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By Mike Porter

The Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors will hold in-person meetings on May 11, beginning at 8 a.m. All meetings will take place in James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., Room 303, unless otherwise noted. The public may view a livestream of the open session videoconference here: mssvideo.vcu.edu/BOV. Should you have any interruption with the video broadcast of the meeting, please contact Taron James at (804) 828-8313.

Details are below.

TIME	MEETING
8 – 10 a.m.	VCU BOV Budget Workshop
10:15 – 11:45 a.m.	VCU BOV Enrollment Workshop
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Lunch
12:15 – 1:45 p.m. Room 311	Audit, Integrity and Compliance
1:45 – 2:30 p.m. Room 311	Intercollegiate Athletics
2:45 – 4:15 p.m.	Academic and Health Affairs
5:30 – 7:30 p.m. VCU Student Commons Richmond Salons 907 Floyd Ave	VCU BOV/VCUHS BOD Joint Annual Meeting

 

In addition, the Board of Visitors will hold in-person committee meetings and a full board meeting on May 12, beginning at 8 a.m. in James Branch Cabell Library, 901 Park Ave., Room 303. The meetings will be held in open and closed session. The public may view a livestream of the open session videoconference here: mssvideo.vcu.edu/BOV. Should you have any interruption with the video broadcast of the meeting, please contact Taron James at (804) 828-8313. Details are below.

TIME	MEETING
8 – 9:30 a.m.	Governance and Compensation
9:45 – 10:45 a.m.	Administration
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Finance and University Resources
12:15 – 3:30 p.m.	Board of Visitors

 

The Board of Visitors will be attending an invitation-only dinner that evening. No VCU business is planned to be discussed at this dinner.

PUBLIC COMMENT

There will be a public comment period at the beginning of the full board meeting on May 12.

If you would like to offer public comment at the May 12 meeting at 12:15 p.m., you must register by providing the following information via email to bov@vcu.edu: name, email and phone number, VCU affiliation (e.g., student, faculty, employee, alumni, parent or member of the public), and request for reasonable accommodation if needed. Please note in the subject line that you are registering to speak at the May 2023 BOV meeting public comment. You may also call Chelsea Gray, executive director of board and executive operations, at (804) 828-9213 to register.

Speakers will proceed in the order of registration and should be in person at the start of the meeting at 12:15 p.m. Speakers may provide materials in advance if they wish to share with the Board of Visitors.

Individuals unable to attend the public comment period or to provide comment during the allotted hour period may provide written comment via an open comment portal to ensure an adequate opportunity for informed public comment on the proposed agenda items. All comments submitted to the portal must be made by 4:30 p.m. May 10.

Details of the meetings can be found at president.vcu.edu/board/meetings/.