>> i want to remind you of something. do you mind? can i remind you all of something? i'd like to remind this audience that i think that most of the people in here do not really know why this building is here or how it even got here. every time i looked up, they want to change it into something else. this building is here simply because the white people in the sunset district and cortlandt did not vote for any of the sewage pump stations in their community and they said put it out in lewis' point, with the black people. they mitigated in said we would give you a community facility. anything that you want to put in this building, if it has nothing to do with this community, it

should not be out here. you do not want them in the building? all the white people around here running back -- we have got to stay someplace as well. this ain't nothing but madness. we want this building to stay just like it was. that is said. that white woman in all the rest of them, all of a sudden would not show us what was good for us. we do not want them out here if it has nothing to do with -- and then the black children are sitting over there. whatever is on the wall mind, you got to stop it. we are going to organize and starts the madness. we want you to leave this building alone. because the water department wanted to do this because they wanted to put this sewage

treatment plant out here and no place else. this ain't nothing but madness. >> thank you. >> the city college of san francisco, we are and have been for a number of years a tenant at this facility. what our obligation is is to ensure that we continue to offer the educational programs that will be beneficial to the community. working with the pc and other stakeholders, we are very

satisfied that we will be able to continue to offer a full level of educational programs. as a matter of fact, the child development program is going to be developed here in place of one that we had to close down not too far from here. we will have a program that will provide child care for the community as well as training for individuals who are interested in going into that line of career. whether or not we are successful or not depends upon the cooperation of the community and the commission and everyone else that is present here today. we believe that you take a close look at what we have been doing together with the puc and there has been a marked improvement in every aspect of service.

this is not just talking about custodial or policing but also in terms of the number of students who are coming into the facility, the number of students that are utilizing the one-stop concept where they can get counseling, financial aid, and a variety of other support services in one place. many people have talked to me about this. i don't know if mr. jackson is here but i had a lot of conversations with miss jackson in terms of putting this together. she has been very insistent that we will do the right thing and she has come to our board meetings and has insisted that we will have an administrator here both times in short order. pretty much as you go through the programs, you will notice that the city college of san francisco has not modified its footprint of the college.

we are at different locations. we are the same as we have always been and our focus is to continue to make this an educational facility of the same quality that we have in the mission, chinatown, north beach, at our main campus. [applause] i have to be honest with you, our performance leading up to this over the past seven or 8 years has been more in some respects quite disappointing. quite disappointing. no argument about it. you have to give the devil his or her to. if there is change, and we believe we have made significant change, we want credit for the change that we have committed here. our board of trustees and myself have committed extra resources

for this facility and when we were taking those away from other areas of the city. >> thank you, chancellor. >> i think we have to time you add three minutes to be fair to the other people that we will be speaking to. >> here is a man to my right, he spends every day in a facility now. he is not an absentee coordinator or administrator. his face is known to the people here, he has done an outstanding job since he has taken over and he has been the man on the spot. >> thank you very much. good evening, commissioners.

i was asked to tell you about some of the things that we have done here at the campus. first of all, i want to ensure everyone at city college's 100% committed. we are committed to providing classes and services for the southeast campus. we are moving forward with this schedule. we have 669 credit students that are enrolled. we are retaining students also. since the fall of 2011, we have offered additional classes in math, english, psychology, english as a second language, it administration of justice, a child development. we have also added dd program.

=-- a ged program. we have brought back the selling class. i would like to say thank you to the puc. they have purchased all new sewing equipment for that class. we were able to keep our capital leases. we have been provided with a custodial program here in the building. we are in continuation of conversation with the puc in regards to the renovation of the building. city college i believe we have reformed our relationship with

the community and community leaders. we are working very closely with community-based organizations. city college, we believe, that we should have a solid relationship with the community , and with government entities. city college also has a one-stop service center that is working extremely well. a student can come into our service center and they can see someone from enrollment, financial aid. we have to do counseling and we just began the program. i want to say thank you to the chancellor because he oversees this program and implemented it. our students are really grateful and i'm grateful because they

don't have to go to the different campus to be serviced. this is a big thank-you to our government they have done a phenomenal job. they're working with our students and they are planning advance. we had our first in march and they have gathered 300 signatures in relation to the restricted parking during our class time. our goal for the faculty, staff, students is to have a full- service community college here at southeast campus.

>> also from city college, chris jackson. >> can you hear me? in the original mitigation agreement, this has been a history lesson for me. this building was charged to be an educational facility and myself and the rest of the board trusties, i cannot say this, we have not always been great tenants or partners. we have made the attempt and we have tried to continue to work with the pc. we have had some tough meetings and not been in agreement with this facility.

we truly believe that this needs to be a community and educational facility to really empower this community. 8 at of 10 black boys will drop out before they get their diploma. city college's the only educational safety net that this community does have and i feel that strongly. over the past four years, we have been capped over $20 million from our city college budget. even though we have been cut, there have been great advocates in our chancellor. we have been pushing to put more resources even when we took from ocean campus and even as we took from other places. we have put more and more into

this community facility. from represent a board of trustees, we are going to make the investment into this facility so that it is a top- notch educational facility just as good as mission campus, just as good as chinatown campus and ocean campus and we believe that everyone in every part of this city, they all should have access to high-quality affordable education and that is what we are here for today. we have been talking with the tenants and have talked with the community folks and they have talked about wanting nursing classes, and administration of justice, basic skills in math. these are all things that actually in power us. i don't want my folks on welfare. i do not want them in program after program after program, i want them to get the education.

we see the city college as a key partner in providing folks from bringing jobs. thank you so much. i look forward to continuing to work with the puc and the south these facilities commission and being a better community partner. thank you. >> the executive director. >> what is the next speaker? >> the one after that would be linda miller. >> we're having a hard time hearing the people that you are building up. >> good evening, commissioners. we would like to take this opportunity just to show a

video and you can see what we are all about and then we have a couple of speakers. i just wanted to say to the president that the puc gave us five minutes and we're up to our five minutes. we have several programs and at this time i would like great to come forward and then speak. >> i thought you're going to let the video speak for me. what i want to say is once you watched this video, the history that has been given to this community about the removal, you

will see that that what the adults had to overcome is priceless. we have worked on criminal records, housing, basically getting them programs that we don't have the skill set to do. we have no problems partnering up with other agencies. that is the most important thing in order to heal this community, we have to work with other agencies. we hope you enjoy the video. that is all i have to say. >> i am a product of their reentry program, with the deputy chief, and i have been in the program as a training for security for three years going

on for. we do security for movie stars, international from india. also, with the program i can go to the station everywhere. there 30 different swat teams. this is what the deputy chief and chief priestly bring to the reentry program. i also have a regular job with the citicorp's as a supervisor for 18-24-year-old and salary, benefits. i am now working on my real estate license. thank you. [applause]

>> we apologize for the technical difficulties. i would like to have one more of my reentry guys speak and in 30- 40 seconds the video would be ready. >> i am another reentry. also, framed under the deputy chief. i had an extended record which i no longer live by. i have a whole new set of rules. i have had plenty of ventures.

as you know, there are only like three black astronauts in the world. i was elected to escort one of them. i have done a lot of traveling on my way to a different route and different goals. i look forward to joining ahead. thank you. >> would you mind stating your name said that we can put you in the mean it -- in the minutes? >> steve vendor. >> it looks as though we have the show.

>> my name is s p jones. i work with the veterans with deputy priestly. we have a fat program. what the to do is that we train them. a lot of times, veterans come back home and no one really wants to hire them because sometimes the head is all messed up. i was out of their messed up and i came back to civilization and it was all wilds. i did not like to be around people. i get paranoid, all of that.

coming to this program with the deputy chief, this has got me relaxed. learning how to get back around people. this is a little different. they got for deputy chief priestly. thank you. -- thank god for deputy chief priestly. >> ♪ i believe the children are our future give them a sense of pride to make it easier but the children's laughter remind us of how we used to be

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>> i think you can show all the numbers but the photos on people's faces, the changes and these young men's lives speaks for itself. thank you for the work you have been doing. [applause] >> i just want to say thank you. are there any questions? >> no. thank you very much. [applause] >> sorry for the prior confusion. now we have from hunters point, lee miller and -- tyler. >> we have been around for almost 15 years now with youth and young adults. our agency provides

comprehensive services, so we provide case management, educational advocacy and support, workforce development, urban farms, food security. we have a number of young people here with us so i wanted to acknowledge them because our young people came out tonight because they are excited about the possibility of being a part of this effort that a group of community organizations could come together to offer them hope and opportunity. i wanted to ask all the young people from hunters point family to please stand said that you can take this step to come out and represent yourselves. [applause] >> we are just excited. we are very very excited to be a part of having this facility be

a vibrant hub where young people can walk in the door regardless of circumstance but when they are ready to say that i want to make a difference in my life and have a change that there would be a group of organizations that could come together to provide them those type of services. so, we appreciate the opportunity to come and we appreciate having been a part of all of the meetings that have been happening over the past several months so that we can really look at how we can best serve the youth and young adults. thank you. [applause] >> i wanted to speak about a bigger vision, not only to this facility but bayview hunters point. today is such a joyful day to me because what we're talking about is for the first time in 20 years having a group of diverse

leaders who are all saying the same thing, that we want to work together. we want to put this forward. we want to find all of the resources that we do best and bring them in. we want a holistic way to bring young people. not only can they get an education but they can address all of the knees that they may have come to the barrier removal, the case management. the beautiful thing is that this has been working with almost every single one of these tenants that are proposed to come in this building outside of talking about this. we have been working with renaissance with the fresh and easy stuff and return people to go to work there. we have been working on a number of projects and partnerships to prepare our young people for employment opportunities. we got here because of the work