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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...

Not happy that that happened, but instead of saying, lets close down the successor agency, i would simply say, lets figure out how we make it better, which was actually what we were trying to do here. applause and, so, i am not going to justify any fiscal financial mismanagement by anyone, but i do want to make sure that i know what it is but it is based on facts. [speaker not understood]. applause and thats why thats why the Mayors Office the matt report is important. If we can get reports from...

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 ...

Auditors, and the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency was actually found to have a Material Weakness, which is as high a noncompliance of the audit as it gets. And it had to do, by the way, Material Weakness around finances. And, you know, what i im not happy that that happened, but instead of saying, lets close down the Successor Agency, i would simply say, lets figure out how we make it better, which was actually what we were trying to do here. applause and, so, i am not going to just...

Agency was actually found to have a Material Weakness, which is as high a noncompliance of the audit as it gets. And it had to do, by the way, Material Weakness around finances. And, you know, what i im not happy that that happened, but instead of saying, lets close down the successor agency, i would simply say, lets figure out how we make it better, which was actually what we were trying to do here. applause and, so, i am not going to justify any fiscal financial mismanagement by anyone, but i ...

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 ...

For us. Its something that we do Pay Attention to, of course, as we deploy overseas. Not necessarily forces we have here in the states. We do understand Immediate Response, rolling out the gate to help our neighbors in an immediate nature, but i think not so much in terms of mobilization and deploying inside our country. So, this is an area where opportunities like San Francisco fleet week will allow us for, and i believe at some point really incorporate this in some internal doctrine that will ...

Difficult for students who cant stay at their home school. There are also courses exactly like pe that have a higher failure rate that havent had an opportunity. We havent had a Credit Recovery or Summer School or Evening School pe. So we will offer that that in spring and summer including pe and biology. We also want to have three centralized Evening School sites to offer those courses. We want to explore the opportunity to really partner with our communitybased organizations. So that students ...

Controlled by other nationalities or other interests. He wanted to create a school that represented the american model of education, that lived American Values and that gave people in the middle east an awareness that an American Education was something that would benefit their lives every day in tangible ways. And he succeeded. Host why is it important to tell this story, in your view . Guest because i think most middle easterners and americans, for that matter, are unaware of in this longer, d...

Theres any closing comments or points that you havent had the opportunity to make. I think, you know, people are anxious to hear your thoughts on this particular program and on this mission because it is going to take all of us if the big one happens. So, if i can start with you, vice admiral beaman, if there is anything youd like to impart, sir. Actually, i have 37 things id like to talk about, but knowing we are the last thing between you and the refreshments in the back, ill limit it to one. ...