it termination of accredidation through the acjc own process. the court found not persuaded. then the acjcc had all sorts of doctrine that believed deprived the city and the people from challenging the process they conducted the accredidation. first they said they were notd a business, but they charge institution frz the accredidations activities and have paid staff. they also said the acts they committed were not unlawful or unfair. they said they were like courts so actions should be barred by judicial immunity. they said our action is preimpative but the united states department of education acknowledges accredters and said [inaudible] called nora penningten which protects certain political speech. all these there ease were shot down by the court. we had a series of dooling motions for summary adudeication trying to widdle down what would be kwide at trial. we won a very small portion thofe motion, but the court wanted to have a trial. wanted a trial quickly and the trial was set for the last week of oct2014. the trial lasted 5 days. there were numerous witnesses who gave

when we filed the case the accjc voted to terminate city colleges accredidation. we sued them as the people as the state of california under state law called unfair competition law which say as business that is committing acts that are unlawful, unfair or fraudulent are unfair competition and we as a city attorneys office of a city and county in california can file a lawsuit as the people. the process that we alijed were violated were practiced that included and dealt with the process-the accredidation process city college had undergone. we alleged violation of federal and state law for due process violation. we said they are reviewing eveilitations were emo improperly constituted and failed to have effective conflict of fltrust policy squz the process by which they renders decisions was unfair. i would the lawyer who did the opening statement at trial and at trial and thold cort this case was about fairness and that is how i characterize it today. the is a fairness denied city college and the city couldn't sit back and ignore it. our case was designateed complex,

before a accredter in cl is going to strip a institution of accredidation that institution has a right to know what the deficiencies are so they can respond. it is classic due process, notice and the opportunity to be heard is what the court found city college had been deprived of. the court then issued the final judgment and included an injunction that mandated the accjc permit city college if it chose to opt into a prosthat would confer upon it the due process st. had lacked. required the accjc submitted a report with all the deficiencies and gave the callling a opportunity to respond. city college was not a party in our carcand as the court acknowledged that limited what the court could do or command city college to do. but the-in the end i think the lute achieved really important objectives. first the reliminary injunction gave city college time where the termination decision wasn't held in advance. it also gave the accjc [inaudible] city college pass adnew process. new process it presented to the city college. it was called restoration. restoration was aprosthat the accjc unfolded

all most immediately following the accjc announcement it would terminate city colleges accredidation in 2013, i think the city attorney got where the accjc was taking college wasn't a good place and he and his office stepped up in a huge way to protect this vital civic institution. some attorneys i know are involved, i may not name all of them, evon [inaudible] tom [inaudible] and matte goldburg all just incredible wurks and get calls from them on weekends and night. they were working all the time for about a 6 month period i think on this. evon talked a little about what we got out of it and agree with everything that she said. securing the injunction from judge car now the accjc cannot terminate accredidation until had case had run the course, the city attorneys office [inaudible] would not be able to can close city college without some measure of over site and that is a thing that we are concerned about is the body doesn't have responsible oversight. i think that lawsuit was a critical part in building the pressure from letter accjc taking city college over the cliff and resulted

the current accredidation challenge is a wake up call for show how important city college is to the satesge a sener piece of his agenda. think of all the opportunities this will provide for making the first 2 years of community college free for everyone. [applause]. i hope all have there opportunity to listen to vise president biden make remarks about this this last weekend. brf i conclude i want to acknowledge nattily burke for nob naurb er started at city college ij19 sixz 7 as a instructor. she then served on the-as a dean of the school of health and physical education in the 199 o#'s before serving on the college board including several years as the president. it is a incredible privilege to follow in her foot steps and grateful for all she has done for the city and public educationism mr. mayor i can't tell you honored and excited for the opportunity to serve the city and the student. i work forward to working with you and fellow trustees qu elected officials at the local state and federal level to move tit city college forward. i know we have a lot of work to do and ready to roll up

we know the manufacture accredidation crisis had on the college and we are oit telling folks the biggest thing they can do is enroll. i also want to thank supervisor compose for asking important questions about how money is being spent at city college. i read today that had 1 bedroom in san francisco is 3500 dollars and our special trustee is one of the few who can afford that. we know our teachers who haven't gautsen a raise in 8 years can't afford 3500 one bedrooms so now is the time to continue to pressure those making decisions at the college to invest in the students and teachers. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is surge row lopez [inaudible] i want to apologize to a coworker [inaudible] she isn't here. i came here to talk about how city college is efoketing our community [inaudible] taking class at city college and i just want to say please stay with us and keep an eye on that and [inaudible] keep working on that. the job isn't done and we will [inaudible] ccsf [inaudible] i know we can do it so thank you and good afternoon. >> thank you. ilean wall, robert fitch, [inaudible

i hope the fighting around accredidation is coming to a end, but it may not be and we may be in more fight in the future and if so i know we'll have the support of the community and the government >> i know supervisor compose raised this and hundreds of students at common hall demanded elimination of the special trustee with extraordinary powers. i know you mepgzed the powers are not strourd, pbut you can you comment why he isn't here on the students and others demands? >> i'm imagining he may not have known that he expected to be here. sometimes the communication around-i was-i don't know. i was not entirely sure how this would work until i called over yesterday. >> just a question about the special trustee and thank chancellor tile for all the work he has done and the work city college did around the fires in the mission. how much money does-the trustee guy make? do you know? >> i don't have that number, but it st. public information >> is it more than 200 thousand >> i don't believe so. he has a different contract than the previous special tustee had and his compensation is differ

i ran last year for board orphtrustees on a plat form i wherea lot of people are talking about accredidation on what the role of the community college was. for me it was personal because i saw myself in the [inaudible] as many know i came from blue caller family and father didn't graduate from high school and i was the first to go to college. i struggled until i got to community college and went to 4 year university and graduate with a degree and make my parent proud. for me this college is about elevating people out of poverty and chaifging peoples live and giving second chances and most vulnerable students are at stack now and they are being treated as pawn on a chess board. it is why we need to restore the board of trustees and take bay local control. when i hear undocumented student who don't qualify for federal aid are paying thousandoffs dollars in tuition every semester only to go fl to debt for the next semester and can't register again that is heart breaking. when i read in the paper guardian scholars wasn't funded and foster children that have been through the worst of the worst ca