Will you please call the roll call . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. Please call the first item. Item one is a hearing on how the cuts of over 300 classes will affect low income in communities of color and to take in High School Students who take city college of San Francisco classes to meet college and requirements, and any proposed cuts need to be heard by the students in communities most impacted. Thank you, mr. Clerk. This is a hearing that was called by supervisor walton. I will turn it over to you to make an introductory remarks. You can feel free to run the hearing. Thank you. First i want to thank all of my colleagues on the board of education and also city College Trustees, as well as faculty from city college for coming out to have this important conversation. There is a rally going on outside to talk about some of the concerns about the college, so im pretty sure we will have a bigger crowd joining us in a minute, but i do want to open up with a statement. On decemb
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
Implement this initiative. And its one of those things where and im not where if im not able to be connected to this, im grateful, so thank you so much. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our 3 00 unless you want to say something. Lets go to our 3 00 special order. Clerk todays 3 00 special order incoencompasses the boar supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole on december 10, 2019 to consider a proposed ordnance, which is item number 37, to order the street vacation in the india basin project site located generally at inez avenue between griffith street and earl street along the shoreline, to authorize the city to quitclaim its interest in approximately 3. 8 acres within earl street, hudson avenue, and Aurelius Walker drive, authorizing the city to transfer approximately 1. 1 acres to the state for the purpose of having such property reconveyed to the city through
Im a long time resident of district 5, i to california in 1947, and i watched all the things that have happened over the years. Met anyone who cared so much to pick up the garbage, to pick up the people, try to find places for people to live, try to help all of us to develop new relationships and understanding here in our district. And i would like, again, to thank you so very much for what you have done. I want to say, im with you all on the city college. But i came here to talk about the Reparations Initiative. And i also came here to not necessarily talk about racism and those type of things, but to talk about acknowledgement and being overlooked. Most of the time when black people are hired, you know, except for franklin, most of the time when black people are its about us struggling against something and fighting some oppression, but you never acknowledge this, and i understand the city, you never acknowledge this for our contribution. We actually contributed to the fabric of this
Neighborhood commercial districts would not be part of the vacancy tax if it is passed by the voters, and the merchants of bernal and the portola who responded to quickly to confirm that they indeed do support this action, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor stefani . Thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you. I have three items that we will be introducing today. For the first, along with my cosponsors, supervisor mar and supervisor haney, im introducing a supplemental budget appropriation ordinance to help restore the 300 classes proposed to be cut for the spring 2020 semester. I know firsthand how important city college is [applause] [gavel]. Supervisor walton i know firsthand how important city college is to San Francisco. Every year, thousands of district 10 residents and san franciscans across the city rely on city college and its various programs for jobs and skills trai