College. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, there. My name is hawn. I teach at city college in the english department. I also want to thank the Community Members who have spoken in favor of reparations, and i stand in favor of reparations. And thank you for bringing that forward. So i am a lifelong student educator and Community Member in our Public Education system. And Public Education is the best thing thats ever happened to me and my family. And i want to just affirm that education is our right. I tell my students who come to my classes that they deserve the same opportunities as any stanford student. They just dont have the same resources. They deserve a library thats open till midnight. Their Library Closes at 6 45. And weve cut back on librarians. I want to talk about love. Because in my english 1 class, my freshman composition class, we read bell hooks all about love. We do a semester long investigation in love, on love and what is love. We learn that love is a choice. We learn that love is an action. It is something that we do, not something that happens to us. And we learn that the will to power and the will to love cannot coexist. The midnight massacre that happened that destroyed our spring schedule was an act of power, pure and simple, right . Im asking you, what choice do you make. I thank the supervisors who are standing in support of us. Are you with power or are you with love . Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. I want to please help because many classes cut already. Ive seen many people ask me what can i do next semester . My class is forgotten. My diploma, i dont have it now here. Start working together. Everybody here is working for the community. We need to Work Together and do it the best thing for the people. The people in the school are not criminal people. They want the best job in the future. You can vote for us. Thats why hemowhy why im h. I say what happen . You have this time. I know you are very tired now because its tired. This is a lot of people. Speaking about the people in the room now, in the school. I see people working the nighttime and coming to class in the morning because she want Better Future for her kids, for people. I have people, have older people that say, you know, i cant because i want another opportunity to do it. Now you are supposed to do it in this semester and i say i dont have the class. And i dont want to say please i need your support to everybody to culminate together. Thats what i see, working with them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im a 2121 member, chapter president , San Francisco general first. I want to say that the staffing in Public Health needs to be fixed. Its outrageous what we are going through right now, even people in my classification, its terrible. People are calling in sick more, their productivity is going down. We are losing money, because things arent getting done properly because you dont have enough people to fix that problem. But im really here, aside from that, as a black person, who started my early life living up in the projects in ernest point who family got pushed out because my father couldnt get a house in San Francisco. He couldnt get a loan. We ended up in bay leaf city. So im saying we need the reparations. We need a right of return. Everybody is complaining about how many black people are in San Francisco, but i do not hear anybody saying what are you going to do to reverse that. Because there is a way to bring people back. So i hope you talk to the black community who want to solve this problem and we can give you great ideas on it so we can reverse this and people like me can come back to san fraz, sn francisco, because ive tried and i cant. Even when i was poor i couldnt get in San Francisco. I couldnt even get in the projects. So this needs to be fixed. So hopefully you guys will give us the reparations and correct this problem. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. Im here, my name is cheryl, and im here to speak on behalf of reparations which im in favor of. Ive been a employee for 29 years. And i have seen the policies that have been implemented in San Francisco, adversely impact black people. We have the worst Health Outcomes in the nation, yet we are the fifth largest economy in the world. We have more billionaires here but black people live 12 to 15 years less. We have the worst educational outcomes. We are 55 percent of the residents in the county jail. We have the worst Employment Outcomes and the lowest incomes in San Francisco. Shame on San Francisco, shame on you. 29,000 for black people to live on in San Francisco when theres more billionaires than anywhere else . We need change and we need it now. We deserve reparations. Our businesses have been run out. We have been run out. And its not fair. And we deserve to be in this city. So i urge you all to really think about reparations and what it means to us. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is madeline mueller. Ive been a faculty member at city College Since 1965. I was researched as the oldest on the faculty, and i keep track of things a lot. Whats happening now, im thinking of the world love, and im thinking of nancy pelosi said dont use the word hate. We dont hate in San Francisco. But we are hated. And lets not put our heads in the sand about that. This whole thing going on with impeachment, one way or the other, they are going to hate us. They are out to get us. I have a paper trail on this. I dont make this up. They in this case are two very, very, very obvious entities. One is the aelectric group, american low pressure alec ac group that put in the legislative, cookie cutter language against postsecondary schools, funded by the kocks. They are responsible for the funding they are funded by the kochs. The former mayor and i discussed this and he was clear, an attack against the college is a direct attack against San Francisco values and San Francisco. So we got to watch out for the Koch Brothers and their legislative funding formulas. The other thing is lumina where the Student Loan Company sally may put their enemy into a completion program. So you limit yourself to a Junior College and force them to come in and get on student lens and be indebted for life, trillion point seven they are in debt and people are highly suicidal about this. Its a toxic environment. You guys have to set up, you have to save San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I want to thank mar, walton and fewer for looking after the city college. I want to address in a totally different way, connect the reparations, connect it with the housing crisis and city college, what do they have in common . They have to do with, well, not having reparations and cutting city college, the housing crisis, they connect and contribute to the divide of the diversity of this city. That is whats going on. Its with housing sorry the depletion of the africanamerican population, the housing that is only built for the rich and the housing alone, building housing alone is not enough. We need to do things for all the people here. One of those things is keeping city college, the rich people dont need city college, but everybody else does. So please, build diversity. Walton, mar and fewer, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for the supervisors for hearing us around city college. Im also in support of reparations, and thats a big part of the reason i support the work happening to support our students. I work at a transfer center at city college. I teach in Health Education as well as College Success classes so the students that are working to transfer. I work at a program for first generation students. Im the first in my family to go to college in this country. I know what its like to navigate the college system. My students are telling me the classes i need to major in art and transfer are now cut. Half of our art and music classes were cut. So with city college being free, a lot of students are getting mixed messages. One student said i thought people wanted us here. I thought we were supposed to come here. So it feels difficult to have to explain to them that in this moment, some of those classes that are so essential are not available. So i know once we lose a student, if a student goes to skyline for a semester, they are probably not going to come back, and we want them to be able to stay here because not only can city college provide those classes but our retention programs, ethnically studies changed my life and my trajectory, the same can be said for music and art programs. So we want to support students. Our students other classes are being cut like biology and english. Its not just noncredit. All classes are being impacted by this. The fact that we still have a lot of time and all the biology classes are full at this time, that tells you the need. So thank you for your time. We hope to see more support for this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. We were reported 6,000 assaults, 3,000 sexual assaults, 235 rapes out of 1. 3 billion rides. Does that number sound correct . Proposition d has passed. Its said to bring almost 35 million per year to San Francisco. Give city college money. You dont take money. Shame on you guys. Take 2. 7 million, give a million dollars. Its a disgrace. Yeah, im a little pissed off but when they suspend my pension, why am i not . Because you stole my money . No, im mad because i dont see any action. You are voted in by us. We are the people. We pay your salaries. What a disgrace. You guys have more than enough money in your budget. You got hundreds of millions of dollars. And you are going to take 2. 7 million from kids and people that want to educate so they can make money to live here in San Francisco . You may be able to take my money, but you are not going to take my mind. You are not going to take my heart. You guys promised if if the medallion Sales Program failed, you told us, talked to her and she makes nothing but promises. Promises slash delay. Thats all it is. Thats all you guys do, delay. I pick up people in your jurisdictions and hear stuff thats shocking. Like how is your supervisor . Some good, some bad. That is a disgrace. You guys are just too much. S fm ta, sucks. We go to the board of directors [off mic] thank you. Next speaker. Next speaker. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. My name is rajeed. I drive taxi cab in San Francisco for almost 26 years. Life is worse than it was. I make a request to get my money back because sfmta promised to us if we are not able to run the medallion anymore, not able to drive, they can take the medallion back and give us our money back. We are asking only our money, not for their money. I dont know why they are taking so long and not thinking of us. It is getting worse and worse. Im making a request again, please get our money back from sfmta. If they need money, they can go somewhere else. They dont have somewhere. Getting older disease and more worse life. And we have a lot of problems because of medallion. And they even when we pay the fine to the airport, 4, 5, from that the money, five percent five percent, taking the company. I dont know why. And please, help us sooner and before we die. And after that, i dont know who you are going to help, somebody else. Sfmta, they are lying for their promise. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. This is for the taxi drivers daily expenses. 40 per day airport fee is 40 30. Then the cab company is 25 a day, then the gas is an average of 40 a day, then the taxi insurance is 20 a day, car payment is 10 a day, Credit Card Fee is 10 average then 10 a day is maintenance fees and the bridge toll, 200 if you deduct all the expenses then 18 left. Thats the taxi drivers earning. I want you all to take the snapshot of it. And i was here for this purpose, for the taxi, but my daughter is also classes have been taken off or have been cut short. She is not going to be graduating unless you the classes offer microbiology. And if she will be able to get she is on a waiting list at sf state. I dont know if that is affected when all these people are coming here to get the money to afford those classes. And i dont mind if you do them. My fund but you have to give them the money to keep their classes as usual. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im speaking taxi, uber, lyft environment. Turned 500 taxi medallion holders. We live in fear of death. We dont live for life, we live for work. Medallions was a scam. Driving empty taxis is so painful. Uber lyft have given contagious disease to the public. Its in their blood and never goes away as long as you dont now days no one takes taxis. For us to get less money. It is an unfair business. As long as uber and lyft exist, we cant make our living. As long as you delay our money, you have to ban uber lyft from the airport pickup as supervisor told you before. We are dealing with this catastrophic situation. We go in deficit. 500 taxi medallion numbers. Buy back the medallions, give us the money back. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. I give my support to the reparations. And thank you everyone for listening. I know that its dinner time, you are hungry, you are probably tired, you are a little bit bored of my there have been a lot of speakers from city college. The reason there are so many of us is because there is so much at stake. Theres been a false narrative floated out there, first it was, oh, only in lowenrolled classes being cut. Thats obviously not true. Then oh, we are trying to be fiscally responsible. Thats obviously not true. The older adults program, 90 percent of the classes were cut with no notice, with no justification. They are healthy, fully enrolled classes that are benefiting the city. So we know there are a lot of lies out there. Supervisor walton pointed out you say theres no money yet there were behind closed doors raises given to the top administrators. We were told by the chancellor this is all about fiscal responsibility yet even if you give us money he said we dont need it, we have it all under control. So we want to set the record straight. We want you to know whats really happening there. The exact same thing happened before with the same chancellor. Hes trying to downsize. Hes trying to make it into a Junior College, and thats not what we want. So we want you to know how much is at stake. And we also want to say city college gives so much to this city. Firefighters, the Aircraft Maintenance people, culinary, we are the city, weve raised money for the city. Its not a lot of money. And you might not realize how much is at stake here. You might think its your own problem that you should just take care of later. If you dont act now, you will not recognize city college, and you will not recognize San Francisco. So please do the right thing and support us. Its not that much money. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Im a parttime faculty member at city college. I want to thank you for having this conversation and its a testament to democracy that weve gotten this far. Part time faculty at city college are considered temporary employees, laid off at the end of each semester and hopefully rehired at the start of the next. Though we make up more than half of the faculty, we are the most vulnerable employees. As a result of those class cuts, dozens of part time faculty will either lose their jobs or their health benefits. Three months ago the administration presented what they assured the board of trustees was a balanced budget. So confident were they that they gave themselves more than 2 million in raises. Now they say we are broke and the class cuts and laying off is necessary and part of an intentional plan of restructuring. How can we trust their math . Who is checking the numbers and holding them accountable for the devastating impact of their decision making. Really, really people are hurting as a result of their decisions. Some dedicated instructors have been teaching fully enrolled classes for decades at the campus. Others have dedicated hundreds of hours of their own time to developing curriculum for classes in the hope of being able to teach for years to come to the students who come each semester to take their classes. Please allocate the funding and reemployee these part time instructors. You can make a difference right now for dozens of employees. We are not getting rich off working at the college. We are only trying to get by. We have dedicated our lives to sharing our expertise and experience with students and want nothing more than to be able to continue to do that with dignity and integrity. Meez stop making us beg for our jobs please stop making us beg for our jobs. Thank you. Next speaker. I am the daughter of activist sharon hewitt. Im going to talk fast. Im in support of reparation. Let there be no mistake about that. But im going to address a couple things here. City college and how can i say this . City college and essential part of the fabric of San Franciscos infrastructure in terms of producing diversity, culture, infrastructure that you need politically and economically. So i applaud your efforts on this matter and i thank you. This is great work you are doing. Supervisor walton, haney, fewer, for the issues that you have addressed, hats off to you. Mom would be proud of you. And i want to say that first and foremost. I want to say to you guys on the issue of affordable housing, we are talking about reparations here. I worked for redevelopment for five years. We never found all those people who we were supposed to give certificates of preference to whose property was taken from them, those africanamerican businesses, the jazz preservation district, their businesses and homes. We never found them. I