INDEPENDENT CITIZENS’ OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
TO THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE (CIRM)

Organized Pursuant To The
CALIFORNIA STEM CELL RESEARCH AND CURES ACT

Date: March 15-16, 2007 2007

Time: 

• 3/15/07: 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Estimated)
• 3/16/07: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM (Estimated)

Location:

OPEN SESSION

1. Call to Order.
2. Pledge of Allegiance.
3. Roll Call.

   [Members of the Public will be invited to provide testimony before or during consideration of each agenda item. Speakers are asked to limit their testimony to three (3) minutes.]

CONSENT ITEMS:

4. Approval of minutes from February 15-16, 2007 ICOC meeting.

EXECUTIVE PRESENTATIONS

5. Chairman’s Report.
6. President’s Report.

ACTION ITEMS

     7.Consideration of appointment of new scientific members and new alternate scientific membes of the Grants
         Review Working Group.
            a. Biographies of proposed new scientific members
            b. Biographies of proposed new alternate members
    8. Consideration of report and potential actions from public session of Grants Review Working Group meeting of
         January 8, 2007, including:
            a. Recommendation that the ICOC amend the Grants Review Working Group bylaws to allow the Chair of
                 the  working group to designate a scientific member to serve as alternate Chairperson in the Chair’s
                 absence during scientific review.
            b. Makes no recommendation regarding designation of an ICOC patient advocate member of the working
                 group by the Vice-Chair to serve as alternate Vice-Chairperson in his or her absence.

             c. Makes no recommendation regarding designation of other patient advocate members of the ICOC to
                 serve as alternates in the absence of any of the ICOC patient advocate members of the Grants Review
                 Working GrouP.

     9. Consideration of amendment to Conflict of Interest Policy for the Grants Review Working Group to
           clarify applicability to specialist members assisting the working group.

     10. Continuation of consideration of Grants Review Working Group’s recommendations regarding Dr. Leon J.
            Thal Memorial SEED Grant applications.

      11. Consideration of Grants Review Working Group’s recommendations regarding Comprehensive Grant
           applications.
                a. Ranked List of Comprehensive Grant Applications
                b. Ranked List of Comprehensive Grant Applications

CLOSED SESSION

12. Discussion of confidential intellectual property or work product and prepublication, confidential scientific research or data relating to Comprehensive and SEED Grant applications (Health & Safety Code 125290.30(d)(3)(B) and (C)).

OPEN SESSION

13. Public report of any action taken, if necessary, during closed session.
14. Continuation of consideration of Grants Review Working Group’s recommendations regarding Comprehensive Grant applications.

CLOSED SESSION
 

15.
       a. Pending Litigation (Government Code section 11126, subdivision (e)): (1) People’s Advocate v. Independent
            Citizens’ Oversight Committee, First District Court of Appeal, Case No. A114282 and California Family  
            Bioethics Council v. California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, First District Court of Appeal, Case No.
            A114195; (2) Mary Scott Doe v. Robert Klein, et al., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Case No.
            06-55387; and (3) National Tax Limitation Foundation v. Westly, Sacramento Court Superior Court, Case No.
            06AS02700.

        b.Discussion of Personnel (Government Code section 11126, subdivision (a); Health & Safety Code section
           125290.30(d)(3)(D)).

OPEN SESSION

16. Public report of any action taken, if necessary, during closed session.

ACTION ITEMS

17. Consideration of report from Presidential Search Subcommittee including but not limited to consideration of job description for CIRM President.
18. Consideration of creation of International Subcommittee including composition of the subcommittee and its mission.
19. Consideration of report from Governance Subcommittee including but not limited to consideration of Internal Governance Policy.

DISCUSSION ITEMS

20. Public comment. The Committee will accept public testimony on any matter under its jurisdiction that is not on the agenda, but the Committee cannot act on any such matter at this meeting.

     

THE ORDER OF BUSINESS MAY BE CHANGED WITHOUT NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the order of consideration of matters on this agenda may be changed without prior notice.

**NOTICE**

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