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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...

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...

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...

Having worked on and being an important player in the changes that happened in the School District, im all for those standards. But lets take that example, the payroll as an example. One of the things that does worry me, and i wonder if the mayor has this concern, if you guys have this concern, right, we have known about this payroll issue i think for quite sometime, have hadthctionv we . ~ havent we . I dont know not with the example that i gave. Okay. But we know that, we know that the structu...

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...

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...

Investigations, we did audits, and some folks even went to prison, as you know, because of that work. And, so, im all for financial responsibility, fiscal management. What i am having a hard time understanding is specifically what is it financially speaking, in terms of fiscal management, what is it that city college is not doing . I have yet to hear a clear articulation on that. applause and, so, i could have told you what was wrong with the School District before, right . I could have told you...

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...