It was one year ago today that reporters, and the public, got a look at the daily calendar of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the first time a chief executive had handed over such documents.

So one year later, what do those documents reveal about how he spends his time?

For a few months, we’ve been compiling an analysis of the records for 2005… which, as many reporters know, are now released for inspection every few weeks. On this morning’s edition of The California Report, we look in particular at how many calendar entries are marked as “private”– private meetings, private events, private phone calls– and whether Schwarzenegger should be even more transparent about those “private” appointments.

Peter Scheer certainly thinks he should be. Scheer is executive director of the California First Amendment Coalition, one of the organizations that pushed for public disclosure of the calendar last year. “When you’re governor,” says Scheer, “most everything you do ought to be fair game for reporters to know about, and to tell voters about.” Scheer says family events and purely political meetings should be the only things that are obscured from public view.

But our analysis suggests many more items are being kept private. Through October (the last full month for which the calendar has been released), our data shows 197 calendar entries marked as “private.” Of the categories which we created to examine the records, that tally is among the largest.

Most of the other entries can be categorized as media events (85), news interviews (106), public relations/entertainment media (135), politics and political fundraisers (94), ceremonial duties (114), and staff meetings (135).

A few not-so-newsworthy (but intriguing) items worth noting in our review of the governor’s 2005 calendar:

* An International Presence: Maybe it’s his international name recognition, but Schwarzenegger certainly attracted a broad cross-section of world dignitaries… from the president of Poland to the prime minister of Bavaria.

* Wish I Could’ve Been There: Among the meetings that reporters and others would have loved to have attended– April 13’s meeting between the governor and Judge Thelton Henderson, the same day a scathing report on conditions at San Quentin State Prison was released (Henderson is the judge overseeing the mandate for the state to deal with numerous prison problems)… the multiple meetings on March 31 and April 4 between the governor and public safety officers and their families, just days before he shelved his pension reform plan over concerns of its impact on these officers and their families… and the March 8 meeting in Washington, DC that Schwarzenegger attended with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.

* You Don’t Send Me Flowers… Anymore: And just in case you’re curious, there are no recorded meetings so far in 2005 between Governor Schwarzenegger and Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante. The last known chit-chat between #1 and #2 was on March 18, 2004. But hey, the year’s not over yet…