Thursday. Its a great opportunity for us to expands what we have done previously with the down Payment Assistance Program and this is indeed an expansion of what the city has done to serve its residence, its cities and its employees. At the same time we are doing this First Responders program through the budget process led by supervisor the goal of any of our programs in the Mayors Office is that the program is effective and so where the Program Needs to be tweaked, we will tweak it. We will report back to the board and to the mayor about the effectiveness of this and we really look forward to engaging with the First Responders and making sure that we have a really success fulful i want to recognize a few people here that have been instrumental in this program and the creation of it. We want to thank i see marty from our Police Officers association, michelle and dawn from our sheriffs ewe thank you all for being here and showing your support. I want to introduce someone i thought it wa
Hard to believe why our Community College is being sanctioned foreperson at conflicts between campus ceos and the employees. Why the campus is being sanctioned because they are legally prohibited for violating negotiated collective bargaining agreements. Accjc is a nonstate agency lacking adequate state accountability and has unleashed authority to oversee state funded Community Collegeses. It is also a bureaucratic mess of contradictions. While the Community College faculty staff and administrators are being forced to ban their normal student and campus responsibilities in order to comply with unsubstantiated accjc mandates. When did a Community College become based more on the institutions governance process, which is thank you dedicated by california state laws and less on the quality of education being provided . These are important questions that we believe the state audit will answer and im honored to be joined by [speaker not understood] in this effort to examine whether our Com
Hard to believe why our Community College is being sanctioned foreperson at conflicts between campus ceos and the employees. Why the campus is being sanctioned because they are legally prohibited for violating negotiated collective bargaining agreements. Accjc is a nonstate agency lacking adequate state accountability and has unleashed authority to oversee state funded Community Collegeses. It is also a bureaucratic mess of contradictions. While the Community College faculty staff and administrators are being forced to ban their normal student and campus responsibilities in order to comply with unsubstantiated accjc mandates. When did a Community College become based more on the institutions governance process, which is thank you dedicated by california state laws and less on the quality of education being provided . These are important questions that we believe the state audit will answer and im honored to be joined by [speaker not understood] in this effort to examine whether our Com
So, good morning, everyone. My name is mark farrell. Im the supervisor from district 2 here in San Francisco. Last year, thanks to the great leadership of our mayor ed lee, his office of housing in particular, olson lee and brian chu who are here with us today and my colleagues on the board of supervisors, together and with the voters of San Francisco, we passed proposition c, the Housing Trust fund initiative, to create and approve Affordable Housing citywide and to provide loans to assist with the down payment towards the purchase of homes here in San Francisco. The passage of the Housing Trust fund was and is a huge win for all of San Francisco and our residents as one step in the right direction towards continuing to solve our citys ongoing housing needs. We are here today to announce the launch of a renewed down Payment Assistance Program for our First Responders here in San Francisco. Statistics will say that the majority of all of our First Responders live outside of our city li
And becoming better citizens. I say that if city college has to downsize, these programs will not be available. And the hope that people will be able to give to their own community and gain their own empowerment to be who they want to be suffer. Thank you. They might not have that respect. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. applause good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you so much for calling this hearing. My name is Shanell Williams and im student trustee for city college of San Francisco. I also represent the Student Center for California Community colleges and their Communications Officer which represents the 2. 4 Million Students in the Community College system in california. So, i just want to say that city college of San Francisco is amazing institution. Its been serving our community for 77 years without sanction, without, you know, its given so much to awful us. No matter what accjc says about our college, we know that it will be a devastating, devastating loss to have t