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

. >> 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