Mayors office being involved with this process, but i do think that one service we might not need in terms of prioritization of resources is our real estate department. [laughter] i think we have a pretty good understanding of how valuable city college is in the altruistic part and the monetary part as well. And i dont think were for sale so i dont really need that applause i would just humbly request that we can, you know, shift the resources to other things other than our real estate. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this hearing and opportunity to speak. applause bravo. Thank you [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, chair cohen, supervisors. Thank you for having us here and giving us space for this conversation. One of the sad things about losing our locally elected board is that there is now no formal public space for these kind of conversations to happen. It wont be happening at city college for the foreseeable future. And, so, the fact that you all have stepped up and
From a college that served 110,000 students to a college that serves 85,000 students. There was a statement that said that we didnt review our Mission Statement for the last four years. Well, i just want to say thats false. We didnt review our Mission Statement, but what we prioritized in our Mission Statement was access. We said that the person that is getting their ged or getting their esl classes is just as important as a person thats getting their engineering degree or looking to transfer to u. C. Berkeley or to stanford. Those are our values. These Mission Statement might not have been to what they liked, but it was an expression of our values as san franciscans that we think everybody dunkelberg this should be a campus thats for everybody. And there were comments about our fiscal management that we have to say that city college is actually the First College [speaker not understood] to be the First College to return to prerecession revenues thanks to the parcel tax and prop 30, we
Mayors office being involved with this process, but i do think that one service we might not need in terms of prioritization of resources is our real estate department. [laughter] i think we have a pretty good understanding of how valuable city college is in the altruistic part and the monetary part as well. And i dont think were for sale so i dont really need that applause i would just humbly request that we can, you know, shift the resources to other things other than our real estate. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this hearing and opportunity to speak. applause bravo. Thank you [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, chair cohen, supervisors. Thank you for having us here and giving us space for this conversation. One of the sad things about losing our locally elected board is that there is now no formal public space for these kind of conversations to happen. It wont be happening at city college for the foreseeable future. And, so, the fact that you all have stepped up and
District 5, in district 8 and 11, to talk to people in both communities, to talk about how important the campuses that we have in their neighborhoods are to them. So, i hope that that will be part of our next steps. I want to just give you a little bit of history about the accreditation. Ive been on the board for 12 years and the accreditation takes place if youre successful, every six years. So, for the first time when i was on the board, we had accreditation for six years, meaning that we met all the requirements, meaning that we met all the standards. And, so, we were very happy and we were successful. And then for the next six years we were successful in the accreditation, so, we were accredited for six more years. And that means full accreditation. There were a couple things they needed to correct and for some reason they were lost and we didnt do them. But it came to our attention, and certainly we started doing the correction when we started this accreditation period. Unfortunat
Wanted to prioritize classes. And maybe we could have made some better decisions. I think so, yes, but really our decisions were made so we can provide access to everybody. And then my last point before i leave is i know that there was a comment about the real estate department. I do really appreciate the Mayors Office being involved with this process, but i do think that one service we might not need in terms of prioritization of resources is our real estate department. [laughter] i think we have a pretty good understanding of how valuable city college is in the altruistic part and the monetary part as well. And i dont think were for sale so i dont really need that applause i would just humbly request that we can, you know, shift the resources to other things other than our real estate. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this hearing and opportunity to speak. applause bravo. Thank you [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, chair cohen, supervisors. Thank you for having us here