in it's raw form...
Posted on 09/18/2013 3:57:32 PM PDT by matt04
When former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano takes over as president of the University of California later this month, she will live in leased accommodations that the college system is renting for nearly $10,000 a month.
While the price tag is several thousand dollars less than what the university spent leasing her predecessor's home, some university officials say it might be more cost-effective in the long run to fix up a vacant mansion that housed previous university presidents.
A committee of the University of California's governing board agreed Tuesday to spend $620,000 toward the multi-million cost of renovating the historic Blake House, which is located not far from UC Berkeley and has been unoccupied since 2008. The full Board of Regents must review the request, which it is scheduled to do on Wednesday.
The money will be used to repair the roof and to study if the three-bedroom, seven-bath house and its 10 acres of gardens should again be used as the president's official residence, reconfigured for some other purpose or sold off.
Napolitano succeeds outgoing president Mark Yudof, who saw the system through one of the most difficult financial periods in its 145-year history, which led to sharp cutbacks in state support for public higher education. In the last five years nearly $1 billion was cut from the university's state funding.
'We should focus on what is the best use of this piece of property, is it sale, renovations, divisions, or rezoning it,' Regent Hadi Makarechian said.
'We shouldn't just spend money to fix the roof and then do nothing about it for another three or four years.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They should make welfare recipients work on it for free.
Yeah, that’s it.
They can keep her. Could we convince Bloomberg, Malloy, Cuomo, etc. to all take positions in CA?
Far her big backside.
Egyptian cotton.
I’m sure she’s anxious to move in lickity-split.
Some Communists are more equal than others.
Pray America is Waking UP
Three bedroom, seven bath? Whatever kind of house this was, they’d better have a basement gal cave. With one-a them kegger fridges. They’re a thirsty bunch.
6 million?
In California, that’ll buy you a one bedroom roach motel and you’ll need 8 roommates just to pay the taxes....
pig at the trough
Since she is a Marxist, she should not mind living in the same accommodations as the workers.
The sequester spares nobody.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/355061/lords-transition-team-mark-steyn
Not so sure about that. Rumor is that Rick Perry will be the next president of Texas A&M.
As an Aggie, I shudder at the thought!
Lesbian Party, what a waste of money.
LIBERALISM GONE WILD
Thank you, UK, for reporting news that the American press refuses to print.
A perfect example of the liberal ruling elite that takes special privileges and looks down their nose at normal people.
‘140k in moving expenses’
How much ammunition is she taking with her?
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