inclusive city college. i need my day classings. classe. i need my evening classes. i need my online classes because i went to peralto. i went at night because i spent my early adulthood working in the family business. there wasn't a certificate that you couldn't get in three semesters and you had your little form and it's like you could take schedule a, schedule b. and you knew immediately. when i was very involved in 2012 with the parcel tax, what sciu wanted then, we wanted to be the educator of choice. m absoluter rr and campost, we used to jok joke about calling y

college the bridge. if you were k-12, that was the bridge you would walk across to get to state or uc. if you were not a native, city college was the bridge you would walk across to be able to have your esl and become an entrepreneur or do whatever your american dream was. if you were already an employee of the city and county, and i think sometimes that's how come sciu has a little bit different perspective, because we represent so many people, so if you were just a worker in the city and county, city college was going to be the bridge that you maintained your certificate, you got retrained, go got the training you told your boss you had when you really didn't. [ laughter ] >> you know, all of the that. it was a very wide scope of who we served and who we desired to serve. that was the city -- this is a city college i'm standing here for.

that has not changed for me. certain people's desires and agendas, i don't care about that. i care about city college because when i was out there getting endorsements, people said, i love city college. i want city college to stay around. i understand, we don't have as much money from the state, because sometimes when i listen to this kind of dialogue and who is getting blamed, you know, i don't always agree with that, with who was actually getting blamed right here. it's out there. because i know i was advocating against when the state was changing, the repeat ability and the re-entry because i looked at that as a direct attack. see us little frosty people, see, we come with money in hand. i'm not trying to get a degree. i'm trying to get my art thing

on, you know. i want to have fun at school. and i did it when ed kelly, somebody was at laney college, a real live gaysom jazz musician,e lessons, that's what it is. city college, college was fun. we've taken the fun out of it. we've taken the money. now the real impact of us taking the money, you walk down the hall in city college, you might have to do some of this, because a little plank might fall on you. i'm telling you what i know. the bathrooms don't woke. work. i love talking about the bathroom because i like bathrooms that work. i really like bathrooms. >> you do? >> i do. >> there's some people on this side can't get their oatmeal for

breakfast. we have issues, a lot of issues. now i know money don't cure all things but it can get you a long way down the road. and this right here, this is very hard, but in some ways it's very simple. nobody in here wants to have a real fix. they want to take that money and go to mumbai. nobody wants to have the plumbing done because i want to take that money and buy my dream car. that's how we all are. but every now and again, you have to stop and you have to do what you have to do. city college is in a major restructure. yes, we eat to buy with accreditation and frankly, i am terrified that fit mack will be here before the end of the year. because that budget is funny. some of us out there call it

janky, and the budget is messed up. and i feel bad for some of the people in this room. because they're charged with having to split the baby. but this is real and i want you to understand that. you know, nobody wants the students not to have what they have. we've been whining about -- sciu has been whining about classes for ten years. we have. we want everybody to have what they need, but we want to be able to legitimately pay for it. >> thank you. appreciate it. (applause). >> thank you again to all of the presenters and to everywhere who is here, all of the faculty, the staff, students and community members. we appreciate you being a part of this conversation. i'm open it up for public comment now. i promise that there is at least one student who is here with a

small child and if she could come up first, and if there's anybody else who is here, who has a child with them, or maybe has a class to run to, and needs to go first, we'll take you first and then, i have the cards and we'll call out names. two minutes. thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning. >> i'm a mother been i'm 30 years old, i'm an immigrant from el salvador ten years ago and i came to live in san francisco in 2013. and the first thing that i found english classes, noncredit, it was in a place where they give childcare and they have classes at night.

that was the first place, noncredit english classes. and then i finished my degree as a lawyer and i came here and my other hobby was being an actor. my first job was an acting job. so when i came here, i remember i saw an audition for a musical and it was at city college. i say, you know what, i cannot get a job as a lawyer because my english is broken and i'm going go see if acting can do something for me. so i went to an audition and there was this director who is right there. and she was the first person who believe in me as an actor. and she say, you have potential. i want you to be in the musical, legally blonde. i didn't know she had 32 years having that musical at city college in the theatre. i don't know if the board was

for the ma ma mia show that you just finished. so to make it clear, i finish the play and that encouraged me to continue studying theatre. i tippe finished my theatre certificate -- >> your time is up. >> i'm going to call names in about a set of ten and one speaker who needs to go first but let me call a set of names,

too, so people can line up. mr. wright, carmen roman-murray, fred moheim, teresa vilacomua, steven brayty, quarry burringer, jeff callus, elaine and tracey zue. >> i'm a student and disability student. >> i'm congresse depressed and d i thought i could go back to city college to learn something. i started taking english classes, computer application classes and music classes. i found that classes that really

help me is the best medication from learning different classes little by little i obtain esteem and confidence. now i'm not afraid talking with people. i really appreciate this school that provide me a lot of support i like to travel to get treatment, like the music classes and now i'm going to go back to work because city college support a lot of support and help. last week, i pass. including disability student that long to change their live but they have to chance to speak out. i represent those people to talk to you. education is the most important

in the world. you can cut anything but not cut anything. you should provide fully support but not cut education budget. you should raise all city college teacher's salary because they want to help us to have high expectation of money and salary. >> thank you. (applause). >> there's a lot of people waiting. >> alyssa messer, i just met tracey today and she is such an amazing example of what city

college does for our community overall. i'm an english instructor and i am actually on the forefront of teaching our ab705 classes we were talking about earlier and i just want to say to the supervisors and the commissioners and the trustees here, i would invite you to talk to us about the good work we're doing in the english department to help students move through more quickly. i wasn't planning on talking about that, but because chancellor rocha lead his presentation in tal talking abot the english classes we're adding, i have to say that's not true. the situation in english is complex because of ab705 and it's a much bigger set of issues but not just about direct class cuts. i want to be clear that we're not adding english for students. we are cutting. in fact, we're losing 25-30 faculty members next fall

because of those cults and the impact of that. and so, of our faculty members in the english department, i think the part-timer who most recently was the last to get classes assigned for the fall has been here a dozen years. and she just heard yesterday as we all heard that maybe some of those classes will not run after all and we'll be cutting more. so i want to be clear that when we're having this conversation about the future of our college and what we're able to do as a college for our community, the kinds of services that we offer to our students of all kinds and for all kinds of reasons, i help students transfer. that's what i do in the classroom, help students gain the english skills they need to transfer. 90% of my students are looking for a transfer to a university. but we have all these things that we do at city college and san francisco counts on us, counts on us. so our union, as2121, wore aboue

about solutionen solutions. >> thank you. >> i'm the community organizer with community housing partnership. a community housing partnership's mission is to help formerly homeless people with affordable housing and help them achieve self-sufficiency. the second piece of self-sufficiency and access to education is improvement mitly intwined. the reason our organization spareheads the free city campaign is because we recognised our formally homeless residents and community deserves to be able to form community around education. we have seniors in our buildings who join in videography classes, specifically because they know

they can join in the wider society through these classes and be treated as an equal participant in society. the impacts of community college on people who are recovering from homeless trauma, it's really important that our population has equal access to college and it's not always about a degree. it's not always about a certification. it's about integrating with the rest of society and being treated as an equal. so we strongly encourage you to stop the class cuts so that our communities can be treated as equals. thank you so much. (applause). >> hi. i'm caesar. i'm a city college student currently and i have been homeless previously and i'm a worker. i whewhen i was homeless withini knew how difficult it was to go back to school.

we are not only are we dealing with classes being cut, but we're dealing with many students that were homeless, facing hopelessness and i can't imagine how they're doing this, you know. i just applaud them for dealing with these and trying to elevate their personal careers while facing the trauma. what i want to say is we can fund city college but we need city college to be accountable. i think we -- i want to get to the level of -- i want to learn accounting after seeing this budget and not fully understanding what are all of the numbers. i'm interested in taking an accounting class to see what our students can do to support, but as a student, i feel concerned that i didn't find out about this until recently but i did learn that some of the

projections, we're not doing enough to the students or the community and why are we not reaching projected levels of enrollment? are we not talking to the students about what they need? it is hard to be working and to be trying to take full-time classes. the last thing i want to say is that the tax force on prostitution in 1996 conclude ed this we spent 7.6 million annually and i'm assuming it's more now because this was a decade ago, on enforcing prostitution. if we were just to also do policies to decriminalize, we could sage this money and save o students facing hopelessness. thank you. >> next speaker. >> those pie charts that you up pertaining to black and brown people, that also applies to each and every nationality, skin

colour here in san francisco and throughout the united states of people who are here located in san francisco. i'm always speaking up for the most vulnerable people and i want to speak up for people who are in your asdc programme, your care, not cash programme. people in those types of programmes want to educate themselves but in order to get the assistance from the city and the federal government, in order to survive, part of the rules and regulation is that you can't go to college. so those are the people that are the most vulnerable who want to educate themselves but can't be permitted to go to a college for free. you need to change that rule of people who want to educate themselves can go to school and educate themselves.

>> i want to come hear today to discuss this struggle going on at city college. i lived in sanfrancisco since 1969 and i started city college, well, i started taking classes in '75. one of the teachers that i had, leslie simon, she's in the audience and she taught poetry for the people, which is an ongoing thing. i'm noticing no one of these fliers that poetry for the people has been cut. that programme, i had met lifelong friends in it and it's a great experience to take it. that's among 300 programmes cut over the last year or so. i also want to say that sanfrancisco is the most expensive city in the united

states and it's considered the most prosperous metropolitan city in the united states. in the '50's, '60s and '70s and we that's because we taxed reach people and taxed them their fair share. we need to tax since the reachist city. richest city. i love city college. it seems like the trend is we've gone away from caring about people. students are living in their cars. they have food insecurity. we need to start caring about human beings again and students

and teachers. they work hard to make this a great city. thank you. >> thank you. >> before the next speaker, i would like to remind members, there are no audible mentioned and no signs, thank you. >> i'm dotty bridge, a senior-taking classes at senior college and the department i take is fashion has been cut 73% i wanted to say a couple of things. first of all within i take classes for the joy of learning. i have degrees, i don't need more degrees. so i'll speak for the people there because it offers a richness you get nowhere else. my favorite class is upholestry and these classes are completely full and next semester one class

and what do you do with the other 50 studentses? whstudents?who knows. we move on to forward-thinking schools. when you look forward, recycling, that's the way of the future. these are the classes being cut that maybe won't affect many of us in the future. so what i would like to say is when you look at the quality of education, you get the quality of teachers we've received, and we're losing that. and for what purpose? i understand budgets. i've run budgets before. it's difficult, but it's also -- there were no other options given other than cutting the class. >> thank you, networks speaker.

next speaker. >> i'm steven brady and i'm a faculty member and i teach autobody repair and welding over there and i could talk about my department and all that, but what i wanted to talk more about was my own journey. i started off as an immigrant and i used to take the odd city college class and over the years, eventually i was able to, you know, transfer and get a bachelor's degree but city college is what made it happen for me. but i was a part-time student most of the time. a lot of students, when we talk about equivalence and all of that, it takes, you know, six students taking one-night class and a two-unit class to make up just one. so the city serves a lot of people and, they get educated at

their own pace. as a community, and we're supposed to be a community college, we have to think of all of those people, not just those who want to transfer to a university but those who are retired and want to take an art class. we have to look at our relinquishiovisionfor the futur? do we want to turn out people with degrees or certainly the greater community some i think city college, the city has been great but we don't serve all of our community. workers who work in a business who pay business taxes, they live outside of the city and would love to take a night class but they don't get free city. we have an advisory committee meeting in each of our departments and one of the mirroremployers, i wish they hae

city. finally, we need to find additional sources of funding from the city to help us keep city college -- >> thank you. thomas wright, ottawa pippinger, rex pemblo, jewel ross, renee francisco, leslie simon, hansen. >> good afternoon, i'm garry barringer and i'm a native of the city campus and have been a homeowner there for 40 years. i'm also a retired city employee having worked for the juvenile probation department for the past 15 years. i have been a supporter of the city college, voting for every bond measure that the college

has been, has presented to the voters. i've taken advantage of the community aspect of city college, having taken classes in real estate, dance, exercise, music, film and piano. and i fear that this budget that you are putting forth had taken the community right out of the san francisco community college system. education is exploration. education is opportunity. education is not a guided pathway where you take young people by the nov nose and leadm and tell them what they have to take. education is for growth and this budget goes in the opposite way. it's taking community and the

joy out of learning. i'm also here to support the building of the performing arts and education center, all at one time, right away, we voted on it 20 years ago and i voted on it ten years ago. now is the time to build the whole thing, not split it into two. thank you for this opportunity. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is thomas wright and i've had a lot of issues in just getting to stability. i had mental health issues growing up. i recently found the value of

community in helping myself. i found that when i gave -- when i was concerned about others, i was -- i didn't have to think so much about myself and so it's lead me into community work and i'm now at city college, studying to be a community health worker and i'm learning a lot and the more i do it, the more i see the importance of community and i think that's what city college is -- part of what city college makes it so good is it brings people of all diverse culture and groups together. there's people in my class, my community health worker class who don't have english as their

first language but we make connections and i think that's what is important. in san francisco, especially. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i want to make you aware of the cuts imposed on the library. just last week we found out that our budget was reduced by 16% for next year and the own wa ony to absorb those cuts is to reduce hours. we have librarians at all campuses and we work with students from every department in discipline and in background and one of the things i love about working at city college is being able to work with student who's are all just trying to make their lives better and it's really wonderful and enriching and i have worked at every

campus and i have seen a lot of different students. i work at the fort mason campus now which is mainly studio art classes. but i will say not all studio art students are retired. we deal with a lot of young, working artists trying to improve their skill and transition into a way to make a living as an artist. that's not reflective in certificates or four-year transfer mols. smodels.our student body is a lr diverse and robust than transfer student and in order to meet their needs, we need to be available, reducing the charges that arclassesavailable to them. shud derindering libraries is na way to do that and i hope you

find money somewhere because education is not cheap but it's a great value. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i'm going to talk fast because i don't have much time. i'm a phon credit business instructor and a lot of the data and statistics you saw don't talk to my students at all. my students are some of the most in-need, some of the most at-need in city college. last semester i had a student, david, who commuted from oakland to take a class on how to use the internet, a very basic class. he was taking the class because he was trying to get his high school diploma but in alamena county, the only way is to take an online class. without that, he couldn't get a job at the post office which was his ultimate goal. we now have no sections in this class available in the fall. this is true for many of the classes that are required for our noncredit certificate. and i know, i mean, clearly the

issue is funding. we get that, we all get that. but i'm also here to tell you that the issue is decision-making and how decisions are being made. at-risk studentse students canne last-minute schedule change. we need to find stability in our scheduling process. we need decision-makers who understand the impact of their decisions. c dwhy do we only have 40 days o make decision cuts? i was in a meeting earlier this week where decision makers shared with us that despite cutting four coordinators in business noncredit which eliminated that completely, they didn't no what it did and therefore had no idea what the effect would be on student. why are all of the cuts coming out of the classroom? why aren't decisions made more holiesicly with more impact this

the minimum damage to students and programmes. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> i just finished a high school from mission center and i appreciate thappreciate the oppe college give us. i had an accident long time ago, couple years back and that's why i decide to go to city college and i finish my high school and i'm going to have my ceremony on may 22nd at mission center and you guys can go see how it is important to have the education.

you can see it's important to have all of the classes in esl and all of the departments, so please don't cut the classes. >> thank you, and congratulations. next speaker, please. >> supervisor, thank you for calling this trustee's administration. my name is connie ford. i am speaking on behalf of the san francisco labor movement, the san francisco labor council and we're here today to say that we support city college as we have always supported city college. we have supported city college when it started, when the big fight for acc jc happened years ago, we were there saying they

are wrong. we need a expect college, not a junior college but a community college that serves our knees. needs. we were right there because we knew the access everyone needed to happen in san francisco. we are sanfrancisco. we all share the values and that old saying about city college being the best working class institution in our town has to remain. it is not just an avenue for people to go to college, a four-year college. it is that and you heard from many teachers they're work on that and that's credible but it's a community college that serves the youth, the middle-aged, the old people, is that e ca we can continue to grd flourish in our town. it's very important. we pass prop w for funding and we should look deep and not make some the cuts recommended. half of our members went to city

college to learn about labor history through the great labor history section and part of that is being cut here. we support cuts and classes that have one or two or five people in them, of course. everybody in this room supports that. we don't want to keep class tazs that have three people but if they have requirements on the floor, 15, 20 or 30 and serve everybody's needs, those are the classes we should have. they're cutting education at the national level, we know that, the state level but we in san francisco are different. we need to dig deep. we need to talk to each other. we need to find solutions as we say because it can't change. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i am a preschool retired teacher from sanfrancisco school district. 40 years ago, i did not know any

english and i attend adult chargeclasses to learn english t community college and after that, i attend classes at city college, which i love the most. that is a bridge for my life, to my success. and since then, there were enough classes to support and also support programme for what i need and at that time, i only took two and a half years to graduate from city college and i got my a degree. i could find a job and i could transfer to state and when i was at state, at that time, they were cutting classes and it took me certainly years to finish my ba degree, to finish all my requirements to graduate. also my daughter took years,

time to graduate and at that time because i graduate from state, she graduate from high school because i took too long. so wait for too long. i have the picture showing i graduated from state. my daughter graduated from high school. and i was a single mom. i work hard to do that. those also my son, i advised him not to take classes, because it take too long. class getting cut and he took somewhere else and he got along and he took tame t time to finid he could go to university and also my daughter took too long and at that time, my daughter and son graduated from the university at the same time.

>> jane doyle, connor watson, diana scott and sherag, gus goldstein, allen fisher, tiffany jaho, victori and victoria wagn. >> i'm a life-long learner and people a part of the college has greatly enriched my life and i'm grateful we're having this important conversation here today. as supervisor's hainey and marrs stated, san francisco is greatly underfunded. all parties need to work together, lobbying state to alter the funding formula so that it fits community college needs. in the meantime, i urge city college, city hall to find ways to augment funding to the

college, be it through greater pass-throughs of proposition w, getting monies from funds or finding other means community is the middle name of city college and turning the college towards a junior college model does not meet the money educational needs of san francisco's diverse populous. free city college is amazing but only covers tuition. for many students who are pushed to attend full-time, they have to give up jobs and take on loans that leave them with life-emcome berrin berring debt. this means losses of entire programmes down the road.

it does not make sense to drop the classroom portion now. the administration is proposing to demolish the building that music is in now and have those classes in portable classrooms. if you care about the arts, this does not make sense. thank you. >> networks speaker. next speaker. >> good afternoon. that was fortuities to follow this. i have been allowed to engage with a former passion and i think performing arts are essential in a holistic approach to your career and the ceo of twitter, as an example, was performing in second city in

chicago. i don't know if many people know that, but he utilizes the form of performance, improv in his business. so it has incredible value to the working place. i just finished the musical mama mia at city college and it was directed by deborah shaw who is in our audience today. let's see a show of hands, ha is a magnificen, whois a magnificei think these one of the most fabulous people. she's worked there for 32 years. and they're cutting the musical. they're cutting her classes. they're just putting her out to pasture. i think this is abombnible. to it on the cutting block is short-sighted.

this can't be diminished because it has tremendous impact in our community. arts are what make life important. so thank you for your time. i can go on, but i will let you hear if other speakers. thank you again. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good day. my name is otto pippinger, a former student of city college. i've had the privilege for our city and country of knowing that i am doing something to protect the people around me and that is only because of my experience as a student at city college. when i began classes at city college, i was 18 years old and i was debilitate bid mental illness and addicted to heroin. in coming here to speak, i noticed each of the classes which had the greatest impact on

my life is under the chopping block. the first class i took was cinema studies 18. i took it as a lark because nothing was going on in my life and i became involved to save city college, a journalist student and everything stems directly from these classes, which are labeled as electives, sparsely attended lead me to other things in my life. city college is the only place where i have seen true class mobility without of course conclusion, without the consequences of onerous debt. beyond the $311 million each year that it provides in new salary, it's the place where the working class and immigrants of our city come to understand themselves and connected to the functions of our society and governance for the better. our reputation of a leader in thoughtfulness comes directly from the fact we have created access for each and every person in san francisco through our

functions. it is outrageous, the calculation of the school's value is heavily devalued. the vast majority of friends were taking class and we must is value them equally. having been there for free city, the stabilization, the people of california and san francisco have agreed with us. they have validated city college's value and have been up to a vote. $32 million of deficitting is nothing compared to the value it's created. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm just here as a former student of city college and i started going back in, i think, 2013 or so, right around when the accreditation crisis was starting. every semester i was there, classes were getting cut or you

were moved into one class so it wouldn't get cut. at that time, i was a brand new parent, working full-time and it was hard to find classes that fit my schedule when i didn't know what i wanted to do. i started going to school for just self-development to draw cartoon. i wound up being able to transfer out and got transfer to columbia and get degrees in economics and it was all because i was able to kind of experiment, learn what kind of things interested me at city college and have an environment to work with teachers in a way that worked best for me. and it's kind of ridiculous, like, we have caps, what, the floor for classes is what, 20 students or so, when the whole time at university, non-mixture classes have a ceiling of 15 students. so you're gained tha guaranteedn environment to engage with the materials and then here, it's

less successful. san francisco made great steps in making school for accessible, by makin making city school fred we need students to go to class, it's affordable to figure out whether they want to transfer or just take them. but thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello. i'm renee francisco, a first-year college student, wrapping up with my second semester so far and today i'm here to say i feel like the definition of a community college is not just with the community and is not just with the junior college but also with how the classes ha ar that are d and the reason is because with a lot of students that fraud from high school, they may not fraud graduate with the best gpas and one of the reasons is they're

not motivated in certain topics like let's say english or mathematics. with city college, the requires that are needed for classes like english and mathematics, it is not as intense as it would be in high school and there are also a lot more classes that are offered that might be fun for students to take, like administration of justice, 67 terrorism and counterterrorism in the city college of san francisco which i find interesting and i do currently take. and also, i do take multiple history classes in city college and from what i've seen in the schedule, one of the history classes, 18b, which was the second part of meso american history is being cut. i do hope i can negotiate to get

that through and i hope i seat board of trustees in sacramento. that's all i have to say today. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello, everywhere. i'm micha and thank you for having the hearing. i'll start out by playing a video and hopefully you can hear it. (playing video). >> this has made a huge impact, turning my life around. we do presentations in high schools, as well. we are raising awareness and

consciousness for the next generation so that we can protect our communities. and this is the kind of stuff that gets funded when city college gets the funding that we need. looking at the number of billionaires, i think there's 76 billionaires in this city. it doesn't make sense to me we can't find funding for this place who obviously meannesses o much to so many people. i'm sure there's a lot to learn about the logistics. i urge you to try find that because city college is really a place worth protecting for all of the reasons everyone has said. i've met life-long friends there. i've remet friends from younger parts of my life growing up in the city and i've met partners, et cetera. and so in closing, i just want to remember that education really is an important value and

i think that we can our money where our mouth is as a city and it doesn't seem like it should be that hard. so go to the state, get the funding that you need there or we can raise it within the city. you know, my arm is injured because i got into a bike accident and it's going to heal but the cuts won't heal. [ laughter ] >> hi, my name is eve and i've written something. i heard that everyone is going to have to make sacrifices to improve city college, but what burden will the administrators and their six-figure salaries take on? will their expense stipends be cut? it seems the students and teachers that go without are met to suffer and not the add

minimum state earths. administrators. this school has given me purpose and a place to call home. it's done more for me than psychotherapy. i'm not sure what to say when my classes are cut br before i can take them and art's department will be left without permanent classrooms and water coming out of college city taps is brown and i have video if you want to see and half of the toilets don't work. yet the administrators can figure out a way to squeeze their six-figure salary and thousands of dollars into the budget. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello, everyone. i'm an international student and i'm be speaking on behalf of all international students of this year. actually as an international student, we don't have a lot of resources. we pay a lot of tuition and this

is because they have a lot of charges yoclasses you can choos. three of my classes are being cut and i want to as ask our bo, will you be refunding my money? so that should go to my trustees. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i fell into lgbt studies this helped me find a new direction

for my life. we found there's a new degree offered and that's great. i'm a part of that programme, but there's the reality that lgbt study's department is facing a 63% move to online. now that is severing the ties of a physical community. i commute from hayward to go to the clas wher classes where i ce discussions about the issues facing my community. now, this stands to harm students who don't have safe home lives, who don't have a home to go to and lgbt students are disproportionately at risk for homelessness. because of the cuts online, students aren't going to able to meet each other and even in san francisco, where we like to talk about how lgbt friendly we are, the queer resource centre at city college has a rat infestation and no bathrooms.

so we already know how welcomed we are on our campus and this is just pushing us further away. so i would like to say, if city college wants to commit to the legacy of lgbt activism in san francisco and if city college wants to maintain the representation as a non-homophobic institution, which is on thin ice been it wil, it willhave to work and tor lgbt students instead of shoving us to the side. (applause). >> charles spiegel, nadia flamanca, monica collins, erin reeves, michael adams. >> thank you for having us. i'm so thrilled to be talking

after my amazing peers, wow! idyli'm another international student. i came to city college a as many students come from international places to city college to san francisco to come out. just like my dear peer, jewels said, i am so nervous to be talking in front of you because this is really, really important. so thank you for being here and thank you for having us and listening to us. i really just want to ask for your help, for your support. as we her, th heard, lgbt classe also targeted. we need the spaces to find community, to be with each other

in our home countries, that's not my situation. but some of us, i would not be here. my peers of colour, some of them are not here because of the violence that we are faced with. we need to have these classes. we need to see each other. we ahead to meet each other. we need to be together. we need to access the glance that our mentors, our teachers can give us. i have never in my life before found that support ever, ever. i did not know i could have a professor who is transgender. i did not know that was a possibility. thank you so much. >> thank you.

>> please support us, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, thank you for being here and taking the time to hear us speak. my name is mona. i live in a vehicle in order to live in sf in the i want as an musician and artist. chancellor roca said chances ae being cut but not courses but this is an untrue statement. music harmony classes 3a and 3b, the classes that directly follow musicianship a were offered. i verified this by looking at historical class offerings. in the new fall 20 2019 schedule

neither are offered and 5a is offered. that was last offered in the fall of 2017 in addition to music 3a, not in place of it. asking students like me who took music 1a if the spring of 2019 to all of a sudden jump to music 5a is like asking a student who completed elementary algebra to take calculous. it's unreasonable and unacceptable. one of my fellow 1a students think it may have been a mistake to take classes at city college paw obecause of three class cut. the music and arts are not well supported in the society and this has been my first opportunity to actually take music classes at a college level and it's being taken away from me, right under my seat. it's really sad to