with us and a couple of richmond residents that have attested and labor leader henry kelly and richard rothman as well. with that i would like to hang hand it over to campbell, the main author of the study. >> can we have the powerpoint displayed? >> good afternoon, chair ferrel, supervisor mar, supervisor avalos, campbell, from the legislative office. we were asked to evaluate the impact of the fiscal close of the san francisco city college and have a report on that. the scope of the project was to really look at the impact that the potential closure on faculty and students and look at the things like the ged and esl program and training and certificate programs. thises not an evaluation of the alternative. we did not look at what it would be if the city college reduced it's programs or merged with another institution and the possible impact on city college at this time . our data source to look at this was the california community college data base and the department of labor and census bureau data and limited survey of other public and private colleges in the bay area. our evaluation is ver

next speaker. >> hi, i'm richard rothman and i want to talk about city college intercepted with my life three different times. the first was as i graduated george washington high school, i didn't know what i wanted to do and i was going into real estate and took a humanities course and i wanted to get a degree and by going into city college for two 1/2 years, i got my credits to go in on san francisco state and go on to get my masters degree. that was the first intersection and i went to work for the city and for five 5 years i was one of the managers in the financial aid office. i really saw the importance of city college and financial aid and especially i had interview students that were difficult an had an appeal of financial aid and how important it was for students who were english as a second language and were trying to get a foot up on the john -- job and a 4-year college and get a skill in some of the trade programs which i think are very important and are sometimes overlooked. the third time it intersect when i worked at the general hospital. i met a lot of the staff, some of t