but we also focused on the importance of city college as a economic driver and helping people out of pover ety in the city. we stood up to [inaudible] from english classes. english learners need and rely on city college. non credit and skill building technology class jz other courses while they don't always lead to a degree gives san franciscans the skill and job and profession develop needed. that is what st. is about reflecting the cities needs. in our bijt and legislative analyst office report in 2013 we quantifyed the econom ic impact of city college is more than 300 million kls annually to the city. 2 years later a trial brought by the city attorney demonstrated that city college was not given a fair hearing and the accredters broke the law. the schools finances are stabilized for the time being and a turn around in state funding with prop 30 and the college has a significant reserve and the publicly elected board of strust ease has been displaced in a highly questionable process and expected to be partially reinstated again in the summer. mine while city college isn't out of the wood