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Significant. Is there is a relatively High Percentage as we know, of lgbt youth who have contemplated suicide. The number of seniors and i think that the report actually states in the last year, that have contemplated suicide, is almost equal to that number. And that is within the last year. And i think that what that demonstrates is a substantial and a tremendous sense of desperation and a lack of hope in this community and it is something that we need to look at immediately. Because for every ...

Meredith Attwell Baker is the new presidd ceo of ctia, the wireless association. Commissioner, tell us about your association, who do you represent, what industry . Guest well, first of all, thanks for having me here. Its delightful to be back, especially now that i am representing this amazing industry that is really the platform where everything is growing off of. Who is ctia . We are not only the network operators, we are the people that build those networks, we are the manufacturers, and we ...

This hearing, but its really important to you as elected officials do a little extra, if you can, to try to Save City College. Thank you very much. applause thank you. Next speaker, please. [speaker not understood], my name is alvin shaw. I have four points to make. The first item is the purpose of accreditation. Secondly, the punishment to fit the crime. Thirdly, some comments from my neighbors. And finally, what i feel is the role city and government officials in this situation. Okay. In terms...

College because we want to directly address issues impacting equity, impacting lowincome, students of color to achieve and to help us overcome barriers that make us feel like its our fault. So, so, you know, when we can stand here and say there are some that there are lots of different issues that either exist or dont exist by people on different side, but no one can stand here and tell me students have access to wifi when they need it. There is no one that can stand here and tell me we didnt ha...

All the students so i will support city college. Please keep open. Thank you. applause im going to call a few more cards. Alvin jah. Renato [speaker not understood]. Gordon mcclellan. Patrick [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. And kabin baras. Okay. Hello, thank you very much for having this meeting. We really need it. My name is holman turner, im a professional photographer. I also teach at city college. Ive done that for the past 17 years. So, ~ somehow i fell in love with stu...

Change. Im also part of the student involvement [speaker not understood] undocumented student club on campus. And i just want to talk about the reality that a lot of people have been avoiding about city college of San Francisco. As a student ive been part of this city college for two years. I just recently finished all my studies last semester. But, you know, like a lot of things are happening here, you know, there are a lot of problems in city college like we have bathrooms that havent been fix...

Okay, just one. This is from my next door neighbor. There are world class instructors teaching at city college, graduating High School Students deserve their expertise. The problem ccsf faces in regard to the budget need to be addressed needs to be addressed in other ways, not by compromising its accreditation. And she was a student at city college and shes a High School Teacher. And i got these comments to give to accjc and they just ignored it. So, could you make copies and give it to all your...

Valuable work that has been done. And you know, the some things and i think that i spoke at that first meeting, that there is a lot that we know. And then there is that lot that we dont know. And it really is coming from the peoples own voices. About what it is that they want and what they need that we think is so much more valuable than our just trying to sort that out ourselves. And so, i was especially thankful to marcy for your comments and i think that speaks so much to another Strategic Pl...

Cultural competency within each one of those cultures. On the lgbt issues, and i think that part of it is or was demonstrated by the only limited success that the task force had in reaching out to the russian communities and others in getting response back. And so i think that we need to very, and we need to really focus on cultural competency in communities that may discriminate within their own culture. And it is not only the predominant communities in the city, but also, it is other communiti...

Desperation and a lack of hope in this community and it is something that we need to look at immediately. Because for every month we dont look at these issues, we may lose more seniors and we may lose more individuals, who take their own lives. The other thing is come is cultural come pentcy and we have done a lot of work in the community in the various communities of various culture thes the Latino Community and the emensa community and others. And we find tremendous lack of cultural competency...