval of San Diego State University's life sciences building schematic design and financing; the materials provided to trustees were not presented at the meeting.

Committee members moved and seconded the item (mover and seconder not specified in the transcript), and the committee took a roll-call vote. Trustees who recorded a vote of “yes” were Trustee Molina Muncio; Trustee Adamson; Trustee Feagin; Trustee Gallarducci; Trustee Gilbert Lorie; Trustee McGrory; Trustee Ortiz Morphett; Trustee Steinhauser; Trustee Malecar; Trustee Breyer; Trustee Vargas; Chair Clark; and Chancellor Garcia. The motion passed on the roll-call vote. The joint committee also approved the minutes of its July 24 meeting as part of the consent agenda.

The committee noted that public comment on the SDSU project had occurred and that the project was discussed before the Committee on Institutional Advancement, which recommended the building name. No presentation was given to the joint committee because the trustees had been provided detailed materials in advance and the chair asked that the board proceed by roll call. The chair closed the business of the joint committee after the vote and the committee will return to the deferred CSU funding item in March.