• The Consent Agenda is a product of the Carver Model of Policy Governance, designed to place operational items that the Board must approve onto the agenda in a manner that allows the Board to accept these items, but with little to no debate being allowed on the items;
  
  
• Under the Policy Governance model, the Board basically tells the President what he can’t do when running Kwantlen. The Board also speaks to where Kwantlen should go in terms of its mission, vision and values; that is, the Board concerns itself with the “big picture” only, leaving the day-to-day operational decisions in the hands of the President and Kwantlen's administration; and
  
  
• The Board speaks to the President through the Policy it adopts.
  

• Proponents of this model argue that the Board has no business in trying to run Kwantlen, and therefore has no business in examining the budget on a micro level. Rather all budget discussion should be from a macro level, ensuring that it supports the Board’s overall vision for Kwantlen as well as the Policy it has adopted;
  
  
• Opponents of this model feel that it doesn’t allow the Board to engage in its proper fiduciary duty to ensure Kwantlen is being properly run - that is, the budget, in all its detail, should be debated openly by the Board.
  

• March 15, 2006 Board Agenda: Budget Package
  

• complained that the ceiling placed on how much a public, post-secondary institution can increase tuition is hurting their ability to meet their budgetary needs;
  
  
• noted that the Ministry of Advanced Education was looking into the matter of how Public Post Secondary Education Institutions receive their funding and have hired a consulting firm to review the situation. The current model of paying institutions based on their Full Time Equivalents is not realistic for today’s multi-campus, post-secondary institutions, especially in rural areas. A more realistic model, one that considers how institutions like Kwantlen operate (E.g. ensuring adequate funding to cover the high duplicated costs of operating services on multiple campuses);
  
  
• rejected the idea raised by student Board Member Robert Evans that the principle of price elasticity could be applied to the cost of tuition; that is, Kwantlen administration does not believe that lowering the cost of tuition would lead to increased enrollment and a higher return on investment;
  
  
• noted that the government was undergoing a thorough review of the entire structure of Public Post Secondary Education in British Columbia and as such, the Ministry was putting the call by many University Colleges to drop the term College from their name on hold for at least one to two years; and
  
  
• noted that, on a positive note, the Board received advice from its auditors regarding the legality of having an internal Board member [where interneal Board member refers to the two (2) student representatives, the one (1) faculty representative as well as the one (1) staff representative on the Board of Governors, as stipulated under Section 9 of the College and Institutes Act of BC] sit on the audit committee and the auditors raised no objections to this. As such, elected internal member Tom Radesh was appointed to the Board’s audit committee by the Board.
  
  

• The Board Members who voted in favor of approving the items in the consent agenda, and therefore the budget, included Arvinder Bubber, Kathleen Casprowitz, Tung Chan, Rebecca Darnell, Ken Hahn, Tom Radesh and David Takahashi;
  
  
• The Board Members who voted against approving the items in the consent agenda, and therefore the budget, included Lisa Coan, Robert Evans and Kim Richter;
  
  
• George Melville was not present at the March 15, 2006 Board of Governors meeting. However, as the Chair of the Audit Committee which unanimously recommended to the Board the adoption of this budget, it is probably fair to say that Mr. Melville was in favour of the 2006-07 budget; and
  
  
• For more information on the composition of Kwantlen University College's Board of Governors, visit the Government of British Columbia's Board Resourcing & Development Office's Directory of Agencies listing for Kwantlen University College. As of June 2006, Kwantlen now has an official Board of Governors section on its official website, a link to it appears on the Kwantlen University College Governance Page.
  

attend all regularly scheduled meetings of the Kwantlen University College Board Of Governors along with the President and Executive Advisor;