UC records show that Desmond-Hellmann’s forested Mount Sutro home was upgraded with $85,800 worth of new surveillance cameras, fencing and new shatter-proof coating on its windows. Her offices, on the other hand, were stripped of their 20-year-old carpeting, cabinets, paint and wall coverings and replaced with new furnishings at a cost of $156,000… According to UCSF spokesperson Amy Pyle, the chancellor’s office remodeling was paid for through campus funds, specifically by the campus tapping into the UC’s short-term investment pool — a fund made up of the interest earned from investing the balance of the UC’s general funds in short-term securities.

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by Javier Panzar, The Daily Californian.

Posted: February 18th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.