- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Senior UC leaders have established budget targets to absorb a $500 million reduction in state funding for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The Office of the President has assigned ANR a $6.2 million reduction for FY 2011-12. With the state budget still uncertain, they hope to present a final budget for regental approval in July.
To develop a well-considered budget reduction plan for ANR, VP Dooley has appointed a budget committee to develop scenarios for accommodating the $6.2 million reduction.
The committee is composed of Jennifer Bunge, associate director of ANR Budget Office; Morgan Doran, UCCE advisor in Solano County; Cheryl Gould, UC IPM administrative coordinator; Beth Grafton-Cardwell, Lindcove Research and Extension Center director and UCCE specialist; Rose Hayden-Smith, ANR Sustainable Food Systems Strategic Initiative Leader and UCCE advisor in Ventura County; Darren Haver, South Coast Research and Extension director and UCCE advisor in Orange County; Neil McDougald, UCCE county director in Madera County and UCCE advisor; Larry Schwankl, UCCE specialist located at Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center; and Jim Sullins, UCCE county director in Tulare County and UCCE advisor. Co-chairs are Kay Harrison Taber, ANR associate vice president-Business Operations, and Bill Frost, associate director of Research and Extension Centers. Donna Jones, ANR budget director, and Peggy Michel, deputy to the AVP-Business Operations, serve as resource staff.
The committee initially met May 16 and reviewed work conducted in previous budget analyses. They will discuss the reduction level and prepare budget scenarios to be presented to Program Council at the June 8 meeting. Program Council will discuss the scenarios and provide comments and recommendations to the ANR Executive Working Group.
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- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
UC Executive Vice President Nathan Brostrom has appointed Donna Jones interim director of UCOP budget, providing overall leadership for the Office of the President budget, effective Jan. 1, 2011.
Jones, who is currently ANR budget director, is taking on the responsibilities of Michael Rancer, who is retiring from the UCOP director position. She will continue to perform budget-related duties for ANR during her one-year appointment and will remain ANR budget director. Jennifer Bunge, ANR associate budget director, will assume many of Jones’ day-to-day duties in ANR during the year.
“Donna’s joint appointment presents a wonderful opportunity for ANR to work more closely with the UCOP and systemwide budget offices,” says Kay Harrison Taber, AVP-Business Operations.
Jones brings to the job 30 years of UC budget and financial experience from her start at UC Santa Barbara in 1981 and past 15 years with ANR.
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- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
On Jan. 1, 2011, the previously established Business Operations Centers (at Davis and Kearney) will be consolidated into one center with current staff. Cherie McDougald, current chief administrative officer (CAO) of the Business Operations Center at Kearney, which serves Cooperative Extension county-based operations, will become director of the consolidated Business Operations Center. Nikki Humphreys, current CAO of the Business Operations Center at Davis, which serves statewide programs, EFNEP and ANR’s service units including the Research and Extension Centers - Administrative Office, will become associate director of the consolidated Business Operations Center.
The center will continue to operate in two locations with the current staffing and report to Jake McGuire, ANR’s controller and director of Business Services.
The consolidation will allow the processing of business services in one entity while building on individual staff expertise and strengths, provide consistency in procedures, employ consistency in implementing internal controls and compliance, and provide a core staff to work on business projects such as the multicounty partnership project.
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- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
The ANR Business Operations Center located in the ANR Building in Davis (BOC-D) provides consolidated financial services to most of the Statewide Programs, the Research & Extension Centers, as well as ANR administrative & service units located in Davis.
Key services provided by the BOC-D include financial processing of:
- Travel expense reports
- Entertainment expense reports
- Purchasing (including UCD purchasing card transactions)
- Business contracts/agreements
- Invoice/vendor payments
- Gift acceptance
- Cash collections
- General ledger review
- DaFIS account management
- Contract & Grant financial management
- UC Payroll/Personnel System (PPS) updates/entries
- Monthly payroll leave reporting
- Employee fund changes
- Employee extensions of appointments
The Unit also provides services to the ANR Building including:
- Conference room maintenance & reservations
- Building maintenance & facilities requests
Members of the BOC-D team:
Marianne Goetze, financial services analyst, mgoetze@ucdavis.edu, (530) 752-3935, financial services management, contracts & grants processing, DaFIS account management
Jeri Hansen, financial services assistant jghansen@ucdavis.edu, (530) 754-0386, vendor invoice payment processing, purchasing, out-of-pocket reimbursements, and travel & entertainment processing
Laura Hernandez, financial services assistant, lahernandez@ucdavis.edu, (530) 754-0383, processing of monthly staff time records and academic leave records, business contracts, cash collection processing
Nikki Humphreys, chief administrative officer, nrhumphreys@ucdavis.edu, (530) 754-8510, UC & ANR policies & procedures, coordination of business operations
Michelle Dore of the Statewide 4-H Office will be joining the unit on Sept. 1. Recruitment will get under way shortly to fill a vacant administrative assistant position and an analyst position that will serve as the primary payroll/personnel system preparer and contracts & grants financial contact, respectively.
Additional information is available on the unit’s website at http://ucanr.org/bocdavis.
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- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
As of July 1, the ANR Business Operations Center located at Kearney (BOC-K) is providing comprehensive consolidated financial and payroll-related services in support of county Cooperative Extension offices statewide. This includes providing business services in support of 200 CE advisors and 400 staff employees. The BOC-K's mission is to provide highly effective and efficient financial and payroll services within the guidelines of UC and ANR policies and procedures.
Key services provided by the BOC-K include:
financial processing for:
- travel expense reports
- entertainment expense reports
- purchasing (including UCD Purchasing Card transactions)
- invoice/vendor payments
- gift acceptance
- UCCE checking accounts
- cash collections
- DaFIS account management
- contract & grant financial management UC Payroll/Personnel System
processing and payroll processing for:
- monthly leave reporting for advisors
- monthly time and leave reporting for staff employees
- funding changes for staff and academic employees
- extensions of appointments for staff and academic employees
- academic and staff salary action processing
The BOC-K team members are listed below:
Financial services team:
Kathy Montanez, financial services manager, kmontanez@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6530, financial services management, contracts & grants coordination, DaFIS account management
Lorraine Holm, financial services assistant, lholm@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6590, purchasing, out-of-pocket reimbursements, gift acceptance, and travel & entertainment processing
Nora Rodriguez, financial services assistant, nrodriguez@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6532, vendor invoice processing, UCCE checking account reconciliations, cash collection processing, and travel & entertainment processing
MaryAnn DeLecce, financial services assistant, mdelecce@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6083
Guillermina Garcia, financial services assistant, mgarcia@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6082
Laura Gonzales, financial services assistant, lgonzales@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6084
Helen Moriyama, financial services assistant, hmoriyama@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6081
Payroll/online personnel system & payroll services (PPS) team:
Kennieth Nasalroad, payroll/PPS services specialist, knasalroad@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6544, coordination of academic & staff payroll services and online payroll/personnel processing services
Diane Chadwick, payroll services assistant, dchadwick@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6571, processing of monthly staff time records and academic leave records
Cindy Inouye, payroll services assistant, cinouye@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6535, processing of monthly staff time records and academic leave records
Cathy Edwards, PPS services assistant, cedwards@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6511, online payroll/personnel processing for new employee hiring, extensions of appointments, funding changes, employee separations
Joyce Hatanaka, PPS services assistant, jhatanaka@uckac.edu, (559) 646-6517, online payroll/personnel processing for new employee hiring, extensions of appointments, funding changes, employee separations
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