the [inaudible] as i'm sure you know is the soul accredter for community college in california.n 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 an

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

to get restoration we had to first apply and then assure the accredters we met the 21 eligibility requirements. we wrote the largest report in the history of the college and dist receive restoration having had that visit from those 26 people. i think it is safe to say we are on the road to recovery. it dozen mean we don't have lot of work to do because we sloutly do. min in many cases we donetd have the band width to do a lot of things that would be nice to do, but will get done the things that we must. that i can assure this wonderful city of. you heard us mention the issue of enrollment. the funding is stabilized at the same thesh hold as 3 years ago. it is a unusual practice and never happened in this state and have to figure how we get back the confidence of the people, the confidence of the business community and cofds of the city and county departments to allow us to continue to be the most remarkable training agency and most remarkable employment agency that this cuntsry has ever seen. we have the where with all to provide training in all most every skill category and that is in additio