UC chief raked as new pay deals are revealed -

SFGate.com ^ | 5/18/06 | Tanya Schevitz, Todd Wallack

[NormsRevenge]

UC regents and state lawmakers harshly criticized the University of California's pay practices Wednesday as an internal audit revealed scores of violations of university policy and UC President Robert Dynes admitted to a culture in his office of "trying to get away with as much as possible and disclose as little as possible."

University auditors told the UC Board of Regents they had found that 143 exceptions to the university's compensation policies had been made to give extra pay or benefits to 113 senior managers. That's on top of the 91 exceptions identified last month by PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors for a different group of UC executives.

The 54-page audit, presented at the regents' meeting at UC San Francisco, looked at compensation packages promised to 299 managers during the three years ending on Dec. 31, 2005.

The audit found that the university had skirted its own rules by granting extra vacation time, asking regents to approve large raises without informing them that the raises were beyond policy limits and giving large relocation incentive allowances to executives moving within California.

Three state senators told the regents in blunt terms that Dynes had broken the public's trust.

[BillyBonebrake]

Lemme guess ... they're all liberals looking out for the little guy.

[geezerwheezer]

How can those big "meanies" say that the liberal president of the UC should resgn because there were just a couple of hundred overpayments, housing allowances over the allowed amount, moving expenses way out of whack, etc. And, I forgot, not getting approval from the board overseeing this. Don't they understand his job is educating the children and preparing them for tomorow, not being a bookkeepper? Just what do they expect from this poor, overworked man, honesty? Surely you jest! I mean, this is California, not any other state, you know! (sarcasm tag is stuck on high)