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APPROVAL OF POLICY REVISION: BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS DESIGN REVIEW

The following resolution was adopted:

• WHEREAS, the original Procedure for Involvement by the Buildings and Grounds Committee in Design Review of Capital Projects policy was approved by the Board of Visitors on December 7, 1991; and
• WHEREAS, the Ad Hoc Committee on Policy Reform has examined the existing Procedure for Involvement by the Buildings and Grounds Committee in Design Review of Capital Projects policy for accuracy and applicability and has determined that it requires substantive changes; and
• WHEREAS, on April 12, 1997, the Ad Hoc Committee on Policy Reform referred the policy to the Buildings and Grounds Committee for review and revision; and
• WHEREAS, the number of design review stages has been reduced from four to three and the need for the Buildings and Grounds Committee to meet every other month no longer exists;
• RESOLVED that the Procedure for Involvement by the Buildings and Grounds Committee in Design Review of Capital Projects policy, dated December 7, 1991, be updated and superseded as follows:
• PROCEDURE FOR INVOLVEMENT BY THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE IN DESIGN REVIEW OF CAPITAL PROJECTS
  
  1. The Buildings and Grounds Committee shall meet as required with the Architect for the University to review, at the Committee's discretion, any or all of the building projects currently underway, at each of the three stages of design identified by the Board of Visitors in its procedures.
  
  2. A quorum of the Buildings and Grounds Committee will have the authority to grant approval to projects at all stages of their development with the understanding that projects identified by the Chair as being major and/or particularly sensitive will be brought to the Committee for its review and approval during a regular meeting of the Board of Visitors.
  
  3. The Buildings and Grounds Committee will report all of its actions to the Board of Visitors at its next regular meeting; and the Buildings and Grounds Committee may instruct the Chair that it desires to review particular projects only at regular meetings of the Board.
  
  4. Projects failing to win approval at any stage of design from the Buildings and Grounds Committee will be referred back to the Architect for the University for further development.