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Good afternoon supervisors. Im going to begin by echoing what you said about the City Attorneys Office and the extraordinary work that [inaudible] and colleagues there did. All most immediately following the accjc announcement it would terminate city colleges accredidation in 2013, i think the City Attorney got where the accjc was taking college wasnt a good place and he and his office stepped up in a huge way to protect this vital civic institution. Some attorneys i know are involved, i may not name all of them, evon [inaudible] tom [inaudible] and matte goldburg all just incredible wurks and...

Have paid staff. They also said the acts they committed were not unlawful or unfair. They said they were like courts so actions should be barred by judicial immunity. They said our action is preimpative but the United States department of education acknowledges accredters and said [inaudible] called nora penningten which protects certain political speech. All these there ease were shot down by the court. We had a series of dooling motions for summary adudeication trying to widdle down what would be kwide at trial. We won a very small portion thofe motion, but the court wanted to have a trial. ...

Accjc permit city college if it chose to opt into a prosthat would confer upon it the due process st. Had lacked. Required the accjc submitted a report with all the deficiencies and gave the callling a opportunity to respond. City college was not a party in our carcand as the court acknowledged that limited what the court could do or command city college to do. But thein the end i think the lute achieved really important objectives. First the reliminary injunction gave city college time where the termination decision wasnt held in advance. It also gave the accjc [inaudible] city college pass a...

Alex randolph is here as well as sunel williams from the board of trustees. [inaudible] good afternoon supervisors. Im going to begin by echoing what you said about the City Attorneys Office and the extraordinary work that [inaudible] and colleagues there did. All most immediately following the accjc announcement it would terminate city colleges accredidation in 2013, i think the City Attorney got where the accjc was taking college wasnt a good place and he and his office stepped up in a huge way to protect this vital civic institution. Some attorneys i know are involved, i may not name all of...

Year 2015 budget. It closes that 200 million budget gap with different means. Finding efficiencies in agencies across the district and talked about tough choices that her staff made looking at reducing medicaid reimbursement rates in the district, making them closer to the national average. Thats a savings of about 9 million, for example reducing funding for university of the District Of Columbia by 5 . Same with reducing Facility Maintenance funding by 5 . She also discussed the need for new revenue. In all about 26 million would be generated by increasing d. C. Sales tax from 5. 75 to a full...