we are san francisco strong for our city and neighborhoods. we are san francisco strong for city college of san francisco and our students in all our neighborhoods now and in the future. today you heard heroic stories and it's very important that you heard them. and for us [speaker not understood], that we are san francisco strong and we are going to win. thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm bill shields. i'm a teacher at city college. i'm the chair of the community space department, also aft 21 21 and the chairperson's council. a history class along with other history classes, we teach there should be no taxation without representation. (applause) the voters passed measure a and we believe the voters elected representatives to oversee how that money is being spent. so, i'm very much in favor of the resolution.

one specific thing. our department has been involved in with many others building city academy which is helping many young people of color get into the building trades and we've been working with trustee chris jackson and folks in the neighborhood. i'm replicating that model with culinary hospitality training program that will bring young folks into the neighborhood into the culinary and hospitality industry. we can't do that without a community trustee who speaks of and for that community. mr. ar dwell a doesn't know that community. we need our elected board back. thank you so much. >> thank you, mr. [speaker not understood]. (applause) >> i have three more names. martin [speaker not understood]. tomasita [speaker not understood]. and alisa messer. my name is martin trinidad lopez [speaker not understood] and i served four tours of duty in iraqi freedom as a sergeant

in the united states army. as a math major -- (applause) and elected student ar and chicano resident, it is a shame our noncredit educational and cultural programs are in danger of facing reductions that will result in decline of opportunities and enlightenment to our collective multi-cultural awareness and development. most importantly, i am also astounded at the continued existence of unchecked power of bob ar dwell a. (applause) the power to raise nonresident admission and [speaker not understood] board approved measures such as the performing arts measure, reckless implementation that pushes out students unfairly. this is a contradiction to the principle of accountability. if one fails at their task [speaker not understood]. this is not logic or reason. this is not just justice and most importantly this is not the voice of the people. (applause) there is a people outrage

that built the legal action that called the acc sanctions into question and the court started with the people to save the college, not ar gel a. it was an honor to open the door ~ with my fellow students in order to peacefully occupy common hall and voice our demands. our concerns and objections were not welcome and instead seen as a threat, a threat that warrants the apparent excessive presence of police and flagrant disregard for student safety in order to suppress that threat. after the police brutality on otto pipinger, i was compelled to personally ensure that not a single one of my comrades would fall victim to student abuse. [cheering and applauding] and in conclusion, i took an oath to defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. i am appalled to find [speaker not understood]. this betrayal is unconscionable and should not be tolerated by this body [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. [speaker not understood]. thank you.

[cheering and applauding] >> thank you. next speaker, please. i am deeply awed by everyone especially the previous speaker. you have my utmost respect. one hesitate to come up here because what more point can be made. i think we all know what's happening. a few years ago this agenda from the right wing privatizers started to be put into effect by the [speaker not understood] demanded that the trustees change the mission statement which up until this time has always been that there will be lifelong learning for everybody in san francisco [speaker not understood]. and city college, i can stand here representing the hundreds of thousands of san franciscans who have greatly benefited whose life has been made i measurably better because of what we learned at city college. that agenda has relentlessly -- we've been progressing trying

to take away the [speaker not understood] in city college of san francisco values of including everybody and giving people a chance to come back when they finish their work, one aspect of their work life and when they're retired come back, they always wanted to learn. all the things about them in city college, this accjc and the little crowd, they've just been progressing along trying to destroy and take it away from us. i would urge every member of the board of supervisors who is here, those who are watching, those who will vote on this. it will be unconscionable if all of you, [speaker not understood] if this is not a unanimous vote in support of this resolution. i'd like to read a statement from the chairman of music department. she said and asked me to read this. please. in this letter she said, the student [speaker not understood] at ccsf is a very talented music student who has along with many other students been trying to convince the

current administration to reverse its decision to not finish building the voter approved and funded ccsf performing arts education center. he is a respected and responsible student leader of the save the arts coalition which has been meeting regularly for many months. until recently he has also spent many months on crutches recovering from a serious leg injury. i am appalled that such an outstanding student has been injured and according to eye witnesses for no reason. i have been a faculty member at city college for almost 50 years. this is the first time that i'm ashamed of the institution. you don't hurt your students. if monsters, what's next, ken state? tee enenman sward? that was from madelein chair of the music department. (applause) >> thank you. >> thank you, thank you very much. [speaker not understood] aft 21 21, supervisors, thank you so much for holding this hearing. thank you for standing with city college. thank you for standing.

thank you for standing with the students and the faculty and the staff and community and [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] there is little that i can add to this. folks know that i usually have something to say. but i think so much has been said today. it is so important. what i will say is that this resolution, as important as it is, is one step in getting back city college of san francisco and we have many more steps to take. what is very, very important is that the administration -- is that chancellor brice harris up in sacramento, is that everyone understand that the steps to saving city college of san francisco are not about shutting out you or the people in this room or the elected board of trustees. they can't have a city college of san francisco without all of us in the picture, without all of us contributing. (applause) so what this college is for this city. city college of san francisco belongs to san francisco.

they can't do it would you tell us. and they're trying to right now. so, many people don't realize that the board of trustees have been told that they cannot meet, that in other cases where there is a special trustee, every case that we know he about, in fact, there are still bubble board meetings ~, but they didn't want to hear the folk in this room. they didn't want to hear the folks at the board meeting and they definitely didn't want to hear our board of trustees. and, so, instead what we have are meetings where special trustee with extraordinary powers, robert ar dwell a, he has a meeting in his head every month. he takes public comment via e-mail. he he doesn't hear from us. we don't know if he reads the e-mails. he he tells us he does. this is not acceptable when students and faculty go to bring public comment they get locked out of the administration building. that happened last month and then of course we know about what happened yesterday. so, this is not acceptable situation for our college. it's not an acceptable situation for our city and we really appreciate that in the

absence of the board, duly elected board of trustees ability to take next steps and take ownership of our college with us and with all of san francisco that you have stepped up into this fray to tell sacramento that this is a college that belongs to all of us. thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you. hi, mime name is larry edmonds. you have heard a lot. i went to city college in '97. in '97 i was going to city college, i learned [speaker not understood] who built america. i learned about am i angela alioto, san francisco history. i learned about mr. white head, about black economics. san francisco was supposed to have been a prison in 1935.

remember that mayor [speaker not understood] to mayor lee, he did not want people to go to city college. so, you got to look at the history. and what are you dealing with here? you're dealing with people's lives, you know. city college, before i ran for mayor, it was a lady, [speaker not understood], she told me to run. i got those votes because i was a city college student. i was there to get eight votes in '99. then i would go home to become a [speaker not understood] in 2000. i got 1300 votes to be a associate student. you are taking away the lives of many people either build new jails or prisons or education, improve yourself. those are the final choices. and just like i was listening to mr. steve wharf on the radio economics, america has 496 billionaires. europe has 43 2. china has 35 2, but china is growing.

you've got to understand this is about money. that college should have dormitories. [speaker not understood] sfo and teach there. that campus belongs to us all. instead of building jails and prisons, the options are coming. you can't evict the college, you can evict the people. [speaker not understood] and it is the 1% who is doing all of these things to ruin our great nation. thank you very much. [speaker not understood] what you say, all the way [speaker not understood]. the truth shall set you free. i was the first cheer leader before they had cheer leader tryouts. [cheering and applauding] and you know what? we're here, we're queer, we're not going nowhere. defense, man! >> thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> i want to thank everyone who has come to city hall and spoken. i do want to ask if there is any member of the public who

has not spoken who would like to speak to please come up if you haven't been able to do that. seeing if none, we're going to close public comment [gavel]. gov >> before we add anything else, i want to give supervisor mar ~ an opportunity to say a few words. and, again, thank you, supervisor mar, for your co-sponsorship of the resolution. >> sure. thank you, chair campos. (applause) >> and i wanted to first say that keep organizing and building stronger movements to make demands of the system so that we don't let privatization and the corporatization of education win. and i feel very great that -- (applause) >> all the speakers have been very clear to us as a body on what we can do as allies to support your movement building. and i'll say that papers like this resolution, someone said put teeth in it, but it's urging other bodies with power

to make decisions for justice as you are demanding. and i'll do my best as one of the 11 members of the board of supervisors to urge unanimous support as it comes to our full board. but i did want to say that i'm really, really encouraged by the young people that have taken action, occupation action, take over action, sleep over action to take back education for yourselves. [cheering and applauding] >> i'm also very encouraged by a new birth of matistas and mechas and organization. [cheering and applauding] >> the chicano and latino students for stepping up in a multi-racial organization of progressive and educational justice students at city college. and i'm really encouraged that the faculty of aft 21 is in solidarity. [speaker not understood] where

i taught for 16 years, but you're showing solidarity with faculty and staff and students and also building community support. so, i strongly support the save city college coalition aft 21 21. keep fighting and i'll be here as an ally as well. thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you. thank you, supervisor mar. you know, the resolution that you have before you is a resolution that was crafted in conjunction with a very broad coalition, and we as always welcome people's input. and, so, with that in mind i'd like to make a change and an amendment to the resolution. as it's currently written, the resolution, the last sentence of the resolution reads "fully restoring the duly elected board of trustees to ccsf by removing the special trustee with extraordinary powers by july 2014." [cheering and applauding]

>> with the suggestion of many in the community, i'd like to amend it by including the following language so that it reads "removing the special trustee with extraordinary powers as soon as possible and no later than july 2014." [cheering and applauding] >> so, if we can have that motion. >> so moved. [cheering and applauding] >> so, we have, we have a motion by supervisor mar. if we can take that motion without objection. without objection , motion passes. [gavel] >> before we he act on the item as amended, i just want to make a couple of points. first, again, i want to thank the incredible community of city college, its students, the

faculty, aft 21 21, all of the community members who have rallied behind this cause. i do think that with challenge comes opportunity and this has been an opportunity to remind people what we as san franciscans are about. we in san francisco are very lucky to live in this very special place that has many wonderful things going. but there are challenges that we're facing and perhaps the biggest challenge facing not only our city, but the country is the fact that there is a growing inequality. san francisco right now is facing an affordability crisis and we actually have the second highest inequality of any major city in the united states. and, in fact, the inequality in san francisco is growing at a fastest rate than any other city in the country. for my own personal experience, i can tell you that education is the great equalizer and we

cannot close that inequality, we cannot close that disparity without city college remaining what it has been to san francisco. [cheering and applauding] >> truly, the great, the great equalizer, that's what city college has been. and to those of you who are here, who are listening, who are watching, i'd just say that this resolution is an important step, but it's only one step and we're not going anywhere until there is full restoration of democracy at city college. [cheering and applauding] >> so, with that, so, if we could have a motion to approve the resolution as amended. motion by supervisor yee. if we can take that without objection. without objection, the resolution passes and it moves forward to the board of supervisors with a positive recommendation. [gavel] [cheering and applauding]

>> so, thank you. thank you again, and we hope to see you next at the board of supervisors when the item gets voted on and hopefully we'll have a unanimous vote at the board of supervisors. mr. clerk, do we have any other business before the committee? >> no more items, mr. chair. >> committee meeting adjourned. thank you. [gavel] in the past couple of y

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