A compromise bill filed last week would allow the governor to dissolve a board of regents in times of financial or administrative crisis and appoint a smaller board to institute a reform plan.
Griffin previously said that the board had met only once since her peers voted her as chairwoman in February and that the problems at TSU would take more than a few weeks to address.
“I’m not sure we’ve been given the opportunity to turn things around,” she has said. “To expect immediate fixes is probably not realistic.”
The Senate Finance Committee is expected to meet on Monday to consider the bill, says Ellis, its Senate sponsor. Lawmakers are working on some tweaks to give the Legislature a say in the dissolution of the board, he says.
Some members of the Black caucus have said they oppose giving Perry more power over TSU.
Royer says Perry’s main focus is on stopping “the rampant fiscal mismanagement that has endangered the future of the university and wasted untold sums of tax dollars.”
“It cannot be business as usual in the long term at that university,” Royer says.
— Associated Press
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