Thank you. My name is pam [speaker not understood]. Im the president , board chair of the Chinese Progressive Association and i want to be able to speak in support of campos supervisor campos legislation. I want to be able to speak in terms of the Community Perspective and as community, people always have access to expressing their views when we have our elected board of trustees. And now we dont have that kind of access any more. And we have a lot to say. And some of the things that we really care about in preserving, not only in terms of the credit classes ill go back to that in just a moment. But the value of city college to be able to provide education and services that fall under the category of noncredit classes. And im very concerned that our ability to be able to communicate, the richness and importance of these kinds of courses will be denied us and we will lose them. The second party want to as a Community Representative to speak of is of the access, Affordable Access and acc
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young people that are taking advantage of these different programs will leave with much, much more debt and that is something that everybody left, right and center on this board in the state of california should oppose. We should [speaker not understood] agenda.
That weve even gotten to this pipet. There is a certain public official who is not here and hasnt been here. ~ point he was elected the mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. His voice, hes missing in action. applause when i was in the marine corps, he would have been Court Martialed and tossed. I want that to be very clear. I know exactly what im saying. I fought in the 60s in a lot of different ways at San Francisco state, and i fought some of this stuff was over with, but here we are again and what were fighting for is Public Education. The right to have access to Public Education for earn. Everyone. Thank you. ~ thank you. Next speaker. [cheering and applauding] my name is ann clark. Im a San Francisco resident and a proud graduate of ccsf. I want to thank you for your resolution and thank you for the wonderful staff whom ive met. They are really terrific people and i want you to know that. This is what we are about and this is who we are. We are fighting for our city and f
Building talking about this right now. I was there yesterday and it was crazy. A few cops grabbed me, you know, and i dont take that lightly at all, you know. But i had to get out of there. But i just want to say a lot of things have to change. One of my classmates actually could not graduate this semester because one of her classes was discontinued in the middle of the semester not the middle, but well, while they were into the semester the class was canceled so she will not be able to graduate this semester. This is all because of this super trustee, as you call him or stupid trustee. [laughter] but id just like to say, man, its a good thing that were trying to restore the democracy and the transparency at the university because the university has given me a second chance, you know. So, i think its a lot of people like me who would like the opportunity but thank you. [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] thank you. Next speaker. Ive never felt so hot and so coiled ~ col
The continued limiting of the access and finally, city college made a difference in my life. And i want to be able to maintain that and to be able to have access for everybody to the kind of courses that changed my life in areas of humanity, et cetera. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young peo