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 see how

little san francisco, especially values music and the arts. classes are being cut, not just sections and students are being permanently affected. these cuts won't heal. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm connor watson and at sfsu, i fell in love by organizing. i want to impact my community and build a career and empowering franchise. but when i was junior in 2017, a year away from a bachelors in political science, i lost my financial aid and i had no recourse but to drop out. i started working full-time to make ends meet, balancing two or three part-time job because in my experience no one offers a salary to a 22-year-old college drop-out. my rent consumes well over my income and consistently food insecure. i'm unable to make student loan payments and watch my credit

score drop. free city college gave me a first glimpse of help towards regaining my financial stability. despite the workweek, i enrolled to finish my two ge classes to finish an social's degre associd i was informed the lab was recently cut ant ther and theree no room to take it and toll i would have to retake lecture next semester and ow only then t i pass my classes might an earn and associate's degree five years into my college career. i'm here to implore the board to defend tuition and take a moratorium on class cuts on the clear and simple basis being a san francisco student in 2019 is hard enough as it is. many of you with power were luck to receive tuition-free quality education. class cuts and student debt are

financially crippling my generation and we are simply asking to provide us the same economic justice afforded to yourselves once upon a time. find the funding and reduction elselsewhere and students first. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> my name is leslie simon and i taught at city college since 197a. 1975. i helped to create the women'sasm a degre's aa degree. countless students have master's degree and one is a practicing attorney and all of that benefited from classes in the arts, poetry, music and ethnic studies, lgbt studies, labor studies, politics of sexual violence. life-learn learning, civic engagement along with transfer and we're asking why is administration aggressively

cutting classes but not working towards increasing enrollment in why is there no hard copy available when registration began on the 1st. why don't they distribute beyond libraries to book stores. why is the administration so far unresponsive to banner nine registration system which is especially hurts the diversity department? like others, i am asking the administration to visibly and vocally commit to increasing revenue streams, such as the community higher education fund which afted, alana fredrictons outlined, such as the second cycle and talking about the ballot initiative for 2020 to split the roles that will bring in 11 to $14 billion to k through 14. let's talk about this and get excited about that. and the new fund of grants and hispanic-serving institutions and finally though the governor right now is supporting this

funding formula, he has signaled important ways he's interested in reforming it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, san francisco board of supervisors. higi'm a long-time resident of n francisco 4 and about to transfer to sf state and majoring in political pacific islands and how these class cuts affect med, they decreased educational opportunities as well as decreased job opportunities for our wonderful instructors. diversity and social justice are high risk of being cut and may eventually be limi eliminated. these classes are important for me to see myself and my people represented in education and academia. growing up in public, i did not

see my identity, specifically asian american and this will later affect self-esteem growing up. when classes are cut, there is a likelihood they will not be reintroduced. what this represents as a queer female student, that they do not need education. our ongoing history and struggles are invalidated by the administration. this is not what the third world laboliberation fought for. today, i along with many of my classmates, some could not be here, demand these class cuts administration be to a stop. in addition, we demand sanfrancisco board of supervisors advocate for city college students and instructors ensure that such an act will never happen again in the future. thank you. >> thank you.

(names called. >> my name is katelyn and i'm a new student of the city college and i came to san francisco three months ago. at that time, my english is bad, especially my speaking skills. and when i came to city college, the school, the teachers helped me a lot to improve my english skill. i came here to support city college but i think i should say something. i want to keep my classes, my school, my plan, my future.

and i know that the student's future is the country's future. so please keep this for our students. thank you for listening. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is diana walcott and i'm the executive assistant at mission housing and i'm here on behalf of our deputy executive ma.we want to begin with a fully city college with the full class load. a third reduction in classes is not the way forward for our beloved community college. out residents and our community have utilized city college as a place to obtain degrees, certificates, learning new languages and to gain new

skills. our hope is that this valuable resource and san francisco institution is operating at its best with adequate funding suited to the needs of the people of this city. as we imagine, there should be affordable housing in every neighborhood and, perhaps, one day, we can newly imagine a city college campus in every neighborhood in san francisco. an investment in education just like true affordable housing benefits in our society by default. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm also with mission housing. i'm a local product of the tl and a proud alumus of city

college. i want to applaud mr. han exy for calling this hearing. i have a story. ii owe a lot to the institution, the staff and the professors. it was my bridge. many of the restaurants at mission housing have city stories, as well and it was and is their bridge. this is a definitive time and our core values and priorities face funding challenges across the board and we don't have enough more affordable housing or small businesses, nor for education and we do have an influx of some of the highest paid industries on the planet. we do have an influx of people who are going to be multimillionaires overnight due to a couple of ipos and they're

living adjacent to current and hopefully future city college esl studentses. studentses. students. time and again fiscal responsibility has been used for difficult austerity measures. always at a cost to the most vulnerable. at the richest time, cutting access to education due to a funding issue is a decision you make, not a directive made to you. world class education down the street is the direction we should be heading in and we implore all bodies involved to explore all opportunities for funding a priority, i poly, we can all agree on. thank you.

>> this has been the most challenging semester by far, enrolled in 18 units, which is the maximum and my involvement in yoga and the tennis team has helped me to get through this semester. i don't think i would have been able to get through it without it. it helped me to build social bonds and connect with my expect and that's difficult in a city like san francisco. i think having these electitiess is super important in that regard and actually putting the investment in your student, your student is your investment and when they build the social bonds, they'll stay in san francisco. they'll make friends, social connections, but when you don't, then they're liz going t easilyo take a job and that's not building communities at all.

this semester and last semester, my classes were filled to the brim and three upper classes, so full that we have to sit on the floors. that is, like, totally inappropriate. the classes are super hard, so it's difficult to focus enough already if you have to sit on a floor, it's impossible. yeah, that's pretty much all i have to say. i also think that looking at students who graduate from city college are a bad indicater. i think you should look at how everyone else is saying. i'm not frau graduating from ciy college but i'm transfer and graduate with a bachelo bachelon engineering so it's not a good indicater. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> thank you, my name is michael

adams. i'm a student at city college and a college graduate two times. and i'm a person who was returned after a couple of degrees being earned to city college to add to the quality of my life and to contribute to this city to which i move from the midwest. i want to thank supervisors for supervisors this and the other cosponsors. i hope that this is not one of those issues that gets deferred to the supervisor in the district, talking about norman yi. city colleges come from every district in the city. so thank you for representing your constituents in this process. i'm taking piano class where

there's room for 2 24 pianos and 24 studentses. students. my motor cycle repair class had eight students and it was full because we had motor cycles and tools and racks and spaces that we had to move around. so this whole notion of one size fits all that has been delivered here is a myth and it doesn't serve the interests of the students. i belong to a group and some of the members are here who we call ourselves firmed first respondes because when they go out, we decide and that we will enroll in these classes to preserve the opportunities for 17, 18 other students who otherwise would be escorted out and told the class is closed. some of the closures have happened as the class is in progress. and before the final drop.

i'm a students at city college and they're receiving massive cuts and only one class of 1b is offered next semester and our highest level class 2a is being cut entirely. this is personal and i'm learning asl to communicate with my deaf partner and our family and my future clients as a social worker. due to the cuts, i will not be able to take is 1b until next spring because the only class offered overlaps with a class that i need for my major by 15

minutes. with asl, as with any language, continued practice is crucial. having to wait until next spring means that the skills i need to continue learning will decay. and making it harder to learn. cutting 2a entirely means i won't get the support i need to become fluent at all. asl brings together entire communities and families of deaf and hard of hearing individuals and connects us. i'm here to demand the board of supervisors work with the board of trust ceo trustees to priorid make our live and find our families here and halt devastating cutting. thank you. devastating cuts. thank you. >> next speaker. >> hi. name nat cram been i'.

m. in the beginning there was a lot of self-congrat torory pats on e back and i hope this has changed your perspective. chancellor, will you be taking a huge salary cut to your six-figure salary or do you expect the working class, poor, queer and homeless and disabled students to carry it for you? to the city government, what will you do t, continue funding police brutality, homeless raids or fund or future in funding city college, howing for students, et cetera? thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker, please.

>> my name is emmy sanders and i'm an international student, as well. i just want you to, like, understand how extremely valuable your college is and how unique it is. like city college of san francisco has the first lgbt study's department in all of the united states and i think, like, probably the first one in the whole world and in sweden, where i come from, i could not find a single class in, like, lgbt subjects that were teached by a member of the community. here in san francisco, i can take transgender studies learning about myself and my own community, by an actual other trans-person. it's just so unique and amazing. also, with the cuts that are happening right now, there are

plans of dismantling the study's department to make it a part of behavioral sciences which is think is completely outrageous. i just wants you to remember how unique and valuable city college is. and the diversity it brings and how people from all over the

world are coming here. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon and thank you so much for doing this. my name is kathy burick. nobody mentioned dance. i want to let you know it's in the arts. our department has had to cut between at least 30 classes. we have to limit the hours in the gym where people come to work out and the weight room. our department chair is a ardepthldepthardentlystruggling. we have to get people through and we're making it more difficult for them to get through than ever. you've heard a lot of testimony about that today. and i used to insist, we're

asking students to do unreasonable things and unreasonable amounts of time. i'm losing my train of thought because i have so many about this. city was free. i'm doing this today because the city was free when i came 40 years ago. it was a broad, open -- you could study anything you wanted. you weren't forced to get in here, get out and get on with your life, if you didn't know what you wanted to do. this is when i came back to dancing. the attars were an honoured forum where it wasn't where i came from and now we're not only reducing the number of classes, so it's harder for students to get as in dance. this idea that you want fewer classes with more people in them, how dare say you support student success. how dare you say you support equity when you make it harder for people to get in them. i have never seen our college more poorly managed than right now and i've never seen total

disregard for education. you have to remember that there are people behind those budget numbers. data is not everything. they represent human beings. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you for allowing me to speak. i'm a queer disabled school. my suicidal idealation quiet when i'm surrounded by the awesome folks who teach. they see me and support me and this may be one of the reasons i'm so involved in the queer community on campus. there are other queers on campus who feel this way, too.

the faculty at ccfs has not let the limitations get in the way of my education plan. i will graduate with more credits than i need because i want to, because it's my educational plan, not because i'm stuck in my classes as the chancellor suggested. we've hired 63 new faculty and i wonder why are some of the junior faculty members having to verify their equivalency to teach classes they were hired to teach. it turns out that classes are cut and reduced. and enrolling is rising but classes are cut. chancellor compares us to southwest airlines. you forget, we're a community college. we have a city college. i am city college. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is jeanie and i'm a

retired faculty, city college and i am here to actually support cuts, but the cuts are to class sizes. and i, along with all of the school teachers throughout the entire country, we advocate for smaller class sizes. the courses i've been teaching, which is in the department that includes racism, sexism, thoughe homophobia, anti-semitism and am i missingny? missing any? the city of classes, classism. [ laughter ] >> that these courses demand dialogue among the students that many of whom are experiencing

all of those ir isms and to cree the dialogue and critical thinking that is needed to engage in those topics requires smaller class sizes. i've taught at berkley, sonoma state, the maximum class size is 15 and you want more? go demand more larger class sizes. for quality education, which we deserve, we need to have smaller class sizes, so i'm here to support cuts and class sizes. more budget. >> thank you. (applause). >> next speaker, please. if anyone else who wantse wantso speak, line up. >> my name is jodie harrison and you may challenge me with this, if you want to. i believe that i am the oldest

living continuous student at san francisco city college. if you can imagine, that i am two years old and i am an incidenimmigrant because i am an by birth. i am on a horse with a wooden saddle and we're going through the forest because where i'm from in texas, that's southeastern, the forest country. that's timber country and it's dark at night. because we are going to get on the train to come to california because my mother said my children and she had a bunch of us little idiots, need an education. i am 74 years old.

i believe in this process. i trust in this process. i live this progs. process. to me, among the many things, education -- i'll just take one catagory, so everybody else can speak -- education is the means to world peace. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i teach in the labor and communities of city college of san francisco. i want to thank everybody mere foherefor sitting through anothg meeting. i have known many of you for many years and respect your work. i want to clear up a few things that our union has heard as we've walked the halls and made

the case for slowing down and stopping the cuts. one is that, it has been portrayed by some that we support classes that have five students, no. we're very realistic and that, of course, we want smaller classes like other speakers have said but not that small. second of all, we do whole-heartedly embrace the message that we have to be doing better in closing equity gaps in transfers. that is center and we embrace that, but we also stand up from an equity perspective from esl, our adult-basic education classes or asl classes. that is all part of the building and equity strategy that can work. and also is recollecting that re

the recipient is to damn high don't have a traditional pathway, this isn't mcdonald's, this is our beautiful city college of san francisco. and we do have solutions. we want reasonable policies around class cuts. this freddie kruger approach won't work for us any more and we want all of us to work together, to come up with, if necessary, enrich the funds to really preserve the programmes that maybe the state of california doesn't want to fund any more but we know to support. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm with the student assembly and also a part of the grow coalition with the aft faculty and so, just reiterating, you know, again, thank you for folks

for calling on this hearing, but also, we want to also share and acknowledge the urgency in supporting funding for ccsf. it comes to the conclusion that we need a community still enstated within the college and part of defending the community across all campuses, across all communities is supporting city college and so, with all of the class cuts that have been happening, a lot of student's lives are destabilized, you know, and it's some arguments that we want to highlight is that it does jeopardize our vision to fulfill our dreams. we're a demographic that is very, very diverse. we have very marginalized organizations that depend on the institution for support. the classes and sections that we need are not just for transferring, you know, the majority of people that need them are gun, like immigrants,

folks that don't envision on the 18 to 24-year-old demographic to transfer. it's holding our vision and remaining that students and the community deserves, you know. we have nine different campuses. one in each historic neighborhood and 63,000 students. one class cut is one too many. each class, every class and section that's been removed within any class removed online is jeopardizing our learning ain't to really retain the information, to really build across students.

>> i have a cinema degree, i'm a continuing student if the broadcast department. not because i need another degree, but because i really enjoy city college. i find that i've become somewhat addicted to the classes and the college. the teachers, i feel, a passionate about learning things. i want to keep this brief. i work downstairs because of my education at sf college. don't cut the courses. there are so many classes. all of the latino classes helped me and not to mention the arts. we really knead th need the art. >> thank you. before i lose my train of thought, out of respect for the

board, i want to ask how was it that you were able to have the positions you have now if it wasn't for someone that stands from a community college or someone you made connections through community college or someone that is a professor from state or uc? if it wasn't stemming from someone like community colleges? now, to my story, my name is helen and i graduated from sf state and bachelor of arts in music. and i didn't know where to go after and i look towards city college to discover more about where i can use that degree and in the long-run and in my three years, i discovered dance, the arts.

>> how will the work happen? i would like to call for incredible scrutiny about that. i'm terrified for the fall. i am coming back in the fall to teach. but i'm terrified because people i count on are not coming back. they're either not being replaced or their information is not being transferred in any kind of clear way. it's chaos and i'm terrified. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> you should invited us, not to have us stand here and beg and give you arguments for why we

want to be educated. just like when you got your education. you knew it was a stepping stone. to an opportunity. just as we do. so it is our human right to be educated and it is not something that we need to stand here and gravel in front of you for this was not just a show or how we would love our college. this was planted for your consideration and i really want you to break down all the class barriers that may be obstacles to your really getting what was said here today.

thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon and thank you supervisor, for calling this and for realizing that, in fact, all of the supervisor's districts do benefit from city college.

i did the manual and $15 onion hour comes out to $25,000 and clearly this housing that the chancelor and trustees have been spending time on the housing development instead of focusing on getting all of the funding that the people in sanfrancisco voted for, they thought they were voting to get it past the general fund and up to you to fund, to use the money that the voters voted for for city college to give it to city college. the chancellor needs to go to san francisco to get the law changed so that many withi, many working students count as full-time. so do your job and stop focusing

on a housing development. thank you. (applause). >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i'm lupita, i start at the community college three years ago taking english classes. now i move to credit classes. >> anyone else like to give public comment?

further comments, questions? trustee temprano. >> thank you, supervisor hainey, for making sure this inaugural meeting included the opportunity for city college to discuss with the board of supervisors and board of education what we as a board of trustees have spent the last six months discussing. i want to especially thank the faculty, staff and administration who are here, but want to really thank the studentses who wstudents who wee limited time and ability for coming and sharing again with the board of supervisors and education what you have been sharing with us of the last several months about what the reality of our budget crisis, frankly, means for our students. i want to be super brief because this has been a long hearing.

i do want to appreciate the sentiments that was shared by so many of the public commenters that the city and county of san francisco has a role to play in the fiscal health and future of city college of san francisco. we do the many incredible things that our students, faculty and staff mentioned and we have not figured out how to print money and we are limited by the realities of the property tax and state funding that we get. i think there are a lot of ways and i think this is a great beginning of a public conversation about how the city can continue to support city college in the critical work we do. i hope that this spurs a further conversation about how the city and county of san francisco can fully fund and expand the free city college programme and at the very least make sure that we

are made whole for the -- at this point, for folks who are not clear, city college has taken a $5 million hit on implementing the free city programme. we have $5 million that we have not been funded for the programme by the city. i think we would like to work with everyone in this room to expand that. i would hope that the city and county of san francisco and voters will also support orest r efforts on a new facility's bond. we heard how toilets don't work and students who can't come to class because their classes are flooded. there are few things to drive students away like flooded classrooms and facilities that are far below what you would find in community colleges nearby and students who are leaving to access, so i hope the city will support us in that effort and i hope that if there is a desire for the city to prioritize the offering of classes that provide a core

social service to the city and county of san francisco, that the state no longer prioritizes and is not funding us for, this is a conversation that will include the board of trustees, the administration, the faculty, the classified staff and the students who again are the ones who are the most impacted by the states not funding the priorities any more. so i wanted to thank everywhere for their engagement today and i hope, it is the beginning of a not too long, because time is tight, but a fruitful conversation between the college district, the sit be county and board of education. so thank you for calling the hearing. >> thank you, trustee. >> trustee williams entry wantt. >> thank you to all of the speakers who came out. i agree with my colleague, vice president temprano, that the

city has a role in sustaining the city of san francisco. it is our fres treasure and institution. i serve on the audit economy at city college anaudit at citycol. we have to live within our means and the reality that we are in today which is a hard one and so, again, i really look to this committee to help us explore options and explore solutions to this very real issue. we are bumping up a 5% research and i am afraid of us again getting back into an accreditation crisis. we do not want to go backgroundd but forward and all of us wants to work with faculty, staff and our students, city and county, school board and everyone to really pitch in. this is a village effort to make sure we can sustain our college and the college we love and keep the community and community

college. i'm a frau graduate of city cole within i didn't join this board to see city college be downsized and i think we all feel the same way and i want that out there that we are not on the board to dowdownsize city college. we're fighting every single day. and we work really hard and our administration works hard and we all have a role to play and i want to give them that respect, because it is a hard nut to crascrack and we are all commitd to do what it takes to make sure our students get served, that it remains a place people feel comfortable and inclusive and folks from all over the world and throughout ow our communitis can feel loved. that's what i love about our college, it is a community and so we want to work together. we want to work together to also advocate at the state level because again, to the comments made earlier, we're wearing the

same jersey here and really within we have to come together and organize and look at the ways that the state is not funding our education the way they should and look at this state funding to identify ways that can be shifted and so, i just again want to thank everyone and for all of your passion and love for the college and for my colleagues on this committee to work with us to identify resources and solutions so that we can maintain the community college that we all love. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner collins? >> thank you. i guess as a commissioner on the board of education, this isn't something impacting me directly in terms of the work to support k-12 but i'm moved to see all of the folks who came out and i appreciate all of the testimony. it's true -- i mean it's visible

that people love our community college and it's about community more than that. folks can go to school beyond education. i went to school and never taught by a black teacher until i went to college and that changed my world. the fact students can come to our community college and not

just learn about their history but see themselves and conduct with others and find safe spaces is very moving and it's speaks about our community college that is about so many different types of communities, intersectional was mentioned and there's a space for people to convene an. my reason to go to school was the arts. so i studied theatre. i studied -- i took every art class you could take.

i was able to transfer to an art's college and that's the reason that i got a college degree. so i guess, just looking to the city and to just all of us in partnership, to see how we can support city college in -- obviously, it's very important that students can transfer and graduate and go on to further studies, but also for folks to be able to take the art's classes that they need to take, it may help them actually graduate. those are also communities, as well. so thank you, commissioner, for bringing this together and i look forward to partnering with the city in whatever capacity that i can to support city college in offering all of the things that it does. >> thank you. you know, i think that for anybody who wants to see how

transformational city college is, all they have to do is just watch the testimony that we saw today. for everyone who came out and talked about how not only did it provide some educational opportunity, some advancement in education, but in many cases, it was something that saved people's lives. a community was able to connect with your identity and your future and i think, you know, those are things that we need to be expanding not downsizing. city college is something so essential that actually for me, as i think about what makes sanfrancisco an amazing place with spirit and soul, and where is our heart, i think about city college and actually, i have a little heart on in the logo, that sigh seea lot, latino stud,

citizenship programmes, sign language. i just am reminded, just how powerful all of those courses are and the departments are and how we need to support them. the diversity of who is served by city college was on display today and it's beautiful to see the solidarity of people of all makes anages. it's just an extraordinary thing to be proud of. i know that's something we all believe.

they should not be asking for this but we should be thanking them to fight for a powerful institution. i'm also concerned about a couple of things and i appreciate the presentation from the chancellor and from the administration. for me, i think about civic center, campus, serving vulnerable communities and a reduction what that will mean for the communities and those residents.

i'm also concerned about some of the changes around class sizes and moving much more online. i think that what we heard and we know this of anybody who works in education, education is about relationships. and we want to make sure to maintain those relationships and i know that and the chancellor understands that as an educator himself. that's hugely important. so we call this hearing not just to say what's happening but to talk about solutions and so, there's some next steps that, as i understand it, from what i have heard, the first is that it sounds like the college still has work to do and some opportunity, even, to look at what yesterday revise means and it's more positive than negative and some other opportunities to think about how we can move forward and within what we have coming down from the state. i heard a lot of willingness from the people here today to

work collaboratively with the administration towards solutions. actually identifying where the needs are, doing this in, think, a collaborative way and a lot of conversation about funding. i heard someone say we'll go up to sacr sacramento. i hope be can join you with that and that city hall is part of pushing sacramento to give more and let us know how we can do that and then we should be looking at local funding. i agree with that, how city hall can do more. prov w has passed, part of free city and not doing enough. i agree that most people voted thinking that the large majority would go to city college and that's not happening right now. there was an article in the chronicle about a sale of a building that facebook will be in, that they basically used a

loophole and only turned over 49% of the building and a as result, the city is losing out on $16 million of taxes we would have gotten through the real estate tax and that could cover what we're talking about here. there is a ton of money in the city and a ton of resources. if we don't have it in the budget that we have here in city hall, we need to go out and access it and use it for institutions like city college and directly for city college because this is so critical for how we have an equitable city with access an opportunity and enrichment and spirit and joy and happiness. that is so critical if we'll be a san francisco that is what we say we are, which is a place that is for everyone, where everyone can be themselves and be there for each other and that's what we're fighting for. thank you for staying the entire time, chancellor.

when we have department heads here and we have a hearing, they leave way before public comment for you to listen to everybody and i think it's important and i know you're exited t exit commig with them. thank you to all. we need a motion and second to file this hearing.

>> and this hearing is filed and our meeting is adjourned. thank you.