thomas wright, ottawa pippinger, rex pemblo, jewel ross, renee francisco, leslie simon, hansen. >> good afternoon, i'm garry barringer and i'm a native of the city campus and have been a homeowner there for 40 years. i'm also a retired city employee having worked for the juvenile probation department for the past 15 years. i have been a supporter of the city college, voting for every bond measure that the college has been, has presented to the voters. i've taken advantage of the community aspect of city college, having taken classes in real estate, dance, exercise, music, film and piano. and i fear that this budget that you are putting forth had taken the community right out of the san francisco community college system. education is exploration. education is opportunity. education is not a guided pathway where you take young people by the nov nose and leadm and tell them what they have to take. education is for growth and this budget goes in the opposite way. it's taking community and the joy out of learning. i'm also here to support the building of the performing arts and education ce

. >> my name is leslie simon and i taught at city college since 197a. 1975. i helped to create the women'sasm a degre's aa degree. countless students have master's degree and one is a practicing attorney and all of that benefited from classes in the arts, poetry, music and ethnic studies, lgbt studies, labor studies, politics of sexual violence. life-learn learning, civic engagement along with transfer and we're asking why is administration aggressively cutting classes but not working towards increasing enrollment in why is there no hard copy available when registration began on the 1st. why don't they distribute beyond libraries to book stores. why is the administration so far unresponsive to banner nine registration system which is especially hurts the diversity department? like others, i am asking the administration to visibly and vocally commit to increasing revenue streams, such as the community higher education fund which afted, alana fredrictons outlined, such as the second cycle and talking about the ballot initiative for 2020 to split the roles that