i know and i want to recognize james tracey here and a.f.t. 2121 at city college because we are working closely with them and others on the community education fund that's going to hopefully try to find that consistent and sustainable funding for every year for programs like this. so it would be important to have a baseline to know how much we need. so do you have any idea? what is the estimate this costs per year and how much more you need in order to be successful? >> i can give you an idea of what the cost is on the sfusd side? so on transportation, we probably spend about 100,000 -- 100,000 per semester. and then on books, if you calculate one class, it's about $3,500 for a class of 35. and we have 14 classes or ten, so i would say it's about 35,000 -- but i would say it's about 50 to 60,000 because knows -- those are just the ab 288 classes, and i know there are others, as well. and then, we have the teachers and the team that are able to support the students, as well. >> do we have an idea on the city college side? >> hi. i'm meg hudson. i'm the dean of high school programs at cit

my name's james tracey. i teach in the labor and community studies department of city college. i just want to thank everybody who makes it possible for us to offer our classes at june jordan and john o'connell. i teach at john o'connell saturday mornings. my students range from extremely college ready to getting there, and i love seeing the opportunity to have conversations with people about their future because the very nature of community organizing isn't just about politics, it just about civic engagement. when we talk about paul robeson, they say hey, i'm interested in getting into theater. what does that have to do with theater? same thing with art, being able to tell people that now that they're a city college student, they can take advantage of these program, and that's a beautiful thing, watching people's minds open up to possibilities that were there all along but they didn't know that they were there. so that's great. alex and hillary have both visited -- visited the class. i invite everyone to do this. i believe that this is one of the major pathways towards the equi