and now the people there are fighting to gain back what they lost. and what they lost, including education, because education become completely privatized. chile has become one of the highest levels of inequality in the world. and that's precisely due to the privatization of healthcare and water and a lot of issues like that. and san francisco should learn from the experience. in fact, the students in chile were the first to rise up. and then the teachers and the university teachers as well. the level of unions and social organizing that's been going on with the unity between labor and community, is really significant, and people should really take a look at this, because a lot of the political leaders of that country from the left as well as the right have been comply sit in this

privatization scheme. so no matter how progressive we consider ourselves in san francisco, we need to look at chile as an example in terms of whatnot to do, including the issue of our pensions, which have become privatized, and which are trying to -- they are trying to do that to us as well as working as well, privatize our pension systems whereas the -- [off mic] >> thank you. next speaker. thank you. next speaker. right behind you. thank you. >> hello. members of the board, supervisors, i am aurelius walker, pastor of true hope church in bayview point.

a pastor for 15 years and san francisco leaders demand san francisco create a reparation fund with hotel and marijuana taxes. the city must make amend for the past injustice with support for education, housing and economical opportunity. martin luther king said the arc of a moral universe is long but it bends toward love, compassion, mercy and justice. we go forever and justice lives, creating crashes that will drive the power structure to change. change will not come if we wait for some other persons, if we wait for some other time. we are the ones. we have been waiting for to

change, president obama. the real community, the black community, the establishment of the african-american church that served as education centers with liberty and also things that will assist. so i urge you to support the reparations of the african-american community. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, mr. president. my name is latoya and i'm a native of san francisco and i've been a resident of san francisco for a few decades. i'm here in support of the reparations initiative as well as in support of the city college folks here. i am before you today speaking because i feel it's necessary that i bring up the fact that the treatment of blacks in san francisco is deplorable to say the least.

the black diaspora of san francisco has left a trail of broken and bruised african-americans here and even outside the state limits. my biggest issue is with the state lotto number. it's not anonymous. it's done by a third party website. units are offered to african based on rank. there are no quality control mechanisms in place to ensure that is intend done as intended. they cannot receive information after submitting which causes them to lose opportunities. the phone number is not working and they are not responsive to e-mails. also issues with the education system. it's sad that african-americans make up 3.9 percent of san

francisco's population, however 50 percent of the special ed population are black male children. my recommendation is to enact -- to update the preferences to reflect that african-americans are marginalized by the city and county of san francisco and should be given a priority preference to housing. i'm also upset for the fact that the city has shown time and time again that it values a dog more than the life of a black, african-american person. i ask you aren't our lives more important? >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> okay. it's kind of evident, you -- so many people come to you, you kind of look like medical melancholy like what's up.

we already know the situation that's happening with the african-american people. we are talking about indigenous hebrew nation of people that have been obviously abandoned in this country. the time has arrived. there's a time and a place for everything. our people have been patient with the united states of america concerning what needs to be done concerning who they are as a nation of people. every nationality that a great injustice has manifested, they have received their reparations. we have come to a time where it's not about really begging you but the bottom line is that you know that the commonly african-american people are really trying to -- tied to nature. we already know the history of what has been done to the african-american people. tulsa, oklahoma, you burned, you bombed, we have been murdered, we have been massacred, we can go on and on, the attorney general, the top cops just made a statement that if we continue to complain that we are not

going to have protection. it's obvious that we need to take responsibilities of our own selfs and fight for ourselves. we are not going to beg you to give us reparations. you are going to give us reparations. and what you are not going to do is take this cannabis and make billions off of us. you are not going to do it. all these boys in jail, african-american boys in jail because of weed that they have been given ten to 15 years and you think one of the richest cities in the united states of america is about to make profit? it's not going to happen. me personally, i don't care where you get the money, but the bottom line is you going to get the money, because you already see what's happening with the african-american people. they are being moved out. and all the homes in bayview -- [off mic]

>> thank you, ma'am. thank you, ma'am. [off mic] thank you, ma'am. next speaker. >> [off mic] >> thank you, ma'am. thank you. thank you. >> hello, supervisors. my name is janette smith and i'm also a resident of the bayview district 10. and first of all, mr. walton, i want to tell you thank you. you are doing an awesome job. like she said i'm not going to go that far, but they are targeting us african-americans. and i just want to say this: the

real reason they are targeting us, because we are intelligent, we are smart. they think we are stupid. but we are powerful. we are one of the most powerful races there is. that's why they want to get rid of us. but you know what? we are not going anywhere. you see? she rises with strength. >> i know that's right. >> we are not going anywhere. we are very powerful. and that's what they're scared of. but you know what? god bless you. we are powerful. and we are very intelligent. and keep up the awesome job you are doing. keep it up. that man that was trying to get rid of us for those apartments up there, he is gone, and i thank you so much. and everybody else that security and the people he hired is going to be gone also and i pray you help us get the next manager up in there that's going to treat us with respect and treat us

right, and we'll treat them good. we are very powerful. that's what they are scared of. >> we rise. >> when we rise our people rise. >> when we rise. >> our people rise. >> when we rise. >> our people rise. >> thank you. >> let's go. >> thank you. next speaker. go ahead and get started. >> yes, hi. i'm kelly, i teach political science at city college of san francisco. and you heard all the comments about what has gone on at city college. i thought the last comments a woman made before about what happened in chile was relevant to what i was going to talk about. all these different pieces that are being done at city college, it's lots of pieces, classes that have historically been

between 20 and 28 have now been eliminated. that includes a class i've been teaching since 2012 called, and this is going to be ironic to start, the politics of globalization. and what i teach about in one of the sections is how austerity measures around the world are implemented. and they are implemented through a series of shocks. so they do things like they threaten to close down city college or they threaten to -- no money in the new york city fiscal crisis or the greek debt crisis or the i.m. f. restructuring plans. you name it, it goes on and on and on. and of course now ironically, this is happening at city college. and the class that students have been taking since 2012, they are not going to learn about it now because the class has been cut. and so it needs to be restored so people understand this history, they understand what's going on. because it's straight out of

that have playbook that's been going on since the new york fiscal crisis. i want to thank you very much, supervisor walton and all those supporting this measure. if you do not approve this supplemental money, it basically means that you are letting this shock happen. that's really what's -- that's the effect of it because of the way they've started to implement it. don't let that happen. don't let that happen. you can make it not happen. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is richard scott. i'm a retired teacher from city college and a member of afd2121 and a delegate to the san francisco labor council where i'm co-chair of the social and economic justice committee. common sense and life experience

make people skeptical of certainty on complex human issues. however, i'm single-minded in believing that city college is in a fiscal emergency and that our city has the resources and moral responsibility to allocate $2.7 million or approximate amount to solve the current crisis. in the astounding personal note in quoting that you received from chancellor rocha, i have two responses. one, there is an emergency at city college, and it's my personal view that chancellor rocha is a bureaucratic tyrant and an enemy of higher public education. however that is an opinion but it's a fact that he's an employee of city college, not president of the board of trustees or even a democratically-elected member of that board. and i believe in the near future, he will no longer be an employee of city college.

and i hope that's the case. if the drastic cuts continue, the people will rise up. there will be no confidence vote in the chancellor, large protests and disobedience and pressure from labor and many other segments. economic democracy has no greater ally than universal effective public education from preschool through 12th grade and higher education that is affordable and accessible. and in the near future, education in the near future, free. education is without question, a human right, and we will do whatever is necessary to achiev] >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, president and staff as well. i want to acknowledge you. my name is mic kimball. my students call me kimball because i'm a friendly sort of

guy. i'm not here to represent the teachers. i am a teacher. i graduated from city college in '99 and i'm still there teaching. i commute two days a week from sacramento because that's where i can afford to live. i make about $42,000 a year and dedicate about twice as much time as is responsible to my classes. my students love me. i'm a little -- no, actual, quite a bit unconventional. i consider my students my customers. i consider my students my product. i consider my students my boss. now, i've been telling them the current administration is failing. and i've been telling them you go to starbucks or some other high-there are, high-level, pride themselves on service location, if they give bad service, complain to the manager. our board of trustees has told me, us, the teachers, to stop sending students in for comment,

it's unproductive. well, if they can't complain to the managers, what can they do? one of my students last night, i was at school until midnight counseling students last night. one of them, you've heard these horror stories, these tearful stories, he had this sad look on his face, i'm lost, i don't know what to do. his classes for next semester have all been cut. i have nothing to tell him. i just said, skyline, somewhere else, this is not right. this city which i lead to leave in 2002 for economic reasons, has the greatest community, strongest community that believe in you. and i am really proud to be part of it. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> my name is joyce and i'm enrolled in the -- ma'am, please hold. >> ma'am, please hold down the. >> my name is joyce and i'm enrolled in the older adults classes at fort mason for the wide figure drawing. and i've come here basically to ask your help in restoring the classes that have been cut for older adults at fort mason and other places in san francisco and for the older adults and the disabled. and i just brought this, the chronicles yesterday talked about city college ends classes for 2000 older adults. and i wanted to emphasize that these classes are known for balance, exercise, music, art, they help seniors get out of their homes. they are no longer isolated.

they are producing work in a community in a very productive and healthy way. and it's wonderful community people come from all over the world and have many levels of artistic ability. i came here to ask your help to try to restore the older adult program for city college. but hearing this, i also feel that i must say that i realize just hearing all these testimonies how important it is to the whole of city college to continue for all the students in the city, and especially the students that are economically limited and need to have this wonderful programs at city college. so i ask your help in this. and thank you very much for your time. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. my name is steven brady.

i'm the delegate for union campus supervisor walton's district. you may be under the impression that the classes being cut are for older people and also non-credit classes. there's a lot of classes for trades people being cut. i just read an article in the chronicle that we are the most expensive city now to build housing and why are we cutting classes for our trades? our programs at evans have been gutted. we've gone from 15 down to 7.7. i have the schedule here from 2016. and it was 60 units offered then. and also there's 40 non-credit classes. a lot of these are gateway classes to construction jobs. they are all gone now. we've gone from 60 down to 44 credit classes. in automotive, which i teach, we've also been gutted. we've gone from 79 units in

2016, down to -- sorry, it's slow here. 46, almost half, when you count all the other classes. these are for, you know, classes that get people good, shall feel -- shovel ready, safety conscious job. i'm wearing red for education. my friend ed has taught automotive classes for 25 years and went from 3 to 2 to finally one this semester. and now he has no class. he got an e-mail about that. i don't think that's very respectful to someone who has served our community for all those years. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> hi. i'm win coughman. i've been teaching for 37 years. i'm the president of afd2121. before i start on city college, i want to support the initiative for reparations. city college is a school, is a college that offers education to all communities, communities of color, immigrant communities, secondhand, used to have a program for foster youth, youth coming out of the foster system. san francisco needs city college. if we allow it to become the vision that the creditors had for us, to be something that we don't recognize, then we will

have lost an enormous amount. so i ask those supervisors that have not yet cosigned on to the ordinance to please do so. we need eight signatures to signal to our trustees that the spring schedule can be restored. if it's not, then all of these heartbreaking stories that you hear will not just become true but probably increase by thousands. anyway, please sign on to the ordinance, be on the right side of history with the reparations and be on the right side of city college. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, there. my name is hawn. i teach at city college in the

english department. i also want to thank the community members who have spoken in favor of reparations, and i stand in favor of reparations. and thank you for bringing that forward. so i am a lifelong student educator and community member in our public education system. and public education is the best thing that's ever happened to me and my family. and i want to just affirm that education is our right. i tell my students who come to my classes that they deserve the same opportunities as any stanford student. they just don't have the same resources. they deserve a library that's open till midnight. their library closes at 6:45. and we've cut back on librarians. i want to talk about love. because in my english 1 class, my freshman composition class,

we read bell hook's all about love. we do a semester long investigation in love, on love and what is love. we learn that love is a choice. we learn that love is an action. it is something that we do, not something that happens to us. and we learn that the will to power and the will to love cannot co-exist. the midnight massacre that happened that destroyed our spring schedule was an act of power, pure and simple, right? i'm asking you, what choice do you make. i thank the supervisors who are standing in support of us. are you with power or are you with love? thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i want to please help because many classes cut already. i've seen many people ask me

what can i do next semester? my class is forgotten. my diploma, i don't have it now here. start working together. everybody here is working for the community. we need to work together and do it the best thing for the people. the people in the school are not criminal people. they want the best job in the future. you can vote for us. that's why hemowhy -- why i'm h. i say what happen? you have this time. i know you are very tired now because it's tired. this is a lot of people. speaking about the people in the room now, in the school. i see people working the nighttime and coming to class in

the morning because she want better future for her kids, for people. i have people, have older people that say, you know, i can't because i want another opportunity to do it. now you are supposed to do it in this semester and i say i don't have the class. and i don't want to say please -- i need your support to everybody to culminate together. that's what i see, working with them. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i'm a 2121 member, chapter president, san francisco general first. i want to say that the staffing in public health needs to be fixed. it's outrageous what we are going through right now, even people in my classification, it's terrible. people are calling in sick more, their productivity is going

down. we are losing money, because things aren't getting done properly because you don't have enough people to fix that problem. but i'm really here, aside from that, as a black person, who started my early life living up in the projects in ernest point who family got pushed out because my father couldn't get a house in san francisco. he couldn't get a loan. we ended up in bay leaf city. so i'm saying we need the reparations. we need a right of return. everybody is complaining about how many black people are in san francisco, but i do not hear anybody saying what are you going to do to reverse that. because there is a way to bring people back. so i hope you talk to the black community who want to solve this problem and we can give you great ideas on it so we can reverse this and people like me can come back to san fraz, -- sn

francisco, because i've tried and i can't. even when i was poor i couldn't get in san francisco. i couldn't even get in the projects. so this needs to be fixed. so hopefully you guys will give us the reparations and correct this problem. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i'm here, my name is cheryl, and i'm here to speak on behalf of reparations which i'm in favor of. i've been a employee for 29 years. and i have seen the policies that have been implemented in san francisco, adversely impact black people. we have the worst health outcomes in the nation, yet we are the fifth largest economy in the world. we have more billionaires here but black people live 12 to 15 years less. we have the worst educational outcomes.

we are 55 percent of the residents in the county jail. we have the worst employment outcomes and the lowest incomes in san francisco. shame on san francisco, shame on you. $29,000 for black people to live on in san francisco when there's more billionaires than anywhere else? we need change and we need it now. we deserve reparations. our businesses have been run out. we have been run out. and it's not fair. and we deserve to be in this city. so i urge you all to really think about reparations and what it means to us. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is madeline mueller. i've been a faculty member at city college since 1965. i was researched as the oldest

on the faculty, and i keep track of things a lot. what's happening now, i'm thinking of the world love, and i'm thinking of nancy pelosi said don't use the word hate. we don't hate in san francisco. but we are hated. and let's not put our heads in the sand about that. this whole thing going on with impeachment, one way or the other, they are going to hate us. they are out to get us. i have a paper trail on this. i don't make this up. they in this case are two very, very, very obvious entities. one is the aelectric group, american low pressure alec -- ac group that put in the legislative, cookie cutter language against postsecondary schools, funded by the kocks. they are responsible for the

funding -- they are funded by the kochs. the former mayor and i discussed this and he was clear, an attack against the college is a direct attack against san francisco values and san francisco. so we got to watch out for the koch brothers and their legislative funding formulas. the other thing is lumina where the student loan company sally may put their enemy into a completion program. so you limit yourself to a junior college and force them to come in and get on student lens and be indebted for life, trillion point seven they are in debt and people are highly suicidal about this. it's a toxic environment. you guys have to set up, you have to save san francisco. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> hello. i want to thank mar, walton and fewer for looking after the city college. i want to address in a totally different way, connect the reparations, connect it with the housing crisis and city college, what do they have in common? they have to do with, well, not having reparations and cutting city college, the housing crisis, they connect and contribute to the divide of the

diversity of this city. that is what's going on. it's with housing -- sorry -- the depletion of the african-american population, the housing that is only built for the rich and the housing alone, building housing alone is not enough. we need to do things for all the people here. one of those things is keeping city college, the rich people don't need city college, but everybody else does. so please, build diversity.

walton, mar and fewer, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, everyone. thank you so much for the supervisors for hearing us around city college. i'm also in support of reparations, and that's a big part of the reason i support the work happening to support our students. i work at a transfer center at city college. i teach in health education as well as college success classes so the students that are working to transfer. i work at a program for first generation students. i'm the first in my family to go to college in this country. i know what it's like to navigate the college system. my students are telling me the classes i need to major in art and transfer are now cut. half of our art and music classes were cut. so with city college being free, a lot of students are getting mixed messages. one student said i thought people wanted us here. i thought we were supposed to come here.

so it feels difficult to have to explain to them that in this moment, some of those classes that are so essential are not available. so i know once we lose a student, if a student goes to skyline for a semester, they are probably not going to come back, and we want them to be able to stay here because not only can city college provide those classes but our retention programs, ethnically studies changed my life and my trajectory, the same can be said for music and art programs. so we want to support students. our students other classes are being cut like biology and english. it's not just non-credit. all classes are being impacted by this. the fact that we still have a lot of time and all the biology classes are full at this time, that tells you the need. so thank you for your time. we hope to see more support for this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. we were reported 6,000 assaults,

3,000 sexual assaults, 235 rapes out of 1.3 billion rides. does that number sound correct? proposition d has passed. it's said to bring almost $35 million per year to san francisco. give city college money. you don't take money. shame on you guys. take $2.7 million, give a million dollars. it's a disgrace. yeah, i'm a little pissed off but when they suspend my pension, why am i not? because you stole my money? no, i'm mad because i don't see any action. you are voted in by us. we are the people. we pay your salaries. what a disgrace. you guys have more than enough money in your budget. you got hundreds of millions of dollars. and you are going to take $2.7 million from kids and people that want to educate so

they can make money to live here in san francisco? you may be able to take my money, but you are not going to take my mind. you are not going to take my heart. you guys promised if -- if the medallion sales program failed, you told us, talked to her and she makes nothing but promises. promises slash delay. that's all it is. that's all you guys do, delay. i pick up people in your jurisdictions and hear stuff that's shocking. like how is your supervisor? some good, some bad. that is a disgrace. you guys are just too much. s fm ta, sucks. we go to the board of

directors -- [off mic] >> thank you. next speaker. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is rajeed. i drive taxi cab in san francisco for almost 26 years. life is worse than it was. i make a request to get my money back because sfmta promised to us if we are not able to run the medallion anymore, not able to drive, they can take the medallion back and give us our money back. we are asking only our money, not for their money. i don't know why they are taking so long and not thinking of us.

it is getting worse and worse. i'm making a request again, please get our money back from sfmta. if they need money, they can go somewhere else. they don't have -- somewhere. getting older -- disease and more worse life. and we have a lot of problems because of medallion. and they even -- when we pay the fine to the airport, $4, $5, from that -- the money, five percent -- five percent, taking the company. i don't know why. and please, help us sooner and

before we die. and after that, i don't know who you are going to help, somebody else. sfmta, they are lying for their promise. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. this is for the taxi drivers daily expenses. $40 per day -- airport fee is $40 -- $30. then the cab company is $25 a day, then the gas is an average of $40 a day, then the taxi insurance is $20 a day, car

payment is $10 a day, credit card fee is $10 average then $10 a day is maintenance fees and the bridge toll, $200 if you deduct all the expenses then $18 left. that's the taxi driver's earning. i want you all to take the snapshot of it. and i was here for this purpose, for the taxi, but my daughter is also -- classes have been taken off or have been cut short. she is not going to be graduating unless you -- the classes offer microbiology. and if she will be able to get -- she is on a waiting list at sf state. i don't know if that is affected when all these people are coming here to get the money to afford those classes.

and i don't mind if you do them. my fund -- but you have to give them the money to keep their classes as usual. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm speaking -- taxi, uber, lyft environment. turned 500 taxi medallion holders. we live in fear of death. we don't live for life, we live for work. medallions was a scam. driving empty taxis is so painful. uber lyft have given contagious disease to the public.

it's in their blood and never goes away as long as you don't -- now days no one takes taxis. for us to get less money. it is an unfair business. as long as uber and lyft exist, we can't make our living. as long as you delay our money, you have to ban uber lyft from the airport pickup as supervisor told you before. we are dealing with this catastrophic situation. we go in deficit. 500 taxi medallion numbers. buy back the medallions, give us the money back. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i give my support to the reparations. and thank you everyone for listening. i know that it's dinner time,

you are hungry, you are probably tired, you are a little bit bored of my there have been a lot of speakers from city college. the reason there are so many of us is because there is so much at stake. there's been a false narrative floated out there, first it was, oh, only in low-enrolled classes being cut. that's obviously not true. then oh, we are trying to be fiscally responsible. that's obviously not true. the older adults program, 90 percent of the classes were cut with no notice, with no justification. they are healthy, fully enrolled classes that are benefiting the city. so we know there are a lot of lies out there. supervisor walton pointed out you say there's no money yet there were behind closed doors raises given to the top administrators. we were told by the chancellor this is all about fiscal responsibility yet even if you give us money he said we don't need it, we have it all under

control. so we want to set the record straight. we want you to know what's really happening there. the exact same thing happened before with the same chancellor. he's trying to downsize. he's trying to make it into a junior college, and that's not what we want. so we want you to know how much is at stake. and we also want to say city college gives so much to this city. firefighters, the aircraft maintenance people, culinary, we are the city, we've raised money for the city. it's not a lot of money. and you might not realize how much is at stake here. you might think it's your own problem that you should just take care of later. if you don't act now, you will not recognize city college, and you will not recognize san francisco. so please do the right thing and support us. it's not that much money. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm a part-time faculty member at city college. i want to thank you for having this conversation and it's a

testament to democracy that we've gotten this far. part time faculty at city college are considered temporary employees, laid off at the end of each semester and hopefully rehired at the start of the next. though we make up more than half of the faculty, we are the most vulnerable employees. as a result of those class cuts, dozens of part time faculty will either lose their jobs or their health benefits. three months ago the administration presented what they assured the board of trustees was a balanced budget. so confident were they that they gave themselves more than $2 million in raises. now they say we are broke and the class cuts and laying off is necessary and part of an intentional plan of restructuring. how can we trust their math? who is checking the numbers and holding them accountable for the devastating impact of their decision making. really, really people are

hurting as a result of their decisions. some dedicated instructors have been teaching fully enrolled classes for decades at the campus. others have dedicated hundreds of hours of their own time to developing curriculum for classes in the hope of being able to teach for years to come to the students who come each semester to take their classes. please allocate the funding and reemployee these part time instructors. you can make a difference right now for dozens of employees. we are not getting rich off working at the college. we are only trying to get by. we have dedicated our lives to sharing our expertise and experience with students and want nothing more than to be able to continue to do that with dignity and integrity. meez stop making us beg for our jobs -- please stop making us beg for our jobs. thank you. >> next speaker.

>> i am the daughter of activist sharon hewitt. i'm going to talk fast. i'm in support of reparation. let there be no mistake about that. but i'm going to address a couple things here. city college and how can i say this? city college and essential part of the fabric of san francisco's infrastructure in terms of producing diversity, culture, infrastructure that you need politically and economically. so i applaud your efforts on this matter and i thank you. this is great work you are doing. supervisor walton, haney, fewer, for the issues that you have addressed, hats off to you. mom would be proud of you. and i want to say that first and foremost. i want to say to you guys on the issue of affordable housing, we are talking about reparations here. i worked for redevelopment for five years. we never found all those people

who we were supposed to give certificates of preference to whose property was taken from them, those african-american businesses, the jazz preservation district, their businesses and homes. we never found them. i knocked on the doors. we never found all those people. reparations is necessary in san francisco. we are a world class city. you can look to the washington post's article on december 2 for chicago, a suburb of chicago is approving it. they are going to use the cannabis taxes to give reparation. detroit's had compensation on this. we need to close those inequity inequities, various inequities in san francisco. we need to close that. and employment, there's an impact on african-americans. the average salary is $19,000 in a city where the median numb is $200,000. in honor of sharon and of my

work for 25 plus years, do this. show the world -- [off mic] >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is ken tray. i'm a retired san francisco public school teacher and long time former member of the executive board of the united educators of san francisco. i'm not surprised coming here today to hear that supervisor walton has taken the lead on trying to maintain funding for city college. i taught in high schools from continuation school where kids are just trying to stay in the education system and move forward to the high schools that are magnet schools for high achievers. in both of those campuses, the school that paved the way forward not only for them but often from their parents trying to seek better jobs, was city college. $2.7 million is a cheap price to

maintain what auto to be one of the great world class community colleges. so just want to put it on the record that united educators of san francisco, they keep our school going day in and day out. we are standing by the city college community. and we want to join in the fight to maintain the $2.7 million in funding. on a personal note, i drove taxi in the 1980s and it's interesting and sad to see the drivers here who have been so abused by the current medallion system. back in the day, the medallion system, any driver could get it for like 50 bucks, you signed up, you were working a cabdriver. and you could join the middle class. the attack on city college and the abuse of city cabdrivers are one and the same. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is crista. i'm an emergency room nurse at

san francisco general hospital and a steward for seiu1021. we've had the pleasure of talking to some of your chief of staff and some of you in person as well. i want to appreciate everything you have been doing city. i want to recognize based on some of the speeches i've heard, our city is in a crisis. i'm worried in particular because i'm here to represent my patients, about the safety of our staff and patients. we are in a disaster mode every day. our short staffing is the worst i have seen since 2014. our emergency department has admitted that between 2014 and 2018, our census has increased by 25 percent but our staffing budget has not matched that. we are suffering. our patients are suffering. today we went to a joint commission meeting, and we shut

it down. and i'll tell you why. we shut it down because we've gone to health commission meetings since january. and we've been telling them the issues, we've been very clear about what we need, that we need more staffing, that they need to decrease the hiring process from 220 days to less than 90. 220 days it takes to hire a new nurse. that's absurd. and we need to meet our population needs. so on our last financial -- the financial -- chief financial officer said he admits that they have saved $2.1 million in the public health sector in delaying our hiring process of new staff. you guys, it's time for us to start talking to you, the board of supervisors, because the health commission, they are not listening to us. so we are going to be coming here. and we would love to meet --

[off mic] >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is julie. i'm ray nurse in the emergency -- a nurse in the emergency department at san francisco general. i've been there about 20 years. it's always been kind of a mess. we came in there begging for that disaster, we are trauma nurses and doctors. but today you are seeing here a survey we did that shows 90 percent of the nurses are experiencing anxiety, half of them have quit or are considering quitting. another 80 percent admit to having p.t.s.d. because working there is so hard. to look at our patients and say we just don't have the resources, the teachers it seems we are not alone as crista said. i'm not sure what happened to the city in the past few years

where the supposed liberal and ground breaking things we are known and hated for in many places, we are just not doing anymore. i think it would be amazing for the city to do more ground breaking work and to come and work with us, the frontline staff who have to face these patients that you see all around here, those are our patients. and if you don't have your health, you have pretty much nothing. you can have billions of dollars but if you can't walk and talk on your own, you limited so the amount of money is not relevant that people have. the city has really lost its character as well and i support the reparations, bravo, and the teachers, how can we join you and how can you join us? because it's all of us. [applause] >> thank you. >> this is a packet of some of the stuff that we've been giving people. and we would love to meet with any of you more. thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is kristin. i'm also an er nurse at the general. and i can also reiterate, we are in crisis, guys. we are in crisis. i did work today, eight hours. the amount of people in the hallways and the psych population or the mental health population, not receiving the care that they deserve. we are asking, we are begging you guys for your help. please help us. we don't want to put our patients out on the streets with nowhere to go. without the proper services we know that the city can provide. please help us. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon.

thank you for hearing from fromy college today. reparations, yes, by the way. but for city college, the testimonial you've heard today is extraordinary. and i don't think that i really have that much more to add, except to say that everybody here has been a piece of city college and ensuring the continuation and the depth of what city college does for this city. and i no know that individually and as a board, the supervisors have that understanding, not just as supervisor fewer has talked about her own personal history but all of you have had that connection to city college. we've been here before. this will not about the last time we are here, because what city college is about is keeping san francisco, san francisco. and that's something that i know that you are very engaged in. and we need to continue to find ways, including this bridge

funding, to make sure that city college is here for san francisco for working class san francisco, for all of san francisco. and i ask you to consider this funding and to continue to support the depth of what the college does for the city. that's not what the trustees are talking about all the time right now, and it's certainly not what our chancellor is talking about, but i know it's what you understand, and i ask you to continue to work on this with us and sport this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for hearing us this evening. my name is mary brave woman. i'm a math teacher at city college. while my department personally did not suffer in these cuts, we lost one class, out of the 286 classes that were cut. i'm here because i wouldn't have a life without city college.

when i came here to the city of san francisco 30 years ago i was a single mother living below the poverty line, had a high school diploma but it wasn't enough to get me a job or to have any kind of meaningful life for my daughter and myself. i spent four years at city college before transferring to san francisco state. i earned my degree in mathematics and came back to teach at city college. my daughter spent time at city college before transferring and finishing her last two years at a four-year school. and she's now working at the state legislature. city college changes lives. we would have had no prospects without those opportunities of those classes. when i first started my classes at city, i didn't know that i wanted to be a math major. i had no idea i needed to take some of those other classes. i had more than 100 units by the time i transferred from city after four years.

i was still young, i was trying to grow and find myself since i've graduated and become an instructor, i've come back and taken women's studies classes to enrich my life to enrich my knowledge base so that i can better serve my students. i implore you, thank you for those of you who have signed on, and i implore the rest of you to support city college. city college changes lives, city college is san francisco. >> yes. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. can i get the screen, please? turn it the other way. okay. i'm the associate director for the new community leadership foundation. i'm here today to talk about the fillmore. as many people know, the fillmore during