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Valuable city college is in the altruistic part and the monetary part as well. And i dont think were for sale so i dont really need that applause i would just humbly request that we can, you know, shift the resources to other things other than our real estate. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this hearing and opportunity to speak. applause bravo. Thank you [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, chair cohen, supervisors. Thank you for having us here and giving us space for this conversat...

Mayors office being involved with this process, but i do think that one service we might not need in terms of prioritization of resources is our real estate department. [laughter] i think we have a pretty good understanding of how valuable city college is in the altruistic part and the monetary part as well. And i dont think were for sale so i dont really need that applause i would just humbly request that we can, you know, shift the resources to other things other than our real estate. Thank yo...

From a college that served 110,000 students to a college that serves 85,000 students. There was a statement that said that we didnt review our Mission Statement for the last four years. Well, i just want to say thats false. We didnt review our Mission Statement, but what we prioritized in our Mission Statement was access. We said that the person that is getting their ged or getting their esl classes is just as important as a person thats getting their engineering degree or looking to transfer to...

Mayors office being involved with this process, but i do think that one service we might not need in terms of prioritization of resources is our real estate department. [laughter] i think we have a pretty good understanding of how valuable city college is in the altruistic part and the monetary part as well. And i dont think were for sale so i dont really need that applause i would just humbly request that we can, you know, shift the resources to other things other than our real estate. Thank yo...

District 5, in district 8 and 11, to talk to people in both communities, to talk about how important the campuses that we have in their neighborhoods are to them. So, i hope that that will be part of our next steps. I want to just give you a little bit of history about the accreditation. Ive been on the board for 12 years and the accreditation takes place if youre successful, every six years. So, for the first time when i was on the board, we had accreditation for six years, meaning that we met ...

Ive been a counselor at city college of San Francisco for over 23 years. I want to say that we serve so many different populations and its not just San Francisco. It is a the bay area, naturally the whole country. ~ its i have students from city college of San Francisco not only for our wonderful technical programs, but also labor studies, for lgbtq programs, for any of the ethnic studies programs that we provide that Many Community colleges and even fouryear institutions do not. So, we are serv...

Wanted to prioritize classes. And maybe we could have made some better decisions. I think so, yes, but really our decisions were made so we can provide access to everybody. And then my last point before i leave is i know that there was a comment about the real estate department. I do really appreciate the Mayors Office being involved with this process, but i do think that one service we might not need in terms of prioritization of resources is our real estate department. [laughter] i think we ha...

And maybe we could have made some better decisions. I think so, yes, but really our decisions were made so we can provide access to everybody. And then my last point before i leave is i know that there was a comment about the real estate department. I do really appreciate the Mayors Office being involved with this process, but i do think that one service we might not need in terms of prioritization of resources is our real estate department. [laughter] i think we have a pretty good understanding...

Accjc didnt think that we did it or that we did enough. So, our next steps will be the review that we can do and the appeal process. Thank you so much for having this meeting today. Thank you. Commissioner jackson. Trustee jackson. Chair cohen and members of this committee, i just want to thank everybody and thank supervisor avalos for having this hearing. I think it is very important. So, i just want to start off first by saying 25 of the California Community colleges are actually on some sort ...

Will be a long, tough fight. Firefighters are really doing all they can to keep up. Take a look at just the last 24 hours. There have been more than 4,000 lightning strikes sparking 45 new fires here in northern california. Liz, allen . Teresa, were coming up on a labor day holiday. I know its very busy this time of year up there. But the park itself, its still open, right . Reporter well, amazingly at this point, allen, it is. Youve got a lot of smoke thats been shifting toward that park even i...