she'll be starting her third round of esl classes in the fall. and she wants to master english in order to have a better life in america, and she won't be able to do that if city college closes. my brother is also starting city college in the fall and won't be able to if city college closes, won't be able to achieve what he wants to do, and he wants to study law. i've been humbled by my experiences at city college and it's nothing like what my high school teachers and media have told me. i regret [speaker not understood] many of my [speaker not understood] as they will not transfer out in time because time is of the essence to study and be the most successful student and i guess i'm out of time. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. >>> my name is dawn moore. i'm alumni and current student is the ccsf. the accjc commission members did not reveal their hearts, goals, connectionses and how they got their position. but accjc wants to close ccsf or reduce ccsf in spite of ccsf, san francisco's people and our elected board. accjc statements that ccsf wo

i was also esl coordinator at mission campus for eight years. when i started that job we had over 100 [speaker not understood] of esl noncredit at the mission campus. when i left at the end of last semester, there were 66 sections remaining. seven of my colleagues retired from that campus. many people retired. i retired because i saw some very ugly handwriting on the wall and i recognized that the writing was by accjc. i sympathize very much with students who understand that there are problems at the college and blame the college for not solving those problems because i cannot [speaker not understood] problems when i was working there that i wish could have been fixed. but the bottom line in all this is do we really want opportunity for students who don't have the means to assume student loans, who don't have the high school grades to get accepted directly into a four-year school? most of the people i taught esl to were never going to go to college. they were immigrants. they wanted enough english to get a survival job. but i'll tell you, over t

, but what we won't support are things like esl classes that have three students in it. so, and those are the kinds of things we're going to have to weigh in on. if it has three students in an esl class, we could be hiring a calculus teacher because calculus classes are packed. i mean, those, again, are going to be some of the really difficult decisions that city college will have to weigh in on. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. thank you very much. let me say that i'm very grateful to hydra, commissioner mendoza. i'm glad you're involved in this because i think you have a great deal of experience and i think you bring a very important perspective. and i think that you have the respect of a lot of us. so, i'm glad to see you here. this is the fundamental question that i have. and i speak as someone who -- as a deputy city attorney, what's sent to the school district 10 years ago to help clean up the mess that had been left over by a prior administration and we did investigations, we did audits, and some folks even went to prison, as you know, because of that work. and

as a native speaker for esl, for low-income people, for people that struggle in jobs and [speaker not understood] courses to better their lives and better their jobs, and for us city college is like mother of all. it's like mother that is raising children of the world and this is how we see and how we feel about city college. it's one of unique schools that exists. we love city college. we are passionate about it. it only provides affordable education, but high-quality education, that we have the best teachers, the best programs, and without city college we have no future, our students would have no fewerth. ~ future. and we are asking for your help to support this school, supporting the [speaker not understood] life. thank you. >> thank you very much. (applause) >> our next speaker is our sheriff, sheriff mirkarimi. if you're in the room, i did not see you. i apologize. i think you may have been in here. i would have called you sooner. >> thank you. supervisors, it's a pleasure to be before you. ross mirkarimi, city and county of san francisco. city college and the san francisco sher

i'm vanet cook, esl faculty at city college. one of the standards surround the area of governance so i'd like to speak a little about that. governance, as you know, people have said democracy is difficult and [speaker not understood] we face many challenges. and one of the areas that acc fought with last year and this year was governance which is standard 4. and last year i was in charge of some of that work as my work in the academic senate and i just want to explain to you that very much so, we worked very seriously on this area of reorganizing committees and trying to explain how committee work was very related to the standards, the accreditation standards. it was not just something that we do because we don't have other thing to do. we reached out to our different constituent groups to try to include -- be inclusive. it's very hard [speaker not understood]. faculty are very busy, but still it's reasonable that the committee work meetings like this need to be open, need to be transparent. we worked really hard to do that. so,

we said that the person that is getting their ged or getting their esl classes is just as important s a rson that's getting their engineering degree or looking to transfer to u.c. berkeley or to stanford. those are our values. these mission statement might not have been to what they liked, but it was an expression of our values as san franciscans that we think everybody dunkelberg -- this should be a campus that's for everybody. and there were comments about our fiscal management that we have to say that city college is actually the first college [speaker not understood] to be the first college to return to pre-recession revenues thanks to the parcel tax and prop 30, we were on track to get all the money that we lost back. so, i just wanted to clear some of that up first. the reason i believe that we're partially here is this is a difference of our values. we believe that -- we love our second chance program. it is a program that helps ex offenders get out of the criminal justice system return to city college, hopefully get their degree, and continue to, you know, contribute to our so

students pursuing their associates degree or transferring to four-year university, those that are taking esl classes or vocational training programs that this vital public education institution has provided to generations of san franciscans? >> thank you, supervisor kim, and supervisor avalos, for this very important question. as i've said earlier and i know you all agree, that our city college is one of the most important educational institutions for working class folks, for returning veterans, for immigrants, for all the different classes of people that we want to have a degree of success and better educate and put themselves in a position to obtain the jobs that we want them to succeed in. so, with that, let me offer by saying that it's been a very difficult situation and we certainly hope, hope that the decision of the accreditation commission would have been different. based on the stakeholder conversations and commission findings and the latest financial management report, there's no question that more work needs to be done before city college can once again stand on its own. i have wo

the cycle of poverty for children, language acquisition really helps with confidence, dual location esl partnering with california, janitors in silicon valley and downtown los angeles, keeping things clean, diverting waste management -- these issues are really important to our community and are part of this economy. one thing to highlight is that immigration reform is not about what is happening to the immigrant, it is a dual process happening to our communities. if we create a path for not just legalization, but for workforce development, those of the key indicators of b.c. create successful communities and what we see adapting to communities that adapt to changes virtually, financially in our communities. it is important that we look at language acquisitions regardless of -- it was one of the possible requirements on the table, this acquisition, and it was something we were already working on in terms of becoming integrated. >> let me turn the question around a little bit. it is clear that a lot of local areas have been doing a lot of work with immigrants who are children in neighborh

and from the add in, john adams community college across the street from me where most of the esl classes in san francisco are held, there are a lot of /phaoepl who drive there, and they do have a parking lot, but it doesn't work so in addition to neighbors who don't have parking, you will also have the people who don't speak english trying to find parking will also have problems. i strongly suggest this be [inaudible] on the neighborhood and maybe this just isn't quite the way to go. on a secondary level, the last set of plans i saw including some lovely planters on sidewalks and i've raised the question several times since i received notification of this happening as [inaudible] for them. i know when the city decides they don't like the sidewalk in front of my house, i pay for it. am i expected to pay for that too. i'd like for someone to give me an answer. >> i don't have anymore cards, so if anyone else would like to comment on this item, please line up by the gentleman standing by the window. >> my name is robert. much like my friend howard over there, i have mobile issues. when i wa

many of them are immigrants that need the -- abshrewdly need those esl and job training classes and any efforts to downsize or eliminate the key community based programs for community colleges would be tragic harm to the whole city. and the california community college chancellor bribes harris i think said it best recently ~ in remarks after the horrifying and -- the horrifying decision by the accj.c., the accrediting agency. he said lots of accreditation to city college would in many cases void the ability of students to transfer credits. it would jeopardize financial aid and cut off state funding for the college. essentially, the loss of accreditation would be the death penalty for city college. we simply cannot allow that to happen. so, i join with the students, the community, the faculty and staff, and others, to do everything we can as a city to save city college. and i think a lot of the work will be behind the scenes with the college trustees, faculty and others. we need to build up much more public awareness of the existence of this accrediting bode and i do everything we can to

the last eight years or so is building skills partnership as i mentioned earlier is verification of eslprogram and we do this in partnership with employers. our curriculum is based on the needs in terms of providing better customer service and changing the of the green economy and the work of a maintenance worker and the janitorial workforce and what is needed over the different language acquisition skills needed there so we have been working on this partnership. talk about ringing different points of view together. it is a labor-management partnerships of these are folks who are often on opposite sides of the table with competing and conflicting interests in terms of you know a bottom line who can sit on the site and say what are the things that our industry needs together, both as labor and management so together with the workers and with the union. the united servers -- service workers and 40 janitorial companies from small family companies to the largest national and international janitorial companies to be able to sit down together and say what is the program needed to do workforce

one in esl english and one in american literature. she is also the reason my brother is going to the university of arkansas. two years he will achieve a bachelors degree in culinary arts. she is also the reason that my 12-year-old brother, randy, a u.s. citizen, has high hopes and aspirations to attend college in the future. arkansas is the poultry capital of the world. we have several poultry processing plants, and this is where my mother first began her work. her job for the next 10 years was to cut chicken tenders with scissors and arrange them in the yellow trays you are able to purchase today at any grocery store. as i sit here telling you about my achievements and successes. my mother, who has sacrificed everything for me is now suffering with carpal tunnel syndrome. when members of congress tell me that i deserve the opportunity to earn citizenship and my mother does not, i tell them that if anyone deserves that opportunity it is my mother. my mother did what any mother facing uncertainty would have done, provide a better life

. >> what we have been doing is the vocational esl program in terms of providing a as service or change seeing the economy with the editorial work force of what is needed so we have been working to talk about different points of view together those setter often on the opposite sides of the table with the bottom line so with have management together with the workers in the year -- the union and from those small companies to sit down together to say what is needed to do work force development that is the added value to mike company to be invested? that alone to note that my employer is investing in the. so a lot of those who are real estate owners but those who have been in my office to bring that quality of service to my house the and it is my bottom line so even to you bring that together we also provide the accursi skills and weld this and health education and we do a lot of the framing so you have the building with said been janitors in one building and 40 in another they are spread out everywhere so we look at the union offices with a variety of employers so we have that access to th

one in esl english and one in american literature.the reason my brother is going to the university of arkansas. two years he will achieve a bachelors degree in culinary arts. she is also the reason that my 12-year-old brother, randy, a u.s. citizen, has high hopes and aspirations to attend college in the future. arkansas is the poultry capital of the world. we have several poultry processing plants, and this is where my mother first began her work. her job for the next 10 years was to cut chicken tenders with scissors and arrange them in the yellow trays you are able to purchase today at any grocery store. as i sit here telling you about my achievements and successes. my mother, who has sacrificed everything for me is now suffering with carpal tunnel syndrome. when members of congress tell me that i deserve the opportunity to earn citizenship and my mother does not, i tell them that if anyone deserves that opportunity it is my mother. my mother did what any mother facing uncertainty would have done, provide a better life for her child

. >> some of the things we have been doing to build the partnership is our vocational esl program and then based on the needs providing a customer service and then judge material work force with those depositions skills so we have been working on the wind when partnership to bring the different points of view with the opposite sides of the table in terms of the bottom line. to use it that aside and together boasts the us labor and management together with the workers covered with the union with over 40 janitorial companies to the largest to sit down together what program is needed to do work force development for the added value but it has added value to what you have invested? so building the confidence to know that my industry is investing in may we have a client company to contract so the largest collection of real-estate owners that this is what i want to see a my building also who brings that quality of service to my house? in the bottom to be productive to bring that together that we also provide computer literacy skills than citizenship. with those trading sam partnerships but

have been doing for the last eight years or so with building skilled partnership is our vocational esl program. we do this in partnership with employers and our curriculum is really based on the need in terms of providing better greener service, economy, and in new york the maintenance worker, the janitorial work force, what is needed, moving to cleaning in language acquisition skills. we have been working on this partnership. talk about bringing different aints of view together, it is labor-management partnership, often they are on opposite sides of the table with competing interests in terms of the bottom our and who can sell on thing is that the industry needs to gather for labor-management. with over 40 janitorial companies, from the small, family companies to the largest international companies, sitting down together to see the program that is needed to do work and development that will add value to my company. also value to the quality of life of the workers being invested in. that was all. of those workers being invested in. my employer, my industry is investing in me. i have al