the colleges have produced cooks and many progressions. the mission and focus on equity has been a model of pulling up the whole economy of the city and the equity model has been a treasure and a great model for other college districts thought the country as well but the city college is facing the biggest crisis. because of the cuts at the state level and the threat in many cases is not only on accreditation but the dismantling the support of

immigrant groups and job retraining that's been building up over decades is at risk. the school has come under the scrutiny. those twin challenges of the cuts and accreditation challenge those twin challenges have tested the schools like never before but because of the crisis and county groups have come together to support the city colleges and that's a positive thing that came out of this crisis. because it's time also for our city to think more creativity so we can support from city hall.

this resolution that's before us and there's a couple of amendments made by the college of the trustees and other groups. but the resolution first calls for the college to use as much of the funds through ballot prop a that passed last fall by 73 percent margin to keep classrooms open as much as possible and to use the resources there. also the community coalition we're not saying this dissects shouldn't have a healthy reverse o reserve. also prop a forms have been used with input from the community.

second the currently charges to the college and explore opportunities the existing kind services that are charged to the college system and hopefully, we'll have more information about this i think it's $2.26 million estimated but i see the controllers office saying that's questionable. so also to begin considering longer-term critical colleges operating. the goals today are to one keep city college open and tlifg and to make sure that the college is serving the most needy.

it's great to be working with the trustees and staff to make the amendment better. i think their might be other things coming out of this meeting. i want to thank the faculty and students who are leading the campaign to this. i wonder if what information we have on what current charges the city levies on city colleges for the various services. and i know i just saw some of the information that's before us. and yeah. i'm sorry if this

has come suddenly but there is this crisis within the excellently system and there's the charges for the south east facility and there's this charge from the budget committee the cost of the electorate system of ballot measures or the every two years the college board. >> members based on your request supervisor mar we did take a look at the varies information and the costs of the services. there are very few the elections department charges those entities that are not part of the city and county for the cost of those elections so the school is charged if there's a partial

tax and those are based on the actual costs of the inclusion of the items in the ballot and the voting cards address so forth. for fiscal 11, 12 they charged $284,000 this was for the candidate. this was charging for the discounted rate and that number it one through 7. and the public i tilts commission also charges the community college 2 hundred and 407 thousand for the lease of the southeast community facility and however the city pays rent

to the excellently for that the college pace 2 hundred and 7 thousand and the puc subsidies the power so the total cost to the excellently in the departments proximate $2.26 million in this past fiscal year on the second page. there's some detail on the elections in prior years it ranges between $20,300,000 depending upon the items on the voter pamphlet and the last item

identifies money that the human agencies gives to the college and that amounts to about $2.8 million. so again, it's charges for services they're not in kind their actual services that are provided consistent with the administration code or the practices to charge those entities. beyond this there's a health services and the college is charged for that based on the options elected by the employees of the college of costs and any other similar types of fringe benefits. >> thank you for the quick response to our questions. i want to ask about so the utilities from the public

utilities are for power and water? >> correct. >> and you said election my understanding you've got to see it's be it's been unusual. >> those are actual costs that are charged. the elections department in each election has to do an analysis to determine what the costs are so each of the entities are charged the appropriate amount. we did an audit on that that the community college was not paying so there was an effort to get that reimbursement from the excellently and district court from the prior years and since

that time the lengsz department has been timely in bill and receiving those costs. >> thank you very much for that report. >> and their up to dominate now? >> thank you. i know from a about a year ago we passed a resolution in port of financial strategy to support a partial tax that was on the ballot so in many ways it is to

support the city college of san francisco. i want to ask i know my staff made a number of requests for chandler from the city college i'm wondering is there anyone from the city college here to report to the board of supervisors. so despite to have someone here they are not heeler we'll hope that somebody shows up. i see there may have been a few a calls from the .

with you the think the strong voice if the community and faculty and students is really important in this hearing. i want to ask if we could move to public comment now and the fact that the administration is not here my hope is that i could communicate a little bit which what was given to me but if we could move to public comment? >> we do have a - there are a bunch of speaker cards. >> i know we had a couple of

gentlemen that point to be here but i'll call the director here. (calling names). a faculty member and leader of the coalition leslie and i'll wait to call more in a moment >> thank you supervisor mar and having this conversation. i think that we know that that san francisco values city college and what we offer greatly and we saw that in the vote for proposition rightwo: it was it was a -

we believe that education should be assessable to all and in fact, it's a right. city excellently is a place of assess we want to help students move forward in meeting their goals. that can be workforce training or immigrants learning english. we have students in many situations and we're very proud of that. we have been under some severe criticisms. by the budget cuts at city

college has impacted our ability to do well >> please continue. >> so we appreciate this opportunity to talk about how san francisco, california continue to support city i college of san francisco so it can be the kind of community college it is. we have a series of things happening at the college in addition to the accreditation report. we have changes that are being implemented that we're very concerned about and a budget we're concerned about. that budget is the preview of the board of supervisors. we think that we should have community input and a process to

make sure we have the kind of city excellently that keeps the community a city college. >> let me just say we're trying to keep to the limit of time could you wrap up? >> we all know that we have been through a period of extreme budget cuts and with proposition and proposition thirty we have hit bottom in terms of education we're moving back up. we would like to see the san franciscans continue to find ways to support the college and the good work we do to close the achievement gap.

and we think all of those things are possible not over funding or reaching into the reserves and we ask for your support >> thank you. next speaker >> i'm woman's studies faculties. i'm a member of the diversity coalition. i'm basically here to introduce a couple of of projects survive it's a sexual prevention program. thank you >> thank you.

let's get the mike it should work >> i'm an educator and, yes we did just come from a preservation. my time at city college i have treasured every second of it. as project survive we go into the classroom we serve multiple programs. we also serve ocean campus and the critic center and we're spreading the message how to prevent unhealthy relationships and how to prevent other violence.

every time i give a presentation it strengthened the classroom that community. i learn more from my interactions as a peer educator caterpillar i'm a preeducator and project delivers nearly 4 hundred workshops a year on dating violence project. we do different activities with students where we talk about healthy relationships and how to prevent unhealthy relationships and how to prevent rape in other situations that are bad. doing those presentations has

helped me to see how it impacts other students. students may not recognize when they're in on a abusive relationship. >> thank you very much. i'm going to call a few more cards. (calling names) doesn't have to be in that order just came forward >> i'm lee i'm counselor also a

rent in supervisor mayor's district. so you know, i work with students who come from a board range of background and mostly non-traditional. i have students who go through a year program and oftentimes they are ready to go to work. our mission in - i have students who take 10 to 20 years who take many years to go through the programs. those are the students i'm so proud of those students who just spoke and i really appreciate what you're doing to say that this community matters this is all of san francisco that works hard everyday on behavior of

their own first names but also the community at large. let me speak a little bit to what's happening to counseling. this goes back to the matriculation got cut by 50 percent and that of the evidence our first generation students and it cut counseling services and on top of that we scraped the bottom of the barrel when we lost almost all our part time counselor pr i'm still here thanks to my supervisors. the new budget for this coming year says nothing about bringing

back the - >> counseling is seen as a a national power i think with the passing the propose thirty there's a certain that the general fund the colleges general fund revenues which now are much higher than they were before the package of propose a and thirty it's really a question of why there's no the reestablishing of counseling. >> i know of no new efforts to bring back the thousands of the counseling that's lost. i know of no effort to bring back you know the thousand of the classroom staff to provide

the classes that are critical those are services their important for students who don't go to school full-time. >> thank you. >> i'm chair of the art department. in the vein of preserving the quality of the education i'm talking about the course of rerepeatability. first repeatability has been used by art students for decades in order to gain the art discipline for dance that is right and art. students were able to repeat an

arts course depending upon the level the difficulty this way the students can development the basis for which to gain an expertise. this repeatability has been cut this means that an art class can be taken only once it changes the ability of students to take numerous classes because of the structure of the family. even if there are 6 withdrawal from a course will be counted as though the students has taken that course. finally, the loss of repeatability will adverse

effect the high school graduates who have - such students need extra time to compete the acceptance for other opportunities. our students from diverse braugdz need the repeatability. >> hi. i've been teaching for thirty years in the arts and the last 22 the privilege of teaching at the community college that were my class i have a student from russia and israel as well as our san francisco community.

it's an enormously rich place to teach. i'm sure you all know how much arts is on a emotional basis on the united states and california and san francisco. i just pulled some facts off the internet this morning how much money is brought in across the country. art take put out a list of communities that have a coalition between businesses and governments that create creativity. oakland and san francisco both rate in the top ten-spot. i have students who have gone on to study medical administration

additional have become - we just had an exhibit over on the arts department if you're in the arts it's an astounding thing to have. we have students who have no arts in the high school who come to us they want to know the basis. when you talk to industrial light magic they're looking for people who are well versed in the art form and that's what we do. i want everyone to have that opportunity to reach their opportunity to become part of

this great economical situation. california - >> thank you. can i just say i've heard the stories of the some of the mission schools and some of the different community murals it's a perfect example of how the cuts would eliminate the support of community artist but i think those are good examples of how the cuts are impacting the community but also a lot of students in the program. the art department physical ed and i believe theater are the only departments that have been singled out.