They are also coming from distant countries where they have experienced hardships. They are older adult students. Many of my Child Development students work fulltime and full time and they also have spent years to get their degree so they can provide my name is janet. I teach ceramics. I think its time we took a magnifying glass to the way this administration spends money because we share your concerns about the money. We had and i think we need to go to the highest levels to look at this. So we are told students of color will be helped by these cuts, but we have been hearing that is not the case. When i look across my classroom, which is always full, i have 25 students in a small ceramics studio, and i turned away at least that many that wanted to take the class. I see a lot of black hair. I mostly see black hair when i look out across my classroom, and some grey hair. We are an ethnically Diverse College and we know it. Nobody needs to even prove that. We know that is true, and yet these very classes are the ones getting cut. Ceramics lost a third of its program. A third of our program. These classes are always full and we always have a waiting list. We always have to turn people away and people love these classes. We have to look at what is what shout what really is going on. I appreciated your question about, you know, what is the real motive . What is the real thing going on here . Faculty who are cut were mostly parttimers who had health benefits. So that was one big cost savings it had nothing to do with certificates or the programs or what is good for the students. How about the real estate . Its a real estate grab here. We have southeast campus completely emptied out. Great, lets sell it. We will tear down the art bill Arts Building so we can build a new building. We just heard there will be another new building built. What is this . What is really going on . Lets look at the highest levels of administration here. We want your help. Hello. Im a student at city college. Just to go off with janet was saying just now, we do want your help. I just wanted to, to the trustees in the room, students and faculty spent the last two months fighting really, really hard to restore the classes we lost and im glad that now you are supporting this supplemental , but you were not there for the legislative visits , you are not there advocating for the funding, and i think that, you know, supporting the supplemental a day before it was voted on is not enough. We all did the legwork to get the votes and if you heard why some people didnt vote for the supplemental, it is because the administration and the college were not asking for it. That is true. You were not asking for it. So i want you to reflect on that and why you were not asking for it until the very last moment when the vote was upcoming and we already knew what the vote would be like. I really would like you to reflect on that and to think why is it that the students and the faculty have had to put in all the work to save these classes that are obviously extremely important to the community. I dont want to be redundant and say, you know, how i have been affected, because i think there are more compelling stories here from students who are mower disadvantaged than i am and we need your help. We do need your help, but we need your full help, not just when its convenient and when it will look bad if you dont help us. I wish we had more data as well and im disappointed the administration did not provide all the data that supposedly supports all these cuts, but i am most disappointed by the lack of support from our trustees. We really need you to advocate for the college the way that we are advocating for it. I really, really think that needs to be said here because all the students that are behind me, we spend a lot of our time trying to get this to . 7 million that we probably wont get if the mayor vetoes. Thank you. This student even offered half of her pastel drawing supplies because she knew how expensive materials could be. I did not accept her generous offer say but offered but she exemplifies to a City College Student is. Some who is generous, kind, and resourceful. These are the students who are affected when you cut classes. What makes city College Special is is a free open campus available for students at any skill level. To get some perspective, San Francisco has three private art schools. One is the renowned San FranciscoArt Institute which charges, intuition alone, nearly 46,000 each school year and requires a welldeveloped art portfolio of work for admission. San francisco state, the only other school with a public our program charges 7,200 in tuition for the year. City college is the only place where you can receive a high quality education. I want to share with you all testimonials from city College Art Department students describing the impact and many of these students participated in the protest art show that is currently on at fort mason on the first floor. I hope you will be able to attend before it closes on february 5th. Thank you. Hello. I am a student. Im here to talk about the filipino language classes. As of spring of 2020, the filipino language class was cancelled because and because of that, i was devastated because i want to learn and understand the filipino language. Also, the Filipino Community is one of the biggest communities in San Francisco, and because of that, the language is the third most spoken language in San Francisco. Cancelling filipino language class limits people like myself who are willing to take and learn the filipino language. The filipino language also fulfils humanity in ccsf which is required to graduate. When he to restore the classes so students like myself who want to learn to speak the language, to munich it with family, friends, and the community and are able to get the certificate of accomplishment for taking the filipino language community. Hello. I come to you today as someone who was born in San Francisco, raised in San Francisco, attended lowell high school, eventually got into u. C. Davis, and experienced sexual abuse as a child, and in college. So i need to understand that between intergenerational trauma as a child of refugees, as someone with women in my family who have experienced sexual trauma, and is is a right and as a survivor myself, you know, the way that the state measures achievement, they would have went right past me. They didnt know that i needed help and i performed perfectly fine in their system. At the end of it, i felt empty. I didnt know who i was, i didnt know what i wanted to do, and i have had suicidal ideations. You have to understand that in city college, the type of support that we provide is something that is about providing community. Its about teaching people the history of those who are marginalized. It is about empowering those with a sense of identity so they know, they understand their impression and they can fight it in their own lives, they can fight it in their communities, and they can excel because only because of city college do i have the strength to apply to medical school, that i want to go into Public Health, and i want to be someone who helps the community, who helps the asianamerican community, who helps a latino excommunity where my partner is from, who will help the undocumented community, to provide them Extraordinary Health outcomes. We dont want to survive, we want to thrive. Protecting and bringing these classes back is about being able to bridge and prevent these programs from being cut at all. My name is aris. I want to say that there are systemic issues that this Administration Must address. One thing is getting a Forensic Audit to address the budget crisis and another thing is supporting emergency bridge funding to get a remaining cosponsor. Also, we have our own Marketing Firm or marketing program, but then they are unable to support the under enrolled classes that are in danger of getting cancelled. Students have been doing that. Students have been doing outreach despite being exhausted for me i am tired to the point where i have to convince myself that i am not drained at this moment. It has enabled students who live to live their lives. We do this because we care. We do this because this community has taught us how to be empathetic. We are taught how to also live our lives. I know that one night, a Family Member of mine told me that they wanted to disappear and i know when they said that to me, it felt like all the lights turned off. I wanted to be able to help them and i think city college enables me to have the skill set to talk to someone and help them and pulled him upwards because, again, there is upward mobility that city college provides. I want you to, in this room, it is one room, good it could be one of the 300 historic classrooms i could be provided. Thank you. Hello, everyone. I am a social justice and feminist and trans study major at city college of San Francisco i am low income and i have a not very visible disability. I came to San Francisco to city college after an incredibly demoralizing experience at a private forprofit art school here in San Francisco where i faced institutional homophobia and trans phobia. So when i came in i enrolled in my first lgbt studies class, it put me on a path where i was then able to regain my confidence, not only that, but i was able to see myself living beyond the age of 30. I was able to do that because in the classroom, we had a beautiful and Diverse Community. It wasnt intergenerational experience with people from all walks of life coming to learn about the Lgbt Community and about the issues we face and about our history and sharing how we experience that. And now the lgbt studies department does not have the budget to offer much of any in person classes and that experience is being taken away. It is so important we have that. The community has suffered a genocide. The aids crisis is a genocide. So for me to understand my history, my communitys history, i have to be able to have those conversations with Community Elders and the lgbt classes at city college gave me that space and gave me that understanding and drove me to have the will to serve my community, to understand my communitys scrubbed the struggles and be able to put myself forward for all of those aspects and that is what drives me now. And to see that stripped from future generations is a tragedy. These safe places have helped me to proclaim my own self worth and reclaim my body and, yeah, so many of our teachers in the Dance Department are parttime and almost all of them lost all classes except for one. They werent fired because it just looks better if you cut all of our classes except for one and they lose their health insurance. I really feel like all of this is just masquerading as downsizing the college and making it into a Junior College and not providing support for marginalized people in our community. City college has been so important for me to be able to grow as a person and move on. Also, part of the lgbt studies students and so many of our classes have been moved online. Having those classes in person is so important for us to find community and to feel safe. Thank you so much. Hello. My name is jess and i am a student a city at college. Im a recipient of free city and im completely grateful for this opportunity to transition to a new career. I came to city college specifically for welding, machine shop, and metal arts, which is casting and fabrication all of which have been slashed from the school. I am indebted to these teachers, mike campbell, suzanne pugh, jack da silva for opening the door for me. As a woman in trades, there is not a lot of opportunity. Unfortunately, we are sexually harassed at some workplaces or Training Centers or we are not opened the door for because they assume because of our gender we are not able to do the same things that most men can do. I am just shocked at the way that the school has demolished the Training Program. We went to the Labor Council to tell them what is happening to our citys college and there is manufacturing in our history, in our bloodstream, in San Francisco and we cant even fill the jobs that are being advertised. It is crushing. We have students that are homeless. We have students that are food unstable and education is not secure for them. They need to be able to learn skills and traits in order to produce items so they can sell. We have so many students that rely on these classes that can teach you a lot of these physical labor skills. Students like myself are organizing and we are inviting the rest of former students and we are working with our community in order to support past and current students. We are suffering and students should not be suffering because of certain administration, the culture, the lack of financial transparency. We need the governance that we deserve. We should not be whistleblowing. It should be i am in a movie that deals with gentrification. I have been hearing stories for the past 30 minutes or so. It seems city college is being gentrified. It seems as opportunity is being taken. I know money is in this city the city. We need to preserve the opportunities that are in the city. This has always been a safe haven for people to migrate from all over the world. My parents met at city college. My father is an immigrant. Had city college not been here, no telling where i would be. This is a story of empathy. Its not about feeling sorry or anything like that. Its about being empathetic and understanding that people need opportunities. If not, they lose hope. If people lose hope, theres no telling what will happen. They dont want San Francisco to be completely erased. What i mean by that is it is culture. Its diversity. It is inclusion and when i listen to these people, it hurts because those are the stories that they are telling me. They do not have a huge social media following and maybe not financially affluent, but that doesnt mean that they dont deserve to have a voice for future students. We dont deserve a chance to do what they are doing. I brought my own timer because i dont like those little things. They throw me off. Happy friday. I just want to shout out to all the niners gear i see here. Shout out to everybody. It is nice to see this type of energy and the congregation. A lot of times we dont see that and a fun fact is the last time the niners won the super bowl was the year i was born. I feel like we are due for another one. Seeing that type of stuff, it brings hope. We hope that the niners will win and that type of hope is the same thing that San Francisco ccsf did for me on my pursuit of education. I was born in the city, raised in the city and i was highly educated in the city. I was fortunate enough to be one of the first people not only in my family to go to college, but as well as in my whole neighborhood. It wasnt a lot of people trying to pursue higher education. We were confined in a certain type of mindset within our neighborhood to think that graduating college wasnt something that was possible. So you might imagine how i felt when being one of the first people to drop of college went to college. I had no hope. I do not have the happiness i felt right now seeing the niners going to the super bowl and knowing i am a a, college graduate. I was in a basement with some creative people cooking up one of the biggest independent films in the world right now, but also , i was at a place where i didnt know where i wanted to go fortunately, enough in my pursuit of a degree and graduating from st. Marys college in california, city college provided a crucial psychological class that st. Marys wanted 10,000 for. I couldnt afford that. I am saying all of that to say that it is imperative to have city college here because the same week that i graduated college is the same week that the last blackmail in San Francisco [indiscernible] thank you. I am San Francisco city college. My father was a custodian at city. As a student i came here to get basic courses before going to graduate school. I choose to teach at city and to be there as a role model for students of color and poor students. Throughout my time at city, i have taught incarcerated students, dual enrolment high schoolers, returning students, veterans, immigrants, refugees, differently abled, career changers, nonbinary, students like yall, and the teachers of young children. Young children are the future. I teach to the future. Do not let present adelson in destroy the future. We have to take a quick recess because we dont have a and creating a cutrate, rundown college in one of the most wealthiest and progressive cities in the united states. Instead of improving the school, rocha tried to double the wages of his administrators and cut class classes across the board. He wants to increase class sizes to 40 students and have more online classes. He says hes doing this to create a school for minority students. Minority students are often low income and need to work. Studies show online classes are more difficult for minorities and immigrants. These classes make it difficult to take classes. He is creating a cutrate, rundown college and saying hes doing it for the students. He is creating a ghetto in one of the wealth eest cities in america. He is making our city college into a joke. Thank you to the alonite people, whose land we are on. Thank you to the board of supervisors and the board of trustees and the students , the faculty, the administration of the community. I am here as a student of the Older Adults Program, which i credit making me a survivor with the body dynamics class which has been cut and the reason im standing here right now. Im also here as an ally to myself and the larger bay area communities who desire