robert fitch. go ahead, please. thank you. go ahead. >>> my name is vivian munn and this is the first time i'm speaking in front of city hall and board of supervisors. i'm a little nervous, but i am i faculty member and i work at disabled student services department. i'm here today to speak in support of this proposition. i mean, thank you for introducing this piece of legislation. we he need to bring back our elected board of a officials, trustees, in making decisions that will affect the success and well-being of our students ~. i'm surprised to hear what jon lee wrote just now, disclosed about the budget mismanagement and the 23 million. what i do know is that, you know he, we have a whole bunch of highly compensated administrators and the college has hired exorbitant vendors to do a certain amount of thing. but speaking from a person who is down in the trenches, i'm a direct service provider to my students. i teach a special class to students of disabilities. and the students who come to my class learn study skills to help

. >>> hello, my name is robert fitch and i'm a teacher in the disabled students programs at city college and i'm a student in the older adults program. i'm here to thank you for this resolution and also to sort of remind us all that this bottle unfortunately is going on on a number of fronts. ~ battle it started with the student success task force when former chancellor jack scott and carol lou and others decided that we should ration and prioritize education and exclude other people. that has been followed up with the education master plan that we've heard about with so little community input. and now there is even a senate bill 173 so, david, we really need you to get a job in sacramento. we need to challenge -- (applause) >>> we need to challenge carol lou's senate bill 173 where she wants to specifically cancel state education funding for classes for older adults, home economic classes, health and safety classes. it's ridiculous. parenting classes. she has decided that those things aren't academic enough and don't deserve any funding. we need to recognize that the noncredit classes a